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I rarely get to talk about the topics that I actually spend the most time thinking about - teaching, strength, aging, embodied knowledge. So grateful to superstar journalist @chrisgayomali for this interview - and subscribe to his Substack, Heavies! heavies.substack.com/p/why-h…
ALT Happy woman with kettlebells - text = Heavies
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9yr old son: “I know YOLO means, ‘you only live once,’ and FOMO means, ‘fear of missing out,’ but what does ‘Folio’ mean? I hear you guys say that all the time...”
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Now out! Happy to send PDF to anyone who doesn’t have institutional access cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Now available for pre-order from @CambridgeUP ! @jae_heehan *Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East* (forthcoming fall 2023)!! cambridge.org/core/books/pro…
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Back in 2019, when preparing for a talk at Harvard (years before I worked there!), I asked a question #onhere about "Hellenistic Judaism," & we had a fascinating discussion--the reworked published version is finally out; happy to send an e-print to anyone who might be curious!
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I've long thought of patriarchy/misogyny in academia as defined in pt by governing assumption that *reputations* of men are more important to keep safe than the *bodies* of women, children, &c. But still utterly shocked & horrified by this--both the deeds & the attempt at erasure
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I have a pseudepigrapha joke, but I didn’t write it myself... No, um, really; it’s really old - I just found it
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As a scholar of apocalyptic literature, can’t help but be fascinated by eschatological prediction as re-election strategy—among other things, certainly quite a twist on ancient apocalypses using such predictions to critique imperial power
Pat Robertson reports that he has been told by God that Trump will win reelection ... and it will bring about the beginning of the End Times. bit.ly/35gnxV5
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And this fact that with everything else going on in the world today THIS is what he decided to get outraged about and spent the time writing.... that really says a lot
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I took down my copy of Harnack’s *What is Christianity* to show my @HarvardDivinity students today—only to realize that I have a copy once owned by none other than EP Sanders!
ALT Cover page with sig of Ed Parish Sanders
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TFW, as a scholar of Late Antiquity, one sees a sign in Union Sq and can’t help but wonder how Irenaeus, Epiphanius, et al, would have categorized its puzzing Christology
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My new book - *Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism* - is scheduled to be published in January! I will run a book give-away contest then, of course. But in the meantime here is a 20% discount code for anyone who might be interested in pre-ordering. 😈
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As someone writing a book on forgetting in post-70 reception of 2nd Temple Judaism, I'm finding recent debates about "real" meaning of Hanukkah really fascinating--so a thread of some preliminary ponderings on what/how Jewish tradition forgets about this ancient Jewish festival +
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8yr old son: “Mom! Mom! The new Fortnite season has a PROFESSOR skin!”/ Me: “A Professor skin?” / Him: “Yeah, she looks just like you!!!” / Not sure this looks me but love that when he thinks “Professor” he imagines a badass Asian woman!
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Interview w/@HarvardDivinity where I did my MTS (1999) and am returning soon as Prof of NT/EC (starting 7/2022) hds.harvard.edu/news/2021/11…
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When I was writing my dissertation,
one of my advisors, John Gager, used to repeat to me “Done is good.”
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Delighted to announce that @GrantMacaskill and I are the new series editors of @Brill_Religious book series Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha (SVTP)—see below on the series’ new directions and more details soon! brill.com/view/serial/SVTP
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We're cancelling each other over Ancient Judaism takes today. Post the opinion that will get you cancelled:
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Paperback reprint of my *Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism* coming out soon (Jan 2022) with @Fortresspress & now available for pre-order! amazon.com/Jewish-Christiani…
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From Rep. Wild's account of #CapitolRiots: “one of my African American colleagues, also a brand-new member of Congress, felt safer keeping his pin on. ’I don’t want to take it off,’ he told me, ‘b/c I don’t want the police not to know that I’m a member.’” elle.com/culture/career-poli…
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My piece therein = “Pseudepigrapha, Authorship, and the Anthological Temper in Second Temple Judaism” (as always, happy to share w/those interested who don’t have access!)
Just out! Festschrift in honor of David Stern ed. Naftali S. Cohn & Katrin Kogman-Appel cart.sbl-site.org/books/1403…
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From today’s mail! Guillaume Dye, ed., proceedings of 2015 early Islamic studies seminar @Enoch_Seminar - incl my piece on “Fallen Angels and the Afterlives of Enochic Traditions in Early Islam” editions-ulb.be/en/book/?GCO…
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Instead of periodizing pre-/post-70, we should study the period of Roman domination of the Land of Israel all together, 63 BCE to at least 425 CE
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Finishing up syllabus for my very last grad seminar at NYU! (On memory, forgetting, and the religious past)
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News just in from Oxford about the dismissal of Jan Joosten from his position as Regius Professor of Hebrew
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Now available for pre-order :) - my forthcoming @CambridgeUP book on Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism amazon.com/Demons-Angels-Wri…
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Missing #sblaar20 book display & feeling for authors (esp first book authors!) who don’t get the fun of seeing their 2020 books on display. A thread, thus, of some new 2020 books I’ve enjoyed that you might wish to consider if taking advantage of conference discounts!
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Great example of how “Judeo-Christian” rhetoric doesn’t actually include Jews (and often is a bit off even in terms of representing Christianity - “holiest time,” really...?)
Our churches must reopen. We need to pray at this time of the year. It is the holiest time in the Judeo-Christian calendar.
If we can have Walmart, Cotsco, liquor stores, strip clubs and supermarkets we can have churches.
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I personally love how humbling it is to learn something new that I am not good at whatsoever - also a potent reminder, for those of us who teach, about how it feels to be a student, including the frustration and struggle that can all too be easy to forget on on the other side
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SO excited that our early modern Enoch volume is finally out. Learned so much from working w/amazingly erudite early modernist @ArielHessayon. Much gratitude too #SVTP ed @GrantMacaskill + @Brill_Religious - as well as of course @Enoch_Seminar & @boccac1 brill.com/display/title/6371…
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I was a gymnast until I injured myself very badly on the vault. Reading critiques of Simone Biles today, I don’t know whether to be angrier at the thought that they don’t know just how dangerous her vaults are—or angrier that maybe they do but think she owes it them anyway 🤬🤬🤬
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Just out @OUPReligion: *Jewish Annotated Apocrypha* ed J. Klawans & L Wills; so excited, not least b/c I love *Jewish Annotated NT* for teaching. (I have a piece on "Canon" in this one & can speak to incredible care that the editors put into each piece!) global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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There is a lot that's great about new concerns for diversifying citation practices in academia, but I've been experiencing an annoying epiphenomenon (that's perhaps telling of the pitfalls in the process): More than ever in my life, people now mess up my name! +
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Shout-out to @hey_alma & @Jerusalem_Post for taking this opportunity to highlight Asian Jewish voices & stories—poignant answer to pain of invisibility of Asian-Americans in this moment + showcases inner-Jewish diversity as v powerful space for creating better models of pluralism
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Congratulations to ***DR.*** @Matt_J_Chalmers for a successful defense of his @pennsas @upennrels PhD dissertation, "Representations of Samaritans in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Texts" - w/thanks to @AntheaButler + diss committee members @drewjakeprof & Steve Weitzman!
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Proofs!! (which, without fail, always come at the most inconvenient moment - but still thrilled to see this book finally finally on its way to materialized)
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Just out in Advance Access at JAJ! Should be posted on their page in the next day or so + also happy to send a PDF to anyone who is curious to read! brill.com/view/journals/jaj/…
ALT “Gendering Revealed Knowledge”
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Alas, yet another day, yet another #BiblicalStudies all-male edited volume. Calling out individual cases has become common. But it might be worth stopping to reflect on the current state of our field, wherein demographical changes are not yet matched by epistemological shifts 1/8
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Tomorrow! I’ll be in conversation with Paula Fredriksen about her new book *Early Christianities* - for more on the book press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
ALT Paula Fredriksen at Harvard Book Store presenting Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years in conversation with Annette Yoshiko Reed Date Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 7:00pm Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
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Student newspaper @princetonian has been totally modeling an ideal of journalism that other venues keep abandoning for temptation to tell the same old story about so-called campus “cancel culture”—also ran this great op-ed calling that out dailyprincetonian.com/articl…
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This 👇 is what I personally have found so vital about Twitter as an academic - a space to hear voices and encounter experiences that our institutions systematically compartmentalize and isolate if not wholly silence
Yeah, at present, in most other social media spaces, securely employed folks can go for days without encountering conversations about academic labor, underemployment, gatekeeping, etc
Sure, everyone *wants* fewer of those conversations. But they *need* to be inescapable
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RIP Ed Sanders (1937-2022), whose work not only shaped NT/Pauline studies but also history of J/Chr relations. His @MacRelStuds project on “self-definition” arguably inaugurated current discussion of ancient identities, setting questions but also collaborative frame for answering
ALT Picture of volume 1 of J and Chr Self-definition
ALT Picture of volume 2 of J and Chr Self-definition
ALT Picture of volume 3 of J and Chr Self-definition
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Woke up to the good news that our @mohrsiebeck volume honoring Martha Himmelfarb has just been published! For the TOC and our introductory essay on Himmelfarb's research = mohrsiebeck.com/uploads/tx_s…
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Today is my birthday 🎂 - more flowers please!!! 🌸🌸🌸 #sakura
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Worth a repost: Amy Jill Levine on how to avoid anti-Jewishness in Easter season abc.net.au/religion/holy-wee…
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Great example of how “religion”/ “religious” is often used to mean just a certain specific sort of Christian
Kamala Harris exacerbates Joe Biden’s existing problem with religious voters. He must work to reassure them, writes @MJGerson wapo.st/349X5h9
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My *Demons* book is out in paperback! If you order from the Cambridge site, use discount code DAWAJ2022 for an additional 20% off.😈😈😈 cambridge.org/us/academic/su…
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Whew, made it through our first year as profs @HarvardDivinity - an exhausting transition but difficult to imagine better colleagues than Ben Dunning & Terence Johnson!
