There's something about this white-supremacy-coded-as-reason that drives me up a fucking wall.
We're here because we DID NOT stand up for leftist principles of universal education. NOT because we didn't teach enough Western Civilization, or condemn anti-genocide protestors.
You jackass.
Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social
I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland
@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!
There's actually a tradition of Roman emperors being depicted in Egyptian art during the period when Egypt was part of Rome. More on that in this article.
#Classics #AncientBlueSky #Rome #history
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
Out of many great papers at the Assoc.Anc.Hist conference, 1 moment sticking with me is Bill Owens' talk about slavery in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter, & esp a moment where a rich matron asks Peter to raise her son from the dead. Peter notes that various enslaved men had been freed in his will. 1/2
“Today, the average professor in higher education is a contract worker without benefits or job security. They are often paid miserably to teach double or even triple the number of students as their tenure-track counterparts.” + lareviewofbooks.org/article/disa...
If you want a book that has thousands of years of things to say about this topic, that isn’t Eurocentric, and that ends with scathing thoughts about today’s sovereigns of code, may I suggest mine?
US preorders: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS
UK/Commonwealth: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK
📢 Not just a new SCS Blog Post, but an entirely new blog series: engagements with/responses to select articles in our association's official journal, TAPA.
First up: Michael Taylor on Duncan MacRae's "Capitoline Futures."
Please pitch us if you'd like to spotlight a piece in TAPA! 👍
"The hot take that AI will transform education is running about 780 papers ahead of the evidence. Why? Marketing. Buzz. FOMO. Yep. Evidence that it does anything unique to help kids? Not much."
*me getting scooped by a skeleton with an amulet* god DAMNIT
The Yale report but it’s 10 people from New Haven telling you Yale sucks
(Just realized "I'm not its creator" is also a funny thing to say in this context)
Alas, I'm not its creator but I can't resist Yaldabaoth memes
It's known as the Flammarion engraving!
Was asked to fill in today to give a brief intro to Gnosticism & the Apocryphon of John
Apologies in advance to students
Are you a student? Do you have students? The Theological Librarianship Student Essay Contest deadline is June 1!
serials.atla.com/theolib/anno...
Can't wait to time travel and call out E.P. Sanders for being hyperwoke for writing _Paul and Palestinian Judaism_
Fav comment so far
(Subtitle still forthcoming)
Honestly “how did a surveilling God solve the despotic problem of the absentee enslaver” was one of the big breakthroughs for me
My contribution to @acls1919.bsky.social 's "Talk about the Humanities" campaign this week. More here, not too late to do yours! www.acls.org/TalkAboutHum...
"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only
dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver"
some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
So proud of @sarahebond.bsky.social for her amazing commentary on Trump’s arch for @nytimes.com and @cnn.com
UVA/Charlottesville folks:
Come out to hear about how early Christians conceptualized God as their enslaver & how possession by the holy spirit was part of the equation!
www.virginia.edu/calendar/?tr...
Rights advocates hail 'historic' shift as 40 out of 47 Democratic senators vote to block military bulldozers to Israel.
Life is a gamble but I took a Chance! Happy Jesus/Schapps Birthday @chancebonar.bsky.social and may you roll doubles always. #33
