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Jim West posted an all-AGADE Biblical Studies Carnival. What does that mean? Jim is celebrating Jack Sasson’s long-running mailing list, AGADE. I subscribed to Sasson’s list many years ago. The SBL website says, “Jack M. Sasson, the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Vanderbilt University, has been collecting and distributing the Agade Mailing List for almost two decades, dating back to his position at The University of North Carolina, which still hosts the email distribution list. The Agade list forwards news and information of interest to scholars in biblical studies, Near Eastern studies, Late Antiquity, Judaica, Classics, archaeology, and even broad intellectual history. It is a valuable source of announcements, and these many guilds are in debt to Professor Sasson.”
You can access the AGADE archive here. This searchable archive goes back to 2015, although the mailing list is much older than that. Vanderbilt has an archive as well, although I am not sure how far that one goes back. To subscribe, send a blank email to listserv@unc.edu, and write (as the subject and in the first line): subscribe agade.
Maybe I should explain to the youths in the audience what a LISTSERV is. In the internet’s earliest days, people would curate topics and send daily emails to those who subscribed. I subscribed to the biblical Greek and biblical Hebrew listservs in the mid-90s. Many of these migrated to discussion forums or ceased to exist.
Jim warns: Remarks are mine- links are Sasson’s. Jim also posted a link to his 2024 carnival, in case you need to read what he said a year ago.
For April (due May 1), Hans E Kristensen of Australian Catholic University will host at his blog, Bible Archaeology and History. Hans is a first-time host, so check out his blog (or his papers on academia.edu). As I always say, I am looking for hosts for the rest of 2025. Contact me via email, plong42@gmail.com if you would like to discuss hosting a Bible Studies Carnival on your blog. I would love to have a host that is more into podcasts than I am.
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