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Manhattan DA's Office Announces Return of Ancient Artifacts mymodernmet.com/antiquities-...

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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

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We wish to deliver the exciting news that Candida R. Moss has been awarded the 2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize by the SCS! The prize recognizes outstanding projects by SCS members that make an aspect of classical antiquity available to a public audience. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

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Proud to see the announcement that Prof. @candidamoss.bsky.social has won the Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach prize from the @scsclassics.bsky.social. Outreach & engagement are crucial parts of our field and Prof. Moss is a shining example of public writing and engagement in Classics & Religious Studies.

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I am so honored to have been awarded the Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize by the @scsclassics.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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new open access issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity on translation and Greek-Latin bilingualism in late antiquity! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54365

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📢 Proposals for papers are invited for the British New Testament Society Meeting 2025 to be hosted by the University of Manchester from Monday 1 September to Wednesday 3 September 2025. 📅 CfP Closes 21 April 2025 🔗 bnts.org.uk/bnts-call-fo...

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At Women Also Know History, we know that women make history every day of the year. This Women's History Month, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women whose scholarship enriches the historical profession and expands our knowledge of the past. womenalsoknowhistory.com

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Not all heroes wear capes, but every Mithras does. This is my favorite Mithraic relief (with gilded skin), from the 3rd century CE. Photo 📸 by me while marveling at his Phrygian cap. I wrote on the history of these caps here: hyperallergic.com/436182/befor...

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today at the University of Dayton for a series of meetings with colleagues and a public panel on my recent book with @OrbisBooks on theology and Catholic higher education

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Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire. Learn more at yalebooks.com.

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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

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Greco-Roman Scribes 🖋️ are having a moment right now (thx in part to @candidamoss.bsky.social, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social & @illdottore.bsky.social ‘s work). And this new GRBS article on late antique Egyptian ones just after the Arab conquest is fab grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/gr... #openaccess

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Imagine being so bad at Sunday school that the pope yelled at you personally

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Not really into Valentine's Day, but a few years ago, Prof. @candidamoss.bsky.social wrote a great essay for the Daily Beast on its bloody origins. ❤️‍🔥 www.thedailybeast.com/the-bloody-h... Note: "All the same, it’s unclear if Lupercalia actually has anything to do with the romantic saint’s days."

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Coming soon! Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World---from @ucpress.bsky.social

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The NRSV translation of Luke-Acts is so frustrating. When Luke-Acts uses the Greek word akribēs in proximity to references to the Pharisees (Acts 22:3; 26:5), NRSV translates it as 'strictly'/'strictest', which to most readers likely implies something negative. But...

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🔥🔥 With many thanks to @candidamoss.bsky.social @sauterne.bsky.social, Bart Ehrman, Mike Holmes, Jeff Kloha, Jerry Pattengale and many others who went on record...! Starting on Wednesday, a companion to my new book #StolenFragments

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University of Helsinki looks for an Assistant/Associate Professor or Professor in Latin and Roman Literature #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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My review article for JRS, "The Problem(s) of Empire," is finally out. It's sort of a hybrid: part long review of The Oxford World History of Empire and part "think piece" on empires, comparative history, and empire as such. Let me know if you don't have access to JRS; happy to send a PDF.

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21 curse tablets were found in an unusual Roman cemetery in France — at least one is written in the extinct language Gaulish. 🏺🧪

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I cannot say enough good things about this new book Immaculate Forms by @helenking.bsky.social. It is an astonishing work of entertaining medical history. But a warning: you will not be able to stop reading. Available from Basic books and wherever books are sold.

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As US/Canada publication day approaches, Ms. Magazine published an extract from my latest book, Immaculate Forms. Choosing a section from a long chapter on the hymen was a challenge! msmagazine.com/2025/01/11/w...

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Io Sol Invictus….. or whichever deity this mosaic was meant to represent. Or all of them — gleeful syncretism, FTW! (The Christ-Helios Mossic, from the ceiling of Tomb M in the Vatican necropolis. ca. 3rd century CE.)

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#mosaicmonday An intricate 6th-cent. mosaic of the Three Magi in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. 💙📚 Notice the Phrygian cap? Here is an excellent essay about its convoluted history: ideasroadshow.com/the-wanderin... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #ancientbluesky #skystorians #epiphany #church

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I have just learned of the death of Edward (Ted) Champlin, long-time professor of Classics at Princeton. I didn't know him well, but he was one of the more productive—and perhaps under-appreciated—anglophone Roman historians of the last 50 years. A short thread. 1/6

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Seasonal reading: By @candidamoss.bsky.social God's Ghostwriters immerses you in a first-c. world of enslaved workers who assisted in the writing and reading of manuscripts. Reminds me of @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social 's Odyssey trans., making clear that "servants" are often enslaved people.

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If you're bored / avoiding in-laws this Christmas/Hannukah I'll be on CBS at 12:30pm EST talking about the confluence of holidays and followed by the BBC at 1pm talking about the beginning of the Jubilee Year at the Vatican. @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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As Hanukkah 🕎 begins tomorrow night, a note on a fascinating scholarly discussion. It involves the magnificent "Elephant mosaic" discovered in a late antique synagogue in Huqoq, in the Galilee. Upon discovery, many speculated that it is the earliest Jewish depiction of the events of Hanukkah. 🧵1

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Finished God's Ghostwriters by @candidamoss.bsky.social and - rare for a non-fiction book - it might be my favorite book of the year. While biblical criticism might be one of my hobbies on the level of listening to podcast etc, this book made me think about so much more and will for some time.

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Thanks to TIME magazine for featuring my work and book God’s Ghostwriters in their 2024 Jesus edition @unibirmingham.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

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I am on #bbc news right now live commenting on the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral and this is incredibly moving.

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was happy to talk to @ruthgraham.bsky.social in @nytimes.com about Hegseth and his views on the crusades #medievalsky www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...

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