Lyn Kidson

A *very* niche Xmas gift for those interested in 2nd Temple & NT Lit (and 1 Peter esp. [Who’d have thought!?]) Book Review: Sofanit Tamene Abebe's, Apocalyptic Spatiality in 1 Peter & Selected 1 Enoch Literature. elegantlydishevelled.substack.com/p/book-review-…

Today 274AD Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni, Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi. He restored the Empire's eastern provinces, and his successes were instrumental in ending the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century.

Some Reformers tried to restrain Martin Luther's rhetoric, against Jews and others.

@johnpauldickson @tonypowys1 @libsoftiktok @grok Some seem slow to get the message.

@lyn_kidson @tonypowys1 @libsoftiktok @grok Yep. I’ve been posting that left, right, and centre.

Australian PM announces massive gun grab program following t*rrorist attack in Bondi Beach They imported radical islamists and now they’re further disarming their citizens. Defenseless victims waited nearly 20 minutes for police to respond to the attack.

@johnpauldickson @tonypowys1 @libsoftiktok @grok John the Financial Review says 6 minutes and 22 seconds. Timeline here: Bondi Beach shooting: Footage of the attacks reveals the timeline share.google/NOgPMatQULk3Jx…

@tonypowys1 @libsoftiktok I’ve dropped the link in this thread a couple of times. But how about this … Hey, @grok, me again. Can you help my friend here understand the ≈7min Bondi timeline from the multiple trusted sources: Sky UK, AFR, etc. Thanks.

This would be a great course-Ridley would be open to auditing students.

@johnpauldickson @libsoftiktok The quiet bricklayer, his father and a leave of absence: the duo accused of killing 15 people in Bondi | Bondi beach terror attack | The Guardian share.google/Tz1n5IRvhUdFN0…

@johnpauldickson @libsoftiktok I'd like to join in here with John about checking the facts. The Guardian is reporting that "Sajid, 50, arrived in Australia from India on a student visa in 1998 ... Naveed was born [in 2001]" So Sajid came here during the Howard gov (Liberal).

Even fictitious cartoon dogs find it easier to get promoted to professor than women

David Evans & I will be co-chairing a unit at the International SBL conf. in Adelaide, 5-9 July 26: "Early Christians in the Greco-Roman World". We encourage scholars of the NT, Early Christianity, & the Ancient World to propose a paper. CfP until 15Jan26: tinyurl.com/earlychristian…

Why just get one? Get both! #AARSBL ⁦@Dom_S_Hernandez⁩

Congratulations Abeneazer on the monograph.

In the #AARSBL2025 book hall, "The New Testament around the World." @BakerAcademic are working hard to promote this book with a chapter on Pastoral Epistles by Lyn M. Kidson in collaboration with Aboringal leader Brooke Prentis.☺️

If you're here in Boston for ETS, IBR or SBL and you'd like to do the Freedom Trail, our tip is to buy a $3 self -guided tour map from the information center in the Boston Common at the start of the trail.

Getting ready to wing off to Boston for IBR and SBLAAR2025. I'll be presenting in the Pastoral Epistles research group on Friday afternoon (21st Nov). It's a round table and we're discussing the art of commentary writing on the Pastoral Epistles. ibr-bbr.org/annual-meeting…

Empire Criticism of the New Testament New Approaches, edited by Christoph Heilig, is open access! Quite a number of good Australian scholars are represented Porter, Asquith, & Theophilos. mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empire…

Publishing now: The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. Learn more: bit.ly/46RWL54

October 31 is Reformation Day. Good things came from the Reformation, but the way the church regarded women was not one of them. The Reformation is “a story of loss rather than a story of gain, of increased subordination rather than of liberation.” ~ Barr margmowczko.com/beth-allison-b…

@danitreweek the plausibility of the reconstruction of the historical circumstances, which include how well it explains the text as a *whole.* Read each letter as a whole and ask 'what is the writer trying to do here?' Another useful book is by Adam White (Alphacrucis) bloomsbury.com/au/paul-commun…

@danitreweek A couple more thoughts about the PE in general. Try not to take too much notice of arguments about authorship because it's a dead end. In the end, its a 1st century Christian author who well knew Pauline theology (which could be Paul himself, right). Focus on the text and

Looking for recommendations of:: - scholarly books and articles - from the last 10 years - related to women’s ordination and/or women’s ministry in the church - from both/all perspectives. Hit me with your best shot 🙂