I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
@isaactsoon.bsky.social
Writer of songs, fiction, and scholarship on early Christianity. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
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There's no cover image yet, but look what's coming out next year:
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
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Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity
Cambridge Core - Church History - Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity
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January 28, 2026 at 2:21 PM
There's no cover image yet, but look what's coming out next year:
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Do you like bureaucracy? early Christianity? both?
Robin Whelan has got you covered:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
Classics and Africa CFP
As members of a global collaborative project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, …
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October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...
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Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Scholastic Theology at University of Oxford
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG876/s...
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Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Scholastic Theology at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Scholastic Theology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional…
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January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Medieval and Scholastic Theology at University of Oxford
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG876/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG876/s...
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Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
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January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
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We are looking for expressions of interest for guests for Season 5 of @peoplingthepast.bsky.social podcast! Please share widely with your networks if you think this may be of interest.
Deadline is February 15th 2026!
Deadline is February 15th 2026!
Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM
We are looking for expressions of interest for guests for Season 5 of @peoplingthepast.bsky.social podcast! Please share widely with your networks if you think this may be of interest.
Deadline is February 15th 2026!
Deadline is February 15th 2026!
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Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!
January 26, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!
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How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels?
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels?
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The advice we all need
Protip for writers: you want to do the weird thing, you gotta just *do it*
If AC/DC can pull off a *bagpipe break* in It's A Long Way To The Top, you can get us to care about your weird little thing
If AC/DC can pull off a *bagpipe break* in It's A Long Way To The Top, you can get us to care about your weird little thing
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The advice we all need
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Today on AJR we begin a forum on the experience of academics who have chosen to teach in secondary education. Classicist Jonathan Warner kicks off the forum, "Secondary Scholarship," with his reflection on teaching Latin in a public high school. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...
Sine Qua Non: Teaching Latin in Public School
Secondary-turned academics are indispensable not merely for their banausic training and credentials. At their best, scholars of the humanities embody love of learning and wisdom over mere appearance and sophistry. Where institutions of learning tilt toward test-prep and job training, PhD-trained teachers must fight to keep alive a humanistic appreciation of learning for its own sake.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Today on AJR we begin a forum on the experience of academics who have chosen to teach in secondary education. Classicist Jonathan Warner kicks off the forum, "Secondary Scholarship," with his reflection on teaching Latin in a public high school. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...
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January 24, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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This is an excellent review of the current state of biblical studies and the challenge it poses to theology. I’m very invested in this conversation. I have an article coming out in Biblical Theology Bulletin that critically analyzes recent theology in light of Paul Within Judaism research.
A Radically-Reinterpreted New Testament somethinggrand.ca/2026/01/07/a...
A Radically-Reinterpreted New Testament
Last fall my friend Dr Christine Jamieson asked if I might contribute to an upcoming issue she was editing for the Canadian-based journal Critical Theology. I wrote a short piece inviting theologia…
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January 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
This is an excellent review of the current state of biblical studies and the challenge it poses to theology. I’m very invested in this conversation. I have an article coming out in Biblical Theology Bulletin that critically analyzes recent theology in light of Paul Within Judaism research.
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A Radically-Reinterpreted New Testament somethinggrand.ca/2026/01/07/a...
A Radically-Reinterpreted New Testament
Last fall my friend Dr Christine Jamieson asked if I might contribute to an upcoming issue she was editing for the Canadian-based journal Critical Theology. I wrote a short piece inviting theologia…
somethinggrand.ca
January 11, 2026 at 3:45 AM
A Radically-Reinterpreted New Testament somethinggrand.ca/2026/01/07/a...
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The Department of Theology at Marquette University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in New Testament beginning August 2026.
employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...
employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...
Assistant Professor of Theology (New Testament)
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January 22, 2026 at 7:12 PM
The Department of Theology at Marquette University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in New Testament beginning August 2026.
employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...
employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...
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Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.
January 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.
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Get in loser, we’re retrieving the Four Humours next
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
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January 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Get in loser, we’re retrieving the Four Humours next
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I had written/ published very little that had anything whatsoever to do with gender, until my translation of the Odyssey came out in 2017, and all of a sudden, I was assumed to be obsessed with nothing else.
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I had written/ published very little that had anything whatsoever to do with gender, until my translation of the Odyssey came out in 2017, and all of a sudden, I was assumed to be obsessed with nothing else.
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Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.
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Samuel Hildebrandt and I have the honour of presenting this year’s Peake Lecture on Saturday 21st March. We’ll be looking at Miriam and Mary Magdalene in the Bible and reception.
Free and open to all - book via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peake-trus... and tell your friends/enemies.
Free and open to all - book via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peake-trus... and tell your friends/enemies.
Peake Trust Lecture 2026
Lecture by Dr Siobhán Jolley and Dr Samual Hildebrandt
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January 18, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Samuel Hildebrandt and I have the honour of presenting this year’s Peake Lecture on Saturday 21st March. We’ll be looking at Miriam and Mary Magdalene in the Bible and reception.
Free and open to all - book via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peake-trus... and tell your friends/enemies.
Free and open to all - book via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peake-trus... and tell your friends/enemies.
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coming March 2026! @monikaamsler.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
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January 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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I’m grateful that @nehgov.bsky.social finds my work on Onesimus valuable for the humanities!
When the book comes out via @fortresspress.bsky.social, get excited about the reception (from Ethiopia and Greece to the UK and US) of one of the earliest known individuals who was enslaved by a Christian
When the book comes out via @fortresspress.bsky.social, get excited about the reception (from Ethiopia and Greece to the UK and US) of one of the earliest known individuals who was enslaved by a Christian
Congratulations to my Advising Fellow @chancebonar.bsky.social for winning an NEH fellowship for his project on Onesimus! Sorry you’re stuck with us instead, Chance!
NEH awards $75.1 million in grants to 84 humanities projects, including research, education, and public programs on the U.S. 250th anniversary. tinyurl.com/3a37thbk
January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I’m grateful that @nehgov.bsky.social finds my work on Onesimus valuable for the humanities!
When the book comes out via @fortresspress.bsky.social, get excited about the reception (from Ethiopia and Greece to the UK and US) of one of the earliest known individuals who was enslaved by a Christian
When the book comes out via @fortresspress.bsky.social, get excited about the reception (from Ethiopia and Greece to the UK and US) of one of the earliest known individuals who was enslaved by a Christian
Brail guitar amplifier. Such a cool thing
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Cc: @isaactsoon.bsky.social
Cc: @isaactsoon.bsky.social
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Big news from my friends at @VictoryAmps In November, Anthony reached out to try one of our Duchess MKII combos. What he didn’t know was that a simple questi...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Brail guitar amplifier. Such a cool thing
Does anyone have a forthcoming book (being published this year preferably) in disability and the ancient world? I'd love to know about it! Will accept also suggestions for books published this past year (2025) as well!
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Does anyone have a forthcoming book (being published this year preferably) in disability and the ancient world? I'd love to know about it! Will accept also suggestions for books published this past year (2025) as well!
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So I wrote a thing! (And a book to go with it, but we’ve covered that)
In our latest blog post, Isabel K. Köster shares how her book "Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination" deals with some of the ancient equivalents of the 2025 Louvre theft! Read more at press.umich.edu/Blog/2026/01...
How to Write About a Robbery
Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
So I wrote a thing! (And a book to go with it, but we’ve covered that)
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Cute little animation from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social promoting my new book, The Wild Word: Animals on the Gospels
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Cute little animation from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social promoting my new book, The Wild Word: Animals on the Gospels
The four-year-old daughter of a colleague/friend in biblical studies was just diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia. If you have the resources to give, please consider: www.gofundme.com/f/help-asha-...
Donate to Help Asha Fight Leukemia, organized by Steel Lane
On Christmas Eve, four-year-old Asha was diagnosed with leukemia. What started as an emergency roo… Steel Lane needs your support for Help Asha Fight Leukemia
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January 3, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The four-year-old daughter of a colleague/friend in biblical studies was just diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia. If you have the resources to give, please consider: www.gofundme.com/f/help-asha-...