Candida Moss
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Writer. Commentator. Professor. @unibirmingham @TheDailyBeast @TheAtlantic @nyt @CBS Author of #GodsGhostwriters she/her/hers #spoonie
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Today is the Launch day for my book
#GodsGhostwriters
! I am so thrilled with the responses so far and hope that everyone will let me know what they think (It is on sale
@amazon
)
@littlebrown
@news_ub
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Academic Journals: It has been 18 months since we accepted your article and 2.5 years since you sent it to us, but, no, we have no idea when it will be published.
Also Academic Journals: Here are your proofs, please return them to us in the next 45 minutes.
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Some of us weren't surprised to see yesterday's rioters claim they were acting for Jesus. On the history of Christian violence against perceived enemies see these books by Michael Gaddis and Thomas Sizgorich. Feel free to add others.
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I didn’t share this because I was waiting for
@americanacad
to realize their mistake. I am astonished and humbled by this enormous honor.
Candida Moss elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences via
@unibirmingham
@isawnyu
@littlebrown
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My article on Enslaved Secretaries, Shorthand, and Collaboration is finally out with the Journal of Theological Studies (
@OUPReligion
). I have presented nuggets of it
@isawnyu
@scsclassics
@SBLsite
@CamDivinity
@SAMReligions
DM me if you don't have access.
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I'm pretty excited about this one. My article on identifying changes made by enslaved literate workers to ancient manuscripts is out now in
@StudLateAntiq
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In the Qu'ran the birth of Jesus takes place under a palm tree. Mary sits at the base of a palm tree & a voice tells her: “Do not grieve! Your Lord has placed a small stream at your feet.” She is told to eat the dates, drink the water, and trust in God
#Christmas
#Nativity
#Islam
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If you are giving a conference paper and conversation gets into the ethics of citing pedophiles and rapists please ALWAYS assume that there are survivors in the room. That this is real for them. And that you are speaking to them.
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Is it possible that
@naomirwolf
is just trolling classicists and Bible scholars? She surely cannot think she is discovering this? No one can honestly be arrogant and uninformed about this … can they?
Hi all -- so. I skipped ahead to the New Testament, with a Koine Greek - English side-by-side literal translation, and what am I to do -- so much of the NT has been mistranslated, or, shall I say, creatively translated, in addition to the OT having often been mistranslated. Is it…
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New testing shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls owned by
@museumofBible
are "inconsistent with ancient origins" (forged) and will no longer be displayed at the museum.
@arsteinjustnes
claimed they were forgeries for some time.
@JoelBaden
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Hear me out here, what if in addition to having intellectual standards and rigor we also expected our colleagues to be civil and generous?
#aarsbl21
#AARSBL2021
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Someone is failing Introduction to Ancient Greek...
It’s the Beatitudes &
@jordanbpeterson
’s take on meekness on today’s episode of the
@data_over_dogma
podcast! Check it out at , , or wherever you get your podcasts!
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“Pretty woman”? Ugh. My qualification here was “professor of New Testament” even then I was a who had published three books.
People don’t realise but, up until recently (and perhaps even to this day but in a more abstract sense),
#liberal
vs.
#conservative
used to be an intra-Christian debate.
Here is a charming video from October 2013 with pretty woman
@candidamoss
and an adorable
@BillOReilly
who…
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The shocking thing about this isn’t that it happens but that it happens so much. This is shocking but I am certain
@ProfFrancesca
has experienced this before and will again. Huge respect to
@maklelan
for this take down. This kind of misogyny has to stop.
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After four years in limbo the article on resurrection, disability, heaven, and hell I coauthored with
@HenningMeghan
finally makes an appearance. It's weird to think that it took us twenty years to cowrite something!
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Exciting news!: The Ancient World Mapping Center just released this map of "Catholic" and "Donatist" Bishoprics in North Africa (ca. 411 CE) based on the work of Serge Lancel.
Download the relevant files here:
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There's nothing like waking up to discover that your cat vomited over all the notes you wrote the day before. My work hasn't received this kind of damming critique since grad school.
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The oped by Marc Brettler, Paula Fredriksen, A-J Levine Margaret Mitchell, (and me) about the dangers of making Jesus "unJewish" is available here without paywall:
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I'm really fortunate to have an understanding employer, partner, and friends but millions of vaccinated people like me can't go "back to normal" and we need your help to stay healthy. Please wear masks in public indoor spaces.
#COVID19
#CovidVaccine
#coronavirus
#Disability
"After being vaccinated, I was given a spike protein test to see if I had immunity. When I learned I had developed no antibodies, I felt sick to my stomach: How will I persuade others to continue to be careful?" writes
@candidamoss
.
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Reminder: If you work in archeology, classics, biblical studies, early Christian or medieval studies and have published something recently that you think works for a larger audience let me know. I'd love to write about it!
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A Catholic President, a First Lady with a PhD,
@KamalaHarris
as VP and a Jewish second spouse. Did I mention
@KamalaHarris
because I am happy to circle back to that.
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Today on this day in 44 BC Brutus and a cohort of collaborators assassinated Julius Caesar. The orator Cicero would later whine about not being included.
#IdesofMarch
#OTD
#Romanhistory
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January 5, 1906 Kathleen Kenyon British archaeologist and the mother of stratigraphy was born. She is best known for her excavations of the city of Jericho and her development of stratigraphical and ceramic methodologies that have influenced archaeology to this day.
#OTD
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My column this week is on
#Atlantis
and ancient history tv in general. My tx to
@FlintDibble
@stelpavlou
@DSAArchaeology
and
@SarahEBond
for their contributions
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This will never get old to me
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"Moss has synthesized her findings and produced what is probably the most important book in New Testament studies written in the last half century."
TX to Brent Nongbri for this astonishing review.
@littlebrown
@WmCollinsBooks
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Today is Election Day. Ancient Romans, who rarely enjoyed or lauded the merits of privacy, introduced privacy into the ballot box so the rich could not pressure the poor into voting a certain way. It was an important enough to be show on coins.
Go vote!
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Bonus piece on
@arielsabar
's
#Veritas
and the scandal of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. This book is meticulously researched and hard (for academics) to read.There's a lot of stuff not in my review so I encourage everyone to read it.
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I am so honored to be a recipient of the Outstanding Mentorship award from the Society of Biblical Literature
@SBLsite
's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. And alongside the incredible Elain Goh Wei Fun too! Thank you to those who nominated me.
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I don't condone violence. But I had been thinking about being more open about having
#Alopecia
for a while and now seemed like as good a time as any to talk about it.
#alopeciaawareness
@Hasanpatel
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Politicians: We live in unprecedented times...
Me, a historian: Well...
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People are talking about how many coronavirus babies and divorces there will be... Can we talk about the glut of scholarship on asceticism, monasticism, and solitary confinement that’s coming?
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24 Oct 51 the emperor Domitian (81-96) was born. The final member of the Flavian dynasty was assassinated by court officials and a damnatio memoriae was issued after his death. His stadium lives on in the Piazza Navona (HT
@archaeologyart
)
#OTD
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Not a huge surprise to people like
@arsteinjustnes
who have been saying this for years but, still, ... (H/T J Andrew Doole)
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23 September is the feast day of St. Thecla, an associate of Paul who spurned her fiancee, dressed as a man, and baptised herself in a pool of ravenous seals. She escaped death in the arena, but was still known as a martyr. I guess you can have it all.
#OTD
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"Jesus is a hero because he was the Messiah. I like Messiahs who don't get crucified"
#TrumpBible
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March 7 Feast of Perpetua and Felicity (d. 203 CE) two N. African Christians who died in the arena in Carthage. Perpetua is often depicted as a white woman while Felicity her slave has a darker skin tone. L: modern icon R: Christian children's book
#whitewashing
#historysowhite
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Congratulations to Drs.
@candidamoss
and Elaine Goh Wei Fun for receiving the Status of Women in the Profession Mentor Award!
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We will be updating this story as news comes in .... I really hope that somehow there's a reasonable explanation for all of this.
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My column this week is on Junia, a female apostle featuring the amazing work of
@YaleDivSchool
NT scholar Yii-Jan Lin
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The US version of my book has arrived! I am so honored by these endorsements from
@Twittermarsh
@platanoclassics
Jarel Robinson-Brown, A-J Levine,
@digkabri
Catherine Nixey
@brianmclaren
Reza Aslan
@robertpjones
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But Falk isn't bothered by her work so much as her success. That's when he makes this misogynistic pivot to focus on her appearance. NOTE: this never happens to men. No one says "he has his position because he is attractive." This happens to women ALL THE TIME. It's disgusting.
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I can't help but notice that those who dismiss work on disability, race, gender, and sexuality because it is "partisan" and done by members of those groups, seem to have no trouble divorcing the scholarship of white men from their criminal actions.
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It is because she is successful and a public intellectual that she is coming in for this criticism. It's about women "knowing their place" and professional envy. Let that sink in. And speak up when you see this happen because it will.
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I don't often share Bible verses but when I do it's because they are on the mark. James 4:8. H/T Facebook via one of Dr. Robert R. Cargill - Archaeologist and Biblical Scholar 's friends
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My latest on the discovery in Turkey: Was Council of Nicaea Church Just Found Under a Lake? via
@thedailybeast
#christianity
#history
#nicaea
#archeology
#church
thanks to all the people who sent this discovery to me!
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Interested in the bible, ancient writing, ancient slavery, and invisible labor? My new book God's Ghostwriters is on flash sale
@BNBuzz
now! Get 25% off if you order before the end of day tomorrow
#ClassicsTwitter
#Bible
#Christianity
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On
#GoodFriday
Christians remember the agonizing death of Jesus. In Mark, he was alone and felt abandoned. Today, in my city, over 1000 people will die in the same way: separated from family, unable to breathe, and w/out comfort.
#COVID
-19
#COVID
#coronavirus
#NewYork
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intellectual self-care: taking time to read, write, and think about the things you're passionate about rather than distance learning instructions / university updates/ election prognostics.
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NT scholars talk about "the divine passive": passive verbs that gesture to the providential actions of God through the passive. I'd like to propose a second version: the "servile passive," when work is being done by enslaved or formerly enslaved actors.
#ClassicsTwitter
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Yes this is a humblebrag … Mark Letteney’s book is here!
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My column this week: "One of the Oldest Mosques in the World Was Just Discovered in Israel" with thanks to
@cobbpasha
and
@PTRBirmingham
Prof Oliver Scharbrodt
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I am so proud of my amazing
@unibirmingham
student Lily Reed for publishing this article on the Woman with the Flow of Blood in Mark 5. This article is based on her
@PTRBirmingham
*undergraduate dissertation* which I also advised. Available open access!
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With apologies to
@ShreveWilliams
meet my new publicist for
#godsghostwriters
(I swear I did not stage this)
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My Column this week is based on the Gospel of John and new research that claims that it is a Forgery. Read it here and follow
@DrHugoMendez
online
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Retraction notice for the Sappho papyri which are being returned to Egypt along with ~5000 other objects. Congratulations to
@douglasboin
@papyrologyatman
and the others who first sounded the alarm about this.
@museumofBible
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I’m encountering a lot of comments about how “only the Chinese” have practices that get people sick. So, as Brit, I’d just like to remind the world of Mad Cow disease and how feeding dead ground up cows to live cows spread a disease with a 100% mortality rate.
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I am honored to be one of the recipients of the 2023
@CatholicBiblica
Grants for my project on enslaved literate workers and early Christian book culture. Congratulations to my fellow recipients!
@DrHugoMendez
@JeremiahCoogan
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In not-too-shocking news
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Wow, I had not seen this interview in which Elaine Pagels *wildly* misrepresents my argument and implies some unpleasant things about me. Guess I'm not on her Christmas card list. Thank you to
@ScholarsUnleash
for drawing my attention to her misrepresentation.
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Thanks to
@TheEES
for allowing me to read this in advance and to Jeff Fish and Mike Holmes for answering my questions. A new second century Christian fragment would be a huge deal
EXCLUSIVE | Written before the formation of a New Testament or even the widespread recognition of a collection of Christian sacred scripture, this fragmentary page from a small ancient book offers a rare glimpse into the minds of early Christians.
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My column this week is on Eusebius, the man who told us how to read the Gospels. Featuring the important scholarship of
@JeremiahCoogan
of
@JSTSCU
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Okay
@UniofOxford
can the world get a statement on the actions of Prof. Joosten and his status at the university?
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My apologies for the ableist headline (which I didn't write) but my column is about the King Tut extraterrestrial dagger and the misrepresentation of science in conspiracy theories...
@PTRBirmingham
@Hasanpatel
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Today I learned that when I excitedly talk about Oxy other people do not think of ancient papyri. (I possibly shouldn't have told my partner that I "got my hands on it before it was released to the public"
#ClassicsTwitter
#History
#AcademicTwitter
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(Long awaited) UPDATE: The Egypt Exploration Society has just released a list of 13 fragments of papyri owned by them but sold by Dirk Obbink
@museumofBible
will be returning these pieces to the EES. H/T Brent Nongbri
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Congratulations to
@unibirmingham
@PTRBirmingham
@HAGHoughton
for the soon to be published Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible
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9 April 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer theologian, pastor, and anti-Nazi dissident is stripped naked and executed at Flossenbürg concentration camp for his role in the 20 July plot against Hitler. He died just two weeks before allied forces liberated the camp.
#OTD
#Christianity
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If I were a character in the Good Place my torture would involve listening to scholars relentlessly misattribute my ideas to male scholars.
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Yesterday AG Bill Barr told
@NotreDame
how secular culture is "attacking religion." Amazing how the persecution myth can be leveraged against impeachment charges. Vote for us, we're corrupt but we'll save you from non-existent persecution.
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To point out the obvious:
@ProfFrancesca
is an accomplished award-winning scholar. She has published with the world's best presses, holds a chair at Exeter, and had published in leading journals.
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If you are interested in the history of the text of the Bible check out this amazing site which has manuscripts of the endings of Mark
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Today is the feast day of Thecla, an associate of Paul who baptised herself in a pool of ravenous seals. She escaped death in the arena but was still known as a martyr. I guess you can have it all.
#HappyBirthday
#saintsday
#badasswomen
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I feel pretty ambivalent about sharing or saying anything about the ancient world right now, when I live in a country in which African Americans are killed murdered for existing and called "thugs" by the president for protesting racial injustice.
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My latest one "erasing history" and the destruction of history featuring work by
@SarahEBond
@KaraCooney
and Harriet Flower
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Roughly a year ago I started working on a new project on enslaved literate workers and the NT. The book is a few years away but I am excited that the first article "Fashioning Mark" on the representation of the evangelist Mark as a servile secretary has been published in NTS.
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From August 1 I will be the Cadbury Professor
@PTRBirmingham
. I am enormously honored and hope people send chocolate
@CadburyUK
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I am thrilled that
@maklelan
is joining the
@CadburyCentre
for the Public Understanding of Religion
@unibirmingham
as an honorary fellow! He brings an astonishing reputation as a public intellectual and communicator to our already talented group.
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Conservative social commentators and politicians please stop misrepresenting and blaming ancient "heretics" who, intellectually speaking, could eat you alive.
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I don’t have words to describe the loss of
@rachelheldevans
she was a prophetic progressive voice who spoke with great generosity and love and inspired thousands. She seemed to me so alive, inspirational, and relatable.
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It has been quite a day but here's my piece on
@HobbyLobby
suing Christie's, why scholars need to do due diligence, & why the media needs to scrutinize the
@museumofBible
narrative.
@Hasanpatel
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So many terrorist attacks on
#CopticChristians
in the past 10yrs the Egyptian govt must invest more in security to protect them
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My column this week is on myths about the Spartans, eugenics, and the "costs" of a society that includes people with Disabilities. Featuring the work of
@debscavator
@Hasanpatel
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SBL members I hope you will sign this letter encouraging SBL to rethink its current plans for an all in person event.
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UNESCO hails return of looted ancient Gilgamesh tablet to Iraq
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This is truly terrifying. History teaches us that when religious countries institute "tests" to police who is and is not welcome in their country it never goes well for religious minorities and perceived heretics who already live there.
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My 13year old is discussing the Holy Roman Empire in the kitchen with his friend and thank goodness I read
#TheBrightAges
by
@prof_gabriele
and
@Lollardfish
or I would be out of my depth.
Read this review from
@Slate
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