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Matthijs den Dulk
@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
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NT & Early Christianity at Radboud University, Netherlands | Academic Director, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER) | 2025-30: PI NWO Vidi Project on Ethnicity and In/Equality in Early Christianity
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isaactsoon.bsky.social
My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
For those of you currently at #aarsbl25 #sblaar25, there should be an advance copy of the volume at the Brill booth, in case you'd like to check it out.
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 4d
Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
Cover of the book 'early christian epistolarity' by Judith Lieu and Matthijs den Dulk
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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tdbiii.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
Photo of my book Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social
📚 Out now! 🎉 In this volume, leading scholars draw on 'epistolarity’ to explore early Christian letters, revealing how they shaped thought patterns and continued to be re-read by later generations 📜
Congrats to Judith Lieu, Matthijs den Dulk, and all the contributors!
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 4d
Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
Cover of the book 'early christian epistolarity' by Judith Lieu and Matthijs den Dulk
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu
@greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)
Cover of the book 'early christian epistolarity' by Judith Lieu and Matthijs den Dulk
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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gregwoolf.bsky.social
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
Proofs day!
Proofs of "Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul" forthcoming with CUP
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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sarahparkhouse.bsky.social
The first two books of our 'Coptic Gospels & Associated Texts' series with @universitypress.cambridge.org are now available to read online. The series provides thematic introductions & new translations to non-canonical gospels. www.cambridge.org/core/series/...
Coptic Gospels and Associated Texts
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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peeterspublishers.bsky.social
📚 Great news for patristics scholars!

The proceedings of the International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011 & 2015) are now available in Gold Open Access.
That’s 42 volumes of cutting-edge research—now free to read on our website!

🔗 www.peeters-leuven.be/search_resul...
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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doctaz.bsky.social
Jonge onderzoekers, d.w.z. promovendi, postdocs en tijdelijke docenten, zijn essentieel voor het onderwijs en onderzoek aan de universiteiten. Ze hebben het moeilijker dan ooit--en dat is geen onvermijdelijk natuurverschijnsel, daar zitten bestuurlijke en politieke keuzes achter.
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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nasscal.bsky.social
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
October 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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writinghelena.bsky.social
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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janetspittler.bsky.social
Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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sarahparkhouse.bsky.social
We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate – Coptic in Manchester (UKRI):John Rylands Library
Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
Congrats to Augustinus P.M. Aerssens on winning the CRINT Prize for his essay "Augustine's Jews: 'Slay Them Not,' But Still a Dead Letter?," which, according to the jury (Berthelot, Rosen-Zvi, Tomson), "sheds interesting light on a fundamental aspect of Jewish-Christian polemics in late Antiquity"
CRINT Essay Prize 2025 - Winner Announcement.pdf
drive.google.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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annetteyreed.bsky.social
I personally don’t think disciplines need to be “relevant” to be important. That said, a day doesn’t pass—esp these days!—when there isn’t something in the news that Religious Studies training/coursework could help one understand
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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janetspittler.bsky.social
This arrived unexpectedly today!
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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annetteyreed.bsky.social
University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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janetspittler.bsky.social
What an absolute shame.
August 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
matthijsdendulk.bsky.social
Atrocious
theonash.bsky.social Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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josephscales.bsky.social
Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.
August 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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hsozkultservice.bsky.social
Job: 0,75 Wiss. Mitarb. "Historische Theologie" (Univ. Siegen)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-156256

Siegen, 01.10.2025-30.09.2028, Universität Siegen, Bewerbungsschluss: 23.07.2025
www.hsozkult.de
July 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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sccarlson.bsky.social
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.

www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM