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Nitzan Shalev

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Associate Editor for Biblical Studies at De Gruyter Brill

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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Come say hi!
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The summer of conferences is not over yet! ☀️ Join us on 24–26 August in Maynooth, Ireland for the 2026 British New Testament Society Conference @bntsoc.bsky.social Stop by to see our new titles and chat with Associate Editor Nitzan Shalev 📚 📸: @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social
Meet us at BNTS. British New Testament Society. Maynooth, Ireland, 24–26 August 2026. St Patrick’s Pontifical University.
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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Opening for two PhD positions at the University of Würzburg !!! 🔎 The project explores anti-Jewish discourse in Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian sources, as well as its later reception in modern scholarship (1870–1920). www.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/01...
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ROMANA ERC @romanaerc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
⏰ The deadline for docs and postdocs application is now extended to April 20!!
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Takamitsu Muraoka, Japanese pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew studies, dies at 88
A prominent specialist in Semitic languages, Muraoka was proud to describe himself as the first Japanese student to complete a PhD at the Hebrew University
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Early career scholars in religious studies: Consider applying for the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise! The deadline for the 2027 Award is June 15, 2026. The Award is given to 10 scholars, and each receives a prize of € 3,000. More details: fiit-heidelberg.de/awards/laute...
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Gerard Rouwhorst, editor of the journal and series Vigiliae Christianae. His brilliance and kindness will be dearly missed, and our thoughts are with his family in this difficult moment. 3eenheidparochie.nl/2026/01/09/b...
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Bestuurslid Gerard Rouwhorst overleden - Parochie van de H. Drie-eenheid
Op woensdag 7 januari overleed parochiebestuurslid Gerard Rouwhorst. Gerard hield zich binnen het bestuur van de parochie bezig met de terreinen van vorming & toerusting en diaconie. In het bestuur le...
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
📜 A Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic 🌏 By Samasoni Moleli Alama. An extensive and scientific study re-reading Jabez’s story from the perspective of #Chronicles as a whole, in conversation with similar realities in #Samoa. 🌺 🔗 brill.com/display/ti...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Very pleased that I decided to work from the office today - walking the snowy banks of Leiden's Polderpark Cronesteyn, right across from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, is a rare treat. Happy new year!
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
📚 10 highlights from 2025 ✨ The year is coming to a close – a perfect chance to show off some of the books published this year in our #Religion, #Bible and #Theology program! 📜 Let's dive right in… 🧵
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🎉 Congratulations, @josephscales.bsky.social! If you also can't wait to see what Dr. Scales does next, why not dive into his previous work? ⬇️ 📗 Galilean Spaces of Identity 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... 📜 The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)Assemblage in the Book of Judith 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/1568...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Congratulations on this excellent volume! It was an honor to play a part in its publication.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Writing a piece on the Historical Jesus? The "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus" is the right place for your work. Consider submitting your work here: 🔗https://brill.com/jshj #callforpapers
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thank you Patrick! We think so too!
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Only one month to go until the Annual Meeting of @sblsite.bsky.social & @aarweb.bsky.social 🎉 We’re excited to see you all in #Boston on 22-25 November to share ideas and show off our latest publications. Will we see you at booth #619? 📚 #AARSBL #SBL2025 #AcRel 📜
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Out now! 📚 Moleli Alama’s Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic 🌏 This strikingly original work discusses themes of land tenure, sovereignty & the divine, engaging with Chronicles while firmly grounded in the Pacific context. 📜Read more:🔗 brill.com/display/ti... #AcRel #Samoa
Cook cover: A Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic: Reading Jabez in Context. By Samasoni Moleli Alama. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 234. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎧 New podcast alert! 📢 Our author Cooper Smith spoke with Michael Morales of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about allusion and the Elihu speeches in Job. Listen to the episode here: 🔗 newbooksnetwork.com/... And read the book: 🔗 brill.com/display/ti... 📜 #BiblicalStudies #AcRel
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📜 Why a ‘New Testament’? 🤔 Levi Baker explores how and why first-century Christians began receiving recent Christian texts as ‘Scripture’, on par with the Old Testament. Have you also always wondered the same? Read more here ⬇️ 🔗 brill.com/display/ti... #AcRel #EarlyChristianity
Cook cover. Why a ''New Testament''? Covenant as an Impetus for New Scripture in Early Christianity. By Levi S. Baker. Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, volume 19. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🎉 Out now! 📕 Travel among Early Christians by Jason Borges traces how travel and movement between churches functioned as a formative practice for group identity in early Christian communities. Read more here ⬇️ 🔗https: //brill.com/display/ti... 📜 #AcRel #EarlyChristianity
Book cover: Travel among Early Christians: A Socio-theological Analysis of Pauline and Ignatian Communities. By Jason Borges. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 232. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🎉 New volume in Brill's #Digital #BiblicalStudies series! 📗 Paul Robertson and a team of experts demonstrate the utility of statistical and computational approaches to the study of Paul’s letters. 💻 Dive right in ⬇️ 🔗 brill.com/display/ti... 📜 #AcRel #NewTestament #DigitalHumanities
Book cover: Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters: Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology. By Paul Robertson. Digital Biblical Studies Series, volume 7. Brill. 2025.
