Janet Spittler

Email nasscalworkshop@gmail.com for the zoom invitation and a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Workshops are on the First Friday of the month at noon Eastern Standard Time.

Join us this Friday for our workshop with Jeremiah Coogan! The topic is “Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews.” Regular time, regular place.

Even the middle school kids did a walk-out this week!

Tomorrow!

America is so fucking bleak.

Hugo Lundhaug, Oslo “Total Devotion to the Storyworld: The Role of Apocrypha in Egyptian Monasteries” RSVP: nasscalworkshop@gmail.com

Please join us on February 6 at noon (EST) for the first First Friday Workshop of the new semester!

Gregory Bovino: Trumps Grenzschutz-Kommandant im Nazi-Outfit Die ICE-Razzien in Amerikas Städten werden von einem Mann angeführt, der aussieht wie ein Offizier aus einem Nazi-Film. Das ist wohl Absicht.

If anyone else is wondering how Germans see Bovino’s Nazi cos-play…

Postdoc Position: Early Christian Studies | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher: Early Christian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

EIEC Image: Jesus and the dog-headed men, Kiev Psalter, 1397

In case you haven't yet heard about it, there is an interesting new project on 'Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity' being led by Matthijs den Dulk (Radboud University). Currently hiring for a 3-year postdoc. Application deadline is 8 March.
www.eiec.info/home

But isn’t this always the way? Your organization hires a consultant, and at the end of the day you basically pay them to leave.

Gross.

Well, this is a delight. Many thanks @abigailspanberger.com for appointing serious people!

And one ass-kicking name-taking governor.

Great and good.

Let's fucking go

A statement from 201 concerned faculty about U.Va. President Beardsley’s appointment By acting in bad faith, the Board has flouted its fiduciary duties to the University and has violated its own bylaws calling on it to protect the University from outside interference.

We have concerns! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

Yes, but I find logging in through the library sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t (especially when I’m out of the country) so it’s worth it to me to pay the $140/year for a personal account. Unless of course I first have to order a new box of checks.

Come ON.

Is it true that the TLG is no longer accepting credit card payments for individual subscriptions? I gotta mail a check to California?

NASSCAL North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature

So many of my recent pieces for National Geographic would have suffered were it not for my ability to link to the amazing resources supplied by @nasscal.bsky.social. If you are interested in early Christian literature you must check out this invaluable site.

www.nasscal.com

Do you need last minute gift ideas for an enemy or antagonistic family member? Look no further: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175038/

EDITORIAL: An eleventh-hour presidential appointment and a community left in the dark Furthermore, it is hard to ignore that the unanimous vote elevating Beardsley to the University’s top role was undertaken by a Board that is seemingly not legally constituted.

The Cavalier Daily strikes again. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"Scott Beardsley’s appointment [as UVA president] epitomizes a semester defined by absence, secrecy and institutional disregard." www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Just put it on the syllabus! And he’ll be here at UVa in May!

I hadn’t thought of this, but it could work well and it has the benefit of being in Greek.

Nag Hammadi friends: If you had to choose one “gnostic” text to read in a grad seminar on religious thinkers in antiquity, which would you choose and why? Bonus if it comes with an article that is readable for students with no Coptic and little experience with the corpus.

If your crèche has an ox and an ass or exactly three magi, congratulations: You’re having a very apocryphal Christmas already! Tony will explain.

Holiday Mutual Aid:
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! It’s time for YEAR 6!

With recent federal-level changes creating new challenges in our community, we’re prioritizing core necessities. We are still welcoming traditional gifts. More info below.

We take care of us.

To Give
C: $zyahnab
Venmo: Zbryant01

“that we invite the finalists to demonstrate a commitment to the UVa community by joining us in calling for a pause in the process to allow for additional deliberation and due diligence on the part of the University.” 3/3

“…they will not assume their position with the confidence of the Faculty Senate if hired as UVa’s tenth president; and be it further resolved…”

UVa faculty senate resolves that “any individual selected for the presidency under the current search timeline and by a Board that does not have its full complement of 17 members including 12 alumni and 12 Virginia residents should be aware…” 1/3

For every democracy which has enjoyed prosperity for a lengthy period first develops by nature an attitude of discontent towards the existing order, and then looks around for a master. When it has found one, it soon begins to hate him. So was it in this case for the Tarentines.

– Polybius 8.24.1