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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

Begins Oct. 27 2025 [+ Part 2 Offered early January 2026]

Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

My course "Learning Coptic through the Gospel of Thomas" offers students affordable Coptic instruction from an expert.

Asynchronous or Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) + Lifetime access to course videos and instruction materials authored by me

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 7d

Zwei Bücher, die ich aktuell uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann:
@reclamverlag.bsky.social
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social

Cover von Rainer Mühlhoffs Buch "Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus", erschienen in der Reclam-Reihe "Was bedeutet das alles?"

Cover von Ingo Dachwitz' und Sven Hilbigs Buch "Digitaler Kolonialismus", erschienen bei C. H. Beck.

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · 10d

Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · 12d

Oh no! All the AI-generated reviews and podcasts are gone!
How will I survive?

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · 26d

That was so much fun! Thank you for having me, Isaac, and for the great work you do!

Isaac Oliver (né de Oliveira) @isaacwoliver.bsky.social · 27d

New podcast on the YouTube channel of Talmud for Everyone on Dr. Monika Amsler's book, *The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture* (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which provides a novel thesis on how and when the Talmud was written:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o_S...

Dr. Monika Amsler: How and When Was the Talmud Written?

YouTube video by Talmud for Everyone

www.youtube.com

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, @portersf.bsky.social for seeing this through!

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · Sep 4

🐣 Our SBL Review Symposium for Mike Chin’s new monograph “Life” has just been published with Religious Studies Review 51/2. Have a look here, especially if you are interested in ancient natural history or new ways of writing old history:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...

Religious Studies Review: Vol 51, No 2

Click on the title to browse this issue

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · Sep 1

In einem Land vor unserer Mailkultur...

Unser neues "Handbuch Brief" öffnet die antike Briefforschung für transepochale Perspektiven auf Medialität, Materialität, Corpusbildung, das antike „Briefschreibbewusstsein“ u.v.m.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#Briefforschung #ClassicsSky

Buchcover „Handbuch Brief. Antike“, herausgegeben von Eve-Marie Becker, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser und Alfons Fürst. Auf weißem Hintergrund abgebildet sind Wachstafeln aus dem byzantinischen Ägypten (500-700 n. Chr.) sowie ein griechischer Brief auf Papyrus aus dem frühen 3. Jh. n. Chr., beide aus den Sammlungen des Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Isaac Oliver (né de Oliveira) @isaacwoliver.bsky.social · Aug 25

Live study sessions of Talmud for Everyone resumes co-led by Dr. Niculescu and yours truly. Fall schedule is available here: www.talmudforeveryone.com.

Talmud for everyone, Talmud forever!

Home | Talmud For Everyone

www.talmudforeveryone.com

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Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social · Aug 15

Author copies have arrived! Official release date is 9/23 #GenderViolence

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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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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · Jun 30

@lcbmphd.bsky.social Congratulations on her grant for the project “The book at the limits of Christian materiality”!!!

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AABNER journal @aabner.bsky.social · Jun 20

New article on the Song of Songs is published! aabner.org/ojs/index.ph...

The Divine Feminine in the Song of Songs | Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Jun 22

"Distant Patterns, Close Up Insights: A Hybrid Approach to the Changing Status of Narrative Texts in Medieval Jewish Literature." Research spotlight by Annabelle Fuchs.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17843

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ganz herzliche Gratulation, lieber Peter!!! 🚀

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · May 24

Found out yesterday that my student numbers have doubled. Next year, I’ll be teaching 115 students European Prehistory at degree level. Plus first years. Not certain how.

That’s what happens when universities don’t replace retiring staff.

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

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-ic...

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

Proofs day! Coming soon in open access to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha.

Proof of article “Animals and demons:
Nonhuman beings in the
Testaments of the Twelve
Patriarchs”.
The abstract reads: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In this text virtuous humans are protected from nonhuman animals and this protection is a sign of a person’s virtue. Furthermore, nonhuman animals plot against human ones and attempt to gain mastery over them, using the same terms as would be used for other nonhuman, demonic forces possessing humans. This article suggests that in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, these types of nonhuman opponents are not neatly distinguished, and that these categories bleed into one another. This suggests that a less strong distinction in the classification and discussion of animals and spirits is beneficial for early Christian texts.

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · May 7

Huge congratulations!!!

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · May 4

Prompt: a funky boom bap hiphop song about the Babylonian Talmud
Result: suno.com/s/6Px2DqdFuF...

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · May 1

Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷

Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...

Two books laying on their side with another upright on top. A brown wooden bench and white tiles behind.

Holding open a book showing two pages. On the right, text and images of ancient grape seeds. On the left, archaeological plans and images of excavation.

An open book showing two pages. Text on the left; text and an image above of a tree with a ladder and person cultivating grapevines on the right.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Apr 30

New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · Apr 30

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing @monikaamsler.bsky.social for the Late Antiquity New Books Network channel hosted by @ancientjewreview.bsky.social. You should run and go read Dr. Amsler's open-access book! Listen why in our convo here:

newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...

Monika Amsler, "The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023) - New Books Network

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

New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-...

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · Apr 28

🐮💭I'm fine, I can stop whenever I want

Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · Apr 28

Entry:
נַגָּח
adj. addicted to goring

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