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Out in hardcover today! 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, I am very saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Jordan S. Penkower (פרופ' יצחק שרגא פנקובר ז"ל), esteemed bible scholar and author. Our thoughts are with his family. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited! You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📚🎉Now also out in print! Get your hardcover here: 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @mmonier.bsky.social #criticalbible #OpenAccess #AcRel
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
📢New release! 📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #acrel #Aramaic
The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. By John F. Healey. Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, volume 20. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🎉 New publication! 📚 Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55 📜 Megan C. Roberts explores the phenomenon of collective memory and its connection to comfort in Second Isaiah’s poetry. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #acrel #biblicalstudies #memorystudies
Book cover: Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55: Poetic Reimagination that Accomplishes Comfort. By Megan C. Roberts.  Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 233. Brill. 2025.
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
@snsf.ch @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #NewTestament #AcRel
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🎉 New #OpenAccess publication! 📚📜 In "When Jesus Rose Early", @mmonier.bsky.social utilizes the full potential of the digital revolution in manuscript research to study text and paratexts in the Gospel of Mark. Hardcover out Aug 28th; #OA e-book out now: 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
Book cover. When Jesus Rose Early: Studies on the Text and Paratexts of Mark’s Ending. By Mina Monier. Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume 68. Brill. 2025.
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Alessandra Giliberto @agiliberto.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Did you know that @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social is the new series editor of our Biblical Interpretation series? We’re seeking proposals - especially those engaging with new methodologies and hermeneutics! Got a book idea or manuscript ready? Get in touch with me! www.brill.com/BINS
Professor Katherine Southwood and Acquisitions Editor Alessandra Giliberto standing next to each other, holding a copy of a recently released title in the series Biblical Interpretation. Book cover of “The Transformation of Tehom” by Rosanna A.Lu
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Or if you're at #SNTS2025 this week, check it out here. 😉
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
📢New release! 📗📜 Athanasios Despotis offers a detailed commentary on Jesus's long speeches in John 1-12, revealing how the Gospel of John engages with the religious and philosophical discourses of its time. Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... #criticalbible #AcRel #NewTestament
Book cover. Das Johannesevangelium und die antike griechische Philosophie. Untersuchung des philosophischen Hintergrunds der langen Reden Jesu im JohEv Band I (Joh 1–12). Author: Athanasios Despotis. Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements. Volume 195. Brill. 2025.
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social #CriticalBible
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New publication! 🎉Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees 🙋‍♀️ 📕 Chontel Syfox interrogates the motives and priorities that informed the rewriting and heightened visibility of the matriarchs in Jubilees. Curious? Read more here: brill.com/display/titl... #biblicalstudies #AcRel #genderstudies
Book cover: Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees. By Chontel Syfox. Biblical Interpretation series, volume 230. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🎙️ New podcast drop! Just out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social an interview with Beth M. Stovell on her monograph "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" (🔗brill.com/display/ti...). 🎧Listen to the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/... #NewEpisode
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Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel
"Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" published on 07 Jun 2012 by Brill.
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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
☀️ Summer #sale at De Gruyter Brill! Save 40% on our books and eBooks through August. Whether you're prepping for fall courses or expanding your personal library, now's the perfect time to save big. Browse our recommended reads and get shopping now! 🔗 marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Fantastic, thank you so much Paul!
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Hi Paul, could you add @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social to the Critical Biblical Study feed? Thank you!
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Very exciting new release – and in Open Access no less! 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... 📜 #biblicalstudies #AcRel #SBL #CriticalBible
Front cover of a book entitled “The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts”, by Garrick V. Allen, Kimberley A. Fowler, Emanuele Skier, and Maxim Venetskov. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume: 67. Brill, 2025.
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Kim Fowler @drkimfowler.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Coming soon in Open Access (release date this July)! brill.com/display/titl...
Front cover of a book entitled The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, by Garrick V. Allen, Kimberley A. Fowler, Emanuele Skier, and Maxim Venetskov.
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I have some good news for Coffman enthusiasts... bsky.app/profile/nitz...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New from BINS 📕 Harrowing the Gospels 🌾 Kristofer Coffman engages in a unique Cambodian (American) reading of agriculture and agrarian life in the Gospels. Read more here ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #postcolonial #biblicalstudies #AcRel @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
"Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew". By Kristofer Dale Phan Coffman. Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 231. Brill. 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Navigating the World of Academic Book Publishing (AO25-200) Join De Gruyter Brill editor Aaron Sanborn-Overby in a tour through the book publishing landscape, covering topics from proposals to AI tools and more. This is a session at the AAR Online conference. Link 🔗 eppro01.ativ.me/appi...
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Another new volume from VCS 🎉💙 John C. Solheid’s “Pedagogy of the Heart” presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek “Homilies on the Psalms” preached by Origen in the late 240s CE. Check it out here! ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL
Pedagogy of the Heart: Grammar, Philosophy, and the Christian Reader in Origen’s Greek Homilies on the Psalms. By John C. Solheid. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 190. Brill, 2025.
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New from VCS 🎉 “Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria” 🔄 Against international scholarly consensus, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa finds Clement’s position on reincarnation to be one of acceptance. Curious to know more? Check out the book here ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL
Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria: Salvific Cycles and Steps of Progress. By Sami Yli-Karjanmaa. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 189. Brill, 2025.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🆕 Fresh from the printers! 5 volumes of our "Formulation and Interpretation of #OldTestament Literature" series are now available in #paperback! 🔗https://brill.com/page/fiot #CriticalBible #BiblicalStudies #aarsbl #sblaar #eabs
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Nitzan Shalev @nitzanshalev.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🎉New from VCS 📘 Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Clement of Alexandria, focused on the Paedagogus and its surprisingly profound theological undercurrents. Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... #AcRel #BiblicalStudies #Classics @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
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