How is this possible? Every day????

Congratulations @philharland.bsky.social!!

A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland

@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!

Precisely The enabling advice I need today

One of the best pieces of editing advice, ever, comes from Spooky Grandpa: your new draft is your old draft minus 10% of the word count.

It's hard, but it really does transform things

It was such a pleasure to work with Joe on this. Read about the strategies Josephus uses to slowly downgrade masculinity.

New article from @isaactsoon.bsky.social and myself on some Jewish Babylonian warlords in Josephus’ Antiquities. Hopefully will be of interest, it gets into questions around masculinity, orientalism and physiognomy in Josephus. Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do your memories have sounds?

Did early Christians have a sense of humour 🧐? More than we tend to think---This is what I will argue in one of the two plenary sessions at the North American Patristics Society meeting in Chicago. Looking forward to the conversation!
Program below 👇

Giant Clams! Saving this in my "receptions of Moses" folder.

That was my first thought too. PWNED

An extension of another meaning "to be dominated" so potentially an enslavement context.

Now that you ask it, one of the meanings is to "inflict a humiliating defeat" upon someone else

Why Jesus Never Condemned Slavery YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast!

youtu.be/_H7IivvTn8E?...

Keep an eye out for Dr. Hanna Tervanotko’s new book, Signs and Meanings: Divination and the Production of Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity, which comes out later this year with University of California Press!

www.ucpress.edu/books/signs-...

"Hollywood North" coming 24/04/2026

I’m excited to share my third album, Hollywood North, with you in two weeks.

> It is the desperate soul looking for a reason to wake.
> It is the consumer stepping over the body of a vagrant.
> It is the doomer whose nihilistic cries everyone ignores.
> It is the gentrification of our streets.
> It is the douglas fir that will outlast every empire we build. +

> It is the protester who is shipped across borders.
> It is unrequited love, schadenfreude and bitterness.
> It is the adulterer who knows that an affair never made anyone love themselves more.
> It is the lonely professional who puts their head down to work their way up. +

In this collection of songs I have found that these stories are not unique to this city. They might be found in any metropolis on the planet.

> It is the student who hasn’t left their flat in four years.
> It is the foreigner whose wages have been withheld. +

A forest of tall trees, coniferous, pink, sentinels that will outlive us all.

How do you tell the story of a city? In 2024, when I moved back to Vancouver and started writing music again after a decade hiatus, I was intent on writing a story about this city where I grew up. Over the last two years I have listened and watched and heard the stories of the people all around me.+

Esther Keeps the Score Online Launch YouTube video by Hymns Ancient & Modern

Yesterday was the official Esther Keeps the Score book launch party, and I am truly at a loss for words. For those of you who missed it, it is officially available to view on the YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvb...

Bad news and good news about our April 26 workshop, The Transmission of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Bad: we've had to move online. Good: that means you can join us from anywhere. A Zoom link will be circulated — PM me if you'd like one.

Congratulations to Dr. Adele Reinhartz (McMaster PhD 1983) on the publication of her edited volume (in collaboration with Oded Irshai), In Praise of Wisdom, a Festschrift in honour of Paula Fredriksen!

Soft Clothing, Hard Jesus: Toughness and Class Conflict in Q 7:24–25 Abstract. Toughness appears to have been an important theme associated with the early Jesus movement. In this article, I combine critical masculinity studies with a historical materialist approach to ...

Thrilled to see my latest article on the historical Jesus in the Journal of Biblical Literature in print! @sblsite.bsky.social

doi.org/10.15699/jbl...

Best. Unboxing. Ever. “Hey, a book,” he says. #ThePublicScholar from @hopkinspress.bsky.social coming this month.

Order yours today! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Ancient Greece and Disability

Our new free zine Ancient Greece and Disability is out now : files.libcom.org/files/2026-0...

Kevin O’Leary the vampire??

Whoa...and we want the machines to have sentience???

Theo "the Mop" lol. Sounds like a mob name. "The Cleaner."