Ancient Jew Review
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Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. Editors-in-Chief @KristaNDalton & @ErinCGW.
New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Caroline Johnson Hodge about The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine. newbooksnetwork.com/the-god-of-thi…

New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Tobolowsky about Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/israel-and-its…

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Stefanie Lenk about her book, Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/roman-identity…

Jonathan Klawans issues a call for retraction of publications using forged Dead Sea Scrolls. ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/29…
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-bec…

Today on AJR, Joseph L. Kimmel writes about his new book, Power in the Name: A Comparative Analysis of Onomastic Invocations (De Gruyter, 2025). Our latest article in our #publication series! @degruyter_TRS ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/10…

Sarah Shectman reviews Liane Feldman's translation of the Priestly Source for the Ancient Jew Review. ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/18…
Today Joseph Foltz reviews Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024). @PrincetonUPress #earlyChristianity ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/14…

New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-icon…

New teaching resource! Alexander Chantziantoniou and Isaac Soon share their "Text Lab" approach to teaching critical text study. Including a handy pdf template! ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/5/7/…
New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babylonian…

New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-ri…

New publication preview of Krista Dalton's How Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton University Press, 2025). Out TODAY! ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/4/22…
New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Mara Nicosia about Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies. newbooksnetwork.com/syriac-lexis-a…

You can preorder Karel van der Toorn's Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy here. Published NEXT WEEK from Yale University Press on April 15th 2025. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030024…
New Publication Preview! Karel van der Toorn introduces Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy (Yale University Press, 2025). Available for preorder now with an April 15th publication date. ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/4/10…
Want to learn more from Dr. Rafael Neis? They will be teaching a mini course with Judaism Unbound on "Untangling Tselem Elohim" on Tuesdays April 22nd-May 6th. For information, visit: judaismunbound.com/2025-courses/p….

Rafael Neis offers a response to panelists, highlighting the unique position of both author and artist. ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/3/13…