"The assumption that the biblical #books were always books may obscure more complex ancient realities." Before (or after) reading "Before the Scrolls" by Nathan Mastnjak, why not glance through his more popular piece? #Bible #scrolls #libraries

OUP posted the opening chapter of my recent book, Before the Scrolls. Click the link to read it! academic.oup.com/book/46589/cha…

Had a fantastic time at this conference last week. Met some excellent scholars doing great work on a variety of ancient textual cultures

How were the Hebrew Bible's text originally compiled? Nathan Mastnjak delves into their origins in our latest post on the OUPblog. Read more: oxford.ly/3XCtfvN

blog.oup.com/2024/09/prophe… A little something I wrote for the OUP blog

Great article. I'm loving the work on ritual and purity in the NT that I've been seeing recently. Keep it up, NT folks!

Very pleased to share some personal news: I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame. I'm sad to leave Louisiana but am very excited about this new venture. Go Irish!

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

pope yes

Leo's new apostolic exhortation is extremely good y'all

“Origen has been both maligned and valued as one who anticipated contemporary biblical criticism: Johnson’s careful observations help readers to place this influential thinker both in his own time and in the flow of Christian thought. Thoroughly engaging…” – Edith Humphrey

"From Vatican II to the turn of the millennium, the best known Catholic Bible scholar, classroom to pew, was Raymond Brown. Today, the best known Catholic Bible scholar among Catholic laity is Scott Hahn." (1/2) open.substack.com/pub/inmediamab…