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isaactsoon.bsky.social
assistant prof. of early Christianity. disability studies. ancient judaism. songwriter. don’t bore us, get to the chorus. here to connect people to scholarship. he/him. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
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A new song of mine, "Lean," is now available everywhere: open.spotify.com/track/1VAKyR...

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The music video for my single "Locker" is now available. You can watch it here: youtu.be/begpLRKVYQQ

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My colleague, a scholar of early Christianity, writes pop music!! 🎶👇👇👇 🎵

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My new single, "Locker," is now available wherever music can be found. I hope that you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it: open.spotify.com/track/2oUuSo...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Coming April 15, 2025, but now available for pre-order! www.mqup.ca/authentic-pa... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

You can follow this link to pre-save the single in Spotify and it'll appear in your library in January! ffm.to/pg3bkw1

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

One of my students told me in the feedback session today that it seems “like a lot of other profs ‘have to teach’ but you ‘get to teach’” and that is really how I think about it and I’m so glad it shows 🥹

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

@kholob.bsky.social passed her defense and is now a doctor! 🤗🤗🤗

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

enormously grateful to Ellen and the crew for pulling this together! #NAPS2025 will mark the 20th anniversary (!!!!) of the first time I delivered a public talk on #GospelThrillers, I'm thrilled* to bring it back home! *get it?

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

My new single "Locker" comes out January 10th. #DavyJones

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Spent the morning updating my website during my fourth year on the job market — with more links to PDFs and online writing I've done on slavery, Christian apocrypha, ancient Palestine, and more! chancebonar.hcommons.org

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Today I learned that buried in the Kenyon Special Collections is one of a pair of tefillin owned by Bishop Philander Chase (1775-1852), the founder of Kenyon. The archival note suggests it was gifted from someone else who traveled and purchased from Jerusalem. Early 19th cent Christian tourism!

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Found out last week at SBL that my book didn't win the Lautenschlaeger award (figures after I rallied a petition against them last year 😁), but was grateful for the opportunity to be considered. You win some and you lose some, and I had a fantastic book review panel at SBL.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Writing my remarks for this virtual book talk I'm giving on Friday for Columbia University's Adab Colloquium. Come thru. Link here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

My defense is this Friday! If you’ve been interested in my work on how ghosts can tell us about how Christians reproduced a dehumanizing penal ideology (i.e., asserted there is a class of people who deserve to die) feel free to join. Send me a message if you’d like a link.

submitted 82 days ago • 15 comments

Some new music coming out next year. Excited to share it with you all.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

The more I work through the Greek text of Hermas, the more I'm wondering if we need a "new Whittaker." That is, a new standard edition. The editions available today (in English) are primarily Holmes, Ehrman, and Lake. And they all differ enough to make things difficult in certain places.

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

I just wanted to highlight the publication of my colleague Matt McCarty's new book on Roman Religion in Africa - there's something here for everyone, but for those in my field I want to highlight Chapter 4 ("Making a God") and Chapters 7-8 (Making Offerings/Remaking Space). Link:

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment