A Newer Jerusalem

Since the beginning of the Revelation Reception Network,  which was launched in partial support of my current DFG project, a goal has been the distribution of cutting edge research via social media. Unfortunately, in the first couple seasons, I took it upon myself to try to do almost all the network's promotion single-handedly. I inevitably fell short. Now, thanks to my colleague and co-organizer Prof. Cristian Cardozo Mindiola , we're starting to be better about both recording and posting the seminar sessions. With the beginning of Season Three (see schedule here) , our intention is that all of the seminar sessions will be posted on the network's YouTube channel , hopefully always within a few days of the live event.  Coming soon, the recent talk by John Lamoreaux (SMU): "Apocalypse & the Doctrine of the Antichrist in the Greek Church (ca. 200–1100)" (will post link once live). Stay tuned... 

A few years ago, I was thinking how cool it would be if I could get a bunch of the folks together who were writing about Revelation's reception in late antiquity--people like Cristian Cardozo Mindiola, Martina Vercesi, Garrick Allen, and a bunch of other folks. And get them together not just at SBL in a session, but in an ongoing community where we, with others working on the book's reception in late period and differenet contexts, could share thoughts and compare ideas. And collaborate on stuff. And start new projects. And in general keep tabs on this sort of work wherever it was happening.  Not long after that, I was speaking with Cristian and Régis Burnet, and we almost spontaneously decided to start an informal network that I'll probably talk more about here in the future (perhaps in back-dated posts)...  A few months later, everything was in place, and we were launching the group and an accompanying seminar series.  That was almost three years ago. Tomorrow, we start...