Promotional image featuring text 'Classical Studies, Archaeology & AI from Cambridge' overlaid on a split-background with an image of the Colosseum on the right and digital data lines on the left.
This new collection of free-access journal articles - '#ClassicalStudies, #Archaeology and #AI' - highlights the impact of #artificialintelligence on these fields - from teaching methodologies through to #research practices: โถ๏ธ https://cup.org/3Vt9E05
@saa-aap.bsky.social
27.09.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)
Interested in learning Coptic? Check out my 8-week primer focused on Gospel of Thomas (Sahidic/Lycopolitan Mixed Dialect).
Part 1 Starts Oct. 27
Asynchronous and Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) via The Religion Department
Sign-up here: www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...
27.09.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 46 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3
Conference announcement/call for papers! Youโll note that thereโs no theme beyond โnew research on apocryphal Christian literature.โ We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/
24.09.2025 01:43 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 27 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
friends! you still have TEN (10) days to download a PDF of @vox-magica.bsky.social's excellent "Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature" for โกfreeโก
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
21.07.2025 11:51 โ ๐ 68 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 6
The book cover, featuring Artemisiaโs Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
Iโm at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!
๐ like and ๐ RT and Iโll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)
Letโs see where it ends upโฆ
#Giveaway
22.06.2025 07:43 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4
St Andrews cathedral ruins shrouded in haar.
The coast and sea in St Andrews, with the castle ruin in the background.
Back-to-back conference number two for the @cascotland.bsky.social in gorgeous St Andrews was excellentโgreat papers and fun times with colleagues, and perfect Scottish weather to boot!
14.07.2025 11:14 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Large hall of publisherโs tables full of books.
Medieval combat re-enactment in armour with swords and shields.
Had a brilliant week at the @imc-leeds.bsky.socialโquality time with friends, excellent papers, a magnificent book hall, and plenty of medieval festivities!
12.07.2025 08:49 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas
Absolutely ecstatic to announce that we here at Religion for Breakfast are offering an online Intro to Coptic class...using the Gospel of Thomas as the primary text! Taught by the amazing scholar of early Christianity Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum. Learn more here: www.religiondepartment.com/coptic
13.06.2025 11:36 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 7
stock image of a half-sunk boat in the water, with the text Public Humanities: The Elusive Rhetoric of the Far Right, a Transnational Perspective
๐ฃ #PublicHumanities invites papers for a themed issue focused on the rhetoric of the Far-Right as key to a deeper understanding of its surprise resurgence in the last decade and a half. Find out more >
cup.org/3FIP7Ra
Editors-in-Chief @zoebulaitis.bsky.social and Jeffrey Wilson.
10.06.2025 17:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Classical Association Conference, 11-13 July 2025, St Andrews.
Last chance to book! ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration...
Booking closes #tomorrow, 11 June.
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#CA2025 #conference #AllWelcome
10.06.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
The Emperor Julian and Constantinople | Mary Jaharis Center
Attend: The Emperor Julian and Constantinople, lecture by Jeremy Swist, ANAMED, Koรง University, June 16, 2025, 5:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-emp...
10.06.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
BIBLE CRITICAL THEORY AND RECEPTION SEMINAR
The University of Manchester
10th June 2025
University Place, 6.208 and Zoom
Welcome and Lunch
Clair Hutchings-Budd
Big Beard in the Sky: A preliminary exploration of Pratchett's Discworld novels as an ethical project.
Jo Carruthers
Is the Bible a dangerous book?
Tom de Bruin
Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique of Contemporary Interpreters' Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Coffee Break
Taylor Weaver
Christ-types and Paul-types: Is there a Paul-type?
James Crossley
Robin Hood's Bible
Plans for next year
Close
Dinner at Bundobust (Oxford Road)
bctrsem@gmail.com
We're hosting the 2025 meeting of the Bible, Critical Theory and Reception Seminar here at @uomreligion.bsky.social today, with some great papers ahead.
If you're interested in joining us next year, drop @tdbiii.bsky.social, @drrebekah.bsky.social or me a line!
10.06.2025 12:02 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐น Possessed by demons? What a nuisance. But don't worry this herbal remedy will sort you out!
The video features a 14th century German Herbarium (MS O.2.48) from @TrinCollCam, Cambridge, on display at our #CuriousCures exhibition.
๐๏ธFREE tickets here: loom.ly/kVqsPRY
09.06.2025 10:59 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3
Page from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 1903.
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library was founded in 1903. Today it's published by Manchester University Press.
From the Spring 2025 issue (published in July), it will be Open Access and available for free to read.
Find the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library on manchesterhive.com.
04.06.2025 08:12 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Volume 6 Issue 1 โ Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), โWriting to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.โ tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...
03.06.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
"The Music of the Ainur" by Jef Murray. At the center of a rainbow sunburst stands Eru, the God of Tolkien's Silmarillion, with arms outstretched. His robed figure is surrounded by rotating circles of angelic beings singing the world into being.
#TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday "Fan Art"
So hey! I'm looking for some cool art to use for the cover of an upcoming book on Tolkien and Religion/Spirituality. I'd be especially curious to see some non-Western, non-Christian iconography. Whatcha got for me, Bluesky?
03.06.2025 15:08 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self
Why did Renaissance thinkers retreat into rooms of oneโs ownโand what did they hope to find there?
Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/the-s...
16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | ๐ Warburg Institute
02.06.2025 10:28 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
So happy for you two!! Huge congratulations, friend ๐
02.06.2025 20:11 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Congratulations, Tom!
31.05.2025 09:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Marcion, compiled by Mark Bilby and Markus Vinzent. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
30.05.2025 13:35 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
What Deters Antiquities Looting and Trafficking? | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
What Deters Antiquities Looting and Trafficking?
Socio-legal criminologist Dr. Simon Mackenzie provides compelling discussion of an important question: what deters antiquities #looting and #trafficking? In his FirstView article, Mackenzie considers how #criminological knowledge can enhance our understanding of deterrence in #illicitantiquities.
29.05.2025 23:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament)
Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament) [Skinner, Christopher W., Gupta, Nijay K.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament)
This book is dropping two months from today. If you are interested, you can pre-order it. It could work for a course on the Synoptics or on Mark or as a resource for non-specialists and others interested in the subject matter. Thanks in advance for considering!
www.amazon.com/Mark-New-Wor...
29.05.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Esotericism in Western Culture by โช@wouterjhanegraaff.bsky.socialโฌ explores esotericism as a vital dimension of Western culture.
"An outstanding guide for anyone venturing into the multifaceted world of esotericism." (Henrik Bogdan, Uni. of Gothenburg)
Out now! bit.ly/4khcyQz
#esotericsky #AcRel
29.05.2025 13:53 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
t&t clark Jesus Library
Reimaging the Magdalene by Siobhan Jolley
Great news for fans of not buying books but still having access to them: Reimaging the Magdalene has been added to the @tandtclark.bsky.social Jesus Library, so if your library subscribes you can now access a digital version.
29.05.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025.
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press)
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britainโs Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press)
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press)
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan)
Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910โ1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press)
The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941โ1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press)
Pistols in St Paulโs: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press)
Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
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Wonderful news, congratulations!
28.05.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The 2025 SBL Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration Rate ends 29 May 2025. Register today: tinyurl.com/m246xkac
28.05.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-b...
28.05.2025 13:05 โ ๐ 27 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival | Mary Jaharis Center
Attend: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, Zoom, May 30โ31, 2025. Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/3rd-onl...
21.05.2025 13:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Childrenโs author by night.๐ ๐She/her. Writing a ๐ on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
A network for classical reception studies: sharing info & research, supporting teaching, & promoting debate.
Posts by Christopher Anaforian (PhD, University of St Andrews)
https://classicalreception.org/
Official page of the International Association of Byzantine Studies (Association Internationale des รtudes Byzantines โ AIEB)
downwardly mobile bourgeoisie // like King Lear, but worse // avid collector of dust // they pay me in woims // my sins are various // he, him
Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Editor: European Journal of Archaeology.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
www.workingclassicists.com
๐บA hub of resources, support & solidarity
โก๏ธRepresenting the working class in classics
๐๏ธ Run by @miri.bsky.social & @misterconnor1.bsky.social
โ๏ธ Platforming working class academics
โค๏ธ Woke AF
email us: info@workingclassicists.com
Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) @goodlookingeek.bsky.social teaches Tori (the newcomer) @itstoriello.bsky.social all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/thesillymarillion
She/Her. That Beau cosplayer. Your favorite black elf. Co-host of @thesillymarillion.bsky.social / Elerina in @athraplay.athrabeth.com
An actual play podcast featuring adventures in Middle-earth using The One Ring RPG system. Come join our unlikely fellowship! https://linktr.ee/athraplay
i do some podcasts:
- Athrabeth, @podcast.athrabeth.com
- Babylon Podject, @babylonpod.page
- Compleat Bibliography, @compleat.bibliography.showโฌ
Tolkien Academic, Space Lizard Appreciator, Necromancy Enthusiast, Krakoan Ideologue
he/him
A Tolkien podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of the Professor's legendarium. New episodes monthly!
Hosted by Jude - @jude.athrabeth.com and Stef - @stef.athrabeth.com
https://linktr.ee/athrabeth
Co-host of Athrabeth, a podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of Tolkienโs legendarium. (she/her)
Check us out over at @podcast.athrabeth.com
I also play Hildigard Took on @athraplay.athrabeth.com
https://linktr.ee/athrabeth
News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Award-winning Commissioning Editor for Ancient History & Classical Studies
@edinburghup.bsky.social ~ she/her ~ various kinds of nerd ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ ~ views my own etc.
Let's talk books: helena.heald@eup.ed.ac.uk
Academic publisher @Brepols.bsky.social specialising in archaeology and history. British living in France. Sometimes writes about Vikings and goes digging in holes for old things. She/her
By Day: ELA instructor exploring trauma-informed teaching, cat mom, coffee devotee, TTRPG and MTG obsessed, usually in a beanie
By night: Exploring Tolkien, textiles, and the threads of medieval feminine acts, and recently curious about audience reception
Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/theology-religion/