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Jeremiah Coogan
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Gospels, material texts, philology, Late Antiquity | Assistant Professor of New Testament
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If scholars are going to cite or assign an English translation of Eusebius's Church History, it really ought to be Jeremy Schott's excellent work, which is a significant improvement on anything else available—and is also priced extremely accessibly.

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The History of the Church by Eusebius of Caesarea - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms, 1st International
Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint, September 2–5, 2026 septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/conference20...
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000.

Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026.

More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...
2026-2027 SHOHET SCHOLARS GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN The Shohet Scholars Grant of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars cohort. Awards up to $30,000. Submission deadline is February 1, 2026. This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean. Projects need not focus on the catacombs. Shohet Scholars may do their research in archaeology, art history, classical studies, history, comparative religions, or related subjects. We welcome interdisciplinary projects that approach traditional topics from new perspectives. For further information and to apply go to the ICS website: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-scholars/. Email questions to ShohetICS@gmail.com Image of fresco of a bird and a shepherd with a sheep over his shoulders. Paintings from the Catacombs of Domatilla in Rome.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures---

here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen

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TeTra | Ellen Muehlberger "Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
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November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked

deprime, lege

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November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!
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We are organizing an online session for the 2026 annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society: "Clothing and Meaning-Making in Early Christianity".

Proposal deadline is Nov. 19.

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Clothing and Meaning-Making in Early Christianity (online) Organizers: Arthur Urbano (aurbano@providence.edu) & Robin Jensen (robinmjensen@gmail.com) For this online session organized by the International Catacomb Society, we are seeking papers that address the theme “Clothing and Meaning-Making in Early Christianity”. Garments were a defining aspect of Roman society, serving as markers of status, gender, ethnicity, profession, and so on, part of what Terence Turner coined as “the social skin.” The curation and adornment of the body were not necessarily personal choices, but determined by custom, and sometimes mandated by law, locating individuals within a complex of social categories. But garments are not limited to material forms. They can also be verbalized as text, appearing in literary sources as conveyors of meaning, in the form of metaphor, allegory, or symbol. They also appear visualized in art, not simply displaying what actual garments looked like, but part of the code of the overall composition, contributing to the image’s meaning. Early Christians both subscribed to and challenged the sartorial norms of Roman society and produced material, verbal, and visual garments that created and conveyed meaning. For this session we are looking for papers that specifically address meaning-making through material, textual, and/or visual clothing in Early Christian contexts. This could include textiles with embroidered images, or other material remains; allegorical exegesis of biblical garments, or symbolic interpretations of ascetic or episcopal garments; or, interpretations of garments as represented in catacomb frescoes, or on sarcophagi, or in the mosaics of churches. Alternatively, the complex messaging in garments adorned with both Christian and traditional iconography, such as Dionysian imagery, presents another lens through which to explore the “social skin” of Early Christianity.
November 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Ausschreibung der Stelle einer Universitätsprofessur für Bibelwissenschaft des Neuen Testaments. Am Institut für Bibelwissenschaften und Historische Theologie der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck ist eine
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November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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We’ve so been looking forward to making this official. Mathias (@mhanses.bsky.social) and I have just signed a contract for our book, Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, with Yale University Press (@yalepress.bsky.social)!
selfie of Mathias Hanses (left) and Hannah Čulík-Baird (right) in front of the UCLA Powell Library photograph of Hannah Čulík-Baird at the podium speaking (left), and Mathias Hanses seated at the table (right); bg: slide with map of the Mediterranean - labels mark regions referenced by the ancient orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
HGV: P.Oxy. 3 475 [source] [xml] Title Report of an Accident Publications P.Oxy. 3 475 More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 3 W.Chr. 494 Sel. Pap. II 337 C.Pap. Hengstl 95 Support/Dimensions Papyrus Post-Concordance BL Entries BL-online; I 323; V 76; VIII 235; IX 180; XI 144; XII 135 Translations Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 133; Lewis, Life in Egypt (1983), S. 106.; Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne (2003), Nr. 197; Straus, L'esclave (2004), Nr. 11.; Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 174f. Origin Oxyrhynchos More from Oxyrhynchos Material Papyrus Date 3. Nov. 182 More from the period between 182 CE and 183 CE Commentary Zu Z. 20 vgl. ZPE 133, 2000, S. 190. Neudruck: Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 173-175. Vgl. Marcone , Medicina e società, S. 194-202. Mentioned Dates Z. 13-35:3. Nov. 182 Print Illustrations Ancient Faces (1997), 249, S. 186f. Subjects Anweisung des Strategen an einen Amtsdiener; zusammen mit einem Arzt die Leiche eines Sklaven zu untersuchen; der einen Unfall hatte; Kopie der Anzeige des Unfalls bei einem Fest Images https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24685/lot/207/?category=lis... License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Trismegistos: 20611 [source] Publications P. Oxy. 3 475 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1903) = Chrest. Wilck. 494 (Wilcken, Ulrich / ; 1912) = Sel. Pap. 2 337 (Hunt, Arthur S. / Edgar, Campbell Cowan; 1934) = Hengstl, Griechische Papyri 95 (Hengstl, Joachim / ; 1978) = Winter, Life and letters in the papyri p. 133 (Winter, John Garrett / ; 1933) = Lewis, Life in Egypt p. 106 (Lewis, Naphtali / ; 1983) = Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne 197 (Burnet, Régis / ; 2003) = Straus, L'esclave. Recueil de documents papyrologiques 11 (Straus, Jean A. / ; 2004) = Capasso (ed.), Dal restauro dei materiali (Pap. Lup. 11) p. 173-175 no. 23 (Tedeschi, Gennaro / ; 2002 [2003]) = Keenan e.a. (ed.), Law and legal prac…
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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amid fascinating work on 12th c. developments in Chinese & Japanese poetic exegesis, there's a really clever suggestion here on the future of #philology

THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY - Lurie - @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY
The global history of philology, like that of writing systems and other technologies, is characterized by diffusion and adaptation. These processes are made more difficult to grasp if we maintain a p...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Late Antiquity/Early Christian Studies scholars: how many different "imaginations" has our field explored?

I'm thinking: sensory imagination, olfactory imagination, corporeal imagination.

Which others am I missing?

(context: I'm proposing another in my next project, so am compiling this list)
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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my already pretty reasonably priced LIFE OF THECLA translation/introduction is now UNreasonably cheap with the code CONFSHIP! $9.50! I think it includes US shipping? stocking stuffers for all of your apocrypha lovers!

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The Life of Thecla- Wipf and Stock Publishers
Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, re...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...
Symposium Vesuvianum 2026 - The Vergilian Society
Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience Villa Vergiliana, Cumae (October 7 – 11, 2026) Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio Universi...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A reminder that we have no colloquium event this week! However, our affiliated program, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, is holding a book event on Zoom with Prof. Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) from 6:30–8:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30.

Details here:

rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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What’s better than Nancy Partner in History & Theory reflecting on Philology? Open access too! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
In English-speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indi...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist. Here is his symbol and the initial 'q'(uoniam) of his gospel in the 'Echternach Gospels'.

BnF MS Latin 9389; the 'Echternach Gospels'; c.700 CE; ff.115v-116r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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)
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe: careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis... #historyjobs
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Please reskeet: CFP is open for the North American Patristics Society meeting, May 21-23, 2026 in Chicago

Submit abstracts either for the general call or to a pre-arranged theme, or you can submit a whole planned session!

Deadline is Nov 19th, details at link:

www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
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October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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If you missed last week's Beecher Lectures by the amazing Hortense Spillers, or you simply want to hear them again, here's your chance. Video of all three lectures now released on the YDS YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Beecher Lectures
The Lyman Beecher Lectureship was founded in 1871 by a gift from Henry W. Sage of Brooklyn, NY, as a memorial to the great divine whose name it bears, to spo...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Excited to be presenting at this conference at UCLA this weekend!

www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-c...
Post-Classical Libraries Conference - UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures.  Texts had been assembled in archives of various kinds from the Bronze Age, but most were...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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My recent volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts, is currently on sale through Amazon for only $4. If you’re interested, here’s the link!

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October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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NAPS! Call for papers!

13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers!

www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
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October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM