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Nitzan Shalev
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Associate Editor for Biblical Studies at De Gruyter Brill
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Writing a piece on the Historical Jesus? The "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus" is the right place for your work. Consider submitting your work here: 🔗https://brill.com/jshj

#callforpapers
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Only one month to go until the Annual Meeting of @sblsite.bsky.social & @aarweb.bsky.social 🎉 We’re excited to see you all in #Boston on 22-25 November to share ideas and show off our latest publications. Will we see you at booth #619? 📚

#AARSBL #SBL2025 #AcRel 📜
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Out now! 📚 Moleli Alama’s Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic 🌏 This strikingly original work discusses themes of land tenure, sovereignty & the divine, engaging with Chronicles while firmly grounded in the Pacific context.

📜Read more:🔗 brill.com/display/ti...
#AcRel #Samoa
Cook cover: A Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic: Reading Jabez in Context. By Samasoni Moleli Alama. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 234. Brill. 2025.
October 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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🎧 New podcast alert! 📢
Our author Cooper Smith spoke with Michael Morales of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about allusion and the Elihu speeches in Job.

Listen to the episode here:
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And read the book:
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📜 #BiblicalStudies #AcRel
October 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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📜 Why a ‘New Testament’? 🤔 Levi Baker explores how and why first-century Christians began receiving recent Christian texts as ‘Scripture’, on par with the Old Testament.

Have you also always wondered the same? Read more here ⬇️
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#AcRel #EarlyChristianity
Cook cover. Why a ''New Testament''? Covenant as an Impetus for New Scripture in Early Christianity. By Levi S. Baker. Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, volume 19. Brill. 2025.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🎉 Out now! 📕

Travel among Early Christians by Jason Borges traces how travel and movement between churches functioned as a formative practice for group identity in early Christian communities.

Read more here ⬇️
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📜 #AcRel #EarlyChristianity
Book cover: Travel among Early Christians: A Socio-theological Analysis of Pauline and Ignatian Communities. By Jason Borges. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 232. Brill. 2025.
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🎉 New volume in Brill's #Digital #BiblicalStudies series!

📗 Paul Robertson and a team of experts demonstrate the utility of statistical and computational approaches to the study of Paul’s letters. 💻
Dive right in ⬇️
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📜 #AcRel #NewTestament #DigitalHumanities
Book cover: Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters: Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology. By Paul Robertson. Digital Biblical Studies Series, volume 7. Brill. 2025.
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Out in hardcover today!
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🎉 New publication!

📜 Mark Reasoner's commentary on 1 Corinthians offers a deep dive into the first-century city of Roman Corinth, evoking appreciation of Paul’s letter as an artifact of social history 🤝

Check it out here ⬇️
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#AcRel #NewTestament #Exegesis
Book cover: 1 Corinthians. By Mark Reasoner. Brill Exegetical Commentary Series, volume 3. Brill. 2025.
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, I am very saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Jordan S. Penkower (פרופ' יצחק שרגא פנקובר ז"ל), esteemed bible scholar and author. Our thoughts are with his family. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited!

You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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📚🎉Now also out in print! Get your hardcover here:
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#criticalbible #OpenAccess #AcRel
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🎉 New #OpenAccess publication! 📚📜 In "When Jesus Rose Early", @mmonier.bsky.social utilizes the full potential of the digital revolution in manuscript research to study text and paratexts in the Gospel of Mark.
Hardcover out Aug 28th; #OA e-book out now:
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September 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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📢New release!

📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script.

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#acrel #Aramaic
The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. By John F. Healey. Series: Supplement to Aramaic Studies, volume 20. Brill. 2025.
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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🎉 New publication!

📚 Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55 📜

Megan C. Roberts explores the phenomenon of collective memory and its connection to comfort in Second Isaiah’s poetry.

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#acrel #biblicalstudies #memorystudies
Book cover: Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55: Poetic Reimagination that Accomplishes Comfort. By Megan C. Roberts. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 233. Brill. 2025.
August 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🎉 New #OpenAccess publication! 📚📜 In "When Jesus Rose Early", @mmonier.bsky.social utilizes the full potential of the digital revolution in manuscript research to study text and paratexts in the Gospel of Mark.
Hardcover out Aug 28th; #OA e-book out now:
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Book cover. When Jesus Rose Early: Studies on the Text and Paratexts of Mark’s Ending. By Mina Monier. Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume 68. Brill. 2025.
August 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Did you know that @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social
is the new series editor of our Biblical Interpretation series?

We’re seeking proposals - especially those engaging with new methodologies and hermeneutics!

Got a book idea or manuscript ready? Get in touch with me!

www.brill.com/BINS
Professor Katherine Southwood and Acquisitions Editor Alessandra Giliberto standing next to each other, holding a copy of a recently released title in the series Biblical Interpretation. Book cover of “The Transformation of Tehom” by Rosanna A.Lu
August 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Or if you're at #SNTS2025 this week, check it out here. 😉
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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📢New release! 📗📜 Athanasios Despotis offers a detailed commentary on Jesus's long speeches in John 1-12, revealing how the Gospel of John engages with the religious and philosophical discourses of its time.

Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...
#criticalbible #AcRel #NewTestament
Book cover. Das Johannesevangelium und die antike griechische Philosophie. Untersuchung des philosophischen Hintergrunds der langen Reden Jesu im JohEv Band I (Joh 1–12). Author: Athanasios Despotis. Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements. Volume 195. Brill. 2025.
August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New publication! 🎉Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees 🙋‍♀️ 📕 Chontel Syfox interrogates the motives and priorities that informed the rewriting and heightened visibility of the matriarchs in Jubilees.
Curious? Read more here:
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#biblicalstudies #AcRel #genderstudies
Book cover: Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees. By Chontel Syfox. Biblical Interpretation series, volume 230. Brill. 2025.
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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🎙️ New podcast drop!

Just out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social an interview with Beth M. Stovell on her monograph "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" (🔗brill.com/display/ti...).

🎧Listen to the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/...

#NewEpisode
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"Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" published on 07 Jun 2012 by Brill.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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☀️ Summer #sale at De Gruyter Brill! Save 40% on our books and eBooks through August. Whether you're prepping for fall courses or expanding your personal library, now's the perfect time to save big.

Browse our recommended reads and get shopping now!

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July 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Very exciting new release – and in Open Access no less!

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📜 #biblicalstudies #AcRel #SBL #CriticalBible
Front cover of a book entitled “The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts”, by Garrick V. Allen, Kimberley A. Fowler, Emanuele Skier, and Maxim Venetskov. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, Volume: 67. Brill, 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Coming soon in Open Access (release date this July)!

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Front cover of a book entitled The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, by Garrick V. Allen, Kimberley A. Fowler, Emanuele Skier, and Maxim Venetskov.
July 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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New from BINS 📕 Harrowing the Gospels 🌾
Kristofer Coffman engages in a unique Cambodian (American) reading of agriculture and agrarian life in the Gospels.

Read more here ⬇️
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#postcolonial #biblicalstudies #AcRel
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"Harrowing the Gospels: A Cambodian (American) Rereading of Agriculture in Mark and Matthew". By Kristofer Dale Phan Coffman. Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 231. Brill. 2025.
July 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Navigating the World of Academic Book Publishing (AO25-200)

Join De Gruyter Brill editor Aaron Sanborn-Overby in a tour through the book publishing landscape, covering topics from proposals to AI tools and more.

This is a session at the AAR Online conference.

Link 🔗 eppro01.ativ.me/appi...
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June 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Another new volume from VCS 🎉💙 John C. Solheid’s “Pedagogy of the Heart” presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek “Homilies on the Psalms” preached by Origen in the late 240s CE.

Check it out here! ⬇️
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#ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL
Pedagogy of the Heart: Grammar, Philosophy, and the Christian Reader in Origen’s Greek Homilies on the Psalms. By John C. Solheid. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 190. Brill, 2025.
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM