If anyone is interested in challenging previous scholarly assumptions and reconstructing the marginalized voices of ancient women, please consider taking a look at my recent article in ZAW on the prophetess Noadiah in Neh. 6:14. Published open access here: https://t.co/Ba9KT5LLuK

Look what I learned on Duolingo in 2024! #Duolingo365

There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.

Agreed. Biblical studies had a good run but it’s time to shift. 🤣

My newest article is out! It’s called “Enslaved Women, Women Enslavers: Kyriarchy and Intersectionality in the New Testament” and I wrote it for a class I regularly teach - Women, Gender, and the Bible - to interrogate issues of gender and slavery in the NT. @FeminismInRelig

Truly, this is well deserved praise for a book as important as this. It is absolutely brilliant and should be required reading in any NT class. I can’t stop telling all my colleagues to buy it.

Seeing your friend's post about their proposal for an SBL paper being accepted = 😀 Realizing that you submitted to the same section but have received no email = ☹️

Thank you to @TIME for publishing my essay about invisible workers and the rise of Christianity https://t.co/ikRLqppLKT #classics #history #Bible

Thank you to @spectator for this review in which they describe God’s Ghostwriters as a “massive achievement,” and “persuasively argued” and (to my delight) warn readers they are in “for a shock” @littlebrown @news_ub https://t.co/la3Bi4B8AJ

Thank you to @SalvadorRyan and @Independent_ie for calling God's Ghostwriters a "tour de force" and "an intellectual triumph [that] encourages us to think of the New Testament...in provocatively exciting new ways" https://t.co/quNzI8e3Kz

This is brilliant 🤣

We often do not talk about the value of being wrong. Sometimes you publish something or think something that turns out to be wrong. And that’s important because once proven wrong you know that there are better arguments, better evidence, and then you know how to be right. 1/3

Abstract for those interested in a preview of the content:

Excited to announce that I’ve had an article accepted for publication at Oxford’s Journal of Theological Studies. Super excited for this one to come out and thankful to the anonymous peer-reviewers for thinking it valuable for New Testament Studies and research on 1 Enoch.

I appreciate these clarifications. My explanation of what a given biblical author likely meant ≠ what I believe about God, the Bible, and morality.

The Bible nowhere tells women it's their responsibility to cover up so men aren't tempted. It does tell men it's our problem if we're lusting after women & if OUR EYES cause us to stumble, gouge them out. It's hyperbole, but it clearly identifies the cause of stumbling. Grow up.

On the other hand, what made it ironic was that the second reviewer said it was such an important paper that they only wish they had read it earlier in their scholarly career 😂 Peer review can sometimes feel so helplessly subjective.

This isn’t right. Scholars should not be abusing their anonymity during review to speak this way. I’ve also had negative experiences. I once had a different journal’s review tell me that they wasted their life reading my paper. Rest of their review only got worse. Sigh

The Vatican's new declaration "Fiducia supplicans" is major step forward in the church's ministry to LGBTQ people and recognizes the deep desire in many Catholic same-sex couples for God's presence in their loving relationships. It is also a marked shift from...

....whom does he think I am quoting?