Currents in Biblical Research Vol. 25, No. 1 (2026) journals.sagepub.com/toc/cbib/25/1 @ekaputrat.bsky.social @kjmrphy.bsky.social
We are hiring a full-time, tenure track faculty member in biblical studies! careers.messiah.edu/postings/30818
My book, _An Exotic Apocalypse: Revelation and the Appropriation of Judaism in the Roman Empire_, is officially forthcoming with Penn State University Press. It'll be the inaugural book in their _Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean_ series.
Sign of our times = I only learned my forthcoming book info had been posted online b/c I got a pile of AI-slop emails spamming me about it!
“To the extent that the court has put the brakes on the president’s assertions of executive power, it is arguably cleaning up its own mess,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
In just over 50 pages, @candidamoss.bsky.social challenges modern assumptions about who counted as a slave trader and demonstrates that the entire apparatus of Roman medicine, commerce, and education was complicit in the manufacture and sale of human beings.
Link below 👇🔗
new (open access!) article from Brent Nongbri redating some "early" gospel papyri (or "Nongbriing" them)
The phrase “washes up” is perhaps not the best way to describe a newly found fragment of Homer on parchment 📜 . But I do love that it’s Book 12 and dated to the 4th century CE—in Coptic. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/scra...
"Enabled by the same functional advantages that once made it the medium of choice for universal digital communication, text becomes increasingly estranged from us as it is made into fuel for the models and machines."
— @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Daniel S. Richter has a new book—which I am stoked about—looking at the Antebellum engagement with Aristotle by enslavers. We should all buy this book when it’s out in October (although $105 is high!), but here are some other thoughts too. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I'm quoted in this @bostonglobe.com piece on Alice Hoffman's new book, *Witches of Cambridge*--which had its seed in a paper for my "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" class @harvarddivinity.bsky.social
Can't wait to check out this book! Thanks for the tag, friend.
oh man, i am so excited to read this!! i can’t wait to put it in conversation with @ekaputrat.bsky.social’s _contesting languages_. it’s great when your books talk to each other! (see what i did there, eh?)
