Tony Keddie
Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipelinewww.workingclassicists.com Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...
The Life of Thecla- Wipf and Stock Publisherswipfandstock.com Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, re...
Chair's Letter: Historical Insights for Resolving Campus Tensionsliberalarts.utexas.edu Ever since student demonstrators were met by state police in full riot gear on the University of Texas campus on April 24th, many historians in our department have noted parallels with past student pr...
Pasts Imperfect (5.2.24)pastsimperfect.substack.com Campus Protests, Freedom of Speech, and Protecting Students
Open Letter: UT Faculty Have No Confidence in President Hartzelltinyurl.com April 25, 2024
We, faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin, no longer have confidence in President Jay Hartzell.
On April 2, President Hartzell capitulated to political pressure in shut...
Public Exegesis in Late Antiquity Through the Lens of the Qur'ānliberalarts.utexas.edu One of the defining features of the period referred to as Late Antiquity is an expansion of
The Modern Resurrection of the Antichristhyperallergic.com Since antiquity, periods of political uncertainty have generated spurious proclamations of the Antichrist, from Nero to Taylor Swift.
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Did Archaeologists Discover Pliny the Elder’s Famous Roman Villa?hyperallergic.com News that researchers may have found the site where Pliny watched the eruption of Mount Vesuvius epitomizes the pressure to tie discoveries to well-known narratives.
Talk: "Blue Aphrodite: Expanding the Conversation About Color in Late Antiquity" by Katherine Tarona...liberalarts.utexas.edu This talk uses an Early Byzantine Aphrodite pendant in the Dumbarton Oaks collection as a starting point for thinking about the meaning and perception of the color blue in Late Antiquity. While schola...
Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Thinkreligiondispatches.org Do Israel's actions in Gaza—the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced starvation and orders for people to flee their homes—constitute genocide? Last week South Afr...
Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gaopeoplingthepast.com In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on re...
Opinion | What men are thinking about when they think about the Roman Empirewww.msnbc.com Is the measure of a man really based on ancient Rome?
Opinion | What men are thinking about when they think about the Roman Empirewww.msnbc.com Is the measure of a man really based on ancient Rome?