This review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in late antiquity, originally shared at the 2024 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting.
Read MorePanel in Celebration of Simcha Gross's Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
A review panel from the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies featuring scholars engaging with Simcha Gross’s award winning Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity.
Read More2024 AJR Year in Review
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2023 SBL Review Forum for Yael Fisch's Written for Us
The 2023 Society of Biblical Literature's review panel for Yael Fisch, Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash.
Read MoreAJR Forum | Parabiblica Coptica
AJR is thrilled to feature the responses of Dr. Samuel Cook and Dr. Jacob Lollar along with the response of Dr. Miroshnikov in this three-part series.
Read MoreSBL 2021 Review Panel: Bishops in Flight
AJR is pleased to publish remarks delivered as part of a book review panel at the annual meeting of the 2021 Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio. The panel was organized by members of the Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism, Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature steering committees. The book is Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2019) by Jennifer Barry and the panelists were: M Adryael Tong (ITC), Mark K. George (Iliff School of Theology), Matthew Larsen (University of Copenhagen), and Tina Shepardson (University of Tennessee Knoxville). The series begins with a book review of Bishops in Flight by Madeline St. Marie.
2023 AJR Year in Review
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SBL 2022 Review Panel: Eusebius the Evangelist
AJR is pleased to host the #SBLAAR2022 review panel of Jeremiah Coogan's Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Read MoreSBL 2022 Review Panel: Hell Hath No Fury
AJR is pleased to publish remarks delivered as part of a book review panel at the annual meeting of the 2022 Society of Biblical Literature in Denver. The panel was organized by members of the Disability and Healthcare in the Bible and the Ancient World steering committee.
Read MoreSBL 2022 Review Panel: Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible
The 2022 SBL Book Review panel of Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (De Gruyter 2022) by Reed Carlson. The panelists were: Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki), David Lambert (University of North Carolina), Ingrid Lilly (Wofford College), and Ethan Schwartz (Villanova University).
Read More2022 AJR Year in Review
Careers in Jewish Christian Relations
At the 2021 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, two senior scholars (Adele Reinhartz and Judith Lieu) and two junior scholars (Deborah Forger and Krista Dalton) whose work relates to the study of early Jews and Christians convened to reflect upon their career trajectories.
Read MoreSBL 2021 Panel I Paul Within Judaism
AJR is happy to host the Society of Biblical Literature’s panel discussion on what “Paul Within Judaism” means. The panel, organized by SBL’s “Paul Within Judaism” Unit, met virtually at the 2021 annual meeting.
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Method, Ethics, and Historiography: A Tracing Christians in Global Late Antiquity Forum
AJR is pleased to host a series of articles on method, ethics, and historiography in the study of late antique Christianity.
Read MoreThe Ascension of Isaiah: A BRANE Forum
AJR is pleased to host a series of articles on new scholarship on the Ascension of Isaiah. These articles all originated as papers presented at the BRANE Collective’s Primary Text Lab III, on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.
Read MorePriestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU Review Panel of Feldman's Story of Sacrifice
In 2021 NYU hosted a virtual book panel on the newly published The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source by Liane M. Feldman, Assistant Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies.
Read MoreMore New Testament Apocrypha Series
Ancient Jew Review is pleased to host a series of articles on the second volume of the series New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (ed. Tony Burke; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020; vol. 1 ed. Tony Burke and Brent Landau; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016).
Read MoreYear in Review: Top Ten Articles of 2020
Mosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
Mosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
As 2020 draws to a close, the editors of Ancient Jew Review want to thank our contributors and readers for a wonderful year! Here are the most popular AJR articles:
#10 Sarah Wolf - The Rabbinic Legal Imagination
#9 Krista Dalton - Incantation Bowls and Embodied Knowledge
#8 Yakov Z. Mayer - Book Note | Between Mishna and Midrash
#7 Chance E. Bonar - Book Note | The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian Versus Greek in Late Antiquity
#6 Geoffrey Smith - Make Your Own Magical Papyrus
#5 Sarah Rollens - Essay | Notes on the Historical Paul and his Intellectual Activity
#4 David Marcus - Introduction to the Masorah | The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ)
#3 Shayna Sheinfeld - Book Note | When Christians Were Jews
#2 Ross Kraemer - Publications | The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity
#1 Sarit Kattan Gribetz - Using Zoom for Online Instruction: Tips for Undergraduate and Graduate as well as Adult Education Courses
We are busy preparing new content for 2021. Posts will resume January 11th!
SBL/AAR 2020 Panel | Beyond Canon
Ancient Jew Review is pleased to host a series of papers delivered at the annual SBL/AAR conference as part of a panel organized by Janet Spittler and Lily Vuong, chairs of the Christian Apocrypha Section.
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