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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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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Those going SBL, here’s a panel not to miss: a review session of Sarah Bond’s book Strike (Yale, 2025), with responses by Jen Quigley, Richard Last, Larry Welborn, and Laura Nasrallah. Should be a great conversation! Many thanks to Agnes Choi for taking the lead on organizing.

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Looking forward to this year’s ARROW sessions at SBL, which all look terrific! Grateful to the unit for allowing me and Jaimie Gunderson to plan a session on “Problematizing “Christianization” in Rough Cilicia and Isauria,” with a handful of colleagues who don’t usually make it to this conference.

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🚨 We’re hiring for another Postdoc position in my department: Religion and Health (one year). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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rsutaustin.bsky.social @rsutaustin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Department of Religious Studies is seeking to appoint a two-year postdoctoral fellow with a specialization in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity. Please visit tinyurl.com/2k8bmyz5 for the job posting and more information. Review of applications will begin Oct. 31, 2025.

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A fantastic overview by UT-RS PhD student Niketas Belovorodov of the conference’s keynote by Petra Kuppinger on Muslims’ neighborhood interactions in Stuttgart and Ted Gordon’s feature presentation on Black churches and the racial demography of Austin. Thanks, Niketas!

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Today at 4pm Central Time: Dr. Meghan Henning on “Manufacturing Martha’s Madness: Enslavement, Anxiety, and Distraction in Luke 10:38–42.” In-person at UT in RLP 1.302 and streaming on Zoom (follow link below). All are welcome! cla.utexas.edu/mes/events/m...

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Manufacturing Martha’s Madness: Enslavement, Anxiety, and Distraction in Luke 10:38–42

This talk will also be streamed on Zoom. Watch here: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99459451185 The story of Mary and Martha is a text of terror for women and for the mentally disabled and neurodiverse. Mar...

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...

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The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think

If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🚨 Very pleased to announce the publication of a new article I had the privilege of co-authoring with Lara Boleslawsky. “Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma…” was just published online in MTSR. Happy to send a copy if you don’t have access!

Cover page of article “Antisemitic Charisma”

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Many, many congrats to Rikki Liu, UT PhD student, for receiving the 2024 Brooten award for a terrific paper on “Scripting Pain, Distributing Affect: P.Mich.inv. 1190 and the Gendered Labor of Ritual”!! sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Great news: *Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen* just turned a year old, which means it’s now fully open access! You can download the whole book or individual chapters for free at this link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East | Essays in Honor o

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

The Social-Scientific Criticism of the NT unit has planned some awesome sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 23-26. If you’re heading to San Diego, I hope you can make it to some of these!!

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Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you watched the movie, don't know your secutor from your scutum, but still want to know what the film took from history (and which bits it changed,) then here's my guide to sifting the facts from the fictions in Gladiator II. Spoiler free!!

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at ASOR in Boston this week! Particularly excited for our Antiochia ad Cragum (hybrid) sessions this coming Saturday!

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Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

With #SBLAAR24 right around the corner, I've updated the starter pack of ancient religion scholars to reflect our swelling ranks. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/9y592Bk

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Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

JSHJ’s last issue of the year is officially out! Editorial by yours truly, followed by some other great pieces! Enjoy! brill.com/view/journal...

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André Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you’re interested on how and why Spiritual Warfare impacts politics, check out the people listed in my starter pack! go.bsky.app/DGGNg2P

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Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

My new Open Access article! For some reason it felt relevant to discuss the Bible and the LONG history of leaders telling stories about how things used to be great before moral, ethnic, urban, gender, and family corruption bigly happened. #EduSky #Election #Bible journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers - Stephen L. Young, 2024

The ideas about religious, sexual, gender, ethnic, urban, moral, and family decay that underlie “Make America Great Again’s” message have notable antecedents in...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

The Social-Scientific Criticism of the NT unit has planned some awesome sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 23-26. If you’re heading to San Diego, I hope you can make it to some of these!!

