Christopher B. Zeichmann
@cbzeichmann.bsky.social
biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
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Radical Antiquity
When you think of Ancient Greece and Rome, what do you see? The Acropolis and the Colosseum? Perhaps the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, and the rule of t...
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Check out that incredible cover! #antiquity #anarchism #ancientrome #ancientgreece #radicalhistory
Check out that incredible cover! #antiquity #anarchism #ancientrome #ancientgreece #radicalhistory
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Sat down to start the 1st chapter of my new book & someone flew in to lend a hand (a tarsus?)
Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book
Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book
January 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Sat down to start the 1st chapter of my new book & someone flew in to lend a hand (a tarsus?)
Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book
Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book
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Its happening.
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Its happening.
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The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...
DOJ staff resign over the department’s disinterest in Good killing.
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...
haha, thanks so much!
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
haha, thanks so much!
It's a damn good feeling to see a novelist put your book in a stack for research!
January 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
It's a damn good feeling to see a novelist put your book in a stack for research!
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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
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Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social - what are you interested in, in particular? Any specific religious traditions? My own work is mostly in Christianity, Judaism, and antiquity, but I'd be happy to offer what help I can!
December 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social - what are you interested in, in particular? Any specific religious traditions? My own work is mostly in Christianity, Judaism, and antiquity, but I'd be happy to offer what help I can!
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
It's getting closer to Christmas, so I guess it's time to repost my article on the Panthera legend. I have a book under contract that expands on the topic due out next year. In short: there is no way this particular soldier was the biological father of Jesus: www.academia.edu/42958793/Jes...
Jesus 'ben Pantera': An Epigraphic and Military-Historical Note
There is ample evidence that anti-Christian polemicists asserted that Jesus' true father was neither God nor Joseph, but a Roman soldier named Pantera. This was long dismissed as ahistorical, but ...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It's getting closer to Christmas, so I guess it's time to repost my article on the Panthera legend. I have a book under contract that expands on the topic due out next year. In short: there is no way this particular soldier was the biological father of Jesus: www.academia.edu/42958793/Jes...
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Okay the only thing I’ll say about the Compact article is field specific: the trope of “traditional” military history vs. “woke” critical theory needs to die.
How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?
How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?
This is 100% incorrect as the explanation for why someone obsessed with Roman *military* history is not being hired.
December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay the only thing I’ll say about the Compact article is field specific: the trope of “traditional” military history vs. “woke” critical theory needs to die.
How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?
How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?
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In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...
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"In the first century Mediterranean world, soldiers represented the authority and order of the Roman Empire." Read Soldiers in the New Testament by Laurie Brink buff.ly/g0zET2f
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"In the first century Mediterranean world, soldiers represented the authority and order of the Roman Empire." Read Soldiers in the New Testament by Laurie Brink buff.ly/g0zET2f
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Go to central Minnesota this summer and learn Ge’ez!
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Go to central Minnesota this summer and learn Ge’ez!
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Join us in store this Saturday at 5pm for a book talk with Christopher B Zeichmann, author of Radical Antiquity, in conversation with Morgan D Bell!
#argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity
#argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Join us in store this Saturday at 5pm for a book talk with Christopher B Zeichmann, author of Radical Antiquity, in conversation with Morgan D Bell!
#argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity
#argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity
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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
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While your boyfriend is thinking about the Roman Empire, you're reading about the ancient anarchists who escaped it.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
While your boyfriend is thinking about the Roman Empire, you're reading about the ancient anarchists who escaped it.
www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...
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Thanks so much, Matthew!
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Thanks so much, Matthew!
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Great SBL session on Zeichmann’s new book last weekend, and now I’m reading it
Highly recommend!
Highly recommend!
Available for pre-order via @plutopress.bsky.social: www.plutobooks.com/978074535039...
Check out that incredible cover! #antiquity #anarchism #ancientrome #ancientgreece #radicalhistory
Check out that incredible cover! #antiquity #anarchism #ancientrome #ancientgreece #radicalhistory
Radical Antiquity
When you think of Ancient Greece and Rome, what do you see? The Acropolis and the Colosseum? Perhaps the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, and the rule of t...
www.plutobooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Great SBL session on Zeichmann’s new book last weekend, and now I’m reading it
Highly recommend!
Highly recommend!
Haha, weird and wonderful is what I was aiming for! Thanks, Darren!
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Haha, weird and wonderful is what I was aiming for! Thanks, Darren!
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This sort of belief, that Christianity is the most moral religion in human history and that it acted as a moralizing agent that "civilized savages" is sadly still a somewhat common belief among older members of even liberally minded churches like the Episcopal Church. I've heard people say this.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This sort of belief, that Christianity is the most moral religion in human history and that it acted as a moralizing agent that "civilized savages" is sadly still a somewhat common belief among older members of even liberally minded churches like the Episcopal Church. I've heard people say this.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I’ve never felt more seen…
Local Man Only Able to Express Emotion Using “I Think You Should Leave” GIFs
Local 43-year-old Dan Reynolds lost the ability to verbally communicate with loved ones and is only able to quote or use GIFs from the Netflix sketch show “I Think You Should Leave.”
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November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’ve never felt more seen…
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So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp