Mateusz Kusio

@mateuszkusio.bsky.social

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@fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social | earlier CRAC UW & @humboldtuni.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity | http://bit.ly/3pIqAR9 | views own

SNTS General Meeting program book, with the Durham University bag and a lecture theatre in the background
Poster of the conference, listing the organisers and speakers, at the backdrop of a fresco of Enoch from an Ethiopian church.
A screenshot of the beginning of the article entitled "Nathanael, the Fig Tree, and the Retrieval of Johannine Polysemy", authored by Mateusz Kusio and coming out in the New Testament Studies. Contains the following abstract: "The article argues that the reference to the fig tree under which Jesus claims to have seen Nathanael (John 1.48) has not been satisfactorily discussed by previous critical interpreters. Instead, the tree should be understood against the backdrop of Second Temple and later Jewish and Christian exegetical discussions about what species the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil exactly was. After tracing these debates in ancient and early medieval sources, including iconography, the argument moves on to show the interpretative possibilities created by this proposal. The conclusion makes a case for understanding the Fourth Gospel as an inherently open work which invites the audience to actively participate in a variety of exegetical discourses, and whose author function builds its authority through polysemy."
Poster for the CfP 'Contested Prophecies, Uncertain Futures - Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Views of the Future in Late Antiquity' @ Late Antique Encounters Conference, Ghent, 3-5 February, 2027. Images contain a 16th-century Dutch print of the Erithrean Sibyl, as well as the logos of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity, KU Leuven, and FWO. The text is identical to the one contained in this thread.
Draft cover for "Commodianus: Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary", edited and translated with scholarly commentary by Mateusz Kusio, fortcoming in the Oxford Early Christian Texts series with Oxford University Press
The cover of the volume "Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood: Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity" (ed. Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio, Brepols, 2025), including a detail from the painting "Project of an Icon" by Jerzy Nowosielski
The Ukrainian historian Natalia Yakovenko translating Livy while at home in Kyiv during the Russian invasion in March 2022.
Acceptance email for an abstract of a paper on apocalyptic literature to be presented at the European Association of Biblical Studies/International Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2025.
A screen shot of a table of contents, with the word count dialogue box open