History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
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Amy Defibaugh @amyldefibaugh.bsky.social Religion PhD in death and dying studies. Facilitating scholarship, programs and publications for the American Academy of Religion.
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
Irish Theological Quarterly @irishtheolquart.bsky.social Irish Theological Quarterly is an international refereed journal of Theology based at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland. It is published by SAGE.
Dave Brown @adavebrown.bsky.social Trail running, PhD in inter-generational metaphor in Paul and Seneca, Disability Theology, inclusion, academic for hire, Anglican minister, family and kindness. The odd day at the cricket.
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
Joshua Slinkard @jslink.bsky.social Two-time Criswell grad. Fan of Texas sports teams (Mavs, Rangers, Stars, Cowboys, Aggies), theology, and breakfast food.
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social Index Theologicus
Open Access Bibliographie für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
International Bibliography of Theology and Religious Studies
https://ixtheo.de
Fachinformationsdienst Theologie, UB Tübingen
Impressum: https://ixtheo.de/Content/Impressum
Andy Patton @andrewpatton.bsky.social Postodc at KU Leuven (PhD, University of Birmingham) | New Testament manuscripts, catenae, early Christianity
Mathew Voth 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @mathewvoth.bsky.social I did an MA in biblical studies…but kept going…and it turns out things are more complicated than they were letting on. But mostly, Free Palestine.
Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social Mae'r Ganolfan yn sefydliad ymchwil wedi’i leoli gerllaw Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn Aberystwyth.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is a dedicated research institute of the University of Wales, located alongside the National Library.
NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social Reviewing influential works of New Testament scholarship. | Co-Hosted by @IanNelsonMills and @LauraRbnsn.
The Good Gospel @thegoodgospel.bsky.social https://www.thegoodgospel.com - Exploring issues where LGBTQI, justice, mercy and Jesus connect without the self condemnation. All are welcome at God's table.
Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com Manuscripts and JavaScript | PhD, NT Textual Criticism, U. of Edinburgh | Software Engineer | Trail Ultrarunner | Immigrant
📍: Edinburgh, Scotland
jacobwpeterson.com
Visiting Scotland? myScotlandGuide.com
Trent Hipp @trenthipp.com MA in Biblical Languages
MA in Classics and Early Christianity (ip)
Interested in Second Temple Judaism and Linguistics
trenthipp.com
Prof Jasjit Singh @profjasjitsingh.bsky.social Professor Religion and Global Engagement @universityofleeds.bsky.social - religion, race, media. Pro Dean International LeedsUniAHC. #Sikh Husband, Dad(x2). RP/Like≠Endorsement. Views my own.
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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Maria Hearing @mariahearing.bsky.social Spreadsheets by day, Hebrew by night. Minister of the Apocalypse. Nerd. Posts about books, Covid, and more books. cis, ace, she/her. #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask
Dr Whales @kmwhales.bsky.social PhD in Literature and Theology (University of Glasgow), current religion assistant professor in FL. I mostly write about trauma and grief and theopoetics. A gen z-er once told me I was iconic. She/her
https://womenintheology.org/
Andrew M. Brockman @andrewmbrockman.bsky.social Hebrew Bible Scholar, Part-time Professor at Saint-Paul University, I also do other things
Naomi Wolfe @naomiwolfeau.bsky.social NOT the author/journalist! trawloolway/pairebeenener academic with caffeine needs & diverse reads. My tweets not those who employ me. not into chemtrails!
Rob Bradshaw @theologyontheweb.org.uk Webmaster of the free online digital library TheologyontheWeb.org.uk | Former Librarian @Spurgeon's College, UK | fanatical digitiser of theological journals | Biblical Studies | Biblical Archaeology | Church History | Christian Missions | Theology
Heike Omerzu @heikeomerzu.bsky.social Historian of early Christianity at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) - she/her
Angela Erisman @torahgirl.bsky.social Biblical scholar, editor, writer, student of rhetoric, Moses fan-girl. Boy-mom, musician, champagne drinker, CEO. “Seek the wholeness of the city to which I have sent you...for in its wholeness, you will find your own.” - Jeremiah 29:7
Yale Divinity School @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social A graduate professional school of Yale University, offering programs of study leading to the degrees of Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Religion, and Master of Sacred Theology.
https://divinity.yale.edu/
Managed by the YDS Office of Communications
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Sarah E. Bond @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://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
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.
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
opietasanimi.com
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
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.
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
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
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.
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. ancientjewreview.com
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.
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.
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him.
web: https://rickbrannan.com
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Joshua Schachterle @jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social Amateur pastry chef
Jeannie Sellick (aka The Atheist Nun) @jeanniesellick.bsky.social Philoparthenos
she.hers
Not really an atheist.
Not really a nun.
Charles “Austin” Rivera @carivera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Church History at Wake Forest Divinity School | Ephrem and Origen, theology and poetry | Methodist preacher
Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
Megan Wines @meganwines.bsky.social Biblical scholar working on apocalypse and masculinity and the bible in popular culture; theatre artist; lover of stories, cats, and beer; probably watching a hockey game or reading a romance novel; she/her 🏳️🌈
Nathan Leach @nathanleach.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Texas State University | writing on ancient Mediterranean religions, apocalypses, divination, and mysteries
Felicity Harley-McGowan @flissina.bsky.social Historian of art (late antiquity)
Yale University ~ Divinity School & Institute of Sacred Music
Jillian Stinchcomb @jstinch.bsky.social teaching religion, Bible, and ancient history at Towson University | pretty good at improvising little songs for animals 
Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social Fellowships Advisor | PhD in Early Christian Studies | she/her
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Alexander Perkins, Ph.D. @alexdperkins.bsky.social Early Christianity, Gender and Sexuality, Identity and Empire; Gay, Queer, He/him.
Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social Teacher of students, baker of bread, writer of books. Anglican, Australian in the USA. Early Christianity specialist. On Quinnipiac land at Yale. Opinions my own. Weekly lectionary comments at abmcg.substack.com
Chance McMahon-Harrer, PhD @chancepmh.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 ✡️ ☭ | They/Them | PhD in Comparative Literature | Decolonial Thought and Rabbinic/Late Antique Literature | US American Living in Mainz | freelance copyediting/proofreading https://hcommons.org/members/cpmcmahon1988/ 
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
SN Yeager (kill your heroes) @yeagersn.bsky.social PhD candidate in Classics at UMich || clinging to faith || labor organizing to fight existentialism || thinking about magic, Evagrius, and demons || vegan, queer, & tired (they/them)
Dr C Naylor Davis @metalbiblescholar.bsky.social Metal studies, biblical studies, feminism, gender studies, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally, disability activism, vegan for the animals...a lot more fun than I sound. I promise. 
Paul Middleton @profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social Professor of NT and Early Christianity, University of Chester.
Researcher in violence and martyrdom in the ancient world.
Double Bass player and SNP member.
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
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/
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social Mom of 4 in Oz
PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus
https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne
Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, humour, laughter etc.
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Kelsie Rodenbiker @kelsbot.bsky.social pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
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
Sonia Mzali @sonia-mzali.bsky.social Doctorante en Assyriologie
(UMR 9028-HARTIS, Université de Lille)
Sumer / Pratiques cultuelles / Genre / Maternités
PhD student in Assyriology
Sumer / Cultual practices / Gender / Motherhood
co-responsable de @ama-mater.bsky.social
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Andrew Connor @andrewconnor.bsky.social Ancient historian and papyrologist, interested in religions and Romans in Egypt. Wrote "Confiscation and Coexistence: Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus" (from University of Michigan Press). 
Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
Prof Hannah Cobb @archaeocobb.bsky.social Prof of Archaeology & Pedagogy at the University of Manchester, NTF, PFHEA, UoM Academic Development Lead, CoDirector of the Ardnamuchan Transitions Project. #EDI. Giddy is my base state. she/her.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah.cobb
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😉)
Andrew Myers @ajdmyers.bsky.social phd in hb/ot, prophetic books, cognitive linguistics, moral formation, adjunct prof, pastor at covenant church omaha
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. 
Jacob Wright @jlwright.bsky.social
Author of Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins https://www.amazon.com/Why-Bible-Began-Alternative-Scripture/dp/110849093X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social Old Testament & Deputy Principal (Community) at Ridley College Melbourne. PhD Sydney Uni. Gadamer, Genre Theory and hermeneutics.
rogernam @rogernam.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Safwat Marzouk @safwatmarzouk.bsky.social Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Nate Wall-Bowering @natewall.bsky.social Asst Prof of Old Testament at Providence Theological Seminary || Pentateuch || Figural reading || John Donne
Parker Arnold @parkerarnold.bsky.social HB/OT studies, narrative reading, textual criticism.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Bible and Social Studies Teacher, Morrison Academy
Yehuda M. @runhudi.bsky.social 
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social EC researcher Uni Würzburg | Hebrew Bible, LXX & Second Temple Literature
Mark Leuchter @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.
Douglas Fyfe @duck5.bsky.social Once wrote a book on the structure of Ecclesiastes.
Studying PhD in Psalms at University of Sydney.
Always happy to talk about home brewing and backyard chickens.
Occasionally blogging at duck5.blogspot.com
Liane Feldman @lianemfeldman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion & Judaic Studies at Princeton University; studying all things temple, sacrifice, and mathematics in Bible and Second Temple Jewish literature. Mediocre but persistent runner; Red Sox fan