Grades are in; time to work on syllabi for next year.

And now the discount code (such as it is)!

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Proofs day for this article co-authored with Mason Shrader, 'Digging While Impaired: Promoting the Accessibility of Archaeology as a Discipline'! This has been a long time coming and we are so excited. Alt-text spread across two images!

John Van Maaren has just dropped an excellent study questioning the scholarly meme that Mark is 'Pauline'.

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Watch the video and donate to the Kickstarter here:

thebiblefornormalpeople.com/kickstarter

Excited to have participated in the creation of this!

In a fabulous new discovery—in the arches under a large staircase in the Region 9 excavations—a series of #gladiators are in perpetual combat.
Murmillo versus Thracian (armed with a curved sword) sketched in detail in charcoal alongside a stylised phallus painted in red
#Pompeii

What?????

In your experience, how many times on average do you need to submit an article to different journals (revising based on feedback) before it is accepted? (For articles that are not immediately accepted.) I never see scholars talk about this. Feel free to reply to add nuance.

New Book (well, not that new, but it was missing on the Blog!)

Isaac T. Soon, PhD's book entitled 'A Disabled Apostle, Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul' by Oxford University Press (poke OUP History & OUPReligion)

More info and #dishist book on: dishist.hypotheses.org/3325

The best feeling when you're a week early on an article review.

'Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World'

Hybrid #workshop , 19 April 2024
St Andrews / MS Teams

View programme and register: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/sen…

Very much looking forward to presenting next week at the 'Senses and Disability' hybrid workshop, where I'll be presenting a paper titled 'Creating and Curating an Archaeology of Disability: Reflections and Aspirations'.

Not to be missed! Free registration in the QT below:

I tweeted about my experience of sexism in academia last year and was met with disbelief from some. If you're still in doubt, take a look at this thread to see how Prof Moss, one of the brightest minds in our field, is treated. My fav comment is 'why can't you take a compliment?'

Publication day (discount code coming)!

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I'm really looking forward to the responses it generates.

For now, I want to recognize the incredible network of friends & colleagues around me, who helped make this a richly edifying & deeply enjoyable process.

Gorgon Ramsey vs Gordon Rameses

Who are you picking?

Another forthcoming volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity series with Edinburgh University Press has a cover!

Check out the webpage for *The Origins of the Corinthian Christ Group*, by Stephen Ahearne-Kroll.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-origi…

“I once knew someone who was caught up to the third heaven, whether in the river or out of the river, I don’t know, only god knows, and they saw things that are not lawful to be uttered.”

Come be my colleague CRAC which has just advertised a one-year research postdoc in all things ancient! CFA in the pdf:
shorturl.at/dCJO5