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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

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Strike: A 2025 SBL Review Panel
Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie
April 20, 2026
Strike: A 2025 SBL Review Panel
Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie
April 20, 2026

The following remarks were delivered at a book review panel on November 22, 2025, at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston.

Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie
April 20, 2026

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Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts
May 8, 2026
Karen Stern
Jewish Cultures and Material Artifacts
May 8, 2026
Karen Stern

“This volume, it seems, substantively demonstrates how it is possible to study Jewish cultures (to borrow David Biale’s preferred terminology) as a plurality, while allowing readers to consider—in their own analyses—what might be the unified or unifying elements that draw Jews from different regions, of different life experiences and statuses, into common cultural webs.”

May 8, 2026
Karen Stern
The Limits of Jewish Identity
May 7, 2026
John J. Collins
The Limits of Jewish Identity
May 7, 2026
John J. Collins

“To deny the Jewish origin of a work like the Similitudes is to suppress an aspect of pre-rabbinic Judaism because it would later prove more congenial to Christians than to rabbinic Judaism.”

May 7, 2026
John J. Collins
A Retrospective from Joel Kaminsky
April 29, 2026
Joel Kaminsky
A Retrospective from Joel Kaminsky
April 29, 2026
Joel Kaminsky

“My scholarship was also affected by the fact that I was a Jew working in a field dominated by Christians, even as I am indebted to many Christian scholars, mentors, and colleagues who worked to bring Jewish voices into the field. “

April 29, 2026
Joel Kaminsky
The Minutiae of Progress and the Detritus of Change: On Bond’s Labor History of the Ancient Mediterranean
April 22, 2026
Jennifer Quigley
The Minutiae of Progress and the Detritus of Change: On Bond’s Labor History of the Ancient Mediterranean
April 22, 2026
Jennifer Quigley

I think this needs to be a multilayered conversation. On the one hand, religion is both used by elites for regulatory function, bureaucratic specialization, and legal structuring, and by non-elites to inspire collective action or to provide social cohesion.

April 22, 2026
Jennifer Quigley
Ancient Associations and Collective Labor Action in Sarah Bond’s Strike
April 20, 2026
Richard Last
Ancient Associations and Collective Labor Action in Sarah Bond’s Strike
April 20, 2026
Richard Last

First, the initial three chapters, which cover the Roman Republic, read like a new history of Rome, one that shows how ingrained collective labor action really was in Roman society.

April 20, 2026
Richard Last
A Response to Sarah Bond's Strike!
April 20, 2026
Laura Nasrallah
A Response to Sarah Bond's Strike!
April 20, 2026
Laura Nasrallah

Prof. Sarah Bond is perpetually unsurprised at abuses of power, yet she is also perpetually ethically aggrieved by them. Her new book, Strike! is grounded in an ethical interest in the historical abuses of power on two levels: the abuse of power in the ancient Mediterranean world, and the witting or unwitting power of historians to write out of the record of the ancient Mediterranean the possibility of resistance, organizing, and the agency of laborers.

April 20, 2026
Laura Nasrallah
Strike: A 2025 SBL Review Panel
April 20, 2026
Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie
Strike: A 2025 SBL Review Panel
April 20, 2026
Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie

The following remarks were delivered at a book review panel on November 22, 2025, at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston.

April 20, 2026
Agnes Choi and Tony Keddie
 Earthquakes and Gardens Forum: A Response
April 17, 2026
Virginia Burrus
Earthquakes and Gardens Forum: A Response
April 17, 2026
Virginia Burrus

Earthquakes and Gardens is a deeply idiosyncratic book. It is experimental in a number of ways, and experiments do not always succeed—certainly not for every reader.

April 17, 2026
Virginia Burrus
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A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination
Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026
A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination
Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026

Christopher Bonura’s treatment of Pseudo-Methodius’ origins and return to the source itself, shorn of centuries of interpretive baggage, lays a new foundation for future scholarship on this generative source.

Evan Bradley Schafer
May 11, 2026
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026

In The Fourth Synoptic Gospel, Mark Goodacre challenges this perspective and attempts to demonstrate that the author of the fourth gospel was not only aware of the Synoptic Gospels but also used them in the writing of their gospel text.

Tyler Blaine Wilson
April 8, 2026
Seneca’s Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond
Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026
Seneca’s Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond
Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026

Graf serves as an able guide for readers through the complex ideas of Stoicism, Seneca’s philosophical vision, and affect theory. Readers less familiar with Senecan ideas will likely find this book a helpful introduction.

Morgan Hundley
April 6, 2026
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026
Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026

In Unfinished Christians, Frank focuses on literary records produced in and for shared spaces, liturgical and otherwise, where ordinary Christians would have gathered for various religious rites.

Ethan Laster
April 1, 2026
Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and Northern Regions
D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026
Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and Northern Regions
D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026

The intended audience for CIIP 5 consists of scholars specializing in the study of early Judaism, early to late antique Christianity, and the early Islamic period. However, given that every inscription is translated into English, non-specialists interested in any of these time periods in this location will benefit from this epigraphic collection.

D. Clint Burnett
March 9, 2026

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