Joe Scales

I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?

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Just published: Marieke Dhont, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek (T&T Clark: 2025) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-...

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Uncovering the Dead, Dethroning the King: Divine Embodiment in 1 Samuel 28:14 1 Samuel 28:14 describes the appearance of the ghost of Samuel, who, upon King Saul's request, was raised by a medium. We identify four key elements of the ghost's visage, all of which relate to the l...

Every Halloween, I share my spookiest article: works.hcommons.org/records/fayf...

Working some more on this today. Does anyone have anything they think I should cover in an introduction workshop? I’m closing with a big list of recent books publications so please promote away

A ritual squashing, if you will

So you’re pitching down kind of… gourds supper?

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Sure thing

I could potentially do this if you have no other offers

Is anyone who’s familiar with SBL citation style interested in a small copy editing gig? A dissertating friend of mine needs some help going through footnotes to keep her sanity.

@tbsailors.bsky.social I’ve had a bounce-back email for the address I had for you, do you have an updated email?

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I have just accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow in Ancient Studies (with the Ancient World research group) at @unibergen.bsky.social. I'm hugely excited and looking forward to moving up there and getting started in the new year. More details on the project to follow next year

I have just accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow in Ancient Studies (with the Ancient World research group) at @unibergen.bsky.social. I'm hugely excited and looking forward to moving up there and getting started in the new year. More details on the project to follow next year

Aren’t these takes just the ideology of the texts which narrate the events? Samuel is not keen on kings (if I recall correctly) so no kings look good. Josephus is clear that the temple was fit for destruction by the Romans, but we don’t have to buy that it was a corrupt state from his evidence alone

I’ll be running an online introduction to Josephus in November. Sign up if you have interest or pass on to students if you think they might

I’m curious to see how they manage such a thing, but this may well be the way going forwards.

Thank you, depending on what your interest is in, then this article might be more useful for your purposes: works.hcommons.org/records/y0tz...

For some (glorious) reason this is now open access. Please enjoy the content as well as the title

I found the OP: bsky.app/profile/drew... credit to Andrew Jacobs for the suggestion

I believe I saw someone suggest this yesterday but have forgotten who. I want to keep my account as it’s a good way to access publications without institutional affiliation, but this may change down the line if they persist in this kind of behaviour.

A temporary solution to try and limit academia[dot]edu taking my work for AI development and other commercial uses. I think I saw someone suggest this yesterday but have forgotten who.

Queen Alexandra was not the widow of Judah Aristobulus I This article assesses the state of the question on the identity of Alexandra, Queen of Judea, in the period before her regency. Currently, outside of a few select publications, the field identifies Al...

I’ve opted to replace all the files (other than some tables of contents and promo) with a file explaining why the paper is not there and how those interested can get hold of the research.

Example:
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Good to know

A lot of the terms also specify use of materials for AI generation. I think I’ll remove what’s on there this week although perhaps the data has already been plundered

Anyone have any suggestions for scholarship on Philo’s discussion of slavery in Every Good Person Is Free?

Thanks, I had a similar discussion as I had with AJR. It’s not quite the right volume for review with JSJ.

I have a now venue-less book review for one of the recent Josephus commentary volumes. Does anyone know of a good place for this or should I just self publish it on Knowledge Commons and/or zenodo?