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Hannah M Strømmen

@hannahmstrommen.bsky.social
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Working on Bible, Politics, and Culture. Biblical reception obsessive.

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Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When I lecture about Hobby Lobby and the Museum of the Bible people are often puzzled by a story in which government, finance, and religion are so tightly interwoven. Reading Blanding’s book makes the combination of these elements in Hobby Lobby seem not just understandable but inevitable.
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Michael Blanding’s The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby
When I began this blog back in 2017, the mysteries surrounding Hobby Lobby and its biblical manuscripts were really driving some aspects of my research. Over the last decade, there has been thoroug…
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My sister the novelist! tiden.no/aktuelt/kuns...
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Kunsten å overleve året som 27 | Tiden
- Tragedien med mennesker som faller utafor, er at det ubønnhørlig baller på seg, sier debutant Sigrid Strømmen.
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Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So excited to be reading at the launch of ‘Woman, Mapped’, the stunning new anthology from @foundationswift.bsky.social and curated by @jennywcreative.bsky.social. It will be an unmissable evening, celebrating women’s complexity, resilience, and creativity. www.tickettailor.com/events/rebec...
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Buy ticket – Woman, Mapped Anthology Launch – International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Woman, Mapped Anthology Launch – International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Fri 31 Jul 2026 - Woman, Mapped is a powerful new anthology from the Rebecca Swift Foundation celebrating the complexity, res...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Ebstorf Map (ca 1234) is the largest known mappa mundi – a European medieval map, now thought to be co-created by the nuns of Ebstorf, Saxony, famed for their craft(wo)manship in the Arts #WomensArt
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Michael Coors 🌈 @einwuerfe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We also welcome international applications in English for this position as Professor for New Testament Sudies in Zurich: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
jobs.uzh.ch
UZH: Professorship in New Testament Studies with a focus on Ancient Judaism
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Zurich is seeking to fill a professorship in New Testament Studies with a focus on ancient Judaism, starting on 1 August 2027. Depend...
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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Five of our books are on offer at Church House Bookshop, for those looking for resources to equip them in responding to the far right: chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk/features/far... @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social
The Church, The Far Right, and the Claim to Christianity edited by Helen Paynter and Maria PowerThe Claim to Christianity by Hannah Strømmen and Ulrich ScmiedelConfounding the Mighty
Stories of Church, Social Class and Solidarity
edited by Luke Larner
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Tommy Lynch @tommylynch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'm giving a talk at the London Jesuit Centre at 1600 on 9 July. Come hear my thoughts on why technological solutions to climate change often miss the deeper political question of Man and the possibilities of other ways of being human.
londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com
The Heythrop Institute Theology Seminar: 'Political Theology and the Anthro- of the Anthropocene' (09-Jul-2026)
About the seminarsThe Heythrop Institute Theology Seminars aim to be a lively intellectual meeting place for people with an interest in theology, philosophy and allied areas.   About the paper  In...
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
let me know if you want a copy!
“A Clear Account of the Codex Simonideios:”
Ideological Infrastructures of Biblical
Vulnerability in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew S. Jacobs | ORCID: 0000-0003-4886-6287
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia, USA
andrew@andrewjacobs.org
Received 24 June 2025 | Accepted 17 January 2026 |
Published online 24 February 2026
Abstract
Soon after Constantin Tischendorf (1815–74) publicized his “discovery” of the Codex
Sinaiticus, notorious manuscript broker (and forger) Konstantinos Simonides stunned
elite literary circles by announcing that Simonides himself had produced this biblical
codex in his youth as a gift for the Russian tsar. Simonides claimed that his “Codex
Simonideios” was illicitly being passed off as an ancient biblical codex after being muti-
lated and disfigured. I argue that this brief but explosive debate about manuscripts,
forgeries, and “find” narratives produces a biblical text liable to revision and emenda-
tion, due to new discoveries or new methods, and so vulnerable to mischievous actors
manipulating the possibilities of new discoveries and methods. The iterative process
of attack and defense on display in this codicological debate has remained, in various
guises, from collegial disagreement to scorched earth campaigns, an ideological com-
ponent of critical biblical studies.
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
bookmark it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Open PhD post in European Studies at Lund, in an interdisciplinary ERC project on radicalization and polarization run by @anamariads.bsky.social. (And I'll also be hanging out there a bit.)
lu.varbi.com
Doctoral student in European Studies within the Horizon Europe project DEEP DIALOGUE
About the education The doctoral student will be part of the project “DEEP DIALOGUE: De-escalating Extremism and Polarisation through Dialogue,” funded by the Horizon Europe funding scheme of the
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Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Proofs! Coming out soon in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
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Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Spread the word: Postdoc at the Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life at Columbia. Preference to projects that seriously engage with the theme of religion and at least one of the other two dimensions. If I could go back in time…
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar — Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
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Tommy Lynch @tommylynch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University has just posted its call for applicants for 2027-28. The theme for this round is vulnerabilities. If you work on anything related to the end of the world (or what happens after the end), you should check it out!
capas.uni-heidelberg.de
Call for Applications - CAPAS
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My review of Hans Joas' "Universalism" (@suhrkamp.de) is out: "To write a global history of universalism requires more than a measure of daredevilry. This is what Joas has done..., putting him in line with the giants of sociology, philosophy, and theology, on whose shoulders he stands."
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Universalismus: Weltherrschaft und Menschheitsethos (Universalism: World Domination and Humanist Ethics): Journal of Contemporary Religion: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Save the date! We're very excited to announce THE FOUCAULT CENTURY, a conference commemorating the centennial of Michel Foucault's birth, happening in Philadelphia from Sept. 24-25! More information coming soon! Free registration available at this link: www.library.upenn.edu/events/fouca...
library.upenn.edu
The Foucault Century
2026 marks the centennial of Michel Foucault’s birth and the 50-year anniversary of the publication of his landmark History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. This two-day symposium offers a renewed assessment of ...
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My department is advertising an assistant professorship in theology, philosophy, and/or ethics with specialization in existential sustainability. Come to Lund - fabulous people (and yours truly) are here!
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DJ Aged P @akma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Coming to a bookstore, library, friend’s bookshelf, or possibly PDF collection near you…
This mage depicts a typescript page from the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biblical Studies, a chapter entitled ‘What is Interdisciplinarity? An Introduction, Overview, and Justification of the Concept for Biblical Studies’, by A K M Adam. The abstract below it reads, ‘This chapter clarifies the meaning and value of interdisciplinarity by distinguishing it carefully from disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, and the uncritical expansion of a single discipline’s authority. Drawing on theorists such as Bourdieu, Klein, Geertz, and Culler, the author argues that disciplines confer coherence and legitimacy by organising knowledge through shared conventions, institutions, and standards of evidence. Multidisciplinary work juxtaposes such disciplines without challenging their internal priorities, whereas genuine interdisciplinarity emerges only when multiple disciplinary perspectives interact transformatively, destabilizing inherited assumptions and producing insights unattainable within a single field. The chapter then applies this framework to biblical studies, showing it to be a historically hybrid field shaped by philology, history, theology, and literary criticism. The author contends that biblical studies has no unique disciplinary essence but gains vitality precisely through interdisciplinary risk-taking that unsettles its dominant historical conventions.’
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As a biblical scholar who is facing employment precarity due to the changing landscape, like many of us in the humanities and social sciences, I’m grateful for organizations like @sblsite.bsky.social (1/4). 🧵
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Very happy that this open-access book about my Doktorvater, Werner Jeanrond, is finally out! Lots of fabulous chapters. (And one, "On Heimat", by yours truly.)
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Engaging Werner G. Jeanrond's Theological Thinking
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Just a teeny-tiny reminder that my book launch party is TOMORROW (with @brownsmith.bsky.social, Sarah Emanuel, and Katherine Gwyther)! See you there? www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...
At the top in burgundy text it says "book launch party." Underneath, next to a calendar emoji, it says "Tuesday, April 7, 6PM CET" - with the SCM press logo next to this. With a location emoji, it says "online register for the link." There is an image of the book, Esther Keeps the score, below it, next to text that says "Join us in celebrating the release of Esther Keeps the Score! Our time includes a reading from the book, commentary from biblical scholars who specialize in Esther, time for Q&A, and a special book discount for attendees!"
Below this, it says "special guest speakers include: Esther Brownsmith, Sarah Emanuel, Katherine Gwyther." There is a QR Code below this, and the background is a mustard yellow with a light forest green abstract shape.
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
So excited about this birthday present! Already loving it and know it will inspire a new hobby. Thank you @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social and @bugeric.bsky.social!
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reception folks! Theory heads! Submit your abstracts to @tdbiii.bsky.social and me by 13th April.
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UoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Siobhán Jolley and Dawn Llewellyn will be discussing ''Faith, Art, and Feminism' in response to the wonderful exhibition of Lilian Delevoryas’ work, ‘Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles’ at Chester Cathedral on Tuesday, March 31st at 2pm. Free to attend. chestercathedral.com/events/event...
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Mary Magdalene | Faith, Art and Feminism - Chester Cathedral
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Rounding off this busy week, I’m looking forward to presenting this year’s Peake Lecture with my friend and colleague Samuel Hildebrandt tomorrow on our current research: ‘From Miriam to the Magdalene: Women Witnesses in the Bible and Beyond’ (no points for guessing which bit I’ll be covering!).
From Miriam to the Magdalene:
Women Witnesses in the Bible and Beyond Mary Magdalene
Siobhán Jolley
siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk|@siobhanjolley.bsky.social
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Currently reading this brilliant book! By @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 13/03/2026
So there's this new book coming out in September, y'all should preorder it. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theology-...
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A Theology of Particularity
This book defines a Christian theology of the body, considering the unruliness of the flesh and the stories our bodies carry.Within the Bible and religious prac…
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Ely Orrego Torres @elyorrego.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thank you to the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion @notredame.bsky.social for featuring my work! I’m grateful for the opportunity to share more about my research and current projects ☺️. Read the interview here: ansari.nd.edu/news-events/...
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We're filling up fast for Monday's celebration of Sarah Lightman and the launch of our new @uomreligion.bsky.social project, Encountering Biblical Bodies! Book your place and please share if you know folks around Manchester who have a body (biblical or otherwise) at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Looking forward to Rose Cuison-Villazor and the Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice @law.rutgers.edu folks joining us at Lund for a workshop on "'Race' and 'Religion' in the Law of Migration: Comparing E.U. and U.S. Contexts" tomorrow. Some of it will be open to the public - see below.
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Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion
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DJ Aged P @akma.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I wish the Review of Biblical Literature weren’t membership-walled, so that I could call everybody’s attention to the very positive review of Zanne Domoney-Lyttle’s ‘The Bible and Comics: Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives’.
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
One last update from this very busy March so far… A project @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social and I have been cooking for a while has gone live at biblereception.com 🎉 Growing out of our methods reading group, BRIM is going to be a one stop hub for all things Bible and reception.
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Home - BRIM
Welcome toBRIMWe are an international hub for scholars interested in how the Bible has been interpreted, used, and reimagined. Events About Us Our goals are: - to connect scholars across diverse parts...
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Scottish Seabird Centre @seabirdcentre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We have TWO exciting opportunities to join our team📢 Join our passionate Visitor Experience team and help us inspire a love for Scotland’s marine wildlife! More information on how to apply is available on our website (see below)🔗
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Saturday afternoon joy ❤️ @lrb.co.uk
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/fo...
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För en human migrationspolitik
År 2015 kom rekordmånga flyktingar till Sverige. Sedan dess har Sveriges migrationspolitik stramats åt. Tidöregeringen satsar sedan 2022 på att kunna utvisa så många utlänningar som möjligt. Många lag...
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Hannah M Strømmen @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Just started this book by @chelseaebin.bsky.social: fantastically well written, interesting, and (unfortunately) highly relevant!
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NT at Oxford @nt4ox.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026-28/29 Postdoc in Early Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Part of project "Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity". FT/fixed term: 2 years renewable for Year 3. Deadline 8 March. nt4ox.link/radboud-PDF26
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Postdoc Position: Early Christian Studies | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher: Early Christian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!
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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Honored to be speaking in this series tomorrow night. Not to give too much away, but I will make the case that borders aren’t biblical (even if I don’t want to save the Bible for justice either)
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Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hi, friends. An FYI for those interested: I've published an article in JSP about Esther as "American scripture." Includes analysis of the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" (2024) and its strategies for regulating free speech, higher education, immigration, and foreign policy.
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/02/2026
There's an opening for a postdoctoral researcher focussed on Haredi communities in the ERC-funded project ‘Governing Health, Family and Religion: The Biopolitics of Genetic Counselling and Religious Family Formations (RELI-GENE). Two year contract. vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/830121
vacancies.soas.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researcher at SOAS
Apply now for Postdoctoral Researcher, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Over the next year, I’ll be transitioning into the role of editor-in-chief for the journal Biblical Interpretation. So a reminder to all you who work on biblical and adjacent materials to consider submitting. brill.com/view/journal...
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Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📣 New Book Day! 📣 Delighted to share a sneak peek at Saints, my new picture book for grown ups. She’s a beauty, written with everyone who‘s ever wandered round the NG with me in mind Coming this June to the NG shop and online, but available for preorder now: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781857...
A small square book with pink binding that says Saints and The National Gallery on the cover. The title page, with my name
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 29/01/2026
We have a PhD position open (four years, full funding): www.umu.se/en/work-with...
umu.se
Doctoral student in Religious Studies/Theology
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The new STK is out! And it's a special issue on "Global Public Theology" with fascinating articles by Jakob Wirén, @digitaldion.bsky.social, Annette Langner-Pitschmann, @vincent.northsky.social, and Fatima Tofighi (plus my inaugural lecture on "Public Theology for the Postmigrant Society").
journals.lub.lu.se
Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift
tidskrift för akademisk teologi
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UoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Lecturers in Biblical Studies have been awarded a Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies Grant for the project "Encountering Biblical Bodies". Holly Morse & @siobhanjolley.bsky.social are working with colleagues across @uomsalc.bsky.social to host an exhibition & and symposium. Watch this space!
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@hughfoy FRSA @hughfoy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Important book by @hannahmstrommen.bsky.social and @ulrichschmiedel.bsky.social a must read for Christians of all denominations recommended to me by my old friend and teacher Rev Prof Will Storrar.
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Christy Cobb @christycobb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just published my first piece for the Conversation! It’s on Thecla and her reception within Christianity. theconversation.com/thecla-the-b...
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Thecla, the beast fighter: The saint who faced down lions and killer seals is one of many ‘leading ladies’ in early Christian texts
The Christian apocrypha, texts not included in the Bible, include stories of Jesus’ female followers – including St. Thecla.
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Delighted to report that my book, The Specter of the Archive, was awarded the Bainton Prize in History from @16csociety.bsky.social. It's about an early modern media revolution but speaks directly and pointedly to the one we're living through today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Specter of the Archive
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.   We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informat...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Vol. 48, No. 2 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/2 @sagepub.com @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @ntright.bsky.social @clarissabreu.bsky.social @lhuber.bsky.social The Future of Revelation and Gender Studies
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Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Volume 48, Number 2
Table of contents for Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 48, 2
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Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The deadline is coming up…
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