Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

So proud of @sarahebond.bsky.social for her amazing commentary on Trump’s arch for @nytimes.com and @cnn.com

Apparently they will send it to me!

Why Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Sparking Debate YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center

talking about the Odyssey and the controversies around Nolan's Movie. Thanks to
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Large Banner on a lamppost. Banner has an image of a smiling blonde woman that says “2026 Grawemeyer award in religion Candida Moss”

This is going to be terrible for my ego

I am so excited to be in Louisville for Grawemeyer Week! But I'm also about to pre-tape a segment for CBSN about the Pope and the President. It should air in the 6pm hour EST.

2026 Grawemeyer Lecture presented by Candida Moss YouTube video by Louisville Seminary

I will be giving the 2026 Grawemeyer Lecture in Religion this Thursday (April 16() at 7pm EST in the Caldwell Chapel at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. If you can't make it you can watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgw...

Averil was brilliant, kind, and generous. A life well lived and also a huge loss. She and my PhD advisor Liz Clark were very close, so I got to know her just a bit beyond the scholarship. She had a profound effect on Roman and Byzantine history

Amazingness from @artcrimeprof.bsky.social as usual

Pasts Imperfect (4.2.26) This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen, and Christopher Londa discuss writing, labor, and enslavement in Roman antiquity. Then, a new book on Venice and the Mongols, how ancient Maya communities made...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 📚 This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen & Christopher Londa discuss enslaved readers & writers in Roman antiquity. Then, Venice & the Mongols, a podcast on Cahokia, ancient astrological practices, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

Who was the real Pontius Pilate? The Roman prefect, known to Christians as the man responsible for Jesus' death, is one of the few New Testament figures to appear in the archaeological record.

Easter timed piece on Pontius Pilate featuring the work of Helen Bond...

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

So NAPS is just siding against Quartodecimanists now? Feels oppressive.

Pasts Imperfect (3.19.26) This week, scholar of late antique Judaism and Angelologist Mika Ahuvia discusses the shared vocabulary of angels in antiquity. Then, ancient graffiti written in South Asian languages are discovered i...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, ancient Judaism expert Mika Ahuvia discusses angels in Late Antiquity. Then, South Asian graffiti in the Valley of the Kings, religion in Sinners, cultural heritage damage in Iran & Lebanon, new ancient journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 😇

Don't miss the first installment of "The Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity Lectures" series this Wednesday, with Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social !

I laughed way too hard at this.

Okay but like Fordham at Lincolbn Center not like LINCOLN CENTER. I was just clarifying NOT Rose Hill.

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

Just a reminder that this is coming up next week... at Lincoln Center

Jeremiah Coogan, "Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews." Friday, March 6, 2026 at 12:00 EST. Register at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.

Join us March 6 for the latest First Friday Christian Apocrypha Workshop with Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology).

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Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

CALL FOR PAPERS Society of Biblical Literature - Annual Meeting 2026 The Slavery, Resistance and Freedom Section will host an open session and invite papers dealing with any aspect of Mediterranean or West Asian slavery and their intersection with biblical, early Christian, or early Jewish literature. We are particularly interested in new contributions to scholarship that further our understanding of how enslaved and formerly enslaved persons navigated intersectional social, economic, and/or religious identities, as well as contributions that explore how the condition of slavery affected families, kinship, and relationality. Submit your paper via the QR code below, or at https://shorturl.at/bEYpe

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If you’re going to SBL in Denver this fall, consider submitting a paper for the Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom open call!

We’d love to hear your work

Join us on March 18th @fordham.edu for a talk with Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social on her latest book!
RSVP here: www.catacombsociety.org/events/

Not to brag but Sarah's partner in crime for the museum is my kid :)

Friends, I am hiring this year! My team is amazing. Watch this space for the ad as soon as it works its way through the HR labyrinth! If you want to know what my team is all about, ask @drewjakeprof.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, or @kkaelin.bsky.social!

Need distractions from the horrors? Read this amazing article by Kassie Miller on menstrual suppression in Imperial Rome www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hugo Lundhaug, Oslo “Total Devotion to the Storyworld: The Role of Apocrypha in Egyptian Monasteries” RSVP: nasscalworkshop@gmail.com

Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!

“It was winter and it was snowing”

χειμὼν δὲ ἦν καὶ ὑπένειφεν…

#Thucydides

I support this so much.

A New Translation of Contra Celsum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW A forum in celebration of Robin Darling Young and Joseph Wilson Trigg’s The Contra Celsum of Origen:  English Translation and Facing Greek text (Washington and Cambridge: Harvard University…

Catch up on the latest posts from AJR: the full #forum on the new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum is now available: