I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
@isaactsoon.bsky.social
Writer of songs, fiction, and scholarship on early Christianity. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
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Two-page book summary!
Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Two-page book summary!
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Shopping for new books at SBL 2025? Here are some suggestions for titles related to Christian apocrypha. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/11/16/c...
Christian Apocrypha Books to Look for at SBL 2025
The SBL Annual Meeting presents an ideal opportunity to check out new books on Christian apocrypha, and at substantial discounts. As you make your way through t
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November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shopping for new books at SBL 2025? Here are some suggestions for titles related to Christian apocrypha. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/11/16/c...
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Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social!
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social!
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
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sweeeeeeet 😅😉
MEM book prize goes to @rachelschine.bsky.social for her 'Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race'!
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
sweeeeeeet 😅😉
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Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...
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I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
fordhampress.com/theoria
fordhampress.com/theoria
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
fordhampress.com/theoria
fordhampress.com/theoria
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Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. FT. Deadline: December 12, 2025. nt4ox.link/wycliffeTO26
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. FT. Deadline: December 12, 2025. nt4ox.link/wycliffeTO26
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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
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
luminosoa.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
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Tuning in (3pm PT on Nov. 6) to hear Mason Shrader (PhD student, Brown University) talk about "Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory." Join me! www.youtube.com/live/5Fg_QiU...
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Tuning in (3pm PT on Nov. 6) to hear Mason Shrader (PhD student, Brown University) talk about "Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory." Join me! www.youtube.com/live/5Fg_QiU...
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
— Kurt Vonnegut
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
— Kurt Vonnegut
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
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today’s the day!!
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
today’s the day!!
New academic subfield just dropped: Demonic Fashion
For all my concerns about the Babylonian incantation bowls, you cannot deny that this demon's shoulder pads are absolute🔥
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New academic subfield just dropped: Demonic Fashion
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This is cool, with several major caveats.
1. This is not the first device like this, and previous iterations were bricked when the companies went under. Now they're dead tech inside people's heads.
1. This is not the first device like this, and previous iterations were bricked when the companies went under. Now they're dead tech inside people's heads.
A pinhead-sized retinal implant paired with camera glasses helped over 80% of trial participants across five countries with age-related macular degeneration regain central vision. Patients improved by about 25 letters on an eye chart after a year buff.ly/nlV15am #ShareGoodNewsToo
Tiny chip restores vision, hope for those with sight loss – DW – 10/21/2025
An implant attached to damaged retinas has helped people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) improve visual ability. AMD affects millions of people. This chip has been tested internationally.
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is cool, with several major caveats.
1. This is not the first device like this, and previous iterations were bricked when the companies went under. Now they're dead tech inside people's heads.
1. This is not the first device like this, and previous iterations were bricked when the companies went under. Now they're dead tech inside people's heads.
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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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
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!
wipfandstock.com/978166674640...
wipfandstock.com/978166674640...
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Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher!
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October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher!
Image for visibility...
Image for visibility...
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Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
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Super grateful that this Revealer podcast discussion about trans approaches to the Bible with Melissa Harl Sellew and me, hosted so generously by Brett Krutzsch, is now available wherever you get your podcasts!!
@therevealer.bsky.social @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social
therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
@therevealer.bsky.social @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social
therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
NEW podcast episode: "Transgender Perspectives on the Bible"
What does the Bible say about gender variation? @jamarchal.bsky.social & Melissa Sellew, 2 editors of Trans Biblical, discuss why some turn to the Bible for insights on trans people, especially today. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
What does the Bible say about gender variation? @jamarchal.bsky.social & Melissa Sellew, 2 editors of Trans Biblical, discuss why some turn to the Bible for insights on trans people, especially today. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.
Transgender Perspectives on the Bible
Podcast Episode · The Revealer · 10/28/2025 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Super grateful that this Revealer podcast discussion about trans approaches to the Bible with Melissa Harl Sellew and me, hosted so generously by Brett Krutzsch, is now available wherever you get your podcasts!!
@therevealer.bsky.social @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social
therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
@therevealer.bsky.social @brettkrutzsch.bsky.social
therevealer.org/podcast/epis...
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NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series ~ now expanded with our latest volume: The Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths, by Alexey Somov.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series ~ now expanded with our latest volume: The Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths, by Alexey Somov.
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Working some more on this today. Does anyone have anything they think I should cover in an introduction workshop? I’m closing with a big list of recent books publications so please promote away
I’ll be running an online introduction to Josephus in November. Sign up if you have interest or pass on to students if you think they might
STECA Autumn Activities:
- 5 Nov - Writing Retreat
- 11 Nov - Bootcamp workshop, "Joseph on Josephus: Introduction to Flavius Josephus"
- 3 DEC - Writing Retreat
All online!!
Register by email: laf8861@bristol.ac.uk / josephdscales@gmail.com.
- 5 Nov - Writing Retreat
- 11 Nov - Bootcamp workshop, "Joseph on Josephus: Introduction to Flavius Josephus"
- 3 DEC - Writing Retreat
All online!!
Register by email: laf8861@bristol.ac.uk / josephdscales@gmail.com.
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Working some more on this today. Does anyone have anything they think I should cover in an introduction workshop? I’m closing with a big list of recent books publications so please promote away
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it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.