I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
@isaactsoon.bsky.social
Writer of songs, fiction, and scholarship on early Christianity. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
You know what’s harder to log into than any other thing in my life? Manuscript Central. That site is like trying to use a Matryoshka doll as a key. Use web of science? Sure. Orchid id? Yup. Oh you forgot your password anyway? Here reset it for the 9th time. Right password? Nope. maintenance.
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You know what’s harder to log into than any other thing in my life? Manuscript Central. That site is like trying to use a Matryoshka doll as a key. Use web of science? Sure. Orchid id? Yup. Oh you forgot your password anyway? Here reset it for the 9th time. Right password? Nope. maintenance.
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
This may be old news for other people, but is a real "today I learned..." for me... Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft is freely available as scans (some of the articles have been transcribed as well, but for everything I need it's scans). de.wikisource.org/wiki/Paulys_...
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft – Wikisource
de.wikisource.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This may be old news for other people, but is a real "today I learned..." for me... Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft is freely available as scans (some of the articles have been transcribed as well, but for everything I need it's scans). de.wikisource.org/wiki/Paulys_...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
30% off at Yale Press, including my book, Immigration + Apocalypse
'Tis the season for gifts 🎁 and deals! Our ❄️ Winter sale ❄️ starts today. Save 30% off thousands of titles with discount code GIFT30 through December 5th. See full terms: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/gift30/
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
30% off at Yale Press, including my book, Immigration + Apocalypse
I forgot to mention it’s free to access until December 9th! Download it now and read it later :)
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I forgot to mention it’s free to access until December 9th! Download it now and read it later :)
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
here's a grim little question for a Sunday afternoon! does anyone know stories from antiquity of folks being forced to swallow molten lead? (martyrs or civilians). i know the stories of Crassus and Valerian and molten gold; any lead-based stories come to mind?
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
here's a grim little question for a Sunday afternoon! does anyone know stories from antiquity of folks being forced to swallow molten lead? (martyrs or civilians). i know the stories of Crassus and Valerian and molten gold; any lead-based stories come to mind?
I got so burnt out playing guitar at a well-known megachurch that I decided to study its two thousand year old origins to see if it was still worth it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I got so burnt out playing guitar at a well-known megachurch that I decided to study its two thousand year old origins to see if it was still worth it.
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
I'm still trying to find any SBL/AAR discount codes from Cambridge University Press as they have one book I need to purchase but don't have the budget to purchase at retail. If anyone has insight, please zap me a DM or something.
If you're looking for @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social AAR/SBL discount codes, they published codes for ETS and AAR/SBL on their blog: eerdword.com/2025-annual-...
(just picked up Davila's More OTP volume 2 at 40% off, been waiting since it published in April)
(just picked up Davila's More OTP volume 2 at 40% off, been waiting since it published in April)
2025 Annual Meetings | See You in Boston! - EerdWord
Stop by our booths to say hi at ETS or AAR & SBL 2025 Annual Meetings! We'll have amazing booth discounts and we'd love to meet you!
eerdword.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm still trying to find any SBL/AAR discount codes from Cambridge University Press as they have one book I need to purchase but don't have the budget to purchase at retail. If anyone has insight, please zap me a DM or something.
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Grateful to see God, Slavery, and Early Christianity on display at the CUP booth at #aarsbl25!
The display copy is 75% off (~$30), and is otherwise 30% off during the conference
The display copy is 75% off (~$30), and is otherwise 30% off during the conference
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Grateful to see God, Slavery, and Early Christianity on display at the CUP booth at #aarsbl25!
The display copy is 75% off (~$30), and is otherwise 30% off during the conference
The display copy is 75% off (~$30), and is otherwise 30% off during the conference
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
If you are headed to #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 Gender Violence will be available at 40% off! Stop by the @ucpress.bsky.social booth and pick up a copy! If you would like to grab coffee to talk about the book or other things, send me a DM! www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...
Gender Violence in Late Antiquity by Jennifer Barry - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you are headed to #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 Gender Violence will be available at 40% off! Stop by the @ucpress.bsky.social booth and pick up a copy! If you would like to grab coffee to talk about the book or other things, send me a DM! www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
#NAPS2026 paper deadline extended to Erev Thanksgiving (Nov. 26)! Same link below. 👇🏻
NAPS! Call for papers!
13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers!
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers!
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
www.patristics.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#NAPS2026 paper deadline extended to Erev Thanksgiving (Nov. 26)! Same link below. 👇🏻
For those presenting at SBL, please do consider making your presentations accessible for a wide range of attendees. It really does make a difference and helps make the meeting a more inclusive space: www.sbl-site.org/wp-content/u...
www.sbl-site.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For those presenting at SBL, please do consider making your presentations accessible for a wide range of attendees. It really does make a difference and helps make the meeting a more inclusive space: www.sbl-site.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
My newest article, “Cruising for the Heavenly City: Hebrews and Muñoz,” is now out with Bible & Critical Theory.
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-21-no-2-...
Hey Hebrews scholars - my first Hebrews piece in more than a decade!
@madisonpierce.bsky.social @amypeeler.bsky.social
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-21-no-2-...
Hey Hebrews scholars - my first Hebrews piece in more than a decade!
@madisonpierce.bsky.social @amypeeler.bsky.social
bibleandcriticaltheory.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My newest article, “Cruising for the Heavenly City: Hebrews and Muñoz,” is now out with Bible & Critical Theory.
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-21-no-2-...
Hey Hebrews scholars - my first Hebrews piece in more than a decade!
@madisonpierce.bsky.social @amypeeler.bsky.social
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-21-no-2-...
Hey Hebrews scholars - my first Hebrews piece in more than a decade!
@madisonpierce.bsky.social @amypeeler.bsky.social
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
I am so excited that this edited volume on the critical after lives of José Esteban Muñoz’s work for #biblicalStudies and #religiousstudies is out in the world at the Bible & Critical Theory. I am so honored to have worked with the contributors: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
bibleandcriticaltheory.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I am so excited that this edited volume on the critical after lives of José Esteban Muñoz’s work for #biblicalStudies and #religiousstudies is out in the world at the Bible & Critical Theory. I am so honored to have worked with the contributors: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Two-page book summary!
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.
www.ancientjewreview.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Two-page book summary!
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Shopping for new books at SBL 2025? Here are some suggestions for titles related to Christian apocrypha. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/11/16/c...
Christian Apocrypha Books to Look for at SBL 2025
The SBL Annual Meeting presents an ideal opportunity to check out new books on Christian apocrypha, and at substantial discounts. As you make your way through t
www.apocryphicity.ca
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Shopping for new books at SBL 2025? Here are some suggestions for titles related to Christian apocrypha. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/11/16/c...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social!
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social!
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
sweeeeeeet 😅😉
MEM book prize goes to @rachelschine.bsky.social for her 'Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race'!
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
sweeeeeeet 😅😉
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Black Knights
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social for winning the Best Book Award from the Middle East Medievalists association for her book, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race! Brava!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Here's the link, if you haven't already read it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reposted by I.T. Soon (YEUNG)
Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...