Just 6 days left to apply! Deadline: 8 March. Since this came up in some of the inquiries I've received: we can be flexible with the start date (ideally June 15), and there is no requirement to learn Dutch (whew!)
Matthijs's book is interesting and convincingly argued—and it's open access! Check it out!
Bonus consideration for U.S. scholars who might be interested: a three-year postdoc will take you out of the U.S. until 2029. Just saying.
If you are mobile and want to do research related to this theme, this is a great opportunity. Matthijs is a great person to work with (as are the other biblical studies people on faculty there!), Radboud is a great place to work, and Nijmegen is a great place to live, even if only temporarily.
Roman fresco from the Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii depicting Pentheus being torn by maenads
Wine moms.
Very cool! And kudos on the great endorsements!
Setting up camp at the nonprofit repository: hcommons.org/members/mkoc...
No problem! I do think they changed it recently, and it doesn’t make much sense.
It shows up after you sign in. It links to: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/sblpress/jbl
Not sure why you have to sign in to see it though; you have to sign in again on the SPC website. 🤷♂️
That’s too bad. Hope you find the right outlet for it!
If you haven't already, you might inquire with the Journal for the Study of Judaism.
University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
Very cool to be able to share that my nomination for membership in SNTS has been approved! Many thanks to Dennis MacDonald and @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social for nominating me!
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
I'll just say, I think it's imprudent to oppose calls to nuclear disarmament, especially because (1) possessing nuclear weapons has no material bearing on whether/how the US supports Ukraine and (2) there's no chance the GOP even entertains the idea of eliminating our nuclear arsenal anyway.
What am I missing? I’m no Tulsi fan, but she’s not saying anything here that Chomsky or the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wouldn’t say, right? Nuclear disarmament (even if one-sided, especially if it’s the US) would make the world safer. There’s just no reason to believe Trump would do it.
Ugh, that's awful.
H/t @miriamjane5.bsky.social “How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents”
Coming soon from Baylor Press!!
www.baylorpress.com/978148132208...
Here’s the playbook: raid public coffers, dismantle public services, use the breakdown of infrastructure they engineer to scapegoat and repress political enemies, and to further privatize what was, is, and should be public.
Another to add is @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum")
Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)
Inspired by a misinterpretation of maritime law, the Bluths find themselves entangled in a scheme to sell the naming rights to the Gulf of Mexico. It's Arrested Development.
CRINT Essay Prize in Early Jewish and Christian Studies
€1,000. (Post-)graduate students and those who received their PhD no earlier than Jan. 1, 2020 are eligible. Essay not exceeding 10,000 words (including footnotes) to Dr. Albertina Oegema (crintessay@gmail.com) by July 1, 2025.
Happy new year! My conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social on his article “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology” is available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also support the podcast for $5/month on Patreon www.patreon.com/ItMeansWhatI...
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The preview of the eleven interviews recorded for 2025 so far will be available for free tomorrow wherever you listen to podcasts! Then my conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social will be available for free on the first.
You might add @nosternl.bsky.social (Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion).
In my experience, 9-12 months is pretty typical with JBL, so I doubt there's anything worth checking in on at this point.
Thank you!
