Christopher B. Zeichmann
cbzeichmann.bsky.social
Christopher B. Zeichmann
@cbzeichmann.bsky.social
biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
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So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"And I guess that’s why I hate AI in the classroom as much as I do. Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection."
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Sunday, 1-3:30pm - come for the panel discussion of Radical Antiquity at the annual meeting for SBL/AAR/NAASR!

@plutopress.bsky.social
The NAASR 2025 Annual Meeting is getting closer! Check out naasr.com for further information about each session. #naasr #aar #aar2025
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.

It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Review of Radical Antiquity at @mstaronline.bsky.social: "This charming book is an unusually exciting and memorable text and the inclusion of very up-to-date reading lists only adds to the sense that further discoveries are yet to come. Very much recommended.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comm...
Communal alternatives in history
Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings 
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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✨ 40% off all Pluto books until October 28th!✨

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October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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🏺TOMORROW🏺

Visit @thespanielstale.bsky.social to hear @cbzeichmann.bsky.social speak about Radical Antiquity

🗓️Sun, Oct 19
⏰6:30pm
📍The Spaniel’s Tale
thespanielstale.ca/events/36533...
Author Discussion - Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprising by Christopher B Zeichmann | The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore
Hintonburg's independendent bookstore, and Ottawa's proudest indie.
thespanielstale.ca
October 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This weekend! Hope to see some #Ottawa faces there!
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Sometimes Catholics really do go hard, still
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Join me in Ottawa just over a week from now!
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Odd and somewhat heartening to see my work on Superman's creation in the context of the radical Jewish Left of the 1930s & 1940s. I don't know that I would agree that there was an anti-Zionist politics in the earliest Superman stories, but this video otherwise does a good job expanding my article.
Why Superman's Isr*el Critique Means So Much More Than You Think
YouTube video by Luke Phillips
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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For those going to AAR/SBL in Boston next month, come join us to talk about @cbzeichmann.bsky.social’s Radical Antiquity!
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
And here is the full episode! Thanks again, Patrick!
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Radical Antiquity is a new book that takes you on a journey in search of anarchy, statelessness, and social experimentation. Here, Christopher B. Zeichmann brings us 5 stories of anarchists from the ancient world: www.plutobooks.com/blog/five-an...
Five Anarchists from Antiquity - Pluto Press
Christopher B. Zeichmann brings us 5 stories of underappreciated anarchists from antiquity.
www.plutobooks.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I had the pleasure of a really fun interview with
@lastbornpodcast.bsky.social
podcast last week and Patrick offers us a preview of the interview! If you're not sure whether you want to pick up my book or not, this will give you a taste of things. Patrick is a fantastic discussion partner!
New episode: Preview / Radical Antiquity / Christopher B. Zeichmann

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness/preview-christopher-zeichmann
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today on this special episode of Ancient Office Hours, Dr. @cbzeichmann.bsky.social, a New Testament scholar and lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, to discuss his new book focused on radical groups in antiquity.
September 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
New interview about Radical Antiquity, this one at @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social - check it out! www.ozymandiasproject.com/podcast/epis...
Ancient Office Hours | Ozymandias Project
www.ozymandiasproject.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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💥BOOK EVENT💥

@cbzeichmann.bsky.social launches Radical Antiquity at TYPE Books with Colleen Shantz

🗓️Tues, Sept 30
⏰7pm
📍TYPE Books (Queen West)
🎟https://www.instagram.com/p/DOY4Vu-jvwm/?hl=en
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New blog post: Five (Underappreciated) Anarchists from Antiquity: www.plutobooks.com/blog/five-an...
at the @plutopress.bsky.social blog - small sneak peak of my new book!
Five Anarchists from Antiquity - Pluto Press
Christopher B. Zeichmann brings us 5 stories of underappreciated anarchists from antiquity.
www.plutobooks.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Guess who what the Book of the Week is at @the-syllabus.bsky.social ? Check it out!
Across antiquity, escaped slaves and religious sects carved out quasi-anarchic practices at the margins of empire. Our book of the week journeys in search of communities that resisted state power in the Graeco-Roman world.

By @cbzeichmann.bsky.social on @plutopress.bsky.social

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September 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Purchase your copy from SBL Press cart.sbl-site.org/books/066705P
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hey Toronto/GTA Friends - my new book is out soon and there are a few launch events in Toronto!
-Sept 30 (7pm): Colleen Shantz and I will be in conversation at Type Books (883 Queen West) and there will be copies to buy and sign there!
-Oct 25 (1-2 pm), I will be signing at Indigo Bay/Bloor!
September 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM