Ancient Religion
Accounts interested in ancient religion, particularly the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia.
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@dcsmith.bsky.social
@unsissel.bsky.social
Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools. https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
@goodacre.bsky.social
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
@grantmacaskill.bsky.social
Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament, University of Aberdeen, Centre for Autism and Theology
@sebenton.bsky.social
New Testament, Ancient Associations, Lecturer Religion + Ministry (Baylor U), writer of forthcoming Women Patrons and Mothers in Associations and the New Testament (Mohr), sometime church minister, dog fan, hobby runner (have dined with int’l runners😉)
@kycrabbe.bsky.social
ARC DECRA on Disability in early Christianity, Associate Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies @IRCI_ACU @ACUmedia, UCA Minister @UnitingChurchAu, knitter, aspirational sports-er. Views my own.
@skindawg73.bsky.social
Professor of NT-EC at Loyola Chicago. Writing on Mark's Christology & Fourth Gospel reception, and slowly producing the Anchor Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas. Beatle fan. Fender guitars. Father of 3 (1 is a T1D). https://www.christopherwskinner.com/
@robertjmyles.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Divinity, Australia. Writes about Religion, historical materialism, New Testament, historical Jesus from below, etc. www.robertjmyles.com
@jc01229.bsky.social
Runs CenSAMM. Univ. of Cambridge & MF Oslo. Prof. & critical studier of religion, politics, John Ball/1381, A. L. Morton, apocalypticism, historical Jesus, English radical tradition. https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-james-crossley
@toffelmire.bsky.social
Professor of Old Testament (Ambrose Uni), amateur cook, even more amateur film lover. Theology, culture, language and hermeneutics, probably more politics than is healthy or wise.
@archaeocobb.bsky.social
Prof of Archaeology & Pedagogy at the University of Manchester, NTF, PFHEA, UoM Academic Development Lead, CoDirector of the Ardnamuchan Transitions Project. #EDI. Giddy is my base state. she/her. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah.cobb
@apocalypsenow5.bsky.social
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
@miriamjane5.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
@laurarbnsn.bsky.social
New Testament Review Podcast. Not Peer Reviewed on Substack. PhD New Testament, Duke. Follow for New Testament, theology, crochet, pop culture, excessive cat documentation.
@andrewconnor.bsky.social
Ancient historian and papyrologist, interested in religions and Romans in Egypt. Wrote "Confiscation and Coexistence: Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus" (from University of Michigan Press).
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
@elliemackinroberts.net
Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@sonia-mzali.bsky.social
Doctorante en Assyriologie (UMR 8164-HALMA-Université de Lille) Sumer / Pratiques cultuelles / Prêtrise / Genre / Maternités PhD student in Assyriology Sumer / Cultual practices / Priesthood / Gender / Motherhood co-responsable de @ama-mater.bsky.social
@meghanhenning.bsky.social
Deeply committed to the color green. Assistant Provost for the Common Academic Program and Associate Professor at the University of Dayton. Disability studies. Apocalypses. Hell. Rhetoric. Bible. Author of Hell Hath No Fury. https://udayton.academia.edu/Me
@rhcraig.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience. Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
@kelsbot.bsky.social
pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
@sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social
Mom of 4 University of Haifa, Israel: PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (ERC ROMANA) Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, etc. 🪔📚📜🎗️🎗️🎗️🎗️💔💔💔
@levimclaughlin.bsky.social
Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
@proffrancesca.bsky.social
Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications
@calthalas.bsky.social
Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well. Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
@janjancl.bsky.social
Associate Professor of New Testament • Yale Divinity School • biblical texts in immigration, borders, apocalypse, textuality, biological metaphors • 她/she • not always here • http://yiijanlin.com
@nhaider.bsky.social
Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
@tinerassalle.bsky.social
Ex-curator, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
@jwmartens.bsky.social
Director, Centre for Christian Engagement at St. Mark’s College, UBC. Professor of Theology. What Matters Most: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-matters-most/id1650272494?i=1000628524619. Opinions my own.
@profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social
Professor of NT and Early Christianity, University of Chester. Researcher in violence and martyrdom in the ancient world. Double Bass player and SNP member.
@metalbiblescholar.bsky.social
Metal studies, biblical studies, feminism, gender studies, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally, disability activism, vegan for the animals...a lot more fun than I sound. I promise.
@jenniferguo.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Christianity & Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame
@yeagersn.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Classics at UMich || clinging to faith || labor organizing to fight existentialism || thinking about magic, Evagrius, and demons || vegan, queer, & tired (they/them)
@sccarlson.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
@caeliambulator.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at UMD working on Indian Ocean trade and the wider ancient world. More than occasionally talks about the doggo. https://history.umd.edu/directory/jeremy-simmons
@megannutzman.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at ODU; PhD in Classics from UChicago; MTS + ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; author of Contested Cures (Edinburgh University Press) bit.ly/3sMTELi
@cjosephus.bsky.social
historian of (late) ancient Mediterranean religion + medicine | PhD dropout | #FirstGen | #Neurodivergent | #SOTL + pedagogy nerd | horror aficionado | Whovian | washed-up lacrosse player 🥍 | 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇮🇹 (Rome)
@slyprofessor.bsky.social
#BLM | Professor @AppState | PhD Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
@chancepmh.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ✡️ ☭ | They/Them | PhD in Comparative Literature | Decolonial Thought and Rabbinic/Late Antique Literature | US American Living in Mainz | freelance copyediting/proofreading https://hcommons.org/members/cpmcmahon1988/
@mkochenash.bsky.social
New Testament/early Christianity | PhD, Claremont | pronounced "CAUTION-osh" | he/him
@jarkkovikman.bsky.social
PhD in biblical studies & early Christianity (Uni. Helsinki). Kerava, Finland. My evil twin is a Lutheran pastor. He/him.
@praxeas.bsky.social
Teacher of students, baker of bread, writer of books. Anglican, Australian in the USA. Early Christianity specialist. On Quinnipiac land at Yale. Opinions my own. Weekly lectionary comments at abmcg.substack.com
@profchrismjones.bsky.social
Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
@alexdperkins.bsky.social
Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow @ Center for Mind and Culture | scholar of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast | Visiting Scholar @ GWU
@mjmcoomber.bsky.social
Professor/Episcopal priest writing & teaching anti-imperial resistance in the Bible, practicing anti-fascist resistance in the world, LGBTQIA+ ally | https://www.amazon.com/author/coomber | he/him | posts mine Described as a “dope teacher” in student eval
@jstinch.bsky.social
teaching religion, Bible, and ancient history at Towson University | pretty good at improvising little songs for animals
@flissina.bsky.social
Historian of art (late antiquity) Yale University ~ Divinity School & Institute of Sacred Music
@markmcentire.bsky.social
Professor of Biblical Studies in Nashville, Tennessee. Former writer of books.
@nathanleach.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Texas State University | writing on ancient Mediterranean religions, apocalypses, divination, and mysteries
@christophheilig.bsky.social
Author. Research group leader at the University of Munich. Interested in theology, literature, and AI. http://www.christoph-heilig.de Et ego in Arcadia esse vellem.
@alexichantz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Crandall University) | PhD in Theology and Religious Studies (University of Cambridge) | Ancient Mediterranean Religion, incl. Early Judaism and Christianity
@meganeddy.bsky.social
NT/EC PhD Candidate (Loyola University Chicago). working on apocalypse and masculinity; theatre artist; lover of stories, cats, and beer; probably watching a hockey game; she/her 🏳️🌈
@jamesnati.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Hebrew Bible & Early Judaism. Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology
@cavanconcannon.bsky.social
John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics Professor of Religion at USC cavanconcannon.com
@criscardozomin.bsky.social
I am interested in the reception history of Revelation in antiquity and NT Apocrypha. NT Professor at Adventist University of Colombia
@jaxhidalgo.bsky.social
Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
@mjchalmers.bsky.social
Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
@carivera.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Church History at Wake Forest Divinity School | Ephrem and Origen, theology and poetry | Methodist preacher
@sarahparkhouse.bsky.social
British Academy Research Fellow, University of Manchester. Researching landscape & place, gods & rituals, (late) antiquity, amphitheatres, Egypt.
@jamiedavies.bsky.social
Tutor of New Testament, Trinity College Bristol | Author: ‘Paul Among the Apocalypses’ 'The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect & Prospect' 'Reading Revelation' | Views my own
@lesliebaynes.bsky.social
Assoc. prof of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at Missouri State University. My new book forthcoming from Eerdmans: Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible (2025). #academicbluesky
@ryancollman.bsky.social
NT PhD (Edinburgh) | Early Judaism, Circumcision, Paul, Early Christianity | Check out my book with De Gruyter
@ntecprof.bsky.social
Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents. I do not speak for my employer.
@tonyburke.bsky.social
Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
@hugomendez.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem (OUP 2022) and The New Testament, 8th ed. (OUP 2024). #LGM Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com Faculty page: http://bit.ly/3ZdeCRu
@jeanniesellick.bsky.social
Philoparthenos she.hers Not really an atheist. Not really a nun.
@meirazk.bsky.social
Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
@adeler.bsky.social
I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
@cmitchellsask.bsky.social
PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca Personal site.
@jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
@davidaburnett.bsky.social
PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins @ University of Edinburgh | Religion Faculty @ St. Anthony School, Milwaukee | Student/teacher of Judaism & Christianity in Antiquity #firstgen https://linktr.ee/davidaburnett
@eringwalsh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
@rvontha.bsky.social
Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
@lhuber.bsky.social
Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art. www.lynnrhuber.com
@portersf.bsky.social
asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u early christianity // material culture // archaeology
@shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg University. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
@brownsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
@greggiven.bsky.social
"A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find a reference to an even duller one."
@rsfalcasantos.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
@ekaputrat.bsky.social
Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
@jenniferquigley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of New Testament @candlertheology UMC elder Views my own, not my employer
@sararonis.bsky.social
associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things. She/Her
@arturoviaggia.bsky.social
Professor of Theology @ Providence College specializing in Early Christianity and Chair of the Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange Committee. President, catacombsociety.bsky.social Posting pics of ancient sites and travel. Lots of Italy.
@nickelder.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of NT | Ancient Media | Papyri | Positive Vibes Critical Pedagogy | Un/Specs Grading | 2000–2020s Dad Rock | Midwesterner
@rickbrannan.com
Senior Data Architect for BiblioNexus. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him. web: https://rickbrannan.com
@jillhickskeeton.bsky.social
@jamarchal.bsky.social
author, Appalling Bodies (OUP) co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK) founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion counter-kyriarchal killjoy professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies a bit of a mess here
@historiographos.bsky.social
Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | Would rather be eating souvlaki
@devoretext.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.