Jill Hicks-Keeton, Ph.D.
@JillHicksKeeton
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religion professor @USC | new book on the Bible and evangelicals in the US
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Good Book is a real thing. Author copies have arrived. Have you ordered yours yet?
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I have just emailed the letter below to the president of Duke University (my PhD-granting institution) regarding sexual harassment. Thanks to many, both at Duke and beyond, who have offered support. And to any who read: I hope you read my scholarship too.
@DukeU
@DukeChronicle
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Be careful who you write a book with! We eloped.
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Hi! Thanks for the empathy. This reached further than I anticipated. I see that some folks responding here don't totally know what Religious Studies as a discipline is, what a bib scholar does, or whether or not I'm evil, so I'm collected some data for you here.
#teachon
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Today I was notified that I have been granted tenure at
@UofOklahoma
. I will be promoted to Associate Professor of Religious Studies effective July 1.
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Update! I have accepted an offer to join the School of Religion at the University of Southern California as Associate Professor of Religion, starting in 2024* I'm excited for many reasons: graduate students (send some my way!), fantastic colleagues, all the things.
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Book out, braces off! Hear me smile, internet
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It’s official: a new professional chapter starts January 1
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I have seen so many calls for unity right now, including from the pres of my uni. So I just want to scream into the universe: what you're asking is for victims/survivors of abuse/disenfranchisement to team up with their abusers. Unity is code for assimilation. Stop it.
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The
#Bible
isn't good by itself. It's what people do with the Bible that is good or bad.
I wrote this piece for
@the_revealer
about the Bible, slavery, and
@museumofBible
's misleading
#SlaveBible
exhibit.
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"Jesus and John Wayne and the Evangelical Reckoning"
Oklahoma, mark your calendars for a month from today.
- with
@kkdumez
@profsamperry
@jameshhilljr
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Some thoughts from me on the persistence and invisibility of patriarchy
A critical take on
@bethallisonbarr
's 'The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood' from
@JillHicksKeeton
: 'Barr’s analysis removes from view the possibility that evangelical Christianity might be irredeemably patriarchal precisely because of its biblicism.'
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Dear evangelicals, both within and outside the academy, I have something to say to you. It's something that haunts me almost daily. Here's the thing:
You have a talent problem. Which is related to an expertise problem. Let me say more 1/?
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please can we please just all agree to stop using the word seminal already
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University of Oklahoma Religious Studies dept is hiring. Would you help circulate the job ad?
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I am honored to have been awarded a 2020 Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise for my book _Arguing with Aseneth_ (
@OUPAcademic
@OUPReligion
)
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Just introduced self in a (Zoom) departmental welcome back event and at the end said "This semester I'm teaching Bible+Trauma and Sex+Bible and kindergarten and second grade." It just came out.
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I am that colleague who suggests a coffee together at 4pm on a Friday and then texts 5 minutes beforehand to say margaritas instead
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I almost cannot believe that
@museumofBible
online gift store is selling fake Dead Sea Scrolls. Almost.
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I am increasingly impatient with people who care what Paul thought
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Friday book giveaway! Please share!
Funny story I accidentally inscribed two copies for my friend Ben but he only needs one SO! To enter: reply to this thread by Sunday noon praising your favorite “Ben.” Winner selected randomly.
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Read this. By a colleague at OU, Dr. Amy Olberding.
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A quick cosmetic fix, motb: stop, stop, stop using “full Bible” to mean the Protestant Bible. Stop it.
Approximately how many languages have a full Bible translation?
a. 2000
b. 700
c. 350
d. 130
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Update: it appears that Price has spoken to the press rather than to me. He quibbles over the scale of the award, ignoring the sexual harassment. This article also has comments from
@dukereligion
professors and my fellow students from that seminar:
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Don’t tell him because it’s a surprise but my kid is winning an award for kindness at his elementary school and so I’m catching a 5am flight to make the award ceremony.
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I got to talk about White
#Evangelicalism
and the Bible with
@BradleyOnishi
on the Straight White American Jesus podcast (
@StraightWhiteJC
) !
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Confession: I don’t know what field I’m in anymore
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aaaaand the kids have vaccine appointments! 🎉
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The mirage of "objectivity" has always served the interests of the hegemonic. That's what DeYoung is doing here: asserting his rightness on the basis of the fact that he has not suffered under a system designed to give him power.
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A year 😊
Be careful who you write a book with! We eloped.
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“The Fantasy of ‘the Bible’ in the Museum of the Bible and Academic Biblical Studies”
Proud to share my new article, out today, in
@JIBS_Journal
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POSITIVE COVID AT NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION
@UofOklahoma
OU and
@GovStitt
it’s past time to act!
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And now I watch as male academic colleagues who are evangelical are allowed to stay - and have their work mean something more - because they fit within the bounds of who counts as an expert. What if my critique mattered just as much? I think the world would be a better place 10/?
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Hi y'all today's my birthday and it's so lovely to have had friends reach out! For a number of reasons, including the pandemic, I've been pretty isolated.
Could I ask you to do me a favor? Text someone you haven't heard from in a while - make sure they know you care.
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I just accidentally typed a perfect neologism for the Green family's aspirations: Christian hegemoney
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I did not receive even an acknowledgement of receipt.
I have just emailed the letter below to the president of Duke University (my PhD-granting institution) regarding sexual harassment. Thanks to many, both at Duke and beyond, who have offered support. And to any who read: I hope you read my scholarship too.
@DukeU
@DukeChronicle
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Religion prof in the
#biblebelt
I attended a rally today to join with
@UofOklahoma
faculty, staff, and students demanding a mask mandate and vaccine mandate for workplace and learning environment safety.
Pictured here are two counter-protestors.
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Been thinking about the
@RevKevDeYoung
review of
@bethallisonbarr
_Making of Biblical Womanhood_ that lots of folks posted about (I saw on
@socofthesacred
feed especially). I empathize with those who claim his tone is mocking and who rush to defend Barr.
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I'm so glad
@UofOklahoma
is complying with the EO and requiring all employees to be vaccinated.
On the form I see that employees are able to request a "religious accommodation" which entails writing a paragraph for HR.
Query! Who's training HR on how to assess religion?
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How cool is this??
This week's guest on
#UnderTheSkin
is
@CavanConcannon
- Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California!
Listen this Saturday 15th Feb only on
@hearluminary
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Thank you for the outpouring of support! I remain proud of the letter to Duke. In support of my hope that it would not completely outpace other things I've written, many have asked what to read next. Some other things I'm proud to have written, on religion & public life and more:
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I am still smiling about this
Evangelicals often talk a good game about reading books that challenge their views rather than confirm them. To those who mean that, I have your book.
@JillHicksKeeton
’s book WILL challenge. I dare you to read it. (Was gonna be travel-reading this week, but I can’t put it down!)
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😈’s advocate: think this is not great advice. Historiography / theory / secondary lit help us understand why what we think is possible, help us read things in new ways, help us nourish and historicize our own curiosities.
This is maybe the most important advice for being an excellent scholar, and it’s basically the opposite of how grad school usually works.
It might make it harder to get a job initially (secondary scholars sometimes look trendier), but your work will be far better for it
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It's publication day! It's publication day!
@JillHicksKeeton
and I have a new book! Tired of hearing about
@museumofBible
’s scandals? This book is not that. It’s a call to rethink biblical studies, follow the funding behind
#ChristianNationalism
, and attend to how white evangelical institutions work
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Instead, the talent is forced out because your model of authority/expertise pushes out those who don't or won't conform 9/?
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Here's where I'm going to switch to "we" and be unbothered by naming myself as good, because I am: We - those smart, charming, talented thinkers & communicators - have no choice but to leave... 4/?
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...your internal critics- those wishing to be faithful, to be empathetic, to make use of their talent and charisma but wanting to say something different than your foregone conclusions - automatically become outsiders. 3/?
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A very significant scholar came to my backyard this evening for supper. One of my kids called her “whoever you are” and then “boctor boobie.” Meanwhile the other kid broke a tooth in half.
#academicmama
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Yesterday my 9yo told me I do “social studies about Jesus” and I have never been so offended
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But, like, it didn't have to be that way. You could choose to listen to internal critics who look like me or who are persons of color or who are LGBTQ+ 8/?
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Coming soon: Academic biblical scholars assess D.C.’s new Museum of the Bible. For anyone interested in Bible + public sphere. Edited by me and
@CavanConcannon
. Use discount code LEX30AUTH19 get 30% off pre-orders:
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if and when we can't accept your doctrines. I have come to see in the past decade and a half that the evangelicalism in which I came up is not only harmfully patriarchal but also racist... 5/?
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BOOK RELEASE DAY 🎈
*Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves* is out today from
@Fortresspress
!
So glad it’s in the world. Help me share if you’re inclined?
