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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks, Isaac!

Isaac Soon (YEUNG) @isaactsoon.bsky.social · Aug 25

Kelsie Rodenbiker's new book on the Catholic Epistles is available digitally via OUP and honestly it's a blast. Chapters 3 and 4 especially heavily critique notions about the stability of the Catholic Epistle collection and the formation of the New Testament canon. tinyurl.com/46e88p25

Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon

Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a

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Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social · Jul 23

In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jul 22

More of a recommendation than I deserve!

Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks, Hugo!

Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jul 16

My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.

Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon

Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a

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Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social · Jun 4

Funding for 4 year PhD in Uni Galway, on project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’, directed by Ciaran Arthur. Deadline 20 June. www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

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British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Apr 13

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles

The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Apr 11

Horrifying

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Mar 28

Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025

This article explores the limitations of scholarly boundaries formed by the categories “Judaism,” “Christianity,” “canonical,” and “non-canonical” in our understanding and interpretation of religious images. How do these labels help us better understand or occlude us from understanding the purpose and function of religious images for both devotees and religious leadership alike? My essay centers on the image depicted on the fifth-century CE mosaics found on the triumphal arch located in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome with a special focus on the temple. On the top register, the Jerusalem temple is prominently depicted three times in a Christian Basilica devoted to Mary. What devotional, didactical, or homiletical function did it serve and in what ways does the application of scholarly categories and approaches help or hinder with this understanding?

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British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Mar 6

The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Feb 28

Jealous

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · Feb 20

Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Feb 16

bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jan 15

I love those weirdos. Literally writing an abstract on this RIGHT now hahaha.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Jan 15

it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · Jan 15

The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jan 11

Woweeeeewowow

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jan 11

wtf

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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jan 9

That's... very wow.

Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Jan 9

Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.

Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · Jan 9

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · Jan 9

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

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Grant Macaskill @grantmacaskill.bsky.social · Dec 18

I am immensely grateful to have been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social, for a project to consider "Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Eclectic Philosophical Cultures in Antiquity”. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23914/

Prestigious Fellowship to explore a 'window onto the eclectic philosophical cultures of antiquity'

A University of Aberdeen biblical scholar has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to reevaluate the significance of the "biblical pseudepigrapha" as witnesses to philosophical cu...

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