Robyn Faith Walsh
@zafulotus.bsky.social
Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami
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Robyn Faith Walsh
@zafulotus.bsky.social
· Oct 24
I have the privilege of teaching my Death and Dying class in the Lowe Art Museum this semester and our mini exhibition is really coming together! I am so grateful to everyone at the Lowe for making this possible! 🤓 www.lowe.miami.edu
Congratulations to @candidamoss.bsky.social for this honor!!God’s Ghostwriters is a field-altering book, as truly all of her work has been. 🤓
I am thrilled (and a little overwhelmed) to share that my book God's Ghostwriters was award the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in religion. I am deeply honored to join this group of distinguished award winners.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Congratulations to @candidamoss.bsky.social for this honor!!God’s Ghostwriters is a field-altering book, as truly all of her work has been. 🤓
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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At Brent Nongbri’s Variant Readings, he has a great post on a Callimachus dipinto (painted inscription) from the Esquiline Hill now @ the Capitoline Museum brentnongbri.com/2025/11/10/c... Also note Trismegistos’ literary papyri database for more ancient authors: www.trismegistos.org/index_disamb...
Callimachus on the Walls
At the Capitoline Museum in Rome, there are a series of rooms dedicated to finds from the various garden areas uncovered in the area of the Esquiline hill in the late nineteenth century. Tucked awa…
brentnongbri.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
At Brent Nongbri’s Variant Readings, he has a great post on a Callimachus dipinto (painted inscription) from the Esquiline Hill now @ the Capitoline Museum brentnongbri.com/2025/11/10/c... Also note Trismegistos’ literary papyri database for more ancient authors: www.trismegistos.org/index_disamb...
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“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
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“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“Here is your button!” cried Frog.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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My latest for Nat Geo on things you didn't know about Roman Emperors. Co-authored with Max J. Foa and featuring the work of @sarahebond.bsky.social, Stephanie Frampton, A. B. Bosworth, and Tom Geue.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The Roman emperor who died from eating too much cheese
Lots of emperors met ignominious ends. And then there was Antoninus Pius.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My latest for Nat Geo on things you didn't know about Roman Emperors. Co-authored with Max J. Foa and featuring the work of @sarahebond.bsky.social, Stephanie Frampton, A. B. Bosworth, and Tom Geue.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
I have the privilege of teaching my Death and Dying class in the Lowe Art Museum this semester and our mini exhibition is really coming together! I am so grateful to everyone at the Lowe for making this possible! 🤓 www.lowe.miami.edu
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I have the privilege of teaching my Death and Dying class in the Lowe Art Museum this semester and our mini exhibition is really coming together! I am so grateful to everyone at the Lowe for making this possible! 🤓 www.lowe.miami.edu
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Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I had a great time speaking to Bible & Archaeology uiowa.edu/bam about a recent article on early Christian iconography-- check it out! 🤓
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand youtu.be/iv7Nzr6pxSo?... via @YouTube
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand youtu.be/iv7Nzr6pxSo?... via @YouTube
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand
YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology
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October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I had a great time speaking to Bible & Archaeology uiowa.edu/bam about a recent article on early Christian iconography-- check it out! 🤓
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand youtu.be/iv7Nzr6pxSo?... via @YouTube
Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand youtu.be/iv7Nzr6pxSo?... via @YouTube
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Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature:
Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️
P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️
P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature:
Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️
P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️
P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...
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Fascinating and brutally sad.
Fossil skull provides first direct evidence that bears fought in Roman amphitheaters
phys.org/news/2025-09...
phys.org/news/2025-09...
Fossil skull provides first direct evidence that bears fought in Roman amphitheaters
For citizens of the ancient Roman Empire, a trip to the amphitheater meant a thrilling day of entertainment. However, for many of the gladiators and animals involved, it was a fight for survival. A ne...
phys.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Fascinating and brutally sad.
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Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Book Series
Published by Edinburgh University Press The study of ancient Greek religion stands at a critical methodological juncture. While foundational frameworks like the polis-religion model have yielded...
www.npagr.info
September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press!
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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Fragment of a Mould https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2009
August 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fragment of a Mould https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2009
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Bath
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Bath
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The first 'Great Moon Hoax' article was published in The New York Sun #OnThisDay in AD 1835, claiming life had been discovered on the moon 🌑
We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
August 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The first 'Great Moon Hoax' article was published in The New York Sun #OnThisDay in AD 1835, claiming life had been discovered on the moon 🌑
We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0
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The newest issue of Religion & Theology 32, no. 1&2 (2025), just out ...
June 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The newest issue of Religion & Theology 32, no. 1&2 (2025), just out ...
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Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
August 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
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Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri thetextualmechanic.blogspot.com/2025/07/roma...
Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri
Thoughts on New Testament Textual Criticism and Early Christian Book Culture
thetextualmechanic.blogspot.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri thetextualmechanic.blogspot.com/2025/07/roma...
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For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
August 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
🏺 #archaeology
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A #Roman tile fragment with some dog pawprints, impressed into the clay while it dried before firing #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
August 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A #Roman tile fragment with some dog pawprints, impressed into the clay while it dried before firing #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
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Noah and his family in the ark. The original Mystery Machine.
From the cathedral of Monreale, #Sicily. 12th c.
📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/GjKP3G
#photography
#art
#Italy
From the cathedral of Monreale, #Sicily. 12th c.
📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/GjKP3G
#photography
#art
#Italy
Noah's Ark (Monreale, Sicily)
From the 12th century cathedral at Monreale. Follow me on Twitter @arturoviaggia
flic.kr
August 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Noah and his family in the ark. The original Mystery Machine.
From the cathedral of Monreale, #Sicily. 12th c.
📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/GjKP3G
#photography
#art
#Italy
From the cathedral of Monreale, #Sicily. 12th c.
📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/GjKP3G
#photography
#art
#Italy
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#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl.
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
August 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl.
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