I love how these nativity scenes actually give a glimpse of pre modern midwives. One of their roles was to bath the baby while mother rested.
26.12.2025 11:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology
This Is The Oldest Nativity Scene We Have
I was delighted to visit Bible & Archaeology (bam.sites.uiowa.edu) recently to talk about early nativity scenes! 🤓
youtu.be/nKBm6FYKoEc?...
We cover the catacombs, frescoes, Life of Brian. And it's the closest I've ever come to invoking "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals"...
23.12.2025 03:59 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
So great that you are making this big move Sabrina. Such a wonderful bunch at ACU!
19.12.2025 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Associate Dean (Research), Theology and Philosophy - Vacancy Details
JOB OPENING: Associate Dean (Research), Theology and Philosophy
Seeking an academic for high-level academic leadership across the faculty, operating within a University-wide research strategy focused on high quality, high impact and innovative research.
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
11.12.2025 05:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer in Classical Studies (Research, Training and Partnerships):London Senate House
The University of London
Join the ICS: The Institute of Classical Studies is now recruiting for an open-ended lectureship in Classical Studies in support of its national mission.
Full details here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline 15 January
08.12.2025 10:00 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
07.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 8112 🔁 2812 💬 67 📌 89
Tell it like it is Tom Wright! Brave man. He's hitting the nail on the head. Also a challenge to academics who assume he's going to sing from a particular songsheet.
06.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations!!!!
06.12.2025 11:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's my article about Bethlehem being not such a little village in Jesus' day. An important aqueduct went through it.
03.12.2025 11:24 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve been asking this question since the attack. The silence as one of our major national institutions was crippled has been extremely frustrating and shortsighted.
18.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
So pleased. Thank you @arturoviaggia.bsky.social !
13.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts
An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts
An academic job in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts at University of Louvain
10.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
2026-2027 SHOHET SCHOLARS GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
The Shohet Scholars Grant of the International Catacomb Society is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars cohort. Awards up to $30,000.
Submission deadline is February 1, 2026.
This annual grant program funds research on the Ancient Mediterranean. Projects need not focus on the catacombs. Shohet Scholars may do their research in archaeology, art history, classical studies, history, comparative religions, or related subjects.
We welcome interdisciplinary projects that approach traditional topics from new perspectives.
For further information and to apply go to the ICS website: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-scholars/.
Email questions to ShohetICS@gmail.com
Image of fresco of a bird and a shepherd with a sheep over his shoulders. Paintings from the Catacombs of Domatilla in Rome.
We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000.
Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026.
More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...
07.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 22 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
YouTube video by Bart D. Ehrman
Did John Copy the Other Gospels? | Bart Ehrman vs. Mark Goodacre, Face to Face on the Bible
On Sunday, I debated with Bart Ehrman, "Did John Know the Other Gospels?" It ended up being a bit more spicy than the "fireside chat" we had anticipated. The first half of the debate is now on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXn...
31.10.2025 01:46 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
La vera storia di Gesù Bambino - Edizioni Sonda
Crescere in Giudea in tempi turbolenti
My book Boy Jesus is now out in Italy, so do tell your Italian friends! Published by Sonda. Gesu Bambino.
sonda.it/prodotto/la-...
31.10.2025 11:07 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
17.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 43 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
Very important article by @mmonier.bsky.social on Codex Alexandrinus, with mention too of scribe Thecla.
29.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Undoubtedly will stir up much controversy, and that can only be good for our field, but my my!
23.09.2025 00:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What a great idea for a book. Wow.
30.06.2025 20:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Katie!
22.06.2025 10:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
22.06.2025 10:10 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
09.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So glad this is happening for the immensely talented @mmonier.bsky.social
08.06.2025 11:04 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
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Published Jan. ‘26: ‘Experiencing God: 36 Ways according to Saint Francis of Assisi.' Author of others includ ‘The Complete Francis of Assisi’, ‘Meister Eckhart's Book of..’, etc. Vermonter. Catholic married to Recon rabbi.
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Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
Writer, publisher, and dad, amateur historian and Bible scholar. An infinitely-inquisitive progressive Christian. Moderator of www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian, and www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical
PhD in historical theology from CUA. Author of Genesis and Cosmos: Basil and Origen on Genesis 1 and Cosmology. Father, teacher, nerd.
Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture, Lund University. Biblical reception obsessive.
Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; Classics PhD, UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
PI of the RCN-funded project Unconventional Gospels (UnGos): A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts.
Professor, University of Agder
Historian of religion\s at University of Fribourg (CH). linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, Alternative Histories, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
Professeur de Nouveau Testament @iptheologie ¦ Bible, Église, Foi et Recherche ¦ Bibel, Kirche, Glaube und Forschung ¦ Bible, Church, Faith and Research
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Teacher-scholar of religion and ancient Christianities. Coptic language lover. Fighting for the Undercommons. Currently a Lecturer @ Spelman College | Assistant Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies
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News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
New Testament Scholar, Theologian, Minister, Author: Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine; The Church as Salt; Jesus Sophia. Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.
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