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Visiting my folks. My parents always ask a blessing before meals. Last night, with all heads bowed and eyes closed, my dad indicated it was my turn to ask it by saying “Dear God, please listen to Jill.”
I said “amen” and started eating.
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I will write this book.
I will write this book.
I will write this book.
I will write this book.
I will write this book.
I will write this book.
I will drink this margarita.
I will write this book.
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And now plagiarism?
I have stumbled upon what appears to be egregious plagiarism in one of the
@museumofBible
Green family's books published by
@Zondervan
:
#OnlyOneLife
by
@JackieDGreen
and Lauren Green McAfee. 1/12
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We are sharing first haircut photos right?
Thrilled to be vaccinated for all the reasons and also to have had my first haircut in 15 months.
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🚨AVAILABLE FOR PRE-0RDER🚨
Our book on White evangelicalism, U.S. politics, and the Bible (w/
@CavanConcannon
,
@CambUP_Religion
), with
@museumofBible
as a case study.
#AmRel
#AcRel
#ChristianNationalism
#Scripture
#HobbyLobby
#Museums
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It’s a real shame to see The Jewish Publication Society logo on the cover of a Bible with this table of contents. This isn’t right,
@museumofBible
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My only choice was to...quietly...slowly...and then with rage eternal...become unmoored 7/?
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Being a woman in the academy so often means watching mediocrity being rewarded and then doubling down to work twice as hard so as to prove to your inner self that you are not, in fact, also mediocre.
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Sometimes it’s hard to take a break but today I walked up a mountain, Mom in tow. How adorable is she.
#roughridge
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Cover art for Arguing with Aseneth! Releasing next month from OUP.
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I propose that humanities academia eliminate the genre “book review” and instead cultivate pieces/panels called “I read it. Now what?” Books have already been peer-reviewed. And reviews that think expansively and collaboratively in conversation with someone’s work are 💯
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Pretty proud of these chapter titles! Coming early 2022 from
@CambUP_Religion
w/
@CavanConcannon
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If you email me with the greeting "dear Biblical Scholar" I *will* write you back "dear Random Person"
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Had the good fortune to be treated to the fanciest Italian place in town, one I would not take myself to. Ordered duck ragu. Took home leftovers to share with the littles. Now my 4yo, fan of mac&cheese and pizza, wants duck every night. I have created an adorable monster.
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Are people still on this platform? In case you are: here's a reminder that my new book is coming out in a little over a month and is available for pre-order. Kindle version is under $20 right now!
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As promised, here is the recording of the
@OUReligStudies
panel last night featuring
@kkdumez
, with responses from me,
@jameshhilljr
, and
@profsamperry
. Thanks, everyone, for a great conversation!
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Barr's argument is most persuasive when she speaks as a harmed participant pushing back rather than "as a historian." I wish that THAT were the main reason her supporters want to
#endchristianpatriarchy
: not because the Bible tells them so (it doesn't) but bc people suffer.
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Please accept this formal notice that I am changing my title to "random philosophy professor with no experience in print media."
I know people say nothing good comes from arguing with strangers on the internet, but what about gems like this??
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Recording again tomorrow with
@BradleyOnishi
for
@StraightWhiteJC
podcast. This time on patriarchy + evangelicalism + Bible + history
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It's the
@museumofbible
thread you've been waiting for. A brief tour through the gift shop! 1/16
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One of the best things about having two kids is that I get two experiences of watching them watch Home Alone for the first time
#tistheseason
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Defining insider-ness by fidelity to doctrine, measured by adherence to traditional tenets that have historically been developed and nurtured by White men (and serve their interests at the expense of others) means that... 2/?
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My new book is available for pre-order!
On what I call "Bible-benevolence" - the evolving intellectual, rhetorical, & moral work that people do to make the Bible good. Case study: white evangelicals + violence + misogyny. Co-stars Joshua, Jesus, & Paul.
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Honored to be giving the Connell Lecture next week at Lehigh University.
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Concerned about
@UofOklahoma
and public health? Please read, sign, and circulate.
OPEN LETTER TO UNIVERSITY DECISION-MAKERS
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My state has outlawed teaching “CRT” in any required class at the uni level.
Until it’s repealed this means at a most basic level that those of us teaching electives are now on deck to design our syllabi to resist this attempted erasure of attention to systemic racism
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Hello I am accidentally writing on Jesus as a misogynist - how's your Saturday?
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Haven’t been on Twitter much lately but I’m in Durham now, after about a decade away. Looking forward to this tomorrow.
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