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Jeremiah Coogan

@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
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Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity

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Jeff Hubbard @jeffreymhubbard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Never judge a book by its cover, but the folks at OUP did a great job with this. "Teaching the Gospel" out in (I think?) 2027!
A cover of an academic monograph entitled "Teaching the Gospel: Ancient Pedagogy and the Earliest Gospel Readers" by Jeffrey M. Hubbard
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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And here, in this glum days, is an actual tenure-track job in our department! careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/226...
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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking forward to this conversation in a couple of weeks! candler.emory.edu/event/gospel...
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Gospel, Cosmos, and Theological Imagination
Join the Aquinas Center of Theology for the Catholic-Orthodox Community Gathering “Catholic Gospel, Cosmos, and Theological Imagination.” Across languages and geographical regions, early Christians employed interlocking concepts from the disciplines […]
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoc: Princeton's Effron Center for the Study of America is taking applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Native American and Indigenous studies with the possibility of teaching one course per semester. Deadline: November 15, 2026.
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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
✨ Call for papers! 👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World 📅 📍 15–16 April 2027 ⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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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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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Colloque – L’homme riche et le pauvre Lazare. L’exégèse patristique de Luc 16, 19-31 rmblf.be/2026/09/29/c...
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Colloque – L’homme riche et le pauvre Lazare. L’exégèse patristique de Luc 16, 19-31
La parabole de l’homme riche et du pauvre Lazare (Luc 16, 19-31) a été diversement commentée par des auteurs chrétiens de langue grecque, latine et syriaque. Elle a donné lieu à d’importantes réfle…
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Out today in open access: /Philology in Europe Before and After 1800: Change and Continuity/, ed. Laura Loporcaro and Paul Michael Kurtz. (To which I was honored to add an afterword!)
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Philology in Europe before and after 1800 | Change and Continuity | La
Philology in Europe before and after 1800 investigates a period often regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the humanities. Since the nineteenth
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, James Nati reviews Susan Niditch's Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/9/25/book-review-ethics-in-the-hebrew-bible-and-beyond
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Book Review | Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Those who seek moral guidance from the Bible are faced with a further challenge: how does one interpret, distill, and apply the sheer variety of ethical views contained in these diverse texts in…
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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New book from Brill: Dr. Markéta Preininger's "The Magical Body: Embodiment in Coptic Magical Papyri." It covers "[t]he lived experience of individuals from Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt." #Classics #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky brill.com/display/titl...
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The Magical Body
"The Magical Body" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.
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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
21st September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 16; Gospels; 10th century; France, Brittany, Landevennec; f.28v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feel invited to attend all or any of the sessions in this new online public lecture series, entitled "Prophecy, Divination, Verification, and Failure in Antiquity and Beyond", which I am organising within the framework of my FWO project "New Perspectives on the Delay of Parousia" +
Poster of a new lecture online public lecture series, organised within the framework of my research project “New Perspectives on the Delay of the Parousia”, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO; grant number: 1214026N). Lectures, scheduled across the 2026–27 academic year, will be held on Zoom and open to the public.

Prophecy, Divination, Verification, and Failure in Antiquity and Beyond

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Friday, 2 October 2026, 5pm
Matthew Dillon (University of New England), When the Enquirer Misinterprets: Veracity and Prophetic Non-fulfilment in Greek Oracular Divination

Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 6pm
Hindy Najman (Oxford), Prophetic Ends: Vitality and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism

Friday, 6 November 2026, 4pm
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy (Calgary), Wake Up Dead Man: Talking Corpses and Other Misdirections in Roman Divination

Friday, 15 January 2027, 5pm
Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw), To Catch a Thief: On Late Antique Thieves, Policemen, Neighbours, and Unexpected Benefits of Divination 

Friday, 5 February 2027, 5pm
Tucker Ferda (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), Process Eschatologies, Interim Periods, the Question of Delay in Christian Origins 

Friday, 19 February 2027, 9am (note the hour)
Michael Hanaghan (ACU), Imperial Prophecy in Ammianus’ Res 

Friday, 5 March 2027, 5pm
James Crossley (Cambridge), Apocalypticism and the Development of Radical Traditions

Wednesday, 14 April 2027, 5pm
Hauke Rietsch (Brunel), Science, Risk and Prophecy

Friday, 23 April 2027, 5pm
Todd Lawson (Toronto), Protology, Eschatology, and the Seal of the Prophets in the Quran

Wednesday, 5 May 2027, 5pm
David Cook (Rice University), When/Where in the Week Is It? Specific Predictions and Their Failure During the First Islamic Centuries 

Friday, 28 May 2027, 3pm
Roland Boer (Chinese International Experts Bureau), The Interim Becomes the Norm: How Socialism was Transformed from a Brief Transition to a Long Historical Phase
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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Has anyone collected the evidence for non-Latin and non-Greek cognomina in epigraphic evidence for Roman freed persons?
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Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New #BMCR review of Susanna Elm's The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity, by Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.09...
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The importance of being gorgeous: gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Has anyone collected the evidence for non-Latin and non-Greek cognomina in epigraphic evidence for Roman freed persons?
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Humanities and on Roman Archaeology. See further: isaw.nyu.edu/jobs/computa...
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Associate Professor, Computational Humanities and Roman Archaeology
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Hum...
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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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Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture @mjcbac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CFP: Syriac Scribes and Reader, proposed session at the 10th North American Syriac Symposium, Vanderbilt University, June 27–July 1, 2027. Submissions due October 15, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/syriac-...
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Syriac Scribes and Reader | Mary Jaharis Center
Abstracts are invited for a panel dedicated to Syriac scribes and readers and the latter’s interactions with the manuscripts. Possible topics to be explored:
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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm pretty chuffed by this collab with Giorgia Nicosia!
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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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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can’t wait to read this! Congrats @candidamoss.bsky.social 🌟
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte der Universität Bonn @mittelalterunibonn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Summer School des Bonner Mittelalterzentrums 05.-07.10.26 www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/veranstal...
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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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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Reading the Gospels with Eusebius | Jeremiah Coogan
Eusebius’s ancient cross-referencing system was a profound innovation that allows a rich reading of the Gospels.
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Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We were pleased to support "Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, 300 – 800 AD” a two day conference @staclassics.bsky.social in July 2026 Here co-organiser Ian Bonze reflects upon the event: pastandpresent.org.uk/reflections-...
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Reflections Upon "Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity, 300 – 800 AD" - Past and Present
by Ian Bonze (University of St. Andrews) The two-day conference Poverty Dynamics in the Long Late Antiquity was organised by Professor Carlos Machado and Ian Bonze on 22–23 July 2026 at the School of ...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Over the next two days I'm participating virtually in a conference in Basel abt "intellectual furniture," devices for information organization that predate LLMs. I'm focusing on inertia apparatae — furnishings for inefficiency, repose, and refusal 😈 www.assisted-thinking.ch/posts/intell...
A slide featuring a foam bookcase, a broken concrete couch, a chair beladen with a hundred pillows. Title: the Inertia Apparatus: Furnishing Repose and Refusal
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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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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
coming soon from Fordham's new series THEORIA is Todd Berzon's long awaited tongues book! (photo image from Todd's insta) fordhampress.com/holy-tongues...
cover of HOLY TONGUES: LINGUISTIC PRESENCE IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY, a medieval image of... an angel with a dragon on a leash unlocking a door with people behind it and they're all in the mouth of some other big monster
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John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are very stoked to have this as the first volume in THEORIA. If you are interested in pitching a project to the series, let me know. I'm happy to meet at AAR/SBL or chat via Zoom.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New digitized manuscripts at e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/... @fragmentarium.bsky.social
Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 35 Miscellanea astronomica et computistica
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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Colleagues at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, PL) have an exciting opening for a 36-month long postdoc in Greek literature within a new project on book circulation in late antiquity. See www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... for details. Note the deadline: 02 Oct 26.
Screenshot of a job posting referenced in the post. The content is as follows:  Offer No.: 4973

Institution: Faculty of Humanities

City: Toruń

Position: assistant professor (adjunkt) - research staff

Discipline: The Field of the Humanities - Literary Studies, The Field of the Humanities - History

Posted: 2026-09-03

Expires: 2026-10-02

Keywords: Ancient Greek literature, Byzantine literature, ancient history, Ancient Greek language, digital humanities, post-doc project NCN

Description (field, expectations, comments): The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:
The job offer concerns a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position within an NCN-funded research project “Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity” led by Dr Marta Szada (m.szada@umk.pl).
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wonderful to be next to so many other digital classicists in this new volume. Can’t be any prouder to be a small part of this digital humanities volume. Also, let’s go maps! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
Digital Classical
Studies
edited by
ELTON BARKER
OLYMPIA BOBOU
RUBINA RAJA
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The essay, by @suttonkoeser.bsky.social and @marinarustow.bsky.social, presents for the first time, a full account of the data behind the Princeton Geniza Project (PGP) — one of the richest digital resources for the study of the medieval Islamic and Jewish Mediterranean world.
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Journal of Cultural Analytics publishes data essay on Cairo Geniza, bridging medieval Middle East with data science and AI
Journal of Cultural Analytics publishes data essay on Cairo Geniza, bridging medieval Middle East with data science and AI
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you're an early career scholar looking for mentorship, or a seasoned scholar willing to help mentorr others in the fields of religion/medicine in Late Antiquity, consider participating in our mentorship program! You can still apply today to get matched in September!: www.remedhe.com/events
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Events | ReMeDHe
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Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Looking forward to returning to this project and discussing it with the BPG in a few weeks.
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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Less than a week left to go: nominate the best scholarship in #apocrypha studies for this award!
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Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It was great to be interviewed for the latest Pasts Imperfect, where I put together some of my recent thoughts about translation, adaptation, and the need for human art. Many, many thanks to the incomparable @sarahebond.bsky.social!
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Pasts Imperfect (8.27.26)
This week, classicist and translator Stephanie McCarter discusses the art of translation, adapting myth, and her new book on Catullus. Then, India's Rāmāyana answer to Nolan's Odyssey, archaeologists ...
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Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology. Please share far and wide!
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Cornell University, History of Art and Visual Studies
Job #AJO32482, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Join us for 'From Skin to Script', a hands-on workshop in traditional parchment-making – one of the UK's most critically endangered crafts Explore how living craft knowledge affects how we understand medieval manuscripts 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2026 bit.ly/4gcqbRn (limited places)
From Skin to Script is a practical workshop in traditional parchment making.
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today on AJR, we begin a forum for the latest publication from Ellen Muehlberger, Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World. We start with an essay from Bradley K. Storin @emuehlbe.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/6/...
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Known Knowns and Known Unknowns: Ellen Muehlberger’s Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
In Things Unseen , Muehlberger stands before the late ancient Knowledge Machine and takes in its vastness, evaluating what it produces and how it works.
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Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our department is hiring. TT position in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism. I’ve found great colleagues and students here. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/189845?fbcli...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations to @animalhistory.bsky.social author @czumbragel.bsky.social, whose essay "Toward an Animated History of Technology: A Conceptual Introduction" won @shothisttech.bsky.social's 2026 Joel Tarr Envirotech Article Prize 🎉 www.envirotechhistory.org/2026/08/17/2...
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2026 Tarr Envirotech Article Prize Awarded to Christian Zumbrägel’s “Toward an Animated History of Technology” – Envirotech
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