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Candida Moss

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Candida R. Moss is a British public intellectual, journalist, New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity, and as of 2017, the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities, Moss specialises in the study of the New Testament, with a focus on the subject of martyrdom in early Christianity, as well as other topics from the New Testament and early church history. She is the winner of a number of awards for her research and writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. .. more

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing title!

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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 19d

My article “Does an Arrow a Day Keep Satan Away? Late Antique Magical Subtexts in Babylonian Rabbinic Narratives” is now OA in HTR!

It argues that a Talmudic story about a rabbi’s encounter with Satan adjudicates between competing incantations in late antique Iraq

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 22d

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall

Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.

hyperallergic.com

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23d

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE

Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, and Joseph A. Howley

Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean

Advances the interdisciplinary study of enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean, bringing together classicists and scholars of religion
Bridges the fields of book history, modern slavery studies, and ancient Mediterranean studies
Prompts readers to rethink ideas of authorship, credit, and the origins of ancient texts and ideas
Offers a collection of essays that are thematically organized around specific topics--such as gender, justice, disability, and letters-for easy adoption across a wide range of courses and disciplines

$99.00

Hardcover

Published: 01 October 2025

384 Pages

6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches

ISBN: 9780197769966

Also Available As:

E-book

Bookseller Code (06)

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · Oct 7

My course "Learning Coptic through the Gospel of Thomas" offers students affordable Coptic instruction from an expert.

Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 26

The most bananas thing about this is the fact that for thousands of years since the Enoch and the Book of the Watchers technological innovation has been associated with malevolent and sometimes demonic forces. Thiel surely has this backwards. Angels are on the side of the regulators.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · Sep 26

Story here, but like, come on. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

www.theverge.com

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · Sep 26

Story here, but like, come on. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

www.theverge.com

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Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social · Sep 18

Starting next Thursday at 5:30pm BST (9:30am PST), the Badè Museum will kick off it's new Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, the Series will explore Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. (1/4)

Poster for the Badè Museum's Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Lecture Series for Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean.

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · Sep 12

On today’s new #PeoplingBlog, @lylaahlb.bsky.social takes us through her research on elephants and how they, and their accompanying peoples, served as vehicles for cultural exchange and transmission of knowledge as they traversed land and sea in antiquity:
peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... /1

An image of two small bronze discs with elephants as the decoration.

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 10

Buy John Turner's work here (or at libraries near you): yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Joseph Smith

From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism’s charismatic founder Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of...

yalebooks.yale.edu

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 10

My latest column for National Geographic is on Joseph Smith. It features the amazing new biography by @georgemasonu.bsky.social prof. John Turner and quotes from @benjaminepark.bsky.social's American Zion.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

How Joseph Smith changed American Christianity forever

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · Sep 9

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · Sep 9

This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 9

The formal announcement (with correct room location) for my talk at Yale on September 19. classics.yale.edu/event/classi...

Classics Colloquium: “Hidden Hands and Invisible Disabilities: Enslavement and Literary Culture in the Roman Mediterranean” (Candida Moss) | Yale Department of Classics

classics.yale.edu

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Juliet Samson-Conlon @julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m delighted that my chapter, ‘The Bone Dolls from Dura-Europos: Embodying Childhood Experience’, has been published by Brepols in ‘Dura-Europos:Past,Present,Future’,available open access, www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10..... Special thanks to Lisa Brody,Anne Hunnell Chen, @jenbaird.bsky.social

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology

Abstract:This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary host of scholars to reflect on the complicated legacies of exploration at the archaeological site of Dura-Europos, situated on the western bank of the Euphrates River near modern Salihiyeh (Syria). A chance discovery after World War I kicked off a series of excavations that would span the next century and whose finds are today housed in collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Louvre, and the National Museum in Damascus. Dura-Europos exemplifies a multiethnic frontier town at the crossroads of major trade routes. Its textual remains and remarkably-preserved Christian, Jewish, and polytheist religious sanctuaries provide key resources for the study of antiquity and attest to the cross-cultural interconnectivity that was demonstrably central to the ancient world but which has been too often obscured by Eurocentric historiographic traditions and siloed disciplinary divisions.Foreign-run, large-scale archaeological campaigns of the early twentieth century, like those at Dura-Europos, have created narratives of power and privilege that often exclude local communities. The significance of these imbalances is entangled with the destruction the site has experienced since the 2011 outbreak of conflict in Syria. As a step toward making knowledge descendant of early excavations more accessible, this volume includes Arabic summaries of each paper, following up on the simultaneous Arabic interpretation provided at the 2022 hybrid conference whose proceedings form the core of this publication. The papers address topics connected to essential themes in relation to Dura-Europos: long-distance trade relations and cross-border interactions in antiquity, including the exchange of technologies, people, and materials; Christianity, Judaism, and other religious practices, and their relations to one another; contemporary trafficking of looted artifacts; cultural heritage and the Islamic State; and the evolving role of museum collections, technologies, and archival materials for research.

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you are in edibburgh, go see the brilliant Lucy Grig! hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Lucy Grig | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology

Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.

hca.ed.ac.uk

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 1

He is specifically talking about slavery as it was practiced in the Roman Empire

Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh Meira I am so sorry. So many hugs.