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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 12d

New pod! Mike talks to Jennifer Barry about Gender Violence in Late Antiquity

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 15d

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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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 24d

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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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 26d

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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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 26d

"This interdisciplinary study will demonstrate that early Christian art can sometimes be read as a type of visual text that preserves glimpses of the estimated 85% of first and second-century Christian writings that have been lost."

Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 26d

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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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 26d

New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

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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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Sep 5

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:

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Sep 3

Xenia Chan brings a decolonial lens to The Prophetic Body:
"The task ahead in repairing the violence done by the dualistic mind/body hierarchy—and especially the notion of some bodies and their worth as superior/inferior—is not simply an individual task, but a communal one."

The Decolonial Prophetic Body — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

The task ahead in repairing the violence done by the dualistic mind/body hierarchy—and especially the notion of some bodies and their worth as superior/inferior—is not simply an individual task, but…

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today Martti Nissinen applies Portier-Young's work with biblical prophecy to other ancient near eastern oracles, letters, and administrative documents.

Prophetic Bodies in the Ancient Near East — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

The prophet mediates or “incarnates” divine emotions, serving as their bodily representative; in other words, the prophetic body becomes the site of the bodily prophecy.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are pleased to announce a dedicated podcast feed for "New Books in Late Antiquity," sponsored by Ancient Jew Review. Follow on Apple (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... ) or
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Books Podcast · Interviews with authors of books about Late Antiquity. Sponsored by Ancient Jew Review.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 27

New response to Portier-Young's The Prophetic Body! Corrine Carvalho probes the boundary between prophetic characters and historical bodies.

Whose Body Is It Anyway: A Response to The Prophetic Body — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

So, if they are characters who may or may not replicate the experiences of a tangible historical person, then do they have a body? Are their imagined or projected bodies actual bodies that can be…

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

New podcast! Mike Motia interviews Walter Scheidel about his book, What Is Ancient History? @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us as we share the 2024 SBL Review Panel for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body. Today Frances Flannery takes a closer look at the divine role of embodiment.

Towards Divine Embodiment and Biblical Animism: A Review and Suggestion for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

I wish to engage in an enthusiastic nudge for Portier-Young to continue to explore in subsequent volumes a theme that I consider to be one of most original insights of the book. This is the claim…

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 21

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum discusses Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times with author Mariam Ayad. newbooksnetwork.com/coptic-cultu...

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 11

New Books in Late Antiquity podcast episode featuring Tatiana Bur's Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion. newbooksnetwork.com/technologies...

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Aug 11

A new #review today on AJR! Brad Boswell writes about Ellen Scully's Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology (Cambridge University Press, 2025). www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/8/... @universitypress.cambridge.org #earlychristianity

Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Scully’s book commendably demonstrates the need for renewed and careful attention to a pattern of thought that has been treated poorly, and it does so with sharp analytical clarity.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Jul 28

New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Caroline Johnson Hodge about The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine. newbooksnetwork.com/the-god-of-t...

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Jul 14

Before we know it the Fall semester will be here. Did you try something new in the classroom? Consider sharing it with colleagues in Ancient Jew Review's August pedagogy series. Short essays that share activities, assignments, or philosophies that enhance teaching about the ancient world.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Jul 7

New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Tobolowsky about Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/israel-and-i...

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Jun 10

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Stefanie Lenk about her book, Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/roman-identi...

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · May 29

Jonathan Klawans issues a call for retraction of publications using forged Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Case for Retraction of Academic Authentications of Forged Fragments — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

This position paper issues a call for editors and publishers with oversight over peer-reviewed publications of inauthentic post-2002 Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments to embark on the processes that…

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