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Book cover: 1 Corinthians. By Mark Reasoner. Brill Exegetical Commentary Series, volume 3. Brill. 2025.

🎉 New publication!

📜 Mark Reasoner's commentary on 1 Corinthians offers a deep dive into the first-century city of Roman Corinth, evoking appreciation of Paul’s letter as an artifact of social history 🤝

Check it out here ⬇️
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#AcRel #NewTestament #Exegesis

Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" published on 07 Jun 2012 by Brill.

🎙️ New podcast drop!

Just out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social an interview with Beth M. Stovell on her monograph "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" (🔗brill.com/display/ti...).

🎧Listen to the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/...

#NewEpisode

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Another day at #SNTS2025, another author sighting.
It is exciting to see Professor Juduth Lieu with her new book, Explorations in the Second Christian Century.

Find the book here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Pedagogy of the Heart: Grammar, Philosophy, and the Christian Reader in Origen’s Greek Homilies on the Psalms. By John C. Solheid. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 190. Brill, 2025.

Another new volume from VCS 🎉💙 John C. Solheid’s “Pedagogy of the Heart” presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek “Homilies on the Psalms” preached by Origen in the late 240s CE.

Check it out here! ⬇️
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#ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL

Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria: Salvific Cycles and Steps of Progress. By Sami Yli-Karjanmaa. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 189. Brill, 2025.

New from VCS 🎉 “Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria” 🔄
Against international scholarly consensus, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa finds Clement’s position on reincarnation to be one of acceptance.
Curious to know more? Check out the book here ⬇️
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#ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL

This is a particularly good one, if I do say so myself.

I thought cijfer comes from Arabic, zero (but that’s hearsay because my Arabic is nonexistent)

The Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity is both available in print brill.com/display/seri... as well as online! referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/e... #NAPS2025

Meet
@nitzanshalev.bsky.social at #NAPS in Chicago to discuss potential projects and browse our latest publications on early Christianity!

📚 New Series Alert!

We've just launched the series "The Gnostic Imagination", edited by April D. DeConick & Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta. Interested in submitting a proposal?

Find out more about the series here:
🔗 brill.com/tgi

Truly one of the best jobs in academic publishing at De Gruyter Brill opening up for the first time in 24 years in the fantastic team led by Albrecht Doehnert

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Hello #ReligionSky and #BibleSky!
We're excited to join #BlueSky! Follow us for updates on our books, journals, and events in Religious Studies, Biblical Studies, and Theology.
Explore our publications and keep up with the latest research in the field.
We can’t wait to connect with you all! 📚✨

Down in Brighton for #UKSG2025, representing De Gruyter Brill, diving into the latest in academic publishing and scholarly communication, seeing new and old colleagues. Even the sun decided to show up! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

This is kind of a nice problem to have... So many people are trying to sign our form that Google is experiencing some issues! Apols to those affected (incl maybe @historyenthusiast.bsky.social?) but pls keep trying & we'll try to resolve this #DefendResearch
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DEIA and Doing the Right Thing - The Scholarly Kitchen Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.

I needed this today. As we all try to navigate the seemingly endless barrage of change, this is a reminder that we all have agency to make a positive difference whether we're leaders or not. Love all the practical tips!
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/11/d...

Bepaalde woorden zijn nu verboden bij gezondheidsinstituut in VS. Wat betekent dit voor de wetenschap?

Ronduit angstaanjagende ontwikkelingen in VS rond #academischevrijheid.

Twee UvA-hoogleraren (Science en GW) over de mogelijke impact voor NL.

www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...

At long last my Marie Curie postdoctoral work on Origen's psalm homilies has been published online as of last week (as an 'advanced article') in Vigiliae Christianae! A project that began in 2019, saw the birth of two children, and an international move...

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Looking back at an insightful #APE2025 meeting with new and old colleagues and friends in the heart of Berlin: not a bad start of the new year