Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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Helena L. Martin @helenalmartin.bsky.social priest + PhD student studying disability, demons, monsters, and magic in the NT and early Christianity. I find a typo in every single thing I read. (she/her)
“Then God gives a command, and the ice melts ...” (Psalm 147:18)
Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social Teaching Roman history, researching Roman magic and trying not to accidentally summon demons. Forever DM, Dad and Catholic.
Matthew R Anderson @mrapomquet.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean, pilgrimage, decolonization, aware-settler, fiction, Leonard Cohen, a bit of everything. Gatto Chair StFX University Nova Scotia. Mi'kmaki/Treaty 4. Six books. www.somethinggrand.ca https://www.stfx.ca/faculty-staff/matthew-anderson
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Stella J. Fritzell @bacchictopic.bsky.social she/they | 🤖 research fellow |🏺PhD candidate | queer, feminist, mythologist, philologist, digital scholar, martial artist | AAUW alumna
Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social PhD student @ Emory - thinking about healing, disgust, & identity in the NT
Dr. Laura Davidel @lauradavidel.bsky.social Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts.
Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.
Probably away taking pictures 📷
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social social epistemology & political philosophy | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
LXX Graduate Student Network @lxxgsn.bsky.social The LXX Graduate Student Network seeks to support students working in Septuagint studies
https://lxxgsn.com/
Isaac Oliver (né de Oliveira) @isaacwoliver.bsky.social Founder & Director of Talmud for Everyone
Vice Director of the Enoch Seminar
L. Stephanie Cobb @stephaniecobb33.bsky.social Dogs. Desserts. Dead people.
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Meghan Henning @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
Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
Yii-Jan Lin @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
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Joseph A Marchal @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
David J. DeVore @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.
Dr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk.
he/they/Dr
Philly AF. Speaking for no one but myself.
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
John Ma 🇺🇦 @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). Guggenheim Fellow.
Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com ♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
resdifficiles.com
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Follow along for news, events, and calls for papers.
ahreuminate.bsky.social @ahreuminate.bsky.social NT Scholar | PhD, University of Cambridge
McMaster Religious Studies @mcmasterreligion.bsky.social The Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University, the oldest graduate program in religious studies in Canada.
Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social Bible and theology prof at Providence (🇨🇦) | PhD in theological ethics from Aberdeen | long-suffering fan of the Winnipeg Jets and Arsenal Football Club
Jeremy Bergen @jeremybergen.bsky.social Theology/Religious Studies prof and Dean, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo: theology, church apologies, martyrdom, ecumenism (he/him)
josephkimmel.bsky.social @josephkimmel.bsky.social Scholar of early Christianity and comparative theology | Harvard PhD 2023 | Completing a monograph for OUP on comparative demonologies | Adjunct Professor at Boston College | Assistant Rector at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church (Lincoln, MA)
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Kathleen Gallagher Elkins (she/her) @katgelk.bsky.social editor at Fortress Press, scholar of ancient texts, reader of fun books, baker of baked goods.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta @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.
Melissa M. Wilcox @melissamwilcox.bsky.social Queer and trans studies in religion scholar, working on leather, kink, and healing. At UC Riverside.
Mel Schriver @schrivermel.bsky.social Started out in fluorine chemistry, then stable radicals, then phosphorus fluorides, then phosphaalkyne sulphides, then oxathiazolones. Along the way I got a PhD and did some teaching. My students call me Dr Mel but I love my title of Opa. Soon to retire.
Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social Editor, PhD student - Old Testament 🐉, contributing writer for Park Forum, nerd. Erincnewton.com. Typos are here because you get what you pay for on social media. 
Colby Townsend @colbytownsend.bsky.social Dual PhD student (English/religious studies) @ IU Bloomington studying religion and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He/him
Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.
Robyn Le Blanc @archleblanc.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, UNC Greensboro; coins, classics, coffee
Chauncey Diego F. Handy @chaunceydiego.bsky.social Chicano Hebrew Bible Professor. Asst. Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College. Pentateuch, Race/Ethnicity, Latinx Interpretation. Quietly haunting the PC(USA) as an ordained minister from the island of misfit toys. él/they.
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Kim Connor @theotherkim.bsky.social Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
Dr. Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order. Looking forward to the pivot past video.
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social Last name is two words, one name: Hanley Cardozo. I teach writing and literature and study Victorian brutes. My views do not represent those of my employer. Website: khandozo.com
Nathan Leach @nathanleach.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Texas State University | writing on ancient Mediterranean religions, apocalypses, divination, and mysteries
Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social she/her | eng MA, Marshall University | digital history PhD candidate @ Clemson University | Appalachian studies | histories of medicine | women, gender, sexuality | reproductive history | early 20th century
hallieknipp.net
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Eliezer Aryeh @eliezeraryeh.bsky.social Writing on Jewish history, biblical studies & historical misconceptions | Ancient to medieval, purity systems to mysticism | eliezeraryeh.substack.com | r/AskHistorians contributor
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Maria Farinelli @maria-farinelli.bsky.social Specialista dell’Antichità tarda
Dottoressa in storia romana
Di Milano
Franco-italiana
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social Finishing “Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation”. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Antifascist. UT Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Lutherpalian. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.
Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Michael Jost @michaelrjost.bsky.social Professeur de Nouveau Testament @iptheologie ¦ Bible, Église, Foi et Recherche ¦ Bibel, Kirche, Glaube und Forschung ¦ Bible, Church, Faith and Research
#Théologie #Evangile #NouveauTestament #Qumrân #DeadSeaScrolls
Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social PI and postdoktor @ Universitetet i Bergen | Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative (AViVa) | NFR prosjektnr 359600
Nate Kreider @natekreider.bsky.social Hebrew Bible and LXX, Greek Language and Linguistics, Papyri. Incoming PhD student at McGill.
Colin Toffelmire @toffelmire.bsky.social Professor of Christian Studies (Ambrose Uni), amateur cook, even more amateur film lover. Theology, culture, language and hermeneutics, probably more politics than is healthy or wise.
Nate Wall-Bowering @natewall.bsky.social Asst Prof of Old Testament at Providence Theological Seminary || Pentateuch || Figural reading || John Donne
Liv Mariah Yarrow (will not "cheat like hell") @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
IOSCS @ioscs.bsky.social This account posts news from the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies as well as notices of events and publications related to the academic study of the Septuagint. https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/
Markus Oehler @markusoehler.bsky.social New Testament Scholar, History of Early Christianity, University of Vienna, Scientist for Future, Football Player/Fan
Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social Teacher-scholar of religion and ancient Christianities. Coptic language lover. Fighting for the Undercommons. Currently a Lecturer @ Spelman College | Assistant Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies
Website: https://lcbmphd.com/
ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social autistic episcopal priest | أبو إلياس و أبو عزرا | theology & liturgy nerd | cleveland/osu sports | “the boy who cried serious” | phd student @ aberdeen | unironic augury believer
Justin Hagerman @hagerman.bsky.social Chercheur (Lyon) : éthique et herméneutique
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Dr Julia Lindenlaub @julialindenlaub.bsky.social Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
D. Allen Hutchison @dahutchison.bsky.social PhD in HB/OT (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) on how/why Chronicles alludes to Exodus | an editor of _Joshua_ in the Brill FIOTL series (July 2026) | occasional adjunct Bible prof
Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social librarian
ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga
keeganosinski.com
Joseph Ryan Kelly @josephkelly.bsky.social Hebrew Bible PhD. I'm interested in the many ways ancient people would have answered the question, "Is God good?"
Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social (she/her) PhD in Systematic Theology w/ an Allied Field in History; Professor of Theology; ELCIC pastor since 2002; Covid-cautious; against fascism; trans ally; Treaty 7 resident; collapse-accepting; FAFO
Fortress Press @fortresspress.bsky.social Scholarship that Matters: In the academy. In the church. In the community.
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian.
Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social I decipher power through times and places
Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Professor. Lead editor of Everyday Orientalism
The past is now
مصر دائما 🐍
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From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback
Yale Classics Library @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, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
SEBenton @sebenton.bsky.social New Testament, Ancient Associations, Lecturer Religion + Ministry, writer of Women Patrons and Mothers in Associations and the New Testament (*NOW OUT** Mohr), sometime church minister, dog fan, hobby runner (have dined with int’l runners😉)
Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social The Society for Classical Studies promotes study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. https://classicalstudies.org/
Esther Brownsmith, PhD @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.
British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social BNTS promotes academic research of the New Testament and related writings. We hold an annual conference, open to professional biblical scholars and PhD students
Andrew T. Keenan, PhD @andrewtimkeenan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religious studies at Crandall University | PhD Cantab | Septuagint | 2nd Temple Judaism | Greek & Hebrew | Morphology & Lexicon #CamLXX
Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com Not quite a regular blog, not quite a journal.
Ongoing writing on Post-classical Greek Linguistics. Occasional Ancient Hebrew, but you know, this is a Greek feed.
Editor: @mikeaubrey.bsky.social
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
Judith Herrin @judithherrin.bsky.social Historian: especially of Early Christendom, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Ravenna, and the role of women. 
SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social SBL Press simultaneously publishes hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions of essential research in the fields of biblical studies and related disciplines.
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
Dr Laura Smith @laurasmith29.bsky.social Interested in Late Antiquity, asceticism, gender and sexuality.
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions @samreligions.bsky.social https://www.samreligions.org/
Perboreus @aliyanubalu.bsky.social Pseudepigrapha, Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, classics, linguistics.
@keithpinckney.bsky.social @keithpinckney.bsky.social PhD Cand. HB/OT University of St. Andrews
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Stephen Herring @slherring1.bsky.social PhD (University of Aberdeen); teach at OCHJS, LST, ACU, Wycliffe; interested in all things Hebrew Bible; learnbiblicalhebrew.co.uk