Joan Taylor

What a great idea for a book. Wow.

Thanks Katie!

No it really wasn't a tomb for a Herodian princess. Evidence? None. What a lot of twaddle for the sake of the Israel tourism industry.

Very good to talk with the great team at The Two Cities podcast about Boy Jesus. Btw he wasn't born into an easy time. Demonstrations, massive clampdowns, imperialism and violence ... threats to his own family.
www.thetwocities.com

So glad this is happening for the immensely talented @mmonier.bsky.social

Many of Dead Sea scrolls may be older than thought, experts say Researchers enlisted help of AI along with radiocarbon dating to produce new insights into ancient texts

Very interesting new study dating the Dead Sea Scrolls.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Interesting discussion.

YouTube video by Bart D. Ehrman Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times Featuring Joan Taylor

Talking here with Megan Lewis about Boy Jesus on the Bart Ehrman podcast.
youtu.be/XUskxQZZyZI?...

020 Interview with Joan Taylor: Boy Jesus in Trauma's Shadow - We Who Thirst by Jessica LM Jenkins What happened when a child from the line of David grew up watching cities burn under Roman occupation? Joan Taylor, Professor Emerita of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College L...

Enjoyed chatting about Boy Jesus with Jessica Jenkins for her We who thirst podcast.
www.buzzsprout.com/2384822/epis...

John the Baptist The Ancients · Episode

A Joan and Helen double act again, this time reflecting on #JohntheBaptist

Why historians believe Jesus’ family connections were as important as faith But what if Jesus’ family connections were as influential as ecclesiastic fervor in setting the course for a new religion?

Boy Jesus features in the New York Post.
nypost.com/2025/04/19/l...

Ever wonder why we dye eggs red for Pascha? The red symbolizes Christ’s blood shed for us. There are a few traditions about the pascha eggs involving Mary Magdalene. The one I grew up with was that Mary Magdalene put a basket of eggs at the foot of the cross and Christ’s blood flowed onto the eggs.

Love this curious painting. Great commentary too.

Thank you so much 🙏 @emilbrunner1.bsky.social

Hooray! You can read my new Journal of Early Christian Studies article arguing that we might have a new possible fragment of the Gospel of Mary ;) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

➡️ Available now: 'Reimaging the Magdalene' by
@siobhanjolley.bsky.social

This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene.

Find out more ➡️ www.bloomsbury.com/9780567714268

SBL Meetings and Events Program Units Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies John Hilton Description: Pedagogy and the classroom each provides a hermeneutical and heuristic frame of reference for the reading and…

A reminder to all academics researching John the Baptist that there is now a Society of Biblical Literature program unit focused on him. Please submit your paper proposals!

Four Ways Joan Taylor’s Boy Jesus Can Help Your Community Grow in Tend Even though Jesus is alive and well in his church, we don’t get to live alongside him like his first disciples did. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are more than enough to become Jesus’ d...

This is a nice reflection.
churchsource.com/blogs/minist...

Thanks Matt! Yes folks the book is out in the US now.

Great stuff Katie!

I wrote Jesus was a child refugee, I got called crazy | Seen & Unseen

Some reflections from me on Jesus as a refugee and displaced person.
www.seenandunseen.com/i-wrote-jesu...

Lecturer in Hebrew Bible Further information

Lecturer in Hebrew Bible job opening at King's College London

I hope he reads it.

What does the Bible say about who belongs in the ‘promised land’? A biblical scholar explains What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

theconversation.com/what-does-th...

It took a collapse on a bus to show me how wrong our work-life balance is Can it be our responsibility as employees to better prioritise our well-being when the workload imposed on us goes so far beyond what can be done in a 35-hour week, asks Joan Taylor

Reflections on academic work life (im)balance in THES. And yes I'm feeling much better now. You need to register (free) to read.

www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/it-too...

I am loving working on this project for @joantaylor.bsky.social and @zondervanacademic.bsky.social
YALL. This book is special.

Yes I think that's possible. I mention this in my forthcoming book BOY JESUS.

Thanks Katie :)

Great to talk with Dave and Helen in the Biblical Time Machine podcast about my new book BOY JESUS. More info soon.
www.biblicaltimemachine.com/listen-to-ep...

SBL Women Authors! It's that time of year again when we get to celebrate your books that have been published since last November! Drop the title/author of new books in bib studies and adjacent fields from female-IDing authors below 👇