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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Using ArcGIS Online, map tiles from the Coalition of Ancient World Mappers, and publicly available data sets from the Ancient World Mapping Center and @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I was able to create these maps with no artistic ability. Check out awmc.unc.edu! CC BY-SA 4.0

Map showing Roman Provinces after Diocletian's reorganization

Map showing Palmyra and important nearby cities like Jerusalem and Antioch

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Time for the Dems to find someone named John American to run in the next election. We can't ignore this proven formula.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Words to live by from an underappreciated leader. #AncientHistory

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

After being out of the classroom so long, I barely feel like a scholar anymore, but I am excited to see this finally come out. I'm quite eager to read the revised forms of several of these contributions. doi.org/10.1163/9789...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Found Hannah Tillich's memoir about Paul Tillich at the used book store for 5 dollars. I couldn't pass it up. Ha!

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

For a few hundred dollars, Werner Herzog could do something really funny.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Dying to know what Loeb this is on Werner Herzog's desk in the 60 Minutes interview. #Ancient #Classics

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Obligatory book contract post. My head is spinning a bit from how quickly this went from submission to contract, but I'm delighted that my dissertation will be coming out in WUNTII. My thanks to David Downs, who pushed me to stop tinkering and just submit it, and to the series editor Jörg Frey.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Always fun to receive contributor copies! I am still surprised they let me sneak into such august company, but I am also grateful to have been part of a worthy endeavor.

A picture of the book Judeophobia and the New Testament resting on a bookshelf and propped up by other books.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Still a little buggy, but today I used a microcontroller and sensor board from @adafruit.com to make a simple Sip-N-Puff page turner. It shows up to other devices as a Bluetooth keyboard, allowing a disabled user to puff/sip to go forward/back in e-reading apps that support keyboards (most of them).

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Part 2 of my little DH project involved making a printable stylus and contract tablet. The idea is to make it possible to use cheaply printed wax writing tablets to let students experience ancient writing culture hands on. Doing the test prints now. Last image is the Part 1 print. #BlueskyAncient

A computer model of a simple stylus. The shape has been somewhat flattened for easier printing.

A computer model of the sort of wax tablet used to seal contracts.

A hand holding a 3D-printed replica of a Roman wax writing tablet.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My first attempt at modeling and 3D printing an ancient object. Can you tell what it is? 🤔 #Ancient #DigitalHumanities

A roughly notebook sized rectangle of yellow plastic with a shallow depression and two round holes near the edge.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"Southern Italian Greeks spoke a Dorian dialect of Greek, which is traditionally translated into Scottish English." Is it? IS IT? Should it be?

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Proof of Hell? Read my latest post to learn about Tertullian's curious case for the existence of hell: ahotsecond.substack.com/p/the-ancien...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Click here to learn more about the ancient Christian practice of making bad arguments! open.substack.com/pub/ahotseco...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Part 2 (Bluesky limits videos to 60 seconds, sorry!)

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Need a distraction? Here is a reading of my verse translation of Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1. The poem begins with a soaring statement of divine transcendence, has a didactic section on the Trinity in the middle, and not one but two digressions attacking heretics. Part 1

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

When the ScamPAC cheaps out on software...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

The progress on Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1 in Iambic Pentameter so far. I'm sure it isn't up to the standards of the poetically refined classicists, but then again no one else has bothered to try. #Ancient

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Saw this really cool mummy in Boise of all places. It was the first time I have gotten really close to one. You could see the strokes in the paint and all the intricacies of the beadwork. Shout out to the Discovery Center of Idaho for the opportunity.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Matt Gaetz looks like he went to his surgeon and asked for the Kenneth Copeland.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

And here are the (surely imperfect) results of my attempt to capture in iambic pentameter something of Gregory's artistry. The Greek text is that of Moreschini. I consulted Sykes' prose translation but differed in interpretation of the Greek text in some places.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Had to pause for a deadline but finally read the last 2 chapters. It's an astonishingly original book whose thesis has great explanatory power. There are parts I did not find convincing (as with any work of such scope), but I think it would be worth your time to read it carefully

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Someone did it. Someone finally outpizza'd the hut.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

New parental guilt just dropped.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Time for a The Cross and the Sacred Mushroom sequel.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Standing here outside looking like I should be recording myself in my car sharing dumb political takes. #Eclipse2024

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Rereading a few sections of Beard's The Roman Triumph (such a great book!) and saw this. Imagine getting vaporized by Dame Mary Beard like this. I have nightmares about making such a mistake:

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Reading this delightful translation by Minsoo Kang of the Story of Hong Gildong from Penguin Classics. This is the first Korean folk tale I've read and I'm struck both by the parallels with Western folktales and the relatability of the characters (aided by the very helpful translator's notes).

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

The earliest Christians favored other symbols, so how did the symbolic function of the cross begin? I listen to three talking crosses across 1800 years of history to think it through: open.substack.com/pub/ahotseco...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Watch out for New Age drinks! Who knows where one sip of kombucha might lead?

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

When the textbook presents case paradigms in Nom-Acc-Dat-Gen order

The clenched fist of Arthur, a cartoon character on the PBS children's show of the same name.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

A talking cross that presents Christ as a Germanic warrior like Beowulf, another that leads an indigenous rebellion in the Yucatan, and another that testifies to Christ's victory over hell, what can we learn from listening to these crosses together? open.substack.com/pub/ahotseco... AncientBluesky

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

While this novel in some sense shows its age, in other respects it is timeless. It is exactly the sort of biting satire of academia I needed, though I did not know I would need it when I bought it. Truly one of the funniest books I have read. Grade: A

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

These streaming services are getting out of control

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Read more about why I want to write with less of a view toward journal publication here: ahotsecond.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

B- A whimsical tale about a mission to save books led by a magic talking cat and a reclusive teenage boy. The author has clearly read both C.S. Lewis's literary criticism and fiction. Also strong L'Engel vibes. Reviewers seem to have missed the obvious identity of the final book

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

I'm really proud of this drawing of Mark's version of the nativity.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

How I imagine the first readers of Luke reacting when reading it the first time

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Absolutely wild that some conference proceedings are published with the unfiltered comments from the paper discussion

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

My brain every time they say moreish on Bake Off:

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Decided to dress up as a tenured professor for Halloween. I look the same, but I get paid twice as much for the same labor and I outsource all the unpleasant parts of teaching to poorly paid grad students.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Apparently if you think about the Roman Empire every day, the algorithm will get confused and advertise books on the wrong kind of Goths.

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Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

This is a traveling bookcase shaped like a big book. I need one of these so I can keep a stack of loebs with me at all times. (Object commissioned by William Hakewill, 17th CE. More details in "Improbable Libraries" by Alex Johnson, U Chicago Press, 2015)

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