Isaac T. Soon, PhD
@isaacsoon2
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assist. prof. of new testament. disability studies. ancient judaism. incoming @AMNEUBC . here to connect people to scholarship and scholarship to people. he/him
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Happy to announce that I've just signed a contract to publish my first book entitled "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul" with Oxford University Press (
@OUPReligion
), hopefully coming out sometime next year!
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VIVA PASSED!
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I want to honour
#AndreBraugher
's contribution to New Testament scholarship by remembering the greatest NT textual criticism joke ever to air on television:
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A design cover for my forthcoming book, A Disabled Apostle. It’s starting to get real!
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Happy to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor of Religious Studies (New Testament), officially as of July 1st.
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I’m excited to announce that I will be taking up a post as Assistant Professor of NT at Crandall University (
@CrandallU
) this summer. I’m honoured and excited to join the wonderful team there! +
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Some News! This summer I have the incredible privilege of joining the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (
@AMNEUBC
) at the University of British Columbia as Assistant Professor of Early Christianity.
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Bring back the church library. If the biggest library in your church is in your pastors office and no one else has access you’ve got a theological problem on your hands.
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Are you re-writing a dissertation into a book for publication? Here is some little advice that I received from colleagues ahead of me on how to transform the dissertation into a book. A 🧵. +
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Guess it’s official!
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Five years of trying, 7 rejections, and finally I got an article accepted in New Testament Studies!
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Your academic writing is a snapshot of your thinking in the current moment. It’s not meant to be perfect, timeless scripture. It’s meant to be provisional. Let perfectionism go.
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This is one of the most offensive and troubling theological takes about disability I've ever read. A short 🧵. (h/t
@hannahcw127
@lllogannnnn
). +
Few of us feel as attractive as we would like, and some of us feel downright ugly. Why does God allow such unattractiveness in a world that prizes physical beauty?
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It scares me how the "Law vs. Grace" paradigm haunts all of my students and their reading/understanding of Paul's letters. The more I think about it, the more I think reading Genesis-Deuteronomy should be absolutely required reading for students before they study Paul.
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I am a part of a generation of up and coming scholars who does not care about the Society you are a part of, how many books you’ve published, what journals you’ve been minted in, or where you went to school.+
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This is precisely why Christians, especially Christian leaders, need biblical scholars.
This is simply not true.
@maklelan
help
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Pro tip for students in biblical studies: The argument "this word is never used with x meaning in the NT" is not a valid philological argument for excluding a meaning in an idiosyncratic context; it is a lexical argument constrained by an arbitrary canonical boundary.
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I have signed a contract with
@CambridgeUP
to write a short book in the Cambridge Elements series entitled "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature." Excited to make a small contribution in a field being spearheaded by the likes of
@candidamoss
.
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And voila here they are:
I’ve got a new batch of student memes coming in this week from my Gospel of Mark class and I can tell you right now they are making me cackle. Looking forward to sharing on Wednesday.
#memeoclock
#endofsemestermeme
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I had a student ask me about my late penalties today. I said my classes are not retributive; I don't have late penalties. Penalties don't help students adhere to deadlines. instead, they quantify precisely how much their anxiety, panic, fear, and depression are worth.
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Happy to see that my book A Disabled Apostle with OUP (
@OUPReligion
@OUPAcademic
) is now available digitally via Oxford Academic in anticipation of a print release next month. You can access it here!
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This gets me every year: "Applicants should be no older than 35 years."
Once you hit 35 years old, you cease being able to show theological promise:
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Pretty excited to see that my forthcoming book has a landing page on
@OUPAcademic
's website; it even has a table of contents!
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It’s a publication day! I’m really proud of this piece and am honoured to participate in a wonderfully rich and interdisciplinary issue helmed by the venerable
@kelsbot
. If you’re interested in an off print please shoot me an email or DM with your email and I’ll send it to you.
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It’s proof day!
I’m excited for this article to see the light of day. I’m not doing anything innovative at all but merely pointing to the excellent work of my colleagues. I hope that it inspires others to work in the field of disability + NT.
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Having a PhD in Theology and Religion sure was handy this week when my 5-year-old asked me, "Daddy, are we real?" and my 7-year-old asked me, "What does the word 'be' mean?" Oh boy was I ready to talk about epistemology and ontology.
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Biblical manhood as modelled by the apostle Paul involves breast-feeding, labour pains, and weaning children.
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Surreal!
There is no alt-text, but the post I am reposting shows an image of me (a balding, asian man, with a pointed black beard and round classes) standing at the Oxford University Press booth at the SBLAAR meeting holding my book, a Disabled apostle.
@Ebachrac
@jennortegren
@ElProfeBarba
@keith_e_cantu
@cam_clausing
@edumlerw
@johndyer
@GrantAKaplan
@SKhojaMoolji
@LauraSLieber
@SciRelMark
.