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Job alert‼️ My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Here’s the posting: apply.interfolio.com/153089

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

We're hiring again! "Research expertise that complements the department's current strengths, particularly in the areas of global antiquities, comparative approaches to classics, or classical reception." Details/portal at (only CV/letter 1st round): apply.interfolio.com/150732

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Job alert‼️ My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Here’s the posting: apply.interfolio.com/153089

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

A day of flight delays is a little less frustrating with such fabulous new late antiquity books on hand—and that’s saying a lot! 🤩

Two books, showing covers: Unfinished Christians by Georgia Frank and The Life of Thecla by Andrew Jacobs

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

A necessary yet sobering look at the relationship between the alt-right and antiquity on social media from @workingclassicists.bsky.social. I’m contributing something adjacent to this conversation on their site soon so keep an eye out! 👀 www.workingclassicists.com/post/the-ant... #classicsbluesky

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The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline

Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

New issue of Religion in the Roman Empire Vol. 10, No. 1 (2024) www.mohrsiebeck.com/heft/religio... Religion at Work @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social @tonyk.bsky.social

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Thrilled to share that Religion in the Roman Empire 10.1, “Religion at Work: Jewish and Christian Experiences of Labour in the Roman World,” has been published and is fully open-access! Please check out these terrific contributions and share widely! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/r...

Table of Contents for issue on “Religion at Work”:

1 “Introduction: Religion at Work”
Tony Keddie

2 “Linking Religion and Labour in the Roman Empire: Micropractices and Their Regulation”
Tony Keddie

3 “Labours of the Saints and the Collection for Jerusalem: Precapitalist Religion, Ethnicity, and Paul’s Christ Groups”
Steven J. Friesen

4 “Intimate Labour: Gender, Labour, and the Letters of Paul”
Jennifer Quigley

5 “Extracting the Lives of Stoneworkers from New Testament Texts: Rereading Luke 20:17-18”
Anna M. V. Bowden

6 “Slaves of the Gods or Enslaved to the Gods? Enslaved Labour and the βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ”
Katharine A. Shaner

7 “The Kitchen in the Church Complex: Work and Sacred Space at ‘Ain el-Gedida”
Dana Robinson

8 “Words and Practices of Institution: Theorizing Religion and Labour in the Roman Empire – A Response”
Devin Singh

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

Grateful for this important, courageous statement on lessons of history from my friend Martha Newman, UT History Chair. Calling for de-escalation of police violence on campus, not criminalizing student speech, mitigating mutual suspicions. Please read & share. liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/news...

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Chair's Letter: Historical Insights for Resolving Campus Tensions

Ever since student demonstrators were met by state police in full riot gear on the University of Texas campus on April 24th, many historians in our department have noted parallels with past student pr...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Exciting “Workshop on Late Antiquity” talk Wed. 3/20, 5pm on UT’s campus if you’re in the Austin area (free and open to all, but unfortunately not hybrid): Dr. Reyhan Durmaz on “Public Exegesis in Late Antiquity Through the Lens of the Qur'ān” ⁦‪

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Public Exegesis in Late Antiquity Through the Lens of the Qur'ān

One of the defining features of the period referred to as Late Antiquity is an expansion of

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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

New open-access volume! Alaya Palamidis and Corinne Bonnet, eds., What's in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 13/02/2024

It is my pleasure to announce the program for ResDiff5 (March 22, 2024), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Dominic Machado (@dominicmachado.bsky.social). resdifficiles.com/res-diff-5-2...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Still a few weeks to submit proposals for the SBL Annual Meeting. The SSCNT unit enthusiastically welcomes proposals for two thematic sessions and an open session! See call below.

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Planning to present at SBL in San Diego this Nov.? Please consider submitting a proposal to one of the Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament’s sessions! Don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions!

Screenshot of the call for papers for the Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament unit’s sessions at the 2024 SBL annual meeting, as posted on SBL’s website.

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

At a time when Israel is plausibly charged with genocide, what do the Rabbinic sources actually say about a secular state in Israel? Anti-Zionism may be more Kosher than you think. religiondispatches.org/despite-the-...

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Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

Do Israel's actions in Gaza—the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced starvation and orders for people to flee their homes—constitute genocide? Last week South Afr...

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Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Finally starting to work through this paradigm-shifting new commentary. My future students will be reading parts about the “radically genderqueer Lamb,” which makes you think differently about the whole text. Congrats to @lhuber.bsky.social on this phenomenal book, and to all others involved too!

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Hanna Tervanotko @hannatervanotko.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I look forward to discussing Prophecy, Divination, and Magic with some of my colleagues whose work has inspired me! It is an honor to be included in this group. liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/events/p...

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