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Save the date! Paula Fredriksen & I in conversation about her new book at Harvard Book Store on 10/15! harvard.com/event/paula_fred… @PrincetonUPress @HarvardBooks
ALT Paula Fredriksen at Harvard Book Store presenting Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years in conversation with Annette Yoshiko Reed Date Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 7:00pm
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Indeed, I think part of reason it's important to speak out now about Jan Joosten is that this isn't the first such case in recent memory in Biblical Studies--and in the case of Richard Pervo, concern for his reputation outweighed any horror at his conviction for child pornography
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Congrats to Harvard CSR PhD student Oana Capatina on the publication of her first article, "Between Material Philology and Reception History: Patristic and Papyrological Evidence for the Sibylline Oracles"!
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ALT Abstract:This article adapts insights from Material Philology to rethink the reception of the Sibylline Oracles by looking at the full range of evidence for the collection’s early development and circulation. Since the “rediscovery” of the Oracles in 1545, the Renaissance-era manuscripts and modern critical editions have been privileged as if equivalent to the “original,” ancient text. To move away from mediating our knowledge of the Oracles solely through later interpreters, this article brings materials from the margins – papyrological fragments from the second centuries BCE and CE and quotations in Josephus, Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and Theophilus – to the very center of the discussion. Increased attention to Jewish and Christian witnesses provides a snapshot of how the Sibylline Oracles were read, received, and redacted over time. Comparing the material evidence with the manuscript tradition yields startingly different concerns regarding the Oracles’ textual fluidity, Book 3’s J
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FYI the answer to the question of what to wear when reviewing book proofs and index = dress w/book cover image!
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Whenever I read things like this (which is unfortunately too often) I can’t help but envy these men for having SO MUCH FREE TIME
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No one who works in 2ndT should be permitted to use the term "post-biblical" without a detailed footnote explaining how precisely they are dating the end of "biblical"
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My new book is up on GoogleBooks! (Which to me, these days, strangely feels more "real" as a publication marker than holding the physical book) books.google.com/books?id=bb…
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Just now submitted the MS of a book I've been writing, on and off, for almost nine years. Now to those syllabi...
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Honored to be among the 2020 ACLS fellows, alongside so many fantastic scholars & projects
Congratulations to the 81 newest fellows of the ACLS fellowship program! Recipients are awarded from $40k to $75k and support six to 12 months of full-time research & writing. Find out more about the 2020 ACLS fellows and their projects here: bit.ly/2Xp0Iwg
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Excited to share some ideas from my in-progress *Forgetting* book at UTAustin @LiberalArtsUT liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/e…
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His support of Ethiopic Studies at UofT is one of those facts that never ceases to make me happy! Another fun @theweeknd fact = he blurbed my colleague Kay Shelemay's brilliant book on the musicology of the Ethiopian Diaspora press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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#AcademicTwitter - curious to see your geekiest facemasks. I was just using plain white ones until now but couldn’t resist these...
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(I know we are supposed to complain about writing recommendation letters, but I confess that I sort of love spending the day penning effusive praise in celebration of the junior scholars who will save our field)
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But if journalists can’t write “clearly, powerfully, fr broad audience” w/o misrepresenting well-known history as forgotten/lost, are they actually writing “clearly”? And what does “broad” even mean if audience is presumed to be ignorant of info known to Haitians & many others?
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One feature of apocalyptic epistemology is often inversion: the powerless actually have the power of knowledge of coming divine vindication over the powerful. In this case, an interesting inversion of inversion: the politically powerful are cast as the persecuted due vindication
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Academic societies: What can we do to be more inclusive and attract a more diverse membership...?
Also academic societies: Hey, ladies... smile!
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Save the date! 3/5 5pm Maren Niehoff will be speaking at Harvard on "Philo of Alexandria as a Key to the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature"! ancientstudies.harvard.edu/e…
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#sblaar22 Great to see my J-Chr paperback @Fortresspress (30% off w/ code AARSBL22 even if you’re not at the conference! fortresspress.com/aar-sbl/)
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Orange in a sea of crimson - @Princeton Religion at @HarvardDivinity commencement events today 🐅🐅 @DrAhmadGH
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I recall reading that Douglass sometimes trained with Aaron Molyneaux Hewitt, the first African American instructor at Harvard, an accomplished boxer, and an innovator of physical education in America (whose daughter married Douglass' son) getty.edu/art/collection/obj…
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