Dr Julia Lindenlaub

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This new collection of free-access journal articles - '#ClassicalStudies, #Archaeology and #AI' - highlights the impact of #artificialintelligence on these fields - from teaching methodologies through to #research practices: ▶️ https://cup.org/3Vt9E05

@saa-aap.bsky.social

Interested in learning Coptic? Check out my 8-week primer focused on Gospel of Thomas (Sahidic/Lycopolitan Mixed Dialect).

Part 1 Starts Oct. 27

Asynchronous and Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) via The Religion Department

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Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature

friends! you still have TEN (10) days to download a PDF of @vox-magica.bsky.social's excellent "Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature" for ⚡free⚡

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The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!

💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)

Let’s see where it ends up…

#Giveaway

St Andrews cathedral ruins shrouded in haar.

The coast and sea in St Andrews, with the castle ruin in the background.

Back-to-back conference number two for the @cascotland.bsky.social in gorgeous St Andrews was excellent—great papers and fun times with colleagues, and perfect Scottish weather to boot!

Large hall of publisher‘s tables full of books.

Medieval combat re-enactment in armour with swords and shields.

Had a brilliant week at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social—quality time with friends, excellent papers, a magnificent book hall, and plenty of medieval festivities!

Rylands BlogFar from Being in the ‘Most Useless’ Place: Linking John Rylands Coptic Manuscripts with the Coptic Community Dr Sarah Parkhouse and Professor Peter Oakes write about their pilot project exploring the treasure trove of Coptic manuscripts at the John Rylands Library.

Peter Oakes and I have written about our Coptic Manuscripts & Community pilot project @thejohnrylands.bsky.social, where we share initial insights on how the manuscripts came to be in Manchester & how we might connect these ancient artefacts with folks today. rylandscollections.com/2025/06/13/f...

Absolutely ecstatic to announce that we here at Religion for Breakfast are offering an online Intro to Coptic class...using the Gospel of Thomas as the primary text! Taught by the amazing scholar of early Christianity Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum. Learn more here: www.religiondepartment.com/coptic

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📣 #PublicHumanities invites papers for a themed issue focused on the rhetoric of the Far-Right as key to a deeper understanding of its surprise resurgence in the last decade and a half. Find out more >

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Editors-in-Chief @zoebulaitis.bsky.social and Jeffrey Wilson.

Classical Association Conference, 11-13 July 2025, St Andrews.

Last chance to book! ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/registration...

Booking closes #tomorrow, 11 June.

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#CA2025 #conference #AllWelcome

The Emperor Julian and Constantinople | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: The Emperor Julian and Constantinople, lecture by Jeremy Swist, ANAMED, Koç University, June 16, 2025, 5:00 pm maryjahariscenter.org/blog/the-emp...

BIBLE CRITICAL THEORY AND RECEPTION SEMINAR The University of Manchester 10th June 2025 University Place, 6.208 and Zoom Welcome and Lunch Clair Hutchings-Budd Big Beard in the Sky: A preliminary exploration of Pratchett's Discworld novels as an ethical project. Jo Carruthers Is the Bible a dangerous book? Tom de Bruin Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique of Contemporary Interpreters' Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Coffee Break Taylor Weaver Christ-types and Paul-types: Is there a Paul-type? James Crossley Robin Hood's Bible Plans for next year Close Dinner at Bundobust (Oxford Road) bctrsem@gmail.com

We're hosting the 2025 meeting of the Bible, Critical Theory and Reception Seminar here at @uomreligion.bsky.social today, with some great papers ahead.

If you're interested in joining us next year, drop @tdbiii.bsky.social, @drrebekah.bsky.social or me a line!

👹 Possessed by demons? What a nuisance. But don't worry this herbal remedy will sort you out!

The video features a 14th century German Herbarium (MS O.2.48) from @TrinCollCam, Cambridge, on display at our #CuriousCures exhibition.

🎟️FREE tickets here: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Page from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 1903.

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library was founded in 1903. Today it's published by Manchester University Press.

From the Spring 2025 issue (published in July), it will be Open Access and available for free to read.

Find the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library on manchesterhive.com.

Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), “Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.” tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...

"The Music of the Ainur" by Jef Murray. At the center of a rainbow sunburst stands Eru, the God of Tolkien's Silmarillion, with arms outstretched. His robed figure is surrounded by rotating circles of angelic beings singing the world into being.

#TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday "Fan Art"

So hey! I'm looking for some cool art to use for the cover of an upcoming book on Tolkien and Religion/Spirituality. I'd be especially curious to see some non-Western, non-Christian iconography. Whatcha got for me, Bluesky?

The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self

Why did Renaissance thinkers retreat into rooms of one’s own—and what did they hope to find there?

Book now for our upcoming talk 'The Soul in the Studiolo: On Renaissance Libraries, Solitude, and the Self'

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16 June 2025, 6 - 8pm | 📍 Warburg Institute

So happy for you two!! Huge congratulations, friend 😊

Congratulations, Tom!

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Marcion, compiled by Mark Bilby and Markus Vinzent. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Socio-legal criminologist Dr. Simon Mackenzie provides compelling discussion of an important question: what deters antiquities #looting and #trafficking? In his FirstView article, Mackenzie considers how #criminological knowledge can enhance our understanding of deterrence in #illicitantiquities.

Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament) Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament) [Skinner, Christopher W., Gupta, Nijay K.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mark, Volume 2 (2) (New Word Biblical Themes: New Testament)

This book is dropping two months from today. If you are interested, you can pre-order it. It could work for a course on the Synoptics or on Mark or as a resource for non-specialists and others interested in the subject matter. Thanks in advance for considering!

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Esotericism in Western Culture by ‪@wouterjhanegraaff.bsky.social‬ explores esotericism as a vital dimension of Western culture.

"An outstanding guide for anyone venturing into the multifaceted world of esotericism." (Henrik Bogdan, Uni. of Gothenburg)

Out now! bit.ly/4khcyQz

#esotericsky #AcRel

t&t clark Jesus Library Reimaging the Magdalene by Siobhan Jolley

Great news for fans of not buying books but still having access to them: Reimaging the Magdalene has been added to the @tandtclark.bsky.social Jesus Library, so if your library subscribes you can now access a digital version.

Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025. Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press) Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press) Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press) The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan) Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press) The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press) Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press) Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW

Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.

#Skystorians

Wonderful news, congratulations!

The 2025 SBL Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration Rate ends 29 May 2025. Register today: tinyurl.com/m246xkac

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-b...

3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival | Mary Jaharis Center

Attend: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, Zoom, May 30–31, 2025. Advance registration required maryjahariscenter.org/blog/3rd-onl...