Alexi Chantziantoniou

heyyooooo CONGRATS PROF MOSS

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Just needed to see these three wonderful people’s names on the cover to know I needed to pick this book up. Looking forward to digging into this.

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Picture of the box of author’s copies of my new book, _Smoke & Mirrors_.

OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!

Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature

My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

congrats Prof Davies! very well deserved

right back atcha, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social!

ding ding ding! quite right good sir

Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle Leading and rising scholars introduce a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which situates the Jewish apostle to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion.

It also appears in the offshoot from the PWJ school known as Paul Within Paganism (PWP). Adam's analysis would lead one to think that PWP must be somehow at odds with PWJ, but in fact these are two complementary programs of analysis. Many scholars overlap. www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

by which i mean JAJ

phewww this sounds gooood. congrats, Chance! can’t wait to read it. and congrats on your AJA article today, too!

Memorandum of Agreement. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, within which is incorporated the University of Wisconsin Press ("the Publisher"), is pleased to enter into this Agreement with Chance E. Bonar ("the Author") for the publication and other exploitation of the work tentatively titled Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean ("the Work"). This agreement is effective as of the date of the last signature below.

Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social!

Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.

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massive shoutout to my coeditors paula fredriksen and @slyprofessor.bsky.social, who have been a dream to work with! sorry i should’ve said that in the og post.

thank you! i hope you find something useful in the book. it very much tries to resist the danger of insulating paul from the wider religious world he inhabited.

my hand holding a hardcover book, entitled 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦, edited by Paula Fredriksen, Stephen L. Young, and an unknown, insignificant scholar who happens the have the exact same long greek name as mine.

IT’S ALIVE! today i received my advance copies of 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 ahead of publication next month.

it just dawned on me last week that people might actually buy and read this book. which is mildly terrifying. yay?

all in good time, if all goes according to plan mwahahaaa

this book just came out and i *already* cannot stop talking about it with students! it’s become a staple in my book of revelation course. (i literally referred to it again in class this morning.)

still one of the best academic book covers of the year imo 😍 can’t wait to read it!

At a Coldplay concert reading the 8th volume of Gerhard Kittel’s Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament and shaking my head the whole time so the people who see me on the Kiss Cam know I disagree with it.

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A screenshot of the proofs for my forthcoming chapter called ‘the ideal penis in the Bible and its reception’

Proofs.

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IT’S REALLY FINALLY REAL

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.

so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

phew these sound fantastic!

Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026 - University of Pennsylvania Press Penn Press and the Katz Center are delighted to announce a new chapter in the history of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)!

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im obsessed 😍