Reposted by Max HäberleinAncient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Today on AJR, Eva Mroczek describes the power of mythwashing in manuscript discovery as part of a preview of her new book, (Hidden Scrolls, Buried Bibles: How We Discover the Sacred Past. Yale University Press, 2026). www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/9/...ancientjewreview.comMythwashing and the Two Meanings of Mystery in Manuscript Discovery Stories — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW“When manuscript loss and discovery is framed this way--when we tell the stories of modern discovery the same way we recite religious texts—our reverence and desire distracts us from the material… 0197
Reposted by Max Häberlein🦇🧛 Hanno Auflauer 🧛🦇 @matthias-warkus.de · 01/10/2026Betonzelte Gottes, 1x Pflicht & 1x Kürsteady.pageBetonzelte GottesIm kaum bekannten Städtchen Neviges steht die vielleicht wichtigste deutsche Betonkirche. In Freiburg steht eine der ungewöhnlichsten. Ich war bei beiden. 5339
Reposted by Max HäberleinMcMaster Religious Studies @mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Congratulations to Katharine Fitzgerald (PhD 2023) on the publication of her book, Women in Greco-Roman Jewish Novels (300 BCE–100 CE)! sheffieldphoenix.com/product/wome... 0145
Reposted by Max HäberleinJoshua 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. 11912
Reposted by Max HäberleinJeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Has anyone collected the evidence for non-Latin and non-Greek cognomina in epigraphic evidence for Roman freed persons? 086
Reposted by Max HäberleinLukanerbraeu bei den Oberpfälzern @lukanerbraeu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Was mich an dem heutigen Abend am meisten überrascht hat, war, dass Maximus von Tyrus in seiner Dissertatio nr. 9 ein philosophisch tragfähiges und durchdachtes Konzept der mittelplatonischen δαίμονες-Lehre präsentiert. 1184
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Für die Literaturmengen und unterschiedlichen Publikationsformate, die mit einem Dissprojekt zusammenhängen, absolut sinnvoll. Aber teile den Eindruck, für nen kurzen Artikel etwas außerhalb meinen sonstigen Themen wars wahrscheinlich lästiger als direkt mit Hand zu arbeiten 020
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ah, habe Absatz statt Aufsatz gelesen... Danke für die Klarstellung! Außerhalb Deutschlands, wo Dissertationen vorher veröffentlichtes Material beinhalten dürfen, ist ja das Gegenteil die Regel: Buchkapitel, die vorherige Artikel weitgehend inkorporieren 030
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Dass man dafür zumindest ein bisschen nachdenken und nicht einfach Absätze wiederverwenden sollte, ist auch klar 030
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wobei das Problem ja tatsächlich ist,dass gerade in Aufsätzen oft am Anfang einige Grundsatzannahmen unter Verweis auf andere Arbeiten immer wieder dargelegt werden müssen - wäre das für dich auch Auffüllen der Literaturliste? 230
Reposted by Max HäberleinLukanerbraeu bei den Oberpfälzern @lukanerbraeu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung: Kafka wird seine Arbeit verlieren (Artem II 22). Marlen Haushofer, Die Wand: Neue Wände sind ein Zeichen der Besserung. Alles wird gut (Artem II 10). Max Frisch, Homo Faber: Elisabeth wird endlich einen Ehemann kennenlernen und Faber ihr die Mitgift geben (Artem I 78). 031
Reposted by Max HäberleinKatie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 10/09/2026Publication day is one of my favourite days! Even better when its shared with a friend (@josephscales.bsky.social) Hot off the presses: "Did the Romans Think Jews Wore Trousers?" brill.com/view/journal... 1309
Reposted by Max Häberlein🦇🧛 Hanno Auflauer 🧛🦇 @matthias-warkus.de · 09/09/2026Wir sind für unsere irrationalen Empfindungen genauso verantwortlich wie für unser rationales Denken, auch wenn unsere Einwirkungsmöglichkeiten darauf weniger direkt sind. 1436
Reposted by Max HäberleinJoe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My book “Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism” now has a @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social page: www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/moti.... Available soon in open accessmohrsiebeck.comMotivating Violence in Ancient JudaismThe battle is about to begin. The odds are against our heroes. But a rousing exhortation can secure victory. In war, leaders call their soldiers to violence. Joseph Scales collects and analyses every ... 0127
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bahnstrecke Kronach-Probstzella fühlt sich an wie durch eine Mondlandschaft fahren... 020
Reposted by Max HäberleinPeter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This may be a big ask but does anyone have PDFs of Müller-Kessler & Sokoloff CCPA vols 1–3 (Gronigen 1997–8)? Many thanks in advance! 022
Reposted by Max HäberleinAndrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Probably time to stop writing for a while 2151
Reposted by Max HäberleinLXX Graduate Student Network @lxxgsn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Call for papers (ongoing): Do you have a research paper or thesis chapter you would like to present and get feedback on? We would love to have you present online with us! You can propose a presentation using the Present Your Work form on our website: lxxgsn.com 045
Reposted by Max HäberleinÅrstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 01/09/20264QProfile PAM41368 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-... 021
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Definitely the Abu Ballas Trail, for me. Donkeys in the desert, you can't beat that 010
Reposted by Max HäberleinBenjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the forbidden döner kebab 0164
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Dieser Artikel gibt einen ganz guten Überblick über die Thematik. Qualitätsabstufungen wird es in römischer (also ntl.) Zeit zahlreich gegeben haben www.die-bibel.de/ressourcen/w...die-bibel.deKosmetik - die-bibel.deRonja Jacob, geb. Kratz 020
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Der Begriff in Lk 7,37 ist myron, was zunächst einmal irgendein parfümiertes Öl darstellt (meistens Olivenöl). Häufige Duftstoffe sind zb Zimt, Myrrhe, Narde uvm. Aus dem Begriff selbst kann man nicht viel mehr schließen. 120
Reposted by Max HäberleinChristopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Libraries don't need to keep physical journals now that everything is online" The journals online: 817846
Reposted by Max HäberleinTheodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My class focused on Hebrew printing in the Ottoman Empire, the 1546 Pentateuch in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Persian printed in Constantinople by Eliezer Soncino, and the way it served Early Modern European scholars as a Rosetta Stone for the study of Arabic and Persian. 181
Reposted by Max HäberleinMarijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In 2025 @bnuyaminim.bsky.social and me taught a course on Comparative Semitics at the Leiden Summer School. After some cleaning up, we've decided to upload the syllabus and release it under a CC license for you and yours to peruse through. doi.org/10.17613/b4z... 27434
Reposted by Max HäberleinLXX Graduate Student Network @lxxgsn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026We are hosting our first online workshop on September 30, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT. Joshua Alfaro will give a talk on How to Give a Great Conference Paper. Register here: lxxgsn.com/events/76ae6...lxxgsn.comLXXGSN - LXX Graduate Student NetworkA scholarly home for the next generation of Septuagint researchers. 022
Reposted by Max Häberleincamillalxx.bsky.social @camillalxx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026So happy to launch the LXXGSN! Josh, Robert, Ellen, Chris, Andrew & I want to create a community for graduate students: a place to connect, keep LXX research in the wider scholarly conversation, and foster generous exchange. Join us & spread the word! lxxgsn.com 0116
Reposted by Max HäberleinREFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Call for Papers: TransLATINg the Bible: the Creation, Transmission, and Reception of the Latin Bible, conference at KU Leuven April 7-9, 2027 @kuleuventheology.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2rej975v 01414
Reposted by Max HäberleinJoe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The image of the maurading locust is used throughout biblical texts (and other ancient Jewish literature) to refer to the movement of armies, turning forest to desert 1123
Reposted by Max HäberleinMENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 11/08/2026CatchOfTheDay #OpenAccess on #MENAdoc: "Digitale Edition der koptisch-sahidischen Septuaginta" by Heike Behlmer, Frank Feder, Ute Pietruschka & Verena Böll [Halle: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2015] dx.doi.org/10.25673/112... #coptic #christianorient #german #french 084
Reposted by Max HäberleinMaarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very good thread on writing a book review. We often forget it is a genre on its own and if done well it can be a beautiful art form. I wish people would spend less time on teaching absolute non-genres such as conference abstracts and more on book reviews ⬇️ 062
Reposted by Max HäberleinSabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Turns out the Martyrs of Palestine and Pamphilus of Caesarea are chick-magnets. I just found out that Liz Penland, Erica Carotenuto and myself have a predecessor. The Pamphilos entry in Pauly-Wissowa by "E. Hoffmann" is not by an Ernst but an Eva. 1207
Reposted by Max HäberleinDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/08/2026A thread on writing book reviews in Academia (inspired by @gillianmathys.bsky.social). Book reviews are a very delicate thing. The reality is you get least credit for it even though they matter. Most of us post-PhD, rarely get to read a monograph again from A to Z, unless... we're reviewing it. 25616
Reposted by Max HäberleinIOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Available for pre-order (to be published December 31, 2026): Andrew T. Keenan and Robert S. Walker, eds., Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint In Memoriam: James K. Aitken (1968–2023) (De Gruyter Brill: 2026). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... 043
Reposted by Max HäberleinIOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Just published: Felix Albrecht, The Psalms of Solomon: A Textual and Theological Commentary (Hendrickson: 2026). www.hendricksonpublishers.com/p/the-psalms... 064
Reposted by Max HäberleinIOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is a friendly reminder that submissions for the John William Wevers prize are due September 1, 2026. 065
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026After a great #EABS conference, some tourism - which means obviously, going to Antwerpen to check out some polyglot Bibles 020
Reposted by Max HäberleinAndrew T. Keenan, PhD @andrewtimkeenan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026PROOFS!!! Robert and I finally got the proofs for our edited volume dedicated and in memory of the late James Aitken. Over the moon to be at this stage! If everything goes smooth, the book should be published November 2026! Keep your eyes peeled and your book budgets ready! 1154
Reposted by Max HäberleinEduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Fire in the sky, political fracturing, a reduction in naval trade, economic uncertainty, agriculture is suffering due to plague, and the Odyssey is premiering? Welcome back, Greek Dark Ages. 06718
Reposted by Max HäberleinYale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Journal of Ancient Judaism Vol. 17, No. 2 (2026) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Susanna and the Elders in Text, Tradition, and Interpretation @scrollsgeek.bsky.social 073
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Kann man aber am Wochenende im MSK anschauen! 110
Reposted by Max HäberleinJoe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I am deeply honoured to have received this prize. I’ll write up some posts specifically about the book later today and the contribution I hope to make to understanding ancient Judaism through its arguments. Thank you @biajs.bsky.social 7287
Reposted by Max HäberleinJulia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Schon Tickets für „Die Odyssee“ gebucht? Wer wissen möchte, worum es in der antiken Vorlage für den Film geht, hat an drei Abenden im Central im Bürgerbräu die Möglichkeit, sich mit Forschenden @uni-wuerzburg.de vor und nach dem Film auszutauschen. Mehr Infos hier: buff.ly/iHrJnk2 #ClassicsBluesky 11810
Reposted by Max HäberleinSchrank-Falter Weinmeier @sweinmeier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026many are saying this 1173
