Jeremiah Coogan

My musings on the extent to which the idea that Perpetua & co were executed at Carthage stems from Christian/colonial fantasies are finally out in JECS. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Jeremiah Coogan, "Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews." Friday, March 6, 2026 at 12:00 EST. Register at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.

Join us March 6 for the latest First Friday Christian Apocrypha Workshop with Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology).

Join us on March 6 at noon EST for this month's First Fridays Workshop with @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, who will present a paper titled "Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews."

See more about Jeremiah and his work here:
www.scu.edu/jst/about/fa...

Hot off the press! The new issue of JECS!

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477

Congratulations!

Some more info about the Addison Wheeler postdoctoral fellowship scheme @durham.ac.uk. There will be up to 6 positions across all subjects, and each department can only nominate 3 candidates, so we will need to run a preliminary stage to make our selection. 1/3 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

The God and the Bureaucrat Podcast Episode · Ius Commune Podcast · February 25 · 51m

@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia Apply for Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virg...

friends! come work with me and the amazing folks on this team at UVA!

happy to answer any questions about the position, feel free to reach out!

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Coffee with a Codex: Ethiopian Manuscripts An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 26, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out a selection of manuscripts from Ethiopia, including a prayer book, an illustrated protective roll, and a liturgical book. (The mss are 19th c but still #medievalsky)

Register here: https://bit.ly/3MAE2oE

Loved the reference back to Langston Hughes in that piece:

Congrats!

A dark red poster with an image of a standing figure, speaking while a number of other figures sit with tablets or codices at low tables. Text: “Synoptic Work: Roman Slavery, Gospel Writing, and Historical Imagination” A Lecture by Jeremiah Coogan (Santa Clara University) | February 19th, 5pm The Carpenter Room (Rubenstein Library 249) For more information and registration, visit: https://eacclas.duke.edu/, or email: eacclas@duke.edu Caption: Ostia Antiquarium, inv. 130. Image credit: Brent Nongbri.

Tomorrow (2/19) I’ll be presenting on “Synoptic Work: Roman Slavery, Gospel Writing, and Historical Imagination” at Duke’s Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies.

Please join us if you can! See the attached poster (or alt text) for details.

Visited the Cairo Geniza collection in the Cambridge UL for the first time today. Almost lost for words at the amount and diversity of materials, languages and scripts. Herewith my photo of a Hebrew primer used in 10th century Egypt to teach kids to write

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!

2026-28/29 Postdoc in Early Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Part of project "Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity". FT/fixed term: 2 years renewable for Year 3. Deadline 8 March. nt4ox.link/radboud-PDF26

The Book as Extractive Technology

The Institute for Ideas and Imagination has posted a lecture I gave in September on extractivism, ”AI”, and book slavery in Ancient Rome on their podcast feed. open.spotify.com/episode/5cGH...

I also associate it with de Certeau.

Tactically, oder?

Many thanks to Columbia Classics for the opportunity to present some of my current research on Friday as part of their departmental lecture series! It was a delight to have such an incisive and engaged audience.

classics.columbia.edu/events/2026/...

When you‘ve read it, let’s discuss!

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER‘One for Philip Pullman fans’ THE TIMES ‘This one is an automatic buy’ GLAMOUR ‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Razor-sharp’ DAILY MAIL ‘An ing...

Oh, and re-reading R.F. Kuang’s “Babel”:
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The God and the Bureaucrat Cambridge Core - Legal History - The God and the Bureaucrat

Recently finished Zachary Herz’s superb “The God and the Bureaucrat”:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript evidence from the medieval period survives until today in varying states of preservation, ranging from whole codices, small fragments, or somewhere in-between. Some exemplars, for example, were later palimpsested to accommodate new texts. One such case is shown in the image above. Now housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this manuscript was acquired by Antoine d’Abbadie (1810–1897) during his travels in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. While the overtext dates to the seventeenth century, the pages on which it was written were taken from at least four earlier manuscripts, ranging from the fourteenth (or possibly earlier) to the early sixteenth centuries. This written artefact, and other palimpsests like it in the Ethiopian and Eritrean context, was treated recently in Erho 2025. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, ms. Ethiopien d’Abbadie 191, f. 96v. Gallica. Accessed 20 August 2025.

Donation List of ʾIyasus Moʾa from the gospel book of ʾIyasus Moʾa = EMML 1832 (1280/1281), recording the manuscripts that he donated to the monastery of Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos on his death in 1292. This important document is treated in my dissertation. Image courtesy of Meseret Oldjira.

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost:
uhh.de/csmc-hensley

flier with details regarding the Virginia Early Christian Studies Seminar meeting on March 6, 2026

Heads up! Our next VECSS meeting is just around the corner

📯It's (already) #SBL2026 Time!⏰
The SBL Unit "Ancient Education" led by @monikaamsler.bsky.social @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Coogan has a terrific program, and will host three sessions: Letter-Writing and Education; Magical Texts and Education; Education and Emotion. Send us an abstract!

Poster for "Coding Codices Live: Medieval March." Four Events in March 2026.

The Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee invites you to Coding Codices Live: Medieval March - a series of beginner-friendly workshops to help you start using digital methods with medieval sources.

Open to MA students, PhDs & early-career researchers.

🗓️ Register by Feb 23
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Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out murder mystery film takes seriously the difference between secular and Christian confession.

My analysis of the integral and overlooked relationship between religion and detective fiction, focusing on Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man, is now live on @plough.bsky.social's website!
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

This article, published a couple of years ago, co-authored with @au.dk's Elisa Uusimäki and part of @kelsbot.bsky.social's special issue on pseudepigraphy is now fully Open Access (thanks to Elisa's ERC project ANINAN)! Take a look.

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Hi, I am trying to access a manuscript held at the (Greek Orthodox) Jerusalem Patriarchal library. I wrote and received no response. Does anyone have experience with this library or know someone I can contact, please?

CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky
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Four footprints, two languages, one tile hn. sattiieis. detfri segnatted. plavtad herennis. amica signauit. qando. a- ponebamus. tegila(m)   Detfri of Hn. Sattis signed with a footprint. Amica of Herens signed when we were laying out…

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...