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Early Christian Texts @earlychristiantexts.com · 08/10/2026
We know the names of apostles. What about the people who copied their words and read them aloud? In this Bible and Beyond Podcast, Candida Moss explores the overlooked enslaved workers who helped shape the Bible. earlychristiantexts.com/candida-moss...
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Enslaved Workers Who Shaped the Bible | Bible & Beyond Podcast
Candida Moss describes how enslaved workers helped write, preserve, and interpret the New Testament—and why their contributions deserve credit.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
October 8 2026 4:30PM BST = 11:30 AM EDT Online @ics.bsky.social Jessica L. Lamont @yale.edu Magic in Roman and Late Antique Corinth ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Magic in Roman and Late Antique Corinth
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay but also this looks amazing.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Stones and Bones is out on Polar Bears and new Odyssey fragments. Featuring Michael Kulikowski, @sarahebond.bsky.social, Christopher Epplett, Nandini Pandey, and @sentantiq.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/...
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Polar Bears in the Roman Colosseum?
It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well, I enjoyed @candidamoss.bsky.social’s new Nat Geo edition of their ‘Stones & Bones’ newsletter, not because I make an appearance but because we get to hear from Nandini Pandey and Michael Kulikowski about polars bears and exotic animals in the Colosseum as a colonialist tactic. 🐻 🦒 🦛
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Polar Bears in the Roman Colosseum?
It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right?
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Proud of you!
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
αἰαῖ! The latest Pasts Imperfect is out. @sentantiq.bsky.social discusses new work on Homer & a book on the Iliad's gendered voices. Then, Jefferson's children with Sally Hemings, mapping coin circulation in the Roman Empire, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more. ἄγετε!
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Pasts Imperfect (9.24.26)
This week, noted ailurophile and Homerist Joel Christensen sings to us about new scholarship helping us to make sense of Homer and highlights a new book on lamentation and glory in the Iliad. Then, re...
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many congratulations! Let’s celebrate every announcement!
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Amazing review of @sarahebond.bsky.social 's new book in the AHR (you probably need sign in credentials to view) congratulations to Sarah! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
new (open access!) article from Brent Nongbri redating some "early" gospel papyri (or "Nongbriing" them) brill.com/view/journal...
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The Construction and Date of P.Bodmer 14–15 (P75)
Abstract This article describes an underutilized criterion for assigning dates to papyrus codices, the presence of very long sheets (kollemata) in the rolls from which the bifolia of papyrus codices w...
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read Cate's article in PEQ here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Pilate Ring: A Reconsideration
A copper alloy ring from Herodium was published by Amorai-Stark et al. (2018), who read the ring’s inscription of ‘ΠΙΛΑΤΟ’ as a possible reference to Pontius Pilate. The ring’s low quality, imagery...
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My latest for National Geographic is on the Pilate Ring and Cate Bonesho's article arguing that it belonged to a low-status posisbly enslaved worker. Featuring work by @tonyk.bsky.social and a quote from @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Did This Ring Belong to the Man Who Sentenced Jesus to Die?
Scholars have been divided for years over whether a ring inscribed with the word “Pilato” belonged to Pontius Pilate. A new theory may put the debate to rest.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dude. When do you sleep?
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It lives. I was honored to deliver the Hans Lietzmann lecture in Berlin and Jena a few years ago. And I am excited to see the results in print!
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In just over 50 pages, @candidamoss.bsky.social challenges modern assumptions about who counted as a slave trader and demonstrates that the entire apparatus of Roman medicine, commerce, and education was complicit in the manufacture and sale of human beings. Link below 👇🔗
Book cover of 'Marcion the Enslaver' by Candida Moss, published in Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen, 2026, De Gruyter.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My 1st article for National Geographic is out now. It is on Cleopatra’s & Antony’s surviving children after their parents’ deaths—especially Cleopatra Selene. Thanks to Jane Draycott (and her book, Cleopatra’s Daughter) & @candidamoss.bsky.social for their help. And @bresnick.bsky.social for edits.
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What Happened to Cleopatra’s Children With Marc Antony?
Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A new, open access 📖 : _Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch): Production, Use & Contexts_ ed. Giulia Rossetto. This book “is dedicated to monks, priests and priest-monks (hieromonachoi) as copyists, readers, and owners of manuscripts in the Christian East.”
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Monastic Manuscripts from the Eastern Mediterranean (Sinai, Jerusalem, Antioch) | V&R eLibrary
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I need an animated cartoon about Emerald and Ocean and all the hijinks they got up to 1,800 years ago in this massive Roman villa. 🏺🧪🐈🐕
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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog
A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Join us on 9/16 to learn more about these amazing projects supported by the @catacombsociety.bsky.social Shohet Grant, and how you can apply for one, too! #archaeology #grants #events #humanities #Pompeii #Malta
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Strongly opposed to the idea of second century persecution!
