@mikaeltron.bsky.social
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Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
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if you’re curious about what i’m up to, OUP has unlocked the introduction until 11/24. you can read that here:
Introduction: “Magic” and Early Petrine Literary Traditions
Abstract. This introductory chapter aims to problematize the popular axiom that one person’s magic is another person’s miracle. This understanding of magic
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
if you’re curious about what i’m up to, OUP has unlocked the introduction until 11/24. you can read that here:
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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...
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
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...
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...
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In the Boston area? Check out Jessica's talk. She is one of the leading experts on Jews and archaeology in Rome. Her new book "A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome" (Brill, 2025) is out now!
We have partnered with Lehrhaus in Somerville, MA to bring you an exciting class taught by Dr. Jessica Dello Russo on 10/30 at 6pm: "Whispers from the #Catacombs: Discovering Jewish Culture Under Ancient #Rome"
Registration required: t.co/4tlXs5o1mH
Registration required: t.co/4tlXs5o1mH
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the Boston area? Check out Jessica's talk. She is one of the leading experts on Jews and archaeology in Rome. Her new book "A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome" (Brill, 2025) is out now!
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Have had some thoughts on divine visibility percolating on a back burner for years. Hoping Luke Irwin's new book, *Jesus and the Visibility of God*, can sharpen my thinking and help me get some of it down on paper.
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have had some thoughts on divine visibility percolating on a back burner for years. Hoping Luke Irwin's new book, *Jesus and the Visibility of God*, can sharpen my thinking and help me get some of it down on paper.
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Today, like every day, is a good day to re-read Christina Sharpe’s “Lose Your Kin”
thenewinquiry.com/lose-your-kin/
thenewinquiry.com/lose-your-kin/
Lose Your Kin
White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative
thenewinquiry.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Today, like every day, is a good day to re-read Christina Sharpe’s “Lose Your Kin”
thenewinquiry.com/lose-your-kin/
thenewinquiry.com/lose-your-kin/
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If you haven't read @janemayer.bsky.social's *Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right*, you probably should. I'm late to it (it came out in 2016) but it seems ever more timely.
September 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you haven't read @janemayer.bsky.social's *Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right*, you probably should. I'm late to it (it came out in 2016) but it seems ever more timely.
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"The astonishment that the things we are experiencing in the 20th century are 'still' possible is by no means philosophical. It is not the beginning of knowledge, unless it would be the knowledge that the conception of history on which it rests is untenable."
-- Walter Benjamin
-- Walter Benjamin
September 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"The astonishment that the things we are experiencing in the 20th century are 'still' possible is by no means philosophical. It is not the beginning of knowledge, unless it would be the knowledge that the conception of history on which it rests is untenable."
-- Walter Benjamin
-- Walter Benjamin
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It's tragically appropriate that we're hearing "We don't need the humanities; everything is STEM" at precisely the time when the greatest advancements in STEM fields are raising the sorts of questions that fundamentally require the humanities to even begin to answer.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It's tragically appropriate that we're hearing "We don't need the humanities; everything is STEM" at precisely the time when the greatest advancements in STEM fields are raising the sorts of questions that fundamentally require the humanities to even begin to answer.
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volume 8! at what point are we really talking about the second or third urban churches?
The First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia edited by James R. Harrison and L. L. Welborn is available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook from SBL Press. Get your copy! cart.sbl-site.org/books/064223P
August 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
volume 8! at what point are we really talking about the second or third urban churches?
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One thing I love about Ethiopian-Eritrean art is the unexpected details that sometimes appear. In this baptism scene, for example, half the space is filled by trees with the caption "How branches overshadowed (the River) Jordan" 🌿
Ethiopia, AD 1400/1401 #JesusChrist #baptism #africanart
Ethiopia, AD 1400/1401 #JesusChrist #baptism #africanart
July 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
One thing I love about Ethiopian-Eritrean art is the unexpected details that sometimes appear. In this baptism scene, for example, half the space is filled by trees with the caption "How branches overshadowed (the River) Jordan" 🌿
Ethiopia, AD 1400/1401 #JesusChrist #baptism #africanart
Ethiopia, AD 1400/1401 #JesusChrist #baptism #africanart
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ICYMI: @mythsbaby.bsky.social and I had a great convo earlier this year about the complex history of ancient Palestine (with a very very quick run-through of about 2000 years)
open.spotify.com/episode/1v7Q...
open.spotify.com/episode/1v7Q...
Conversations: To Palestine, With Love... Ancient & Biblical History of the Levant w/ Dr Chance Bonar
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ICYMI: @mythsbaby.bsky.social and I had a great convo earlier this year about the complex history of ancient Palestine (with a very very quick run-through of about 2000 years)
open.spotify.com/episode/1v7Q...
open.spotify.com/episode/1v7Q...
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
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still working on the OA glitch, thank you for your patience!
meanwhile, happy to send a PDF to folks who can't wait to ready it--send me an email or drop me a message.
meanwhile, happy to send a PDF to folks who can't wait to ready it--send me an email or drop me a message.
it's here! it's here! @vox-magica.bsky.social's amazing new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is live and ⚡free⚡ to download for the next two weeks! get it!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
still working on the OA glitch, thank you for your patience!
meanwhile, happy to send a PDF to folks who can't wait to ready it--send me an email or drop me a message.
meanwhile, happy to send a PDF to folks who can't wait to ready it--send me an email or drop me a message.
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My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.
Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon
Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a
academic.oup.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.
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READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields.
No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...
No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...
Palestinian testimonies of deliberate Israeli killings at U.S.-run ‘aid’ sites were ignored until the perpetrators admitted to it
Palestinians have delivered testimony after testimony about the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run “death traps” masquerading as aid sites. But no one listened until Haaretz published direct testimony from…
mondoweiss.net
July 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields.
No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...
No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...
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It's not too late to sign up for this summer Coptic course!
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
www.religiondepartment.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's not too late to sign up for this summer Coptic course!
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
Begins July 8th. Available Asynch. or Synch.
Lectures live Tuesdays at 10:00am Atlanta/EDT
(3:00pm London/BST, 4:00pm Amsterdam/Zurich/CEST, 5:00pm Cairo/EEST, and 12:00am July 9th Australia/AEST).
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TIL that Zora Neale Hurston wrote a biographical novel of Herod that was incomplete at the time of her death, but was just published this year
June 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
TIL that Zora Neale Hurston wrote a biographical novel of Herod that was incomplete at the time of her death, but was just published this year
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"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...
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Fun fact: The Ge'ez word ሐመር፡ (ḥamar), "ship" is possibly related to Arabic حمار (ḥimār), Hebrew חמור (ḥămôr), and Syriac ܚܡܪܐ (ḥmārā), which all mean "donkey". Are ships the "donkeys of the ocean"? 🌊
Ethiopia, 18th c. (?) #ship #donkey #ocean #etymology #geez #africanart
Ethiopia, 18th c. (?) #ship #donkey #ocean #etymology #geez #africanart
June 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fun fact: The Ge'ez word ሐመር፡ (ḥamar), "ship" is possibly related to Arabic حمار (ḥimār), Hebrew חמור (ḥămôr), and Syriac ܚܡܪܐ (ḥmārā), which all mean "donkey". Are ships the "donkeys of the ocean"? 🌊
Ethiopia, 18th c. (?) #ship #donkey #ocean #etymology #geez #africanart
Ethiopia, 18th c. (?) #ship #donkey #ocean #etymology #geez #africanart
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There's a large convoy of North African activists making their way by land to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
They've now reached Libya
www.instagram.com/p/DKtr9pwM7uw
Numbers I've seen are anywhere from 1500 to 7000 people. I'll incl the correct nmbr once I have it.
They've now reached Libya
www.instagram.com/p/DKtr9pwM7uw
Numbers I've seen are anywhere from 1500 to 7000 people. I'll incl the correct nmbr once I have it.
June 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
There's a large convoy of North African activists making their way by land to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
They've now reached Libya
www.instagram.com/p/DKtr9pwM7uw
Numbers I've seen are anywhere from 1500 to 7000 people. I'll incl the correct nmbr once I have it.
They've now reached Libya
www.instagram.com/p/DKtr9pwM7uw
Numbers I've seen are anywhere from 1500 to 7000 people. I'll incl the correct nmbr once I have it.
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A civil rights movement is when you're very civil and so then they let you have rights.
June 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A civil rights movement is when you're very civil and so then they let you have rights.