Kelsie Rodenbiker

In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!

More of a recommendation than I deserve!

Thanks, Hugo!

Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a

My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.

Funding for 4 year PhD in Uni Galway, on project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’, directed by Ciaran Arthur. Deadline 20 June. www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

Call for papers graphic - closes 21/04

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles

The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.

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This article explores the limitations of scholarly boundaries formed by the categories “Judaism,” “Christianity,” “canonical,” and “non-canonical” in our understanding and interpretation of religious images. How do these labels help us better understand or occlude us from understanding the purpose and function of religious images for both devotees and religious leadership alike? My essay centers on the image depicted on the fifth-century CE mosaics found on the triumphal arch located in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome with a special focus on the temple. On the top register, the Jerusalem temple is prominently depicted three times in a Christian Basilica devoted to Mary. What devotional, didactical, or homiletical function did it serve and in what ways does the application of scholarly categories and approaches help or hinder with this understanding?

Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025

The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!

Jealous

Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."

bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social

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I love those weirdos. Literally writing an abstract on this RIGHT now hahaha.

it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂

The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.

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That's... very wow.

Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

I am immensely grateful to have been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social, for a project to consider "Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Eclectic Philosophical Cultures in Antiquity”. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23914/

This looks amazing! Congratulations!

Can't wait for this!

Looks great, Sabrina - congratulations!

Hey NT scholars of bluesky, what is in your opinion the best recent introductions to NT?

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