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Robyn Faith Walsh
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Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami

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Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social · Oct 24
I have the privilege of teaching my Death and Dying class in the Lowe Art Museum this semester and our mini exhibition is really coming together! I am so grateful to everyone at the Lowe for making this possible! 🤓 www.lowe.miami.edu
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This new headline about findings from Roman Berenice is doing the most. 🐒 🐖 www.iflscience.com/roman-milita...
Ancient Roman Military Officers Had Pet Monkeys, And The Pet Monkeys Had Pet Piglets
Some monkeys also had their own puppies and kittens.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.
Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Scholar wins Grawemeyer Award for book on enslaved ghostwriters of the Bible
In her 2024 book, God s Ghostwriters Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible, biblical scholar Candida Moss recognizes the contributions of many enslaved Christians and ghostwriters, like
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December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
zafulotus.bsky.social
Congratulations to @candidamoss.bsky.social for this honor!!God’s Ghostwriters is a field-altering book, as truly all of her work has been. 🤓
candidamoss.bsky.social Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 6d
I am thrilled (and a little overwhelmed) to share that my book God's Ghostwriters was award the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in religion. I am deeply honored to join this group of distinguished award winners.
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Black and white picture of a blonde woman wearing a black top smiling with the caption "Candida Moss wins 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Religion"
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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At Brent Nongbri’s Variant Readings, he has a great post on a Callimachus dipinto (painted inscription) from the Esquiline Hill now @ the Capitoline Museum brentnongbri.com/2025/11/10/c... Also note Trismegistos’ literary papyri database for more ancient authors: www.trismegistos.org/index_disamb...
Callimachus on the Walls
At the Capitoline Museum in Rome, there are a series of rooms dedicated to finds from the various garden areas uncovered in the area of the Esquiline hill in the late nineteenth century. Tucked awa…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
Frog holds in his hand a button that he thinks is Toad's. It is not. From "A Lost Button" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's getting closer...

We will see you in November! #AARSBL25 #naasr #BostonBound
August 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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My latest for Nat Geo on things you didn't know about Roman Emperors. Co-authored with Max J. Foa and featuring the work of @sarahebond.bsky.social, Stephanie Frampton, A. B. Bosworth, and Tom Geue.

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese
Lots of emperors met ignominious ends. And then there was Antoninus Pius.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
zafulotus.bsky.social
I have the privilege of teaching my Death and Dying class in the Lowe Art Museum this semester and our mini exhibition is really coming together! I am so grateful to everyone at the Lowe for making this possible! 🤓 www.lowe.miami.edu
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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
zafulotus.bsky.social
I had a great time speaking to Bible & Archaeology uiowa.edu/bam about a recent article on early Christian iconography-- check it out! 🤓

Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand youtu.be/iv7Nzr6pxSo?... via @YouTube
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand
YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology
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October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature:

Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️

P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
121. Schreibübung des Petaus Inv. Nr. Köln 328 Recto und Verso sowie um 180° gedreht 182/187 n. Chr. 9 x 22 cm Arsinoites Abb.: P.Petaus Tafel XIX (a) (Recto); CdÉ 41, 1966, 135; H. C. Youtie, Scriptiunculae II, 685; E. Turner, The Papyrologist at Work, London 1973, Tafel 6 b; R. Bagnall, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, London-New York 1995, Tafel 5, nach S. VIII (BL X 159) Ed.: U. Hagedorn; D. Hagedorn; L. C. Youtie; H. C. Youtie Th. J. Kraus, Mnemosyne N.S. IV 53, 2000, 322–342 Abbildung: 328r 328v 328v (um 180° gedreht)
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Fascinating and brutally sad.
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Book Series
Published by Edinburgh University Press ​The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Fragment of a Mould https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2009
Fragment of a Mould
August 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Bath
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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The first 'Great Moon Hoax' article was published in The New York Sun #OnThisDay in AD 1835, claiming life had been discovered on the moon 🌑
We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2

📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
The Nebra sky disc: a circular piece of green-coloured metal, decorated with gold-coloured metal in the shape of the sun, moon and stars (perhaps the Pleiades).
August 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The newest issue of Religion & Theology 32, no. 1&2 (2025), just out ...
June 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
August 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri thetextualmechanic.blogspot.com/2025/07/roma...
Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri
Thoughts on New Testament Textual Criticism and Early Christian Book Culture
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August 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology
Clay relief showing an ancient hydraulis (water organ) at the center, flanked by two gladiators, each raising an arm as if in a gesture or salute. The figures are dressed in typical gladiatorial attire, and the organ features several upright pipes.
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM