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Kelsie Rodenbiker
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pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social · Aug 29
Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)
A book cover with the title Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon, by Kelsie G. Rodenbiker. The image is of the Apostle Peter from GA 1751. He holds a scroll with the beginning of 1 Peter and around his head are bubbles of text affirming his status as the "chief of the apostles."
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monikaamsler.bsky.social
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!
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Thanks, Isaac!
isaactsoon.bsky.social I.T. Soon (YEUNG) @isaactsoon.bsky.social · Aug 25
Kelsie Rodenbiker's new book on the Catholic Epistles is available digitally via OUP and honestly it's a blast. Chapters 3 and 4 especially heavily critique notions about the stability of the Catholic Epistle collection and the formation of the New Testament canon. tinyurl.com/46e88p25
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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August 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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miriamjane5.bsky.social
In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!
July 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
kelsbot.bsky.social
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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July 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles

The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.
Call for papers graphic - closes 21/04
April 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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annetteyreed.bsky.social
Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025
This article explores the limitations of scholarly boundaries formed by the categories “Judaism,” “Christianity,” “canonical,” and “non-canonical” in our understanding and interpretation of religious images. How do these labels help us better understand or occlude us from understanding the purpose and function of religious images for both devotees and religious leadership alike? My essay centers on the image depicted on the fifth-century CE mosaics found on the triumphal arch located in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome with a special focus on the temple. On the top register, the Jerusalem temple is prominently depicted three times in a Christian Basilica devoted to Mary. What devotional, didactical, or homiletical function did it serve and in what ways does the application of scholarly categories and approaches help or hinder with this understanding?
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!
March 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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janjancl.bsky.social
Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."
February 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social

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February 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂
January 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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tdbiii.bsky.social
The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.
January 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
kelsbot.bsky.social
Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.
tdbiii.bsky.social Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · Jan 9
Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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tdbiii.bsky.social
Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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grantmacaskill.bsky.social
I am immensely grateful to have been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social, for a project to consider "Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Eclectic Philosophical Cultures in Antiquity”. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23914/
Prestigious Fellowship to explore a 'window onto the eclectic philosophical cultures of antiquity'
A University of Aberdeen biblical scholar has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to reevaluate the significance of the "biblical pseudepigrapha" as witnesses to philosophical cu...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
kelsbot.bsky.social
Can't wait for this!
December 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social
Hey NT scholars of bluesky, what is in your opinion the best recent introductions to NT?
November 25, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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tj-lang.bsky.social
Please spread the word...
Hyatt on Sunday of SBL, 9:00-11:00pm.
November 16, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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candidamoss.bsky.social
I am excited to announce that in May 2025 I will be succeeding John J. Collins as the General Editor of the world leading Yale Anchor Bible Series. It's an honor for me to serve as the steward of this important series. @yalebooks.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/pr...
Professor Candida Moss appointed as General Editor of the Anchor Yale Bible Series - University of Birmingham
Yale University Press recognised Professor Moss’ unique expertise in the field of Theology
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November 14, 2024 at 12:38 PM
kelsbot.bsky.social
Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)
A book cover with the title Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon, by Kelsie G. Rodenbiker. The image is of the Apostle Peter from GA 1751. He holds a scroll with the beginning of 1 Peter and around his head are bubbles of text affirming his status as the "chief of the apostles."
August 29, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social
Out in the fall in the Journal of Early Christian Studies!
July 26, 2024 at 7:02 AM