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New pod! Mike talks to Maia Kotrosits about After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Late Antiquity
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New pod! Mike talks to Maia Kotrosits about After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Late Antiquity
New at AJR! Herman Arnolus Manoe engages Candida Moss' God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible.
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God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Candida Moss, God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible. Little, Brown and Company, 2024. In God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible ,…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
New at AJR! Herman Arnolus Manoe engages Candida Moss' God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible.
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Traveling to Boston for SBL on Friday? Join Models of Piety (an association of scholars for religion in late antiquity) at an informal happy hour at the Lenox hotel from 5-6pm.
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Traveling to Boston for SBL on Friday? Join Models of Piety (an association of scholars for religion in late antiquity) at an informal happy hour at the Lenox hotel from 5-6pm.
Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social
Did you miss any part of the review forum featuring Yosefa Raz's The Poetics of Prophecy? Find every essay here:
The Poetics of Prophecy Review Forum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Yael Fisch, Karama Ben-Johanan, and Raphael Magarik engaging Raz’s notion of “weak prophecy” in this review forum, with author response.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Did you miss any part of the review forum featuring Yosefa Raz's The Poetics of Prophecy? Find every essay here:
We conclude our review forum on Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ with a response from the author. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/response
A Response — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
. The white spaces on the page can be spaces both of death and breath. Both are texts of drowning, the Egyptian enemies, their horses and chariots, and the African slaves, who were thrown overboard…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We conclude our review forum on Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ with a response from the author. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/response
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Are you planning your SBL 2025 schedule? Check out the lineup of panels from the Rabbinic Literature and Culture section.
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Are you planning your SBL 2025 schedule? Check out the lineup of panels from the Rabbinic Literature and Culture section.
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Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!
Announcement! Ancient Jew Review is the new host of Models of Piety (MOP), the annual meeting of scholars of religion in late antiquity. If you regularly attend SBL/AAR, come join us at this year's cocktail hour. More info here:
MOP — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Announcement Bar
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November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!
Our review forum of Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ continues with a contribution from Raphael Magarik. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophec
Weak Prophecy As A Critique of Just-So Secularization Stories — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
First, she argues that this distinction is not a historical shift from one sort of texts to another, but rather as a persistent, transhistorical tension, found both in biblical prophecies like Isaiah…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our review forum of Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ continues with a contribution from Raphael Magarik. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophec
In May, Jonathan Klawans published a piece in AJR calling for the retraction of published Dead Sea Scroll fragment forgeries. One volume has officially heeded his call: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gleanings...
Gleanings from the Caves
PUBLICATION RETRACTED:In June 2025 the Publishers were made aware that many of the fragments discussed in this book have been discovered, since publication, to…
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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In May, Jonathan Klawans published a piece in AJR calling for the retraction of published Dead Sea Scroll fragment forgeries. One volume has officially heeded his call: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gleanings...
Today's contribution to the Raz forum is written by Karma Ben-Jonanan. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/modern-mirrors
Modern Mirrors — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
We gather from here that more than she wants to say something about prophecy, Raz wants to convey something about the history of its reception, about the way modern poets, and perhaps moderns, in…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today's contribution to the Raz forum is written by Karma Ben-Jonanan. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/modern-mirrors
We are pleased to host a forum for Yosefa Raz's 2024 book, _The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition._ Today's post is a review by Yael Fisch. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophecy-modern-afterlives-of-a-biblical-tradition
Prophecy and/as Ethical Reading — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
With Yosefa’s book, we now have nuanced poetic language with which we may read this homily. The Rabbis were not prophets, nor singers or poets. They were strong readers. They saw reading as an…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are pleased to host a forum for Yosefa Raz's 2024 book, _The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition._ Today's post is a review by Yael Fisch. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophecy-modern-afterlives-of-a-biblical-tradition
Today on AJR, Alex P. Jassen previews his new book exploring the diverse ways social contestation and violence were perceived and imagined by the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarians! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/10...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Today on AJR, Alex P. Jassen previews his new book exploring the diverse ways social contestation and violence were perceived and imagined by the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarians! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/10...
New pod! Mike talks to Jeremy Swist about Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome.
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Jeremy Swist, "Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New pod! Mike talks to Jeremy Swist about Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome.
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A new #dissertation spotlight on AJR! Megan Wines writes about her research on masculinity and Revelation @meganwines.bsky.social #newtestament
Apocalyptic Masculinity — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
To expand thinking around performance and apocalypse, my project incorporates a consideration of gender to these categories. So, in this project, I am concerned with answering the question “is there…
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October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A new #dissertation spotlight on AJR! Megan Wines writes about her research on masculinity and Revelation @meganwines.bsky.social #newtestament
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls display a keen interest in the Israelite priesthood. Robert E. Jones' look at the Aramaic Levi Document reveals that this may have to do with the shifting fortunes of the priesthood in the 3rd cent BCE!
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October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls display a keen interest in the Israelite priesthood. Robert E. Jones' look at the Aramaic Levi Document reveals that this may have to do with the shifting fortunes of the priesthood in the 3rd cent BCE!
www.ancientjewreview.com/2025/10/17/hellenistic-context-aramaic-dss
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A new #review on AJR! Briana Grenert writes about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by Christine Shepardson #lateantiquity #syriacstudies @ucpress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...
A Memory of Violence — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
A Memory of Violence offers a useful overview for anyone interested in understanding Chalcedon and its effects at a more detailed level, as well as those interested in the history of Christianity…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A new #review on AJR! Briana Grenert writes about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity by Christine Shepardson #lateantiquity #syriacstudies @ucpress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...
New pods! Mike interviews Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen about The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor.
And if you missed last week's, Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviewed Adam Bremer-McCollum about The Pearlsong.
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And if you missed last week's, Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviewed Adam Bremer-McCollum about The Pearlsong.
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New Books in Late Antiquity
Books Podcast · Interviews with authors of books about Late Antiquity. Sponsored by Ancient Jew Review.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New pods! Mike interviews Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen about The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor.
And if you missed last week's, Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviewed Adam Bremer-McCollum about The Pearlsong.
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And if you missed last week's, Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviewed Adam Bremer-McCollum about The Pearlsong.
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New pod! Mike talks to Jennifer Barry about Gender Violence in Late Antiquity
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September 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New pod! Mike talks to Jennifer Barry about Gender Violence in Late Antiquity
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Today on AJR: Charel Daniël du Toit writes about his dissertation on female characters and the parables in the Gospel of Luke #newtestament #biblicalstudies
Hidden No More: Women in the Parables of Luke — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
In this study a sustained, interdisciplinary argument is offered for the presence of women in parables where they are not named or explicitly described.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Today on AJR: Charel Daniël du Toit writes about his dissertation on female characters and the parables in the Gospel of Luke #newtestament #biblicalstudies
Today Marc Herman introduces his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World.
Publication Preview | The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The understanding that Jews engaged with a full sweep of Islamic sciences was arguably one of the earliest insights of modern Jewish historiography; indeed, medieval Jews were sometimes explicit…
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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Today Marc Herman introduces his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World.
New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.
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Today on AJR, read the new article from Ally Kateusz, "Art as Text: When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister" @allykateusz.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...
Art as Text: When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The question of how many sisters were portrayed with Jesus at the Raising of Lazarus in early Christian art has not previously been explored, and interestingly, the hypothesis that Martha was added…
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September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today on AJR, read the new article from Ally Kateusz, "Art as Text: When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister" @allykateusz.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...
New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
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September 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
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You can now subscribe to the show too.
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The final review of Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme examines the sensory experience of prophecy. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/8/...
Prophetic Mediation and Ritual Practice — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Scenting a space with anointing oil and incense, creates a sensory experience of fragrant divine presence, burning a sacrifice on an alter creates the perception of a divine receiver, veiling and…
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September 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The final review of Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme examines the sensory experience of prophecy. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/8/...