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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hello #ReligionSky and #BibleSky!
We're excited to join #BlueSky! Follow us for updates on our books, journals, and events in Religious Studies, Biblical Studies, and Theology.
Explore our publications and keep up with the latest research in the field.
We can’t wait to connect with you all! 📚✨

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 5h

📜 Why a ‘New Testament’? 🤔 Levi Baker explores how and why first-century Christians began receiving recent Christian texts as ‘Scripture’, on par with the Old Testament.

Have you also always wondered the same? Read more here ⬇️
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#AcRel #EarlyChristianity

Cook cover. Why a ''New Testament''? Covenant as an Impetus for New Scripture in Early Christianity. By Levi S. Baker. Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, volume 19. Brill. 2025.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for publishing with us!

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 2d

🪄 We're bolstering our #AuthorServices with an expanded partnership with Academic Language Experts. As a De Gruyter Brill author, you'll receive preferential rates for ALE's editing and translation services to get your #research into shipshape before publication.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 7d

📣📣📣Now Available📣📣📣Prayer in the Ancient World Online! This new reference work has just launched it's first content including over 40 articles! Have your librarian ask to trial it today!! 🎉📚📖
For more information click here: referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/p...

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 7d

Behind today’s observance of Yom Kippur lies a long history of interpretation.

Discover how Leviticus 16’s “Day of Atonement” has shaped thought for centuries through this Themes in Biblical Narrative collection: brill.com/display/ti....

The Day of Atonement

"The Day of Atonement" published on 11 Nov 2011 by Brill.

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 8d

🔓 News!
We are expanding our Subscribe to Open (S2O) program, DG2O, by transitioning 66 additional De Gruyter journals to #openaccess. This brings the total number of titles in the program to 124, marking a major milestone in our commitment to making high-quality #research #accessible worldwide.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 Out now! 📕

Travel among Early Christians by Jason Borges traces how travel and movement between churches functioned as a formative practice for group identity in early Christian communities.

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📜 #AcRel #EarlyChristianity

Book cover: Travel among Early Christians: A Socio-theological Analysis of Pauline and Ignatian Communities. By Jason Borges. Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 232. Brill. 2025.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 9d

How did the Jewish artistic community influence South American art in the 20th and 21st centuries? "Jewish Latin American Artists" tackles this often overlooked question in 9 carefully researched chapters.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 12d

🎉 New volume in Brill's #Digital #BiblicalStudies series!

📗 Paul Robertson and a team of experts demonstrate the utility of statistical and computational approaches to the study of Paul’s letters. 💻
Dive right in ⬇️
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📜 #AcRel #NewTestament #DigitalHumanities

Book cover: Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters: Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology. By Paul Robertson. Digital Biblical Studies Series, volume 7. Brill. 2025.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 New publication!

📜 Mark Reasoner's commentary on 1 Corinthians offers a deep dive into the first-century city of Roman Corinth, evoking appreciation of Paul’s letter as an artifact of social history 🤝

Check it out here ⬇️
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#AcRel #NewTestament #Exegesis

Book cover: 1 Corinthians. By Mark Reasoner. Brill Exegetical Commentary Series, volume 3. Brill. 2025.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 16d

So happy to see that our author Megan Roberts has received the copies of her new book! 📚
Are you interested in #memorystudies and biblical poetics? Check out this recent publication in our Biblical Interpretation series!
Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55 📜
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 18d

Free registration. Virtual and in-person attendance.

Center for Asian American Christianity @ptscaac.bsky.social · 18d

Register for FREE at the link in bio! Dr. Chloe Sun, Professor of Old Testament and the Program Director of the Chinese Studies Center at Fuller Seminary, is presenting at our October 7 conference.

#biblicalstudies #familystories #biblicalfamilies #migrationstories

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Migration, Family, and the Story of Jacob | Register Now! Biblical Theology Conference Oct 7, 2025

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 18d

Looking for new ideas on teaching in an era of AI? A Biblical scholar and computer scientist have teamed up to explain the science and give practical ideas on how to keep instruction focused on real intelligence.

🤫 (and they made this easy for us: the book is open access.)
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 19d

A press release about my new book on teaching in the era of generative AI.

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Real Intelligence: Teaching In The Era Of Generative AI

There is an approach to teaching and learning that can navigate both the limits and the possibilities of AI. This book is the guide you need.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 19d

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unsere Kollegin Jehona Kicaj zu ihrer Nominierung für den Deutschen Buchpreis!
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Mehr dazu ➡️ www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/nominiert/

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 20d

Editor Aitor Boada-Benito presents Thaúmata: Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies, a compelling and timely collection that broadens the study of sanctity and holy figures across diverse cultures, periods, and sources.

Check it out here:h ttps://brill.com/display/ti...

Editor holding a copy of the book Thaumata: Critical and Underrepresented Perspectives on Hagiographic Studies

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 21d

Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited!

You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 21d

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Vol. 23, No. 2-3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social They Suffered Under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance and the Crosses at Golgotha @robertjmyles.bsky.social @profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to attend the International Schleiermacher Congress in Kiel! www.uni-kiel.de/de/theol/fak.... It is Kiel at its best: books on Schleiermacher, wind, rain, sailing boats and good conversations!

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 23d

🤖 AI in Academia – Gamechanger or Risk?
How often do you use tools like #ChatGPT, Perplexity, Highspace, or ResearchRabbit in your work? #AI can speed up data analysis, boost literature search, and spark new ideas, but it also comes with risks like hallucinations, stereotypes, and unreliable data.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26d

New issue of Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 79, No. 4 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 26d

In a time of increasing violence all over the globe, a "Dialogue of Life" is needed more than ever. Please join the digital event October 2nd, 2025, 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. (GMT+02:00) RSVP romeoffice.georgetown.edu/events/dialo... with our author Debora Tonelli participating! doi.org/10.1515/9783...

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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 27d

Prof. Christopher Joby’s book launch for "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" was a great success. Sincere thanks to all who attended. We hope you enjoyed the event!

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 27d

🎉New release in the Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity series

📚 Transformationen von Volk-Gottes-Vorstellungen 📜

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John Dik compares the history of motifs and genre criticisms in the Apocalypse of John and 2 Baruch.

#AcRel #NewTestament #AJEC

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 29d

🆕 A new issue of "Gnosis" is live!

Check out the second part of the special issue series on Manichaica–Judaica–Gnostica: brill.com/view/journ....

Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies Volume 10 Issue 2: Special Issue: Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica 2: Global Entanglements, edited by Dylan Burns and Eduard Iricinschi (2025)

"Volume 10 (2025): Issue 2 (Aug 2025): Special Issue: Manichaica-Judaica-Gnostica 2: Global Entanglements, edited by Dylan Burns and Eduard Iricinschi" published on 27 Aug 2025 by Brill.

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉 New publication!

📚 Lament in the Letter of James📜
Grant Flynn presents the first book-length study of lament in James, and proposes that lament is integral to James’s conception of spiritual wholeness and is compatible with joy as an appropriate response to trials

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