I've read nearly all of this in the past week and boy is this rough going (open access) muse.jhu.edu/book/75386

Red morph eastern screech owl from yesterday #birding #owl #screechowl

it is pride month here now, so, in the spirit of the season:

Vish is good people, if you're able to help please do 👇

it's a getting teary while reading the latter half of Isaiah type evening the mixture of hope, anger and a really moral austerity is something to struggle with, but it's hard when texts that are often quoted for the hope become more difficult

But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...

But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog Cryin' all the time A blue dog plays a drum in the bottom margin of f. 313r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4pti1W1

Ok but are those accounts really similar? Maybe I guess

New Sun Zero Bracket Bracket Bracket? Good imo

Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

Burrowing owl - from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives 🪶

conjugating verbs just to פְּעַל something

season's greetings to all who celebrate racialskeleton.bandcamp.com/track/santa-...

death cannot hold back light and there is one who is merciful to those who sleep in the dust and one day, the world will be renewed, and he will give life to the dead... one day עד מתי...

man, I'm not at all convinced that arguing with Christians about their religion is a good thing but I do sometimes wonder how they'd react to true things like "Paul was a metaphysical racist who thought that gentiles were incapable of moral agency and just really, really into sexual immorality...

Time for the second attempt at a reading group in this bad boy

Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much

As a graduate student in a biblical studies programme I don't think this is correct - everyone in the field has stories of people they've encountered who thought like this, gone to uni to study the bible, learnt the requisite languages, and then realised how much more complicated everything is.

Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much

the Hebrew here is the least of the problems but like.... what do you even say about that treatment of Hebrew

I'm experiencing anti-philology discrimination rn

studious but naive voice: it's good to see so many of my friends are really into gemara today, b"h

I push my fingers into my eyes it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache and it's made of all the things I have to take Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside and if the pain goes on aaaaAAGHHHHGH

The best I've read recently have been more about the history of scholarship: Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade

I'm sorry but Kotsko seems straightfowardly correct here, and I'm confused by this response - I don't see him appealing to "long tradition rooted in Christian supremacy" - and I think the PWJ crew has a very unfortunate apologetic tendency to downplay or ignore the parts of Paul that are...

teeing up my final paper on the Book of Job:

Man I have incredible friends when I can say "I've been really interested in this stuff" and have someone just send me a copy of this as a birthday gift

type of guy who finds out the race has been called from yeshiva world news

man I just remembered balam acab insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time what happened to that vibe

mythicist they always are

crazy to pop on here briefly during a break from studying for my Hebrew and Aramaic exam to see someone calling people dogmatic and blinded by religious faith for believing that the Talmud wasn't written in the 8th C BCE but instead c. 1k years later

this should be an excellent read

I wrote a 5k word essay on Les Enfants du Paradis in less than 48 hrs drawing super heavily from Deleuze and Guattari because I knew the lecturer marking the paper had not read them, and would not read them, so I could justify anything I wrote by appealing to them. A-

the trajectory from being one of the primary subjects of Rose's "The Shadow of Spirit" to twitter is quite something

what's up I'm just adding paragraph numbers from the Schafer Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur to the translation of Sefer Hahekhalot/3 Enoch in the Charlesworth Pseudepigrapha vol

Aramaic is so cool

ok new theory: the "debate me" new athiest culture of the 9/11 ara was highly beneficial to both that crowd and particularly conservative evangelical Christians, and so those were their primary interlocutors, and that conditioned an entire generation...

help, I need either a concordance to the Hekhalot Literature or a pdf of the Schafer Synopse which is keyword searchable this is an emergency (I have realized something cool I might want to write a paper on which needs some intense lexography) This is also very much serious and only 20% a joke

#birdbot

I miss the good old days when lack of consensus reality was due to Kant's arguments about objectivity in the Critique of Pure Reason and not due to fascists successfully infiltrating 21st century tech consensus machines and useful idiot liberals cheerleading the process

Slightly diminish a book from the Bible in a needlessly contrarian voice: Anniversaries

I find this pretty stunning (it's on his blog for the curious) as the information provided makes it pretty likely that a) this was Sheffield Phoenix, and b) they've learnt from the criticisms levelled at them last time, and the reviewers rejected the MS outright, no revisions could salvage it

building on this I think it's very doable, and that there's a pipleline here: evangelical -> athiest -> biblical minimalist crypto-conspiracism -> crypto-gnostic/perennialist idealism -> jungian "cultural christianity" and/or just fascism there are a lot of different off-ramps ofc bc this is real

I see that our friend Richard Carrier, PHD is keeping up with the zeitgeist by announcing that failing peer review is actually passing peer review if you take into account the fact that the reviewers failed to recognize his incredible, unsurpassed maverick genius, and that this is a scandal

it's crazy to me to think that this text, written down around 2000 years ago, was already ancient when it was written down (Song of the Sea, 4Q14/4QexodC)

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

I'm currently looking at irony in the bible, which a lot of people don't really thing about, and if I were teaching it the best intro, I think, would be to show the clip from Prince of Egypt where the writers place Ex 11:6 in the Mouth of Pharaoh, not G-d

Ok I am very excited to read this paper:

When the essay on Job cites Benjamin's notes on Kafka, Assyrian and Hittite treaty documents, James Joyce, and Ugaritic poetry you can tell it's gonna be a doozy