This is important.

Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean is under contract with the @uwiscpress.bsky.social! Looking forward to sharing thoughts on the roles of religious cultures in catalyzing & suppressing slave revolts + how Roman writers selectively characterized the religiosity of the enslaved.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Just putting it in writing: how long until the justification is that the Bible would allow it?

📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December! 💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun. 🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

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BREAKING NEWS from @mollyroberts.bsky.social: SANDWICH GUY FOUND NOT GUILTY

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Book cover reveal day! @scmpress.bsky.social is incredible. She releases on March 31, 2026, and it looks like pre-orders might already be open: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Excited to share the sessions that the "Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature" unit has for you all this upcoming #aarsbl25 @sblsite.bsky.social!

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to write this tribute on the late Dr. Phyllis Trible for @baptistnews.com. She gave many of us permission: baptistnews.com/article/reme...

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Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

First episode of 2026! Thanks to @alexianafry.bsky.social for taking the time to discuss her @sblpress.bsky.social article "Don't Feel It, Don't Heal It." Become a Patreon supporter for $5 a month to get this 23 December.

The argument "Zionism is not a political position, but an expression of religious identity so fundamental that denying it is tantamount to religious bigotry" seems to allow a Christian to make the same argument about the belief Jews killed Christ. I do not think we will like where this leads.

We find that being a white biblical literalist is the strongest predictor of preferring wrongful conviction. Preference for wrongful conviction over erroneous acquittal stems from the combination of sacralized authoritarianism & perceived racial threat. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

With the app for #aarsbl25 now live, The Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma unit would love to invite you to our sessions! (@sblsite.bsky.social; @fsrinc.bsky.social)

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Does anyone know how I can get my eyes on a copy of this new Texas school curriculum? Apparently, there's a two-part lesson on Queen Esther, and I'm going to need to see that: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

I'm hanging out with the crew @scibs-sheffield.bsky.social next week, sharing part of what will be chapter two in my forthcoming book. See you there?

Had the best time on Thursday presenting for the Biblical Studies Research Seminar with some solid students and staff @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Thanks for the pic (where I blocked out some forthcoming news), @themattiemae.bsky.social! 💕

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Adventures in framing: Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social

Seoul was an absolute dream. Ten whole days of a full belly and heart with family in Korea 🇰🇷and I am beyond refreshed. Now to tackle the email inbox.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!

Check out this online class by @alexianafry.bsky.social taking place Saturday, September 27, from 12–1:30pm ET. Registration: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends. full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Thrilled to be the "teacher" for @theb4np.bsky.social's September class called "Shaped By Suffering: How Trauma Impacts the Bible and Its Readers." Join me on Saturday, September 27th at 12P EST: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

GOOD MONDAY MORNING! AVAR 3.2 has three articles, from @alexianafry.bsky.social, Jacob Dahl, Robert Miller II, and Jonathon Riley. avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

I'm not sorry that this is what I chose to do to begin my day.

Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag. Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...

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...

...and the book is off to its publisher (@scmpress.bsky.social)! Spring 2026 cannot come fast enough.

"Did the Department of Homeland Security Just Tweet Out a Nazi Dog Whistle?" It does seem to many, writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo, like a white supremacist is in control of the social media account of a major US government agency.

The deadline for submitting your article to Issue 4.2 is one week away (August 1)! We'd love to see your work featured with us. avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

Hi All: would love your help on identifying folks working at the intersection of migration and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament! MANY THANKS!