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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My spouse bought me eight sessions with a German tutor for my birthday last month. The first lesson is this Saturday. I’m very excited to learn and start moving beyond A2 level (CEFR) conversations!

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Erin and Justin's article on how late antique Christian ascetics often retained one slave when they renounced the rest of their property (in Early Medieval Europe) Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m officially presenting a paper at the "Jesus and Slavery: New Quests, Methods, and Perspectives" conference entitled "More Than the Twelve? Enslaved Labor at the Last Supper.” It will blend Roman slavery scholarship, archaeology, and Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” to explore the

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Daniel S. Richter has a new book—which I am stoked about—looking at the Antebellum engagement with Aristotle by enslavers. We should all buy this book when it’s out in October (although $105 is high!), but here are some other thoughts too. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Aristotle in the Antebellum South

Natural Slavery, Democracy, and the Ancients

Daniel S. Richter

Introduces the first account of how and why antebellum Southerners embraced Aristotle prior to the Civil War
Provides a new approach to the discipline of intellectual history that moves beyond the idea of "reception"
Describes how different political contexts and historical moments shape defenses of slavery

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In today’s episode of Writing a Dissertation with a Baby: Currently in the car sitting next to my baby and getting some reading done while she naps in her car seat. She fell asleep while driving around for an errand. Naps must be put to good use, wherever they happen!

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads:

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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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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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of my alternative dissertation ideas was to see if anything substantive could be said about slavery practices at Qumran. Now I’m wondering if this article—though the time period and subjects are quite different—might provide a useful analog for thinking about this issue.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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Brandon Massey @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How can slavery studies reshape the ongoing quests for the historical Jesus? We invite paper proposals to the conference "Jesus and Slavery: New Quests, Methods, and Perspectives" to be held in 27–20 August 2027 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Proposals are due 31 August.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m creating a playlist for my students in a Pentateuch course this fall. I want to give them a few songs for each major story that helps illuminate the text or just simply makes them laugh. Any ideas?

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast! youtu.be/_H7IivvTn8E?...

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Why Jesus Never Condemned Slavery

YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’m delighted that my paper proposal on invisible enslaved labor in the Mishnah was accepted for SBL this November! I tested out some of the this paper’s ideas for the fist time in conversation with colleagues at SBL last year. It will be fun to share a polished version and see how they land.

Acceptance email for the 2026 SBL meeting in Denver.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Already sent out my annual email to local evangelical pastors, where I explain this historical context and plead with them to reconsider their church’s upcoming “seder” event.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Very encouraged by my students at University of Dayton who overwhelmingly nailed a quiz on Second Temple Judaism and the Pharisees this week. I’m witnessing them develop into critical and informed thinkers who know how to spot Christian anti-Judaism.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Recently learned my great grandfather Edwin Vossman was a classics scholar who taught Greek and Latin at Marquette back in the 1930s-1940s. I inherited some of his books this weekend. He had very old copies of Pliny the Younger’s letters and Virgil’s poetry!

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

🚨 Please share 🚨 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

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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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

✨ Please re-post ✨ Call for papers for the Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom section at SBL is officially open! If you’ll be there in Denver this year, please consider submitting your ideas about slavery in the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Institute for Ideas and Imagination has posted a lecture I gave in September on extractivism, ”AI”, and book slavery in Ancient Rome on their podcast feed. open.spotify.com/episode/5cGH...

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The Book as Extractive Technology

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Alexi Chantziantoniou @alexichantz.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

for those looking for a temporary reprieve from *waves hands at everything*, i’ll be giving a paper on a new project at birmingham’s biblical studies seminar on 18 Feb at 11am ET. the paper’s entitled, “the enslaved seer: slavery and literate labour in the book of revelation.” DM for the zoom link!

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My dissertation proposal (tentatively titled "Invisible Hands: Despotic Fiction and Enslaved Labor in Early Rabbinic Literature") has been approved! Time to keep reading and writing. Also time to submit a condensed version of my work to SBL for November.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Tomorrow morning I start teaching an undergrad course called “Reading the New Testament within Judaism” at University of Dayton. One of my goals is to help students identify this triumphalist theology in the history of Christian interpretation and then dismantle it.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Following up the end of my comps with another mini-comp reading list! Working through these resources to find a dissertation topic related to the intersections of economics, slavery, and writing in the ancient world.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Planning your #SBLAAR24 schedule? Come to the Synoptic Gospel section on Saturday evening! I’ll argue the temple’s ritual purity procedures make Jerusalem an apotropaic zone in the Synoptic Gospels, as evidenced by no demonic (or “unclean spirit”) encounters there

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Finally home after first #AARSBL23! Got to spend time with friends, make new ones, meet my favorite scholars, and of course, buy books. I attended every PwJ session, which got me so excited about what this field has accomplished and where it’s headed.

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Heading to San Antonio early Saturday morning for my first time at SBL! If you could go back and speak to yourself as a first-timer, what would you say?

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Friends interested in Mishnah/early rabbinic Judaism, the Oxford Annotated Mishnah is now available in paperback for under $100!

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Any followers have good book recommendations on magic in early Judaism?

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Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I’ve been reading Tuvia Ruebner’s poetry for modern Hebrew practice lately (along with Rachel Tzvia Back’s EXCELLENT translation for help). This particular poem caught my attention tonight. Language learning is truly a labor of love.

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