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh my gosh poor Eric! We are all going to be getting this for him! @digkabri.bsky.social
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our #forum on Ellen Muehlberger's latest publication,Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World, draws to a close with a response from the author @emuehlbe.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/7/...
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The Part You Don’t See — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
As a made thing, a book comprises not one, but two sets of working components. There are the pieces of the book itself as you see it: the chapters, images, bibliography. But then there are the book’s…
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everything Todd does is excellent…
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We are excited to have it!
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I love him
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest for Nat Geo's Stones & Bones is out! On the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. Featuring work and commentary from Roger Bagnall, Alex Schultz, Cat Lambert, and AnneMarie Luijendijck. www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria?
History loves a villain, but the culprit was likely something much more mundane.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
August 24, 394 CE: To celebrate the birthday of Osiris, a priest at the Temple of Isis at Philae named Esmet-Akhom etched a gigantic graffito in Demotic and Hieroglyphs. It is the last known hieroglyphic inscription (Philae 436). See @chancebonar.bsky.social: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2020/11...
The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, inscribed on Hadrian's Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt 
"Before Mandulis, son of Horus, through Smet-achom, son of Smet, the second prophet of Isis, forever and ever to speak words of Mandulis, the Lord of Abaton, the great God."
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Absolutely!
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I actually wonder if people who think this will actively and openly support Roman theories of enslaver ownership of enslaved work. "Sure they ploughed the fields/cooked dinner/wrote the letter/read the text aloud, but under my/Varro/Cicero's thought leadership"
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wednesdays at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern/4pm Birmingham time/5pm Central European. It's exclusively online so there's no disadvantage to attending remotely.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you are a scholar, grad student, or post doc at an institution where there you do not have seminars in Biblical Studies and you'd like to attend/participate in the Birmingham Biblical Studies Seminar let me know! (Those who do have seminars are welcome to come too)
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Heavy Sigh. Indeed, so much, and I suspect that Joe Howley would as well and may be tackling this in his book!
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I so wish I could hear this! Sounds amazing.
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Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
new open access article from @jennisifire.bsky.social! a taste (i think) of her next book! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Scandal and the Late Ancient Christian Historian | Church History | Cambridge Core
Scandal and the Late Ancient Christian Historian - Volume 95 Issue 1
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh my gosh this is huge!!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New episode of You’re Dead To Me now available in the UK on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds It’s all about Constantine the Great, who introduced Christianity to the Roman Empire Featuring wonderful comedian @ivograham.bsky.social and expert ancient historian @lucygrig.bsky.social
Photo of Greg, Ivo and Lucy laughing — Lucy wears a black dress and has blonde hair, Greg wears a short-sleeved white shirt and has curly brown hair and beard, and Ivo wears a white t-shirt and orange shorts, and has dyed his hair orange
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Feels pretty relevant, sadly, but _Censorship of History_Published online by Cambridge University Press Elements is free online from 5th August 2026 - 26th August 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Censorship of History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Censorship of History
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
(psst! hey you! apparently they haven't shut off the "this is free" button at the press yet, so zip over and download tout de suite!) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We all have dedicated scissors for this, right?
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Um. I have cats and boy do I wish this statement about animals was true.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I would love to receive this text
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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There's a whole ecosystem of people who reach out to authors offering to make things like "book trailers". I told my son (14) about it, and he said 'I can do that" so he did. Book trailer for Why Odysseus: Survivor, Scoundrel (Anti)hero youtu.be/UEeSR_9QSYU?... via @YouTube
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Book trailer for Why Odysseus: Survivor, Scoundrel (Anti)hero
YouTube video by Joel Christensen
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Read the Odyssey in Greek, with Tim Whitmarsh www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNg-...
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Read the Odyssey Ancient Greek
YouTube video by Classics at Cambridge
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The word "Satan" (الشيطان) written with an inverted letter nūn (ن) in the Arabic version of the Book of Job in MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. ar. 468.
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A toy ball from #Roman Egypt, made from linen with strips of reed (painted red & green), & with stone chips inside so it would rattle when used. First played with some 1600+ years ago... (📷 British Museum) #AncientBlueSky
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For those wondering, he's a rising high school senior. He'll be applying to colleges in the Fall to be a classics major.
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Candida they left out the Phaeacians! How could they do that Candida?" was part of the rant.
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