Ancient Religion
Accounts interested in ancient religion, particularly the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia.
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@dcsmith.bsky.social
@jimgetz.bsky.social
Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Associate Prof of Intellectual Heritage at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk. he/they/Dr Philly AF
@markleuchter.bsky.social
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at Temple University in Philadelphia. I also make guitar effects. Just trying to get by and be okay with what I see in the mirror every day.
@religionprof.bsky.social
Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
@mattthiessen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
@janetspittler.bsky.social
@jedwardwalters.bsky.social
Dean, School of Humanities at Rochester Christian University. Teaching history, geography, and interdisciplinary studies. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
@zafulotus.bsky.social
Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh http://robynfaithwalsh.com
@alexianafry.bsky.social
OT PhD Stellenbosch University: Migration, Trauma, Feminism. Postdoc at København Uni: Divergent Views of Diaspora. Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible out now with Lexington Books! Proud Pug Parent. RYT 200.
@blindscholar.bsky.social
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a new social media site, begging them to consider accessibility.
@drsids.bsky.social
PhD in Theology. Filipino Canadian scholar interested in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology. My dissertation explores the effect of disgust in theology, specifically in Augustine's letters against the Donatists. Views are my own.
@christycobb.bsky.social
PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity / Associate Prof @ Univ. of Denver / Slavery, Gender, Sexuality / Single Mom by Choice (SMC) to a 8 yo
@collincornell.bsky.social
theological educator posting about god, bible, climate, transit | he/him | houston www.fuller.edu/faculty/collin-cornell/
@madryaeltong.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא
@letteney.bsky.social
Ancient historian and archaeologist at the University of Washington. Histories of the prison, book, rocks of note. Opinions are official communications from the provost.
@ancientjewreview.bsky.social
Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. ancientjewreview.com
@drmjcwarren.bsky.social
Dr MJC Warren. Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies & Editor in Chief of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. PhD, Early Judaism & New Testament. Settler & Manitoba Metis Federation citizen. She/her/wiya
@isaactsoon.bsky.social
assistant prof. of early Christianity. disability studies. ancient judaism. songwriter. don’t bore us, get to the chorus. here to connect people to scholarship. he/him. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
@tonyk.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
@ctschroeder.bsky.social
Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
@kristadalton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Kenyon College. Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025). Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com.
@laurenginsberg.bsky.social
she/her | associate professor of classical studies: Roman literature, culture, theater, civil war, & all things Nero | pedagogy geek | passionate about equity in graduate education | lover of travel and food | never speak for my employer
@drewjakeprof.bsky.social
andrewjacobs.org | past pres., patristics.org | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | ⚡️out now ⚡️ GospelThrillers (bit.ly/gospel-thrillers) & Life of Thecla (tinyurl.com/LThecla)
@maiakotro.bsky.social
https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Soon: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke, 2025). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago, 2020).
@evandeneykel.bsky.social
Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies @ Ferrum College, General Editor, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Running, beer, sarcasm. Black Lives Matter. he/him
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
Gospels, material texts, philology, Late Antiquity | Assistant Professor of New Testament
@nakhthor.bsky.social
Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024) https://columbia.academia.edu/JohnMa
@emilygathergood.bsky.social
New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
@aboyarin.bsky.social
UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
@nabalkattu.bsky.social
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University. "A laid-back country picker with a laid-back country mind" Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, and Liberation Philology. Nova Scotia and California.
@profyarrow.bsky.social
Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Chair of Classics, Brooklyn College. Typo-Queen. I treat this space like the office water cooler. Blogging at livyarrow.org
@brandonwhawk.bsky.social
Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him. “Read some fucking apocrypha.” https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
@platanoclassics.bsky.social
He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
@gregwoolf.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
@opietasanimi.com
Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Co-founder and co-editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her. "Chew-leek" resdifficiles.com opietasanimi.com
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
@wilgafney.bsky.social
Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@andytobo.bsky.social
Associate prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Researching early Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, violence, and more Cat dad | 🏳️🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@vox-magica.bsky.social
historian of christianity | scholar of magic & heresy | critic of empires | neurospicy | unabashedly hopeful, even now | author of magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX) | she/her
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
@maklelan.bsky.social
Public scholar of the Bible and religion For speaking requests: [email protected]
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus” out 26 September with Oxford University Press. Preorder here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
@dcsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Whitman College | Writing on religion, disability, and social history in the Roman Empire