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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!

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Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!

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British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025

This article explores the limitations of scholarly boundaries formed by the categories “Judaism,” “Christianity,” “canonical,” and “non-canonical” in our understanding and interpretation of religious images. How do these labels help us better understand or occlude us from understanding the purpose and function of religious images for both devotees and religious leadership alike? My essay centers on the image depicted on the fifth-century CE mosaics found on the triumphal arch located in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome with a special focus on the temple. On the top register, the Jerusalem temple is prominently depicted three times in a Christian Basilica devoted to Mary. What devotional, didactical, or homiletical function did it serve and in what ways does the application of scholarly categories and approaches help or hinder with this understanding?

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British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hey NT scholars of bluesky, what is in your opinion the best recent introductions to NT?

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T.J. Lang @tj-lang.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Please spread the word... Hyatt on Sunday of SBL, 9:00-11:00pm.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I am excited to announce that in May 2025 I will be succeeding John J. Collins as the General Editor of the world leading Yale Anchor Bible Series. It's an honor for me to serve as the steward of this important series. @yalebooks.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/pr...

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Professor Candida Moss appointed as General Editor of the Anchor Yale Bible Series - University of Birmingham

Yale University Press recognised Professor Moss’ unique expertise in the field of Theology

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)

A book cover with the title Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon, by Kelsie G. Rodenbiker. The image is of the Apostle Peter from GA 1751. He holds a scroll with the beginning of 1 Peter and around his head are bubbles of text affirming his status as the "chief of the apostles."

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Out in the fall in the Journal of Early Christian Studies!

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

New proposed title for the Epistle of James: Cut the Bullshit Already.

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

what a vision for education and doing history -- to be baffled, imaginative, nimble.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

The finished copies of my book have arrived! So excited to share this with the world and so honored by these endorsements from Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Catherine Nixey, Tim Whitmarsh, A-J Levine, and others. It's 20% off today on the Hachette website: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/candi...

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

"Classical scholars may with advantage occasionally glance at the New Testament." Sick burn, Zuntz ("The Critic Correcting the Author")

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

New issue of Early Christianity (EC) Vol. 14, No. 4 (2023) www.mohrsiebeck.com/heft/early-c... Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean @kelsbot.bsky.social @greggiven.bsky.social

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

It's out! Early Christianity just published a special issue on Pseudepigraphy built from a colloquium I hosted last February thanks to a grant from the @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.bsky.social. It includes +

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Early Christianity (EC), Volume 14 (2023) / Issue 4, 1868-7032 (1868-8020)

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Kim Fowler @drkimfowler.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Joining the other wonderful contributors to @kelsbot.bsky.social's Early Christianity special issue "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean", I'm really happy to have this piece included. I'll also be very glad to DM any interested folks a PDF.

Photo of my article entitled "Divine Authorship and Variations of Pseudepigraphy in the Second Discourse of Great Seth and the Wisdom of Jesus Christ".

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Greg Fewster @gpfewster.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Grateful to @kelsbot.bsky.social for the invitation to participate in a fantastic workshop last year on pseudepigraphy in the ancient Mediterranean, which is now a special journal issue! Check out the other great contributions too (Early Christianity 14.4)

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Honored to be included among esteemed colleagues in @kelsbot.bsky.social's special issue of Early Christianity, "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean." Let me know if you need a PDF and I'll be happy to send one your way—whenever I myself manage to download it 🙃

First page of a journal article by J. Gregory Given titled "Discerning Fiction in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch." Abstract: Interpretive difficulties in the letters attributed to Ignatius of Antioch have long suggested to some readers that these letters are pseudepigrapic. This article builds upon recent work on ancient letter collections to consider whether some versions of Ignatius's letters might be read as works of fiction. Acknowledging the epistemological difficulty of recognizing ancient epistolary fiction, I present an initial reading of the Greek Long Recension that highlights the narrative arc and some literary tropes evident in the collection. In particular, I compare the correspondence between Ignatius and Mary of Cassabola with features of the imperial romances, especially a notable letter exchange in Leucippe and Clitophon.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Some thoughts on academic meritocracy--an issue rightly raised for renewed discussion. The narrative of those who wanted Gay removed as Harvard president--largely echoed in coverage NYT &c + even many who defended her--holds that "merit" prevailed prior to recent diversification of the academy +

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 09/12/2023

I am so magnetically drawn to scholars who root their intellectual work in a practice of emotional warmth. I am so sick of inert, fearful, and cold intellectual praxis.

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Let’s all swoon over just HOW bad this (published! series!) is: incomprehensible Hebrew! Fully incorrect Gospel title! It’s almost adorable.

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Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social and I are running a one-day symposium on the creative reception of the Gospel of Mary and invite scholars, artists, and practitioners to submit a paper proposal. The event will take place on 16 May at the University of Manchester. Proposal deadline: 16 Dec.

Photo of the call for papers. Please email sarah.parkhouse@manchester.ac.uk for further information.

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Finally: Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM we convene a panel reflecting on Hindy Najman's Seconding Sinai @ 20 years. @kelsbot.bsky.social, Molly Zahn, and yours truly each putting Seconding Sinai in conversation with another book/thinker; Hindy Najman offering a response. 3/3

Screenshot from SBL online program book for session S20–307 on Monday Nov 20 from 4:00–6:30 PM in Room 206B (Meeting Room Level) of the San Antonio Convention Center. First up is Kelsie Rodenbiker, "Constructed Continuity and the Persistence of Sacred Literature" (20 min); followed by Molly Zahn, "The Vitality of Texts and the Ethics of Philology" (20 min); followed by Greg Given, "What has Moses to do with Phalaris? Discerning Difference among Traditionary Processes" (20 min); followed by a response from Hindy Najman (20 min).

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm pleased to announce that I have just discovered a fragmentary ancient document that can be reconstructed and interpreted to support ideas I already strongly believe in.

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Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Proofs day! It was a pleasure working with the brilliant Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus Universitet) on this short piece for a special issue of Early Christianity edited by @kelsbot.bsky.social!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Keep an eye out for the first book in our new Oxford UP book series, Reception of OT Apocrypha - and let us know if you are working on a project that might be apt!

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

The cover for Jacob Lollar's (forthcoming volume in the Early Christian Apocrypha series. And wonderful endorsements from Kyle Smith, Philip Jenkins, and Alberto Rigolio. Fingers crossed that this will be available at SBL.

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Laura Locke Estes @lblestes.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I'm prepping a new course for the spring (Hebrews and General Epistles!) and took copious notes as I skimmed possible readings and planned this summer... none of which now make any sense to me. 😭

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