Tony Keddie

🚨 We’re hiring for another Postdoc position in my department: Religion and Health (one year). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and Health Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and Health ---- Hiring Department: Department of Religious Studies ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLS...

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The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

The Department of Religious Studies is seeking to appoint a two-year postdoctoral fellow with a specialization in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity.

Please visit tinyurl.com/2k8bmyz5 for the job posting and more information. Review of applications will begin Oct. 31, 2025.

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ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity Job Posting Title: ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity ---- Hiring Department: Department of Religious Studies ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Wee...

🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

A fantastic overview by UT-RS PhD student Niketas Belovorodov of the conference’s keynote by Petra Kuppinger on Muslims’ neighborhood interactions in Stuttgart and Ted Gordon’s feature presentation on Black churches and the racial demography of Austin. Thanks, Niketas!

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Today at 4pm Central Time: Dr. Meghan Henning on “Manufacturing Martha’s Madness: Enslavement, Anxiety, and Distraction in Luke 10:38–42.” In-person at UT in RLP 1.302 and streaming on Zoom (follow link below). All are welcome!

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Hardly even satire! I wrote a piece a couple yrs ago on “second-amendment exegesis” among political influencers and bible “scholars” alike. Happy to share by email if anyone wants a copy. academia.edu/resource/wor...

The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...

This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...

Thanks Sarah!

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Cover page of article “Antisemitic Charisma”

🚨 Very pleased to announce the publication of a new article I had the privilege of co-authoring with Lara Boleslawsky. “Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma…” was just published online in MTSR. Happy to send a copy if you don’t have access!

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Many, many congrats to Rikki Liu, UT PhD student, for receiving the 2024 Brooten award for a terrific paper on “Scripting Pain, Distributing Affect: P.Mich.inv. 1190 and the Gendered Labor of Ritual”!! sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/...

Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East | Essays in Honor o This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and

Great news: *Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen* just turned a year old, which means it’s now fully open access! You can download the whole book or individual chapters for free at this link:

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The Social-Scientific Criticism of the NT unit has planned some awesome sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 23-26. If you’re heading to San Diego, I hope you can make it to some of these!!

If you watched the movie, don't know your secutor from your scutum, but still want to know what the film took from history (and which bits it changed,) then here's my guide to sifting the facts from the fictions in Gladiator II. Spoiler free!!

Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at ASOR in Boston this week! Particularly excited for our Antiochia ad Cragum (hybrid) sessions this coming Saturday!

With #SBLAAR24 right around the corner, I've updated the starter pack of ancient religion scholars to reflect our swelling ranks. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/9y592Bk

JSHJ’s last issue of the year is officially out! Editorial by yours truly, followed by some other great pieces!

Enjoy!

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If you’re interested on how and why Spiritual Warfare impacts politics, check out the people listed in my starter pack!

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“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers - Stephen L. Young, 2024 The ideas about religious, sexual, gender, ethnic, urban, moral, and family decay that underlie “Make America Great Again’s” message have notable antecedents in...

My new Open Access article! For some reason it felt relevant to discuss the Bible and the LONG history of leaders telling stories about how things used to be great before moral, ethnic, urban, gender, and family corruption bigly happened. #EduSky #Election #Bible journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Social-Scientific Criticism of the NT unit has planned some awesome sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 23-26. If you’re heading to San Diego, I hope you can make it to some of these!!

Flier promoting the PhD program in Ancient Mediterranean Religion at UT Austin. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions!

Job alert‼️ My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Here’s the posting: apply.interfolio.com/153089

Excited to read this!