Good finds at the Ashmolean before my OCHJS seminar. I love this museum - what a quality collection @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

The butcher recommended ox cheek instead of braising beef for any kind of beef stew - and I can say it's absolutely the most delicious thing. Get your stew game on!

Congrats, Joseph!

Really adore Yentl. Great read, thank you, Sonia!

📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...

Value and significance is a misleading word in education (and research) biblicaltoolkit.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/v...

Change.org petition to stop the axing of TRS at Nottingham. SIGN to support Religious Studies and Theology - stop university leaders from using financial reasons to axe entire subjects they don't see as "value for money"🙄 c.org/G6fypmbHVx

My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r... Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... @uonucu.bsky.social

All time periods accepted - all disciplines encouraged. As long as it's Jewish studies of some kind. Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

Please spread the word bsky.app/profile/biaj... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social

Join us in London for BIAJS!

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians

I just received a FOI request for any content warnings on my unit on Ancient Israel and if so, reasons why. I was happy to oblige with my honest response that I don't have any content warnings on any of my units. The Bible doesn't require a content warning or a trigger warning.

📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X

My interview with Neal Sendlak, over at Gonstic Informant, is now on Youtube. It was a really enjoyable discussion about my new book, Between Yahwism and Judaism. Links to the video and to the book (free to download for a limited time!) in the first comment.

Link to the interview with Neal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFin... Link to the book (download it now for free!): www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Second Temple Early Career Academy Autumn 2025 Events (online) stecaonline.wordpress.com @stecacareers.bsky.social

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah Portion Noach (נֹחַ) with this strange creature. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.12r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Open letter in support of Prof Michael Ben-Gad, City University London, targeted and harassed by “students” in a protest group, for no other reason than pure anti-semitism - for being an Israeli Jew. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This Wednesday I'll be speaking at Cambridge Divinity Faculty, where I did my PhD, OT/HB Seminar, on Orality, Education and Wisdom in Proverbs, Sirach and 1Q/4QInstruction.

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New in Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 76, Issue 2 ‘The scribal tractates and the transformation of the Torah scroll’ by Eliav Grossman. Available to read online at: bit.ly/JJS-Vol-76-2 @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social #JewishStudies

STECA Autumn Activities: - 5 Nov - Writing Retreat - 11 Nov - Bootcamp workshop, "Joseph on Josephus: Introduction to Flavius Josephus" - 3 DEC - Writing Retreat All online!! Register by email: [email protected] / [email protected].

Times change. All you can control is that you have moral integrity anchoring you to truth and goodness. Develop good character. Inner score card, not an outer score card. Not a political score. Not fake internet points. Not the latest academic bandwagon. Build a monument more lasting than bronze.

Call for applications for a position as Assistant Professor of Religion in Early Christianity at Princeton University puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Got a project? Half a project? Just a vague, Jewish history daydream? Present it at one of our Work in Progress seminars! Share what you’re currently working on (academic or otherwise — thesis chapters, articles, art) and get constructive feedback from our supportive group.

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

We're excited to present you with NGG's academic programme for this winter term! Looking forward to seeing you! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

I'm enjoying the rainbows between the stop-start showers this month where we live in Bath. We explain the story of Noah to Jonathan whenever one appears (although Joseph is still his current fave story). We've had a lot of change recently (new house, new school). Family is an anchor and a blessing.

New ethics blog post: What will AI-driven translation do to our brains? The charisma of familiar languages and cognitive mapping in the world of AI. biblicaltoolkit.wordpress.com/blog-feed/

Began my day with Slavonic Enoch scholarship, writing a book review of Grant Macaskill's Entangled Enoch for JSJ.

"We do not fault students for perpetuating a climate that is hostile to intellectual integrity. We fault the faculty, administrators, and institutional leaders who built a system that rewards moral theater while punishing inquiry."

Deeply concerning about biomedical and chemistry research, impacted by numbers, politics, and budgets. These are essential subjects. The UK and US cannot afford to slow down like this. My colleagues in chemistry and organic geochemistry at Bristol are super talented.

#IOSOT2025 business meeting: #IOSOT2028 will be at Pontifical Biblical Institute part of the Pontifical Gregorian University 10-14 July 2028, under the presidency of Peter Dubrovský. And he just added that in the buildings they have air-conditioning.

#IOSOT2025 obligatory book haul photo. Thank you to the lovely book stall publishers - to friends at ⁦‪@degruyterbrill.bsky.social and at Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. Also to Ms Peeters of ⁦‪Peeters‬⁩ for being so kind. These stalls do really matter. Lots of publisher love ❤️ @humboldtuni.bsky.social

IOSOT2025 obligatory book haul photo. Thank you to the lovely book stall publishers - to friends at ⁦‪@degruyterbrill.bsky.social and at Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. Also to Ms Peeters of ⁦‪Peeters‬⁩ for being so kind. These stalls do really matter. Lots of publisher love ❤️ @humboldtuni.bsky.social

#IOQS business meeting in Berlin at #IOSOT2025 - very full room!

Kando’s knife slicing up 1QS!!! No IOQS or Dead Sea Scrolls conference is complete without a wee scandal revelation, and Prof Torleif Elgvin delivered. #IOSOT2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social Thank you, Torleif and Israel Antiquities Authority

Yesterday’s wonderful main paper #IOSOT2025 by Prof Frédérique Rey on computational approaches to textual criticism using the example of Ben Sira manuscripts. The livestream room was a little cooler! @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Research opportunity related to Gesius palimpsests www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH232/r...

Research associate sought: AI and the future of creativity www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH164/r...

#IOQS presenters - just had Carmen Palmer (Stetson University, Florida) on slaves and now Andrea Ravasco (Palermo) on 4QSamuel textual criticism. #IOSOT2025 more people arriving today, so many friends and heroes!

‪#IOQS‬ session now that my first presentation is done (on 4QInstruction in open session 1, my first IOQS paper!). Here is Robert E. Jones (Penn State) on שׁל״ט in Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls and Daniel. ‪#IOSOT2025‬ ‪‬

IOSOT main paper by Prof Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University) on Jerusalem excavations here in Berlin #IOSOT2025

Prof Katharina Psychny here delivering a main paper at IOSOT Berlin! #IOSOT2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!

Historians: "History is vital for understanding ourselves, our past, and our future. History matters." Also historians, the moment someone tries to draw a lesson from the past: "We can't draw any lessons from history!" In other words, srs historians = killjoys. Non-obscurantist historians = hacks. 😒

UMass Boston Classics position - www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

RIP Tom Lehrer - the legendary mathematician, musician and satirical songwriter. One of his last gifts to humanity was placing his songs in the public domain copyright-free. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhY...