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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

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Ali Davis @alidavis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

You guys, Pete Hegseth just accidentally texted me a draft of his romantic sci-fi/fantasy novel.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Someone needs to take away all the psychedelics from Silicon Valley. It is irresponsible to use them without proper training in the humanities

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "We're probably going to keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans, we're not booing you, we're not booing your teams, we're not booing your players. We're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. We're insulted. And we're angry."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Washington Post is reporting that the US Gov't program to send free COVID tests to households will be shut down tonight, and the remaining tests destroyed. If you haven't already ordered yours in the latest batch (autumn 2024's) it's super quick & easy, price $0.00 covidtests.gov

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 01/02/2025

In 2022, Najee Olya, conducting an overview of how Greek representations of black Africans are systematically omitted from museum displays and art survey textbooks, stated that “Rankine was correct ten years ago, and still is now.” youtu.be/ZFCAvf6VOSY #AncientBlackness

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

UVA is hiring an advising fellow, and looking for folks working in the liberal arts (broadly defined). On my read of the ad: it's full time, has teaching & advising components, and the pay grade is ~$70K. as a bonus, you'd be working with the incomparable @meirazk.bsky.social. check it out:

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Advising Fellow in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia

Apply for Advising Fellow job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

NASSCAL is officially on Instagram! If you like (or merely tolerate) IG & love apocrypha, please take a moment to give us a follow! www.instagram.com/nasscal_apoc...

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop begins its Winter 2025 season with Acacia Chan (University of Texas): “Cloudy with a Chance of Apostles: Cloud Travel in Acts of Andrew and Matthias.” The workshop takes place via Zoom on February 7 at 12 pm EST.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 22/12/2024

just in time for the holidays, a guest post by @anotheraspirin.bsky.social on mine and @lollardfish.bsky.social's newsletter. the story of the real legendary St. Nicholas of Myra and gifts he brought in the Euro Middle Ages. always free to read! please share! #medievalsky

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Yes, Nicholas, there is a Santa Claus

Dr. Rutger Kramer tells us that there really was a medieval St. Nicholas. He has plenty of interesting stories of gift-giving, but is there a connection to Christmas?

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Jeannie Sellick (aka The Atheist Nun) @jeanniesellick.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Religion friends, I'm looking for a banger piece or podcast that discusses religion & sports or religion as sports. Preferably accessible to undergrads who are in their final week of the semester!

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Jeannie Sellick (aka The Atheist Nun) @jeanniesellick.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Friends, fate has seen to it that I start exploring career options outside of academia or at least outside of professorships. If you've left academia, what are some of the alternative careers you've explored? Any tips for breaking free? Please share widely!!

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

After a wintery hiatus, NASSCAL's First Fridays Workshop is officially back in session! Check out our first workshop of the year featuring a chapter from Angela Kim Harkins' recently published monograph on the Shepherd of Hermas. See you all next Friday, February 2nd!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

One of the many signs IMO that the current moral alarm in the US about campus antisemitism is not about the safety of Jews but about using discourse about Jews to mask other aims (a dynamic that should alarm, but not surprise, anyone with knowledge of the long history of Christian anti-Judaism)

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Not open-access, but if anyone is interested and doesn’t have access to this via their library, let me know.

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Remember the reason for the season on this feast day of Saint Nicholas!

Meme of boy sitting on Santa’s lap with the dialogue:
Boy: “Homoousios or Honoiusios?”
Santa: “What?”
Boy (skeptical, disappointed): “You’re not the real St. Nicholas.”

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

With Advent nearly upon us, are you reconsidering some of your traditions? Are you tired of the same old Nativity story year after year? This Advent season, why don’t you try something new? Check out the Nativity stories in the Protevangelium of James & the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew!

Covers of two books: The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew & the Nativity of Mary translated by Brandon W. Hawk & The Protevangelium of James translated by Lily C. Vuong

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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

My first article is out today in Apocrypha 33! Magical Procedures and Voces Magicae in the Acts and Martyrdom of Philip (APh II.18 and APh Mart 26)

The Acts of Philip and his Martyrdom both contain passages in which the apostle utters pseudo-
Hebrew words and causes the earth to swallow his foes. Reading these narratives alongside
paraliterary sources heuristically categorized as magical, such as Greek and Egyptian magical
papyri and curse tablets, this paper argues that these strange words can usefully be identified as
voces magicae, and that Philip’s attendant actions are both presented as seeming magical by the
narrative and are likely read as magical in the texts’ reception. This paper also shows how fruitful
it is to bring such sources to bear on the study of apocrypha and further encourages
interdisciplinary scholarship. Because there is a close kinship between parts of the Acts of Philip
and ancient magical texts, this paper also supplies a starting place for scholars of magic trained
in classics and papyrology to mine apocryphal sources and understand how magical language is
taken up and understood by anc

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Jeannie Sellick (aka The Atheist Nun) @jeanniesellick.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

If you're still in San Antonio please consider coming to this awesome panel today at 9am!

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Another wonderful Ancient Fiction session overflowing with apocrypha, fan studies, magic, & superstar presenters. @allisonbarbee.bsky.social @vox-magica.bsky.social Katharine Fitzgerald & Acacia Chan Not pictured: @emilygathergood.bsky.social

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Good news (for me at least): the deadline has been extended to November 30!

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

No one: Half-hearted Germanic converts to Christianity ca. 700:

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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Going to 2023 SBL with cash (or expense account) to buy books? Here’s my annual list of new Christian apocrypha books to check out. www.apocryphicity.ca/2023/11/13/c...

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Kim Fowler @drkimfowler.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I'm running a thematic session on Gospel Traditions (very broadly understood) in Coptic literature at next year's NAPS: custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF... The session is interested in a very wide selection of texts and topics, so send in your abstracts! Call for papers closes on 17th Nov!

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

boosting for the morning crowd

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

GOSPEL THRILLERS comes out (in the UK) at the end of this month but you, yes YOU, can preview some of the preface and introduction through the CUP website! (click on the "contents" tab for some snazzy PDFs!) www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Gospel Thrillers | Biblical studies - New Testament

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I am once again begging pretty much everyone to take a goddamn (as it were) religious studies class. Or at least listen to the first few episodes of @mpgphd.bsky.social and @profirmf.bsky.social's Keeping it 101 podcast. And given the discourse, a decent introduction to Judaism, too.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

JOB ALERT! Rabbinics people—come work with me! Vanderbilt’s hiring a 2-year VAP in rabbinics & classical Judaism for 2024-2026. 3/2 load; degree by August. We’re esp. interested in subspecialties incl. but not limited to religious, G&S, disability, environmental, & legal studies.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Not to get all lib but it is pretty wild how Trump is on trial for 70 crimes and the pundit class is just sort of like yeah that’s happening anyways how about woke college kids?

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