Jeremiah Bailey
@ntecprof.bsky.social
Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents.
The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa
After being out of the classroom so long, I barely feel like a scholar anymore, but I am excited to see this finally come out. I'm quite eager to read the revised forms of several of these contributions. doi.org/10.1163/9789...
September 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
After being out of the classroom so long, I barely feel like a scholar anymore, but I am excited to see this finally come out. I'm quite eager to read the revised forms of several of these contributions. doi.org/10.1163/9789...
Found Hannah Tillich's memoir about Paul Tillich at the used book store for 5 dollars. I couldn't pass it up. Ha!
August 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Found Hannah Tillich's memoir about Paul Tillich at the used book store for 5 dollars. I couldn't pass it up. Ha!
For a few hundred dollars, Werner Herzog could do something really funny.
May 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For a few hundred dollars, Werner Herzog could do something really funny.
Obligatory book contract post. My head is spinning a bit from how quickly this went from submission to contract, but I'm delighted that my dissertation will be coming out in WUNTII. My thanks to David Downs, who pushed me to stop tinkering and just submit it, and to the series editor Jörg Frey.
March 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Obligatory book contract post. My head is spinning a bit from how quickly this went from submission to contract, but I'm delighted that my dissertation will be coming out in WUNTII. My thanks to David Downs, who pushed me to stop tinkering and just submit it, and to the series editor Jörg Frey.
Always fun to receive contributor copies! I am still surprised they let me sneak into such august company, but I am also grateful to have been part of a worthy endeavor.
March 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Always fun to receive contributor copies! I am still surprised they let me sneak into such august company, but I am also grateful to have been part of a worthy endeavor.
Still a little buggy, but today I used a microcontroller and sensor board from @adafruit.com to make a simple Sip-N-Puff page turner. It shows up to other devices as a Bluetooth keyboard, allowing a disabled user to puff/sip to go forward/back in e-reading apps that support keyboards (most of them).
March 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Still a little buggy, but today I used a microcontroller and sensor board from @adafruit.com to make a simple Sip-N-Puff page turner. It shows up to other devices as a Bluetooth keyboard, allowing a disabled user to puff/sip to go forward/back in e-reading apps that support keyboards (most of them).
Part 2 of my little DH project involved making a printable stylus and contract tablet. The idea is to make it possible to use cheaply printed wax writing tablets to let students experience ancient writing culture hands on. Doing the test prints now. Last image is the Part 1 print. #BlueskyAncient
February 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Part 2 of my little DH project involved making a printable stylus and contract tablet. The idea is to make it possible to use cheaply printed wax writing tablets to let students experience ancient writing culture hands on. Doing the test prints now. Last image is the Part 1 print. #BlueskyAncient
My first attempt at modeling and 3D printing an ancient object. Can you tell what it is? 🤔 #Ancient #DigitalHumanities
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My first attempt at modeling and 3D printing an ancient object. Can you tell what it is? 🤔 #Ancient #DigitalHumanities
"Southern Italian Greeks spoke a Dorian dialect of Greek, which is traditionally translated into Scottish English." Is it? IS IT? Should it be?
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
"Southern Italian Greeks spoke a Dorian dialect of Greek, which is traditionally translated into Scottish English." Is it? IS IT? Should it be?
Proof of Hell? Read my latest post to learn about Tertullian's curious case for the existence of hell: ahotsecond.substack.com/p/the-ancien...
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Proof of Hell? Read my latest post to learn about Tertullian's curious case for the existence of hell: ahotsecond.substack.com/p/the-ancien...
Click here to learn more about the ancient Christian practice of making bad arguments! open.substack.com/pub/ahotseco...
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Click here to learn more about the ancient Christian practice of making bad arguments! open.substack.com/pub/ahotseco...
Part 2 (Bluesky limits videos to 60 seconds, sorry!)
November 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Part 2 (Bluesky limits videos to 60 seconds, sorry!)
Need a distraction? Here is a reading of my verse translation of Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1. The poem begins with a soaring statement of divine transcendence, has a didactic section on the Trinity in the middle, and not one but two digressions attacking heretics. Part 1
November 5, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Need a distraction? Here is a reading of my verse translation of Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1. The poem begins with a soaring statement of divine transcendence, has a didactic section on the Trinity in the middle, and not one but two digressions attacking heretics. Part 1
The Bumble and I said no to fascism. #HarrisWalz2024
October 31, 2024 at 9:26 PM
The Bumble and I said no to fascism. #HarrisWalz2024
When the ScamPAC cheaps out on software...
September 25, 2024 at 1:45 AM
When the ScamPAC cheaps out on software...
The progress on Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1 in Iambic Pentameter so far. I'm sure it isn't up to the standards of the poetically refined classicists, but then again no one else has bothered to try. #Ancient
August 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM
The progress on Gregory of Nazianzus's Poemata Arcana 1 in Iambic Pentameter so far. I'm sure it isn't up to the standards of the poetically refined classicists, but then again no one else has bothered to try. #Ancient
Saw this really cool mummy in Boise of all places. It was the first time I have gotten really close to one. You could see the strokes in the paint and all the intricacies of the beadwork. Shout out to the Discovery Center of Idaho for the opportunity.
July 26, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Saw this really cool mummy in Boise of all places. It was the first time I have gotten really close to one. You could see the strokes in the paint and all the intricacies of the beadwork. Shout out to the Discovery Center of Idaho for the opportunity.
Matt Gaetz looks like he went to his surgeon and asked for the Kenneth Copeland.
July 19, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Matt Gaetz looks like he went to his surgeon and asked for the Kenneth Copeland.
And here are the (surely imperfect) results of my attempt to capture in iambic pentameter something of Gregory's artistry. The Greek text is that of Moreschini. I consulted Sykes' prose translation but differed in interpretation of the Greek text in some places.
July 5, 2024 at 10:25 PM
And here are the (surely imperfect) results of my attempt to capture in iambic pentameter something of Gregory's artistry. The Greek text is that of Moreschini. I consulted Sykes' prose translation but differed in interpretation of the Greek text in some places.
Had to pause for a deadline but finally read the last 2 chapters. It's an astonishingly original book whose thesis has great explanatory power. There are parts I did not find convincing (as with any work of such scope), but I think it would be worth your time to read it carefully
June 19, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Had to pause for a deadline but finally read the last 2 chapters. It's an astonishingly original book whose thesis has great explanatory power. There are parts I did not find convincing (as with any work of such scope), but I think it would be worth your time to read it carefully