Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social Visit : ociana.osu.edu
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).
Rosanne Liebermann @ivritophile.bsky.social Associate professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Aarhus University. Writer, researcher, ancient language teacher(er). She/her. 🇿🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇰
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Christine Neal Thomas @christinenthomas.bsky.social Teacher and scholar of women and gender in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient world
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Chuck Jones @chuckjones.bsky.social Father, Husband, Librarian, Open access and free-to-read scholarship advocate, always online. https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
Christina Tsouparopoulou @christinatsoup.bsky.social Ancient Middle East & EastMed Archaeology & History | religion, human-animal & human-environment relations, cylinder seals, early writing | Ass.Prof@UKSW Warsaw| Editor NEA | former PI @Cambridge | Hon. Fellow @Durham| mother of 2 | Living with an RD
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.
Dr. Shana Zaia @shanazaia.bsky.social Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
George Heath-Whyte @gheathwhyte.bsky.social Assyriologist | Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford | Opinions my own- D Jessie DeGrado @disorientalism.bsky.social
Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com Postdoc Associate, Yale
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Harvard
visit me at www.aandeloucas.com
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak and Nippur; Co-Editor, Iraq Journal; distance runner.
Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
he/him
Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College.
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
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
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Blair Hodges @blairhodges.bsky.social Journalist. Host of the Relationscapes podcast. Lover of books, Bon Iver, and basketball.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Konrad Schmid @konradschmid.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, University of Zurich
Jon Taylor @jonjtaylor.bsky.social Cuneiformist. History of ancient western Asia. Likely to post on assyriology and museums. Hoping to be distracted by dogs, cows, running, zombies. Curator of cuneiform & cylinder seals at British Museum. Host of Thin End of the Wedge podcast. Views my own.
Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social Assyriologist, MELC UCBerkeley. Gardener, Walker.
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
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?"
Andrew J. Danielson @danielsonaj.bsky.social Archaeologist/Researcher/Educator of the Ancient Near East | Assistant Professor in NELC at Harvard | Town of Nebo/Khirbat al-Mukhayyat Archaeological Project
Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things.
She/Her
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
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.
Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social Septuagint studies, Hebrew Bible, and all things Esther. Available for proofreading and editing academic publications. All memes handcrafted by me. https://gastrosophie.academia.edu/JoshuaAlfaro
Dr Sophia R.C. Johnson @letsgosojo.bsky.social she/sie | Postdoc in Hebrew Bible @Ruhr-Universität Bochum | PhD @University of Cambridge | Political and social identities in the narrative books | Reception history nerd | 💐
Stuart Weeks @stuartweeks8.bsky.social Hebrew Bible academic, NE England.
Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Bible | Qumran | Pseudepigrapha | navigating academia with kids
Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social Department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen — over 500 years of world leading research and teaching!
School of Divinity @uoedivinity.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh
Harvard Divinity School @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Make a World of Difference #WeAreHarvardDivinity
Candler School of Theology @candlertheology.bsky.social Six degrees, challenging academics, & world-class faculty, all within top-25 ranked Emory University.
Biblical Archaeology Review @biblicalarchaeology.org The magazine making the archaeology of the Bible accessible: discoveries, analysis, and more. Explore our extensive website (www.biblicalarchaeology.org), sign up for Bible History Daily emails, subscribe to BAR, or become an All-Access member!.- A Adele Reinhartz @adeler.bsky.social I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
Forrest Martin @forrestmartin.bsky.social PhD student | HB, Egyptology, WANA | Emory
Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @isawlibrary.bsky.social The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
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/
Jason A. Staples @jasonstaples.bsky.social Ass. Teach Prof. @NCState | Football Analyst | Paul & Israel: http://amzn.to/3O2llss | Idea of Israel: http://amzn.to/38XxCto | Voice Actor | Copyeditor | Opinions my children’s
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
VanessaL @womanisthbscholar.bsky.social Transition leader in graduate theological education. Author of A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within. Loves the outdoors, traveling, and the colors salmon pink and apple green.
Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
Shayna Sheinfeld @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Carmen Joy Imes @carmenjoyimes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Old Testament, Talbot School of Theology; Author of Bearing God's Name, Being God's Image, and Becoming God's Family. YouTuber: Torah Tuesday.
Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca
Personal site.
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
Esau McCaulley @esaumccaulley.bsky.social
I.T. Soon @isaactsoon.bsky.social Writer of music, fiction, and scholarship. Recovering nihilist.
Dr Meredith JC Warren @drmjcwarren.bsky.social Dr MJC Warren. Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies & Editor in Chief of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. PhD, Early Judaism & New Testament. Settler & Manitoba Metis Federation citizen. She/her/wiya
Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social (she/her)
amateur & professional bookworm
NyashaJunior.com
Nijay K Gupta @nijaykgupta.bsky.social Prof at Northern Seminary
Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social | Second Temple Judaism | Dead Sea Scrolls | Qumran war tradition | Currently researching ritual, cognition, and the Qumran movement | Adjunct Professor | #LADodgers #LARams
Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social Old Testament, Hebrew Bible & Study of Religion | Episcopal priest | Prof at Sewanee: Univ of the South | Home Page: http://reedcarlson.com | Faculty page: https://theology.sewanee.edu/faculty-staff/reed-carlson/ | Book: https://doi.org/10.1515/97831106700
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University
Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025)
Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com
Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
Brandon Hurlbert @brandonhurlbert.bsky.social Lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Durham University | Research associate for Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence | podcast w/ The Two Cities
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
James Nati @jamesnati.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Hebrew Bible & Early Judaism. Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology
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=
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.
Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social HB/OT PhD; all things Bible, trauma, feminism, and migration.
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
Mark Goodacre @goodacre.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
Matthew J. Suriano @duderonomy.bsky.social Associate professor and occasional archaeologist | scholar of ancient Western Asia specializing in Hebrew Bible | epigrapher | He/him
AABNER journal @aabner.bsky.social The journal is the first open-access and forum-peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire fields of biblical studies, ANE, and cognate fields, and it is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and academic rigor. /aabner.org
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Dr. Laura Robinson @laurarbnsn.bsky.social New Testament Review Podcast. Not Peer Reviewed on Substack. PhD New Testament, Duke. Follow for New Testament, theology, crochet, pop culture, excessive cat documentation.
Dr. Jennifer Quigley @jenniferquigley.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament
@candlertheology
UMC elder
Views my own, not my employer- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. @madryaeltong.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא
Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social
David A. Burnett @davidaburnett.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins @ University of Edinburgh | Religion Faculty @ St. Anthony School, Milwaukee | Student/teacher of Judaism & Christianity in Antiquity #firstgen
https://linktr.ee/davidaburnett
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
Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art.
www.lynnrhuber.com
Andrew Rillera @andrewrillera.bsky.social PhD, NT (Duke), Associate Prof of Biblical Studies & Theology at The King’s University, former Jehovah’s Witness & evangelical, Anglican, hockey fan, hockey player. Book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666703047/lamb-of-the-free/
Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social Archaeology and Early Judaism
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
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.
Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Epistles of John (Cambridge 2026) and The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford 2025) #LGM
Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com
New Book: https://amzn.to/4jT6pJZ
Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social Archaeology of west Asia in the Bronze and Iron Ages, baking and brewing tech, women in Canaan and ancient Israel, history of biblical archaeology. Professor of Archaeology @ U Evansville in Indiana. Editor-at-large @ Eisenbrauns/PSU Press.
Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
http://robynfaithwalsh.com
Nathan MacDonald @nathanmacdonald.bsky.social Professor of the Interpretation of the OT, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St John’s. Pentateuch, ritual, cult, priesthood, temple. Views my own.
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
Mark McEntire @markmcentire.bsky.social Professor of Biblical Studies in Nashville, Tennessee. Former writer of books.