Book launch

Last week, I spent three days in São Paulo for two launch events for my book “O código devorado: os usos da iconografia antigo-oriental na exegese bíblica” (The Devoured Code: The Uses of Ancient Near Eastern Iconography in Biblical Exegesis) (Editora Recriar, 2025).

On Thursday, August 28, I delivered the lecture “Bible, Archaeology, and the Visual Codes of the Ancient Near East” and discussed some of the book’s ideas with Dr. Edson Nunes Jr. and Dr. Robinson Jacintho at IBAB Educação. On Saturday, August 30, I presented the public lecture “How Ancient Art Explains the Bible: An Introduction to Interartistic Exegesis,” moderated by Dr. André Anéas, at the Editora Recriar headquarters.

These were two remarkable moments where I could reconnect with wonderful people (some of whom I only knew virtually) and meet new ones.

I am very grateful to Editora Recriar and IBAB (and especially to Iago Freitas Gonçalves) for creating these spaces, to Faculdade Unida de Vitória for the academic support, to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for funding the open-access version of the book, and to everyone who enriched these moments with their presence.

The book is available in print on the publisher’s website (see here), and, thanks to funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), can be downloaded for free (download here).