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χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη Ostensible Bible Scholar Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa Publications: https://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
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How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!" not on copy-editing anyway.

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CFP: book chapters for a forthcoming volume: “Place as Presence: Time, Country and the Bible.” seeking indigenous / post-colonial / ecologically aware contributions. mcusercontent.com/201e1aeaca73...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

CFP Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society. "Scripture in Early Christianity." apecss.wixsite.com/apecss/call-...

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CFP Evangelical History Association in Australia. "Discerning Patterns in History." David Bebbington keynote. www.evangelicalhistory.org/2025-confere...

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$1000 Essay prize on "AI and the Quest for Wisdom". 1 each for student and open category. Use of AI not allowed. events.nd.edu.au/ai-and-the-q...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If Word is no longer letting you "save as" PDF with using Adobe (bloodsucking leeches) you can still use the export and/or print to PDF function to make a PDF.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

new CFP just dropped and it's post-apocalyptic! popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/02/03/c...

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I made my students take selfies with one book that they got from the campus library to cite for their first paper. I also banned all websites (except for online databases like JSTOR).

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

some fun & free resources for biblical Greek teaching/learning here scripturial.com/blog/

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't the flashiest segment of a Neo-Assyrian palace relief, but I absolutely love it. It shows two scribes, one writing on parchment (probably Aramaic), and one writing cuneiform on clay. Little details like this make my heart sing!

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Neu im IxTheo-Zweitveröffentlichungservice: Ab sofort sind zahlreiche Publikationen von Prof. Dr. Peter Lampe (Neues Testament, Universität Heidelberg) unter ixtheo.de/AuthorityRec... recherchierbar und viele sind #OpenAccess !

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Ancient Greek for Everyone. Just found this creative commons open access/source introductory Greek textbook, looks really good on first glance. And also looks like a very useful platform for creating textbooks. pressbooks.pub/ancientgreek/

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

*How to publish in Biblical Studies/Theology journals for PhD Students and ECRs* [recycled historic thread from the other place] My response to Chris Tilling's post on Facebook has been getting a lot of love, so I thought I'd turn it into a 🧵 here. click on my friend . . . 👇👇👇 1/

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I still harbour a secret ambition to study something at the Manukau Institute of Technology so I can tell people I graduated from MIT.

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Congrats to the Australian College of Theology being awarded university status!! 🎉🎓👏 Henceforth, will be known as Australian University of Theology (AUT) [hopefully won't get confused with Auckland University of Technology (AUT) too often🤔] www.actheology.edu.au/australian-c...

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🚨New open access book🚨 Purity in Ancient Judaism www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/puri...

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In Roman-era Palestine was every pool a mikvah? Often taken as taxonomic of a kind of Judaism closer to "ours" (medieval, Rabbinic, or modern), these studies sound a note of caution and open other possibilities.

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

Today's hot take: if you don't pronounce both Rs in February you are an unmitigated vulgarian

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