Christopher B. Zeichmann

Check out the beautiful cover of the latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, featuring the incredible work of Amber Norman, and brought to you by @dukepress.bsky.social !

Gallery Location Not on View Maker Coptic Medium Wool nalbinding (single needle looping) Geography Al Fayyūm, Egypt Date 200-641 Period Late Antique - Early Mediaeval Dimensions 10 x 5.8 cm Object number G1281 Collection Textiles & Costume of the Indian Ocean, Africa & the Islamic World Department Art & Culture: Global Fashion & Textiles

The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.

A screenshot of a guide detailing items you should bring to a protest, including: cell phone (possible a burner) cash protest stole cell phone power bank sharpie (to write important info on your body) snacks water (for hydration and first aid) plastic bags for wet/sticky objects extra t-shirt backpack to carry everything first aid kit

The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment.
www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...

It's infuriating how stupid these people are. The agency is a federal armed paramilitary occupying a whole city! Police not wearing masks and having body cameras hasn't stopped them from being abusive to the point of killing, why would that be your benchmark? More people will die with these reforms.

Know the Redescribing Christian Origins program unit in SBL? We have partnered with them for years to co-sponsor a panel at the annual meeting. Look out for a CFP for this year's shared panel soon, which will focus on studying and teaching religion under authoritarian regimes.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition.
Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

Hope you enjoy it!

And to add to the Classics in this week's @thetls.bsky.social , there's also Ollie Randall on Radical Antiquity! Go read

Sarah Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social wrote a fantastic book called "Strike" and my review of it for RBL was published today. Check it out!

www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Is this book out yet? I can't find any info about it on the publisher's website? Or is there a release date yet?

Photo of a stink bug facing the camera & sitting on Christopher Zeichmann‘s book radical antiquity: free love Zoroastians, farming pirates, and ancient uprisings.

Sat down to start the 1st chapter of my new book & someone flew in to lend a hand (a tarsus?)

Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book

Its happening.

The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...

haha, thanks so much!

It's a damn good feeling to see a novelist put your book in a stack for research!

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.

When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.

@soniasulaiman.bsky.social - what are you interested in, in particular? Any specific religious traditions? My own work is mostly in Christianity, Judaism, and antiquity, but I'd be happy to offer what help I can!

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Jesus 'ben Pantera': An Epigraphic and Military-Historical Note There is ample evidence that anti-Christian polemicists asserted that Jesus' true father was neither God nor Joseph, but a Roman soldier named Pantera. This was long dismissed as ahistorical, but ...

It's getting closer to Christmas, so I guess it's time to repost my article on the Panthera legend. I have a book under contract that expands on the topic due out next year. In short: there is no way this particular soldier was the biological father of Jesus: www.academia.edu/42958793/Jes...

Okay the only thing I’ll say about the Compact article is field specific: the trope of “traditional” military history vs. “woke” critical theory needs to die.

How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?

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In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...

Painting: Paolo Veronese, Christ and the Centurion (detail), ca. 1575, oil on canvas, 39 x 52 in. Courtesy the Toledo Museum of Art.

"In the first century Mediterranean world, soldiers represented the authority and order of the Roman Empire." Read Soldiers in the New Testament by Laurie Brink buff.ly/g0zET2f

Go to central Minnesota this summer and learn Ge’ez!

Join us in store this Saturday at 5pm for a book talk with Christopher B Zeichmann, author of Radical Antiquity, in conversation with Morgan D Bell!

#argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity

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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?