We're filling up fast for Monday's
celebration of Sarah Lightman and the launch of our new @uomreligion.bsky.social project, Encountering Biblical Bodies!
Book your place and please share if you know folks around Manchester who have a body (biblical or otherwise) at tinyurl.com/BibWomen
There’s two weeks left to apply for this position. I appreciate everyone who has shared this so far. If anyone has questions about the position, then please contact me.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. Specialization in Rabbinic literature 2nd – 7th century CE. NB Short deadline: 6 March. nt4ox.link/BergenPDF26
PhD scholarships available at DCU's School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music! Contact myself with any queries! Deadline 23 March.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ746/p...
The deadline for applications has been extended to March 23rd to allow a bit more time for candidates to work on their application materials.
PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
My conversation with @josephscales.bsky.social will be available 13 April for $5 a month on Patreon.
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?
Calling all Early Career Academics, on Weds 11 Feb at 10am we will be hosting an online Researcher Training:
Applying for Postdoctoral and Early-Career Fellowships and Funding
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Please share these postdoc opportunities in Bergen, Norway 👇 Deadline March 6
Takk for støtten siden 2022!
Photo of snowy mountains near Bergen under a cloudy sky. Bonus photo for the post, unconnected to the text.
Book manuscript submitted. More to come soon but happy to have got this far with my pre-battle speech project.
I’ve been walking up in the mountains and have now come down.
Quote: “Judith uses a legal concept of responsibility in her address to the leaders of Bethulia. She claims that, should Bethulia surrender, her audience will be responsible for the murder of those in Jerusalem. This is based on a legal notion that can be summarized thus: a person has a degree of responsibility to prevent the murder of others." —Joseph Scales
Check out “Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation” by Joseph Scales in #JBL144.4. Access the article online using your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55.
We have a PhD position open (four years, full funding):
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
My thanks to my colleagues @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social Charles Commerford, Laura Quick and Cat Quine for their input in developing the piece and @ec.europa.eu for funding the project. Susan Hylen and Jonathan Potter also did a wonderful job during post-submission
Email notice for article: Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation
My latest (published) article “Responsibility for Murder: The Background of Judith’s Legal Argumentation” Journal of Biblical Literature 144.4 is now available. I spoke about the argument with the folk at MF Norwegian School of Theology (recorded and available in the link): youtu.be/tN_6LwMqOVs?...
Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.
Does anyone have access to the American Journal of Archaeology? My ICS membership doesn't give me online access to the more recent volumes, and I really don't want to have to spend a day/£20 getting a train into London to see their physical copy of 129.2. I miss institutional access...
This is a deliberate strategy, likely for coordination and having a trigger for any escalation. I’d assume that it’s also a statement to any who may invade that UK forces are deployed and will enter a war. It may be directed at the US, or perhaps meets Trump’s baseless point about DK protecting GL
Snowy town and sunlight on mountains behind the city. Clear blue sky over all.
End of week one and I think it’s safe to say I like it here. Will try to post more about research once things are fully in gear, but you can have one more view.
Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk to sign up!
Since 1938, we published 500 titles in the Mnemosyne Supplementa series. Let us know which volume of all 500 you like best, and win the volume!
The same for Trends in Classics and its current 200 volumes.
If you are at the AiA-SCS, come get a chocolate bar..
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume five
This has been on my ‘to read’ list for a while. Congratulations on the milestone
Registration to attend our inaugural Ancient Peace Studies Network conference closes on 9th January - last chance to sign up! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
Snowy town with sunrise effect over the mountains and fjord.
Day two reveals the beauty of Bergen.
Office space with partially filled book shelves.
Day one at @unibergen.bsky.social and I’ve set up my book shelves. There seems to be so many more when they’re boxed up and need lifting.
Photo of fjord and sunrise. Fjorder og soloppgang.
Last trip of what has turned out to be an astonishingly difficult move up to Bergen. But the weather is fine and things seem to be getting brighter.
Photo of T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek on otherwise empty bookshelves.
This arrived, just in time to be packed up for moving. My chapter on the Apocryphon of Ezekiel argues that it was not a single composition in antiquity, and it mostly made up of independent short sayings. Thanks to the editor Marieke Dhont and @tandtclark.bsky.social for publishing.
Happy new year
