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Jarkko Vikman @jarkkovikman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Kone Foundation @koneensaatio has awarded me a three-year grant for research on the role of the Bible in the identity construction of the Finnish Roma. Thank you all who have helped and supported me throughout the design of this research project! koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

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The Bible and Historical Constructions of Finnish Roma Identities - Koneen Säätiö

The project examines how the Bible has been utilized to shape the Finnish Roma identity and how this identity influences the meanings attributed to the Bible.

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Jarkko Vikman @jarkkovikman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Independence day of Finland is not a bad day for a #proofsday! The book handles minoritized people and the biblical studies. It is written in language (🇫🇮) that is rather marginal in academic publishing. I have learned a lot as a co-editor of this volume 💙

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Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

My new Open Access article! For some reason it felt relevant to discuss the Bible and the LONG history of leaders telling stories about how things used to be great before moral, ethnic, urban, gender, and family corruption bigly happened. #EduSky #Election #Bible journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers - Stephen L. Young, 2024

The ideas about religious, sexual, gender, ethnic, urban, moral, and family decay that underlie “Make America Great Again’s” message have notable antecedents in...

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AABNER journal @aabner.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

We are happy to announce that AABNER 3.3 is now available, a thematic issue on Global and Local Culture in the Roman East, guest edited by Hakola and Nikki. Issue and article pdfs available from our website.

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Jarkko Vikman @jarkkovikman.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

It’s time for ”article published” post! This is what happens when you take the awesome prose of @maiakotro.bsky.social and then oversimplify things. ”Letter from Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne as A Diaspora Quest for Authenticity,” open access: aabner.org/ojs/index.ph... PS @aabner.bsky.social = ❤️❤️

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View of Letter from Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne as A Diaspora Quest for Authenticity

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

"A world without trans people has never existed and never will" Poster spotted in Olympia, WA

Poster on a wall that says "A world without trans people has never existed and never will"

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Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

It's SBL abstract time again. Here's the CFP for the Religious Competition program unit. Send your abstract our way!

This year we will accept papers for three sessions. 1. We invite papers on the intersection of gender, power, and group competition. Topics might include discourses and practices of gender inclusion or exclusion, gender constructions, policing or contesting gender performances, rape culture, and related questions. 2. We seek papers that focus on modern competitions over facets of religious antiquity, especially those addressing the methods, goals, and impact of these competitions on the reception and overall understanding of the ancient world. 3. We welcome proposals on any topic related to religious competition in the ancient Mediterranean basin and late antique southwest Asia between and across all religious traditions. We are particularly keen to review proposals that focus on new approaches or methodologies to study religious competition in Late Antiquity, including Digital Humanities, for example social network analysis or digital text analysis.

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Jarkko Vikman @jarkkovikman.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

This holy vessel of G&T symbolizes the doctoral defence that is now over.

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Jarkko Vikman @jarkkovikman.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Shameless self-promotion continues: my doctoral dissertation ”The Cultural Evolution of Cultic Expertise in Ephesus” is now freely downloable for each and everyone! urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

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Samuli Simelius @simelius.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Unfortunately, there is a plan to close the study programme of Ancient Culture in the Uni. Helsinki. The programme focuses on ancient material culture, and I have been coordinating it. There is now a petition to continue the programme, so please sign it.

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Antiikin materiaalisen kulttuurin opetuksen on jatkuttava Helsingin yliopistossa

Antiikin materiaalisen kulttuurin opetuksen on jatkuttava Suomessa Helsingin yliopisto (HY) aikoo lakkauttaa antiikin kulttuurin opintokokonaisuuden kesällä 2024. Tämä kattaa enti...

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