@isaacsoon2
, author of "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul"
#aarsbl23
🧵 18/20
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My first journal article in a peer-reviewed journal appeared today! If you’re interested 1 Maccabees, Mattathias, and “forced circumcision”, I hope that you find it useful:
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Revisions accepted! My piece “The Little Messiah: Jesus as τῇ ἡλικίᾳ μικρός in Luke 19:3” will be appearing in a forthcoming issue of JBL in the near future. Argument preview: Zacchaeus js not the only person in Luke 19 who can be read as being short…
Yesterday, I got another response on a journal article, accepted to JBL (pending some revisions). I was worried that the previous rejection was a start of a long rejection streak (😅). I will say the experience with JBL has been quite impressive. +
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I was excited when I got hardcopies of my book in September. But I was more excited today when I got my copy of The Oxford Annotated Mishnah. This is something that every New Testament and early Christianity should read!
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Looks like I will be teaching (koine) Greek next year! Looking for all the current suggestions on textbooks, resources, readers, and other things. What are the cool kids using these days?
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I paid $36 to buy Raya and the Last Dragon for my daughters to watch on Disney+ early. Because I will pay any amount so my girls can see a hero that looks like them.
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Lost of a friend to covid today. He was young and disabled and did not need to die.
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The various stages of reading Romans. For your enjoyment. +
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On human experience shaping scholarship.
In the summer of 2015, right before I began my second masters at Oxford, my wife gave birth to our first daughter. She was beautiful but also very little, just over 5 pounds. +
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Re:
#Lautenschl
äger Age Restriction
Colleagues in theology and religion, I have drafted a letter to send to the organizers of the Lautenschläger Award asking that the age restriction requirement be removed. If you would like to sign it, go here:
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What some Romans commentators refuse to acknowledge in Romans 3
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It's proof day! Glad this is finally going to see the light of day.
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My obligatory SBL post. Another conference paper rejected! Wahoo!!
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There are many incredible women who work in NT. Where are their names in these revisions? Absolutely frustrating.
I just saw this in the .
@ZonderAcademic
catalogue. Congrats2 my colleague.
@RevDrDre
on being commissioned2 author 1Peter in the WBC series & .
@esaumccaulley
4 Galatians! Great choices! Awesome2 see! .
@NPU
.
@NPTSem
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We care about how you treat people, regardless of their background. Dignity and respect first; excellent scholarship later. Our meritocracy is not based on who you rub shoulders with or invitations to speak, tenure track jobs and closed door meetings with chaired dons.+
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Universities seem more interested in preventing students from cheating than from dying.
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Why are publishers continuing to pump out new commentaries when the vast majority of them say nothing new?
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Do you have a post class/lecture ritual where you decompress? What do you do? Sometimes I just eat a bag of chips and stare at a picture of Ted Lasso.
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Sometimes I wish ancient sources preserved the kind of real life parenting that happened in the Mediterranean:
“Dear diary. Tried feeding Imhotep fish for dinner tonight. He said he will only he eat fish from the Oxyhynchus region and threw the plate on the ground. FML.”+
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While people were storming the US capitol I was in a job interview this morning that went really well—like REALLY well. And it was so especially because of the feedback I received here. Thank you to all who contributed.🤞
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I’m not sure if this is an answerable question but why do so many men in North America wear baseball caps? Like everywhere they go. Even when they’re eating meals. Does anyone else find this weird?
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Connect with people, don't use people for connections. Praise generously, critique gently. Have fun, don't take yourself so seriously.
Heading to San Antonio early Saturday morning for my first time at SBL! If you could go back and speak to yourself as a first-timer, what would you say?
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!
I'm giving away a two copies of my book, "A Disabled Apostle" (
@OUPReligion
)! It is open to non-academics, students, and those who do not have TT academic employment. I'll send it anywhere in the world.
Repost/QT to enter.
Deadline Sept 17th 11:59 pm ADT
Tomorrow is release day for my book, A Disabled Apostle, in the UK, published by
@OUPAcademic
@OUPReligion
. I've had a great publishing team working with me to make this happen and I'm excited to share it with the world.
#ADisabledApostle
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I know the world has some truly troubling and real problems….but this is the kind of persecution I daily face in my household.
@emilygathergood
knows what I’m talking about
#academicvandalism
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I’m so glad people like this cover!
The napkin detail is apocryphal but I’ll allow it :)
@NijayKGupta
@BrazosPress
I love
@isaacsoon2
s cover, that he drew himself (on a napkin I believe!). It's fantastic.
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Today’s mood is literally waiting for a generation of NT scholars to move on for somebody to understand what me and my peers are doing and innovating in the field.
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Inspired by the discourse and leadership of
@ChanceBonar
, I'm sure I'm going to get in trouble for this:
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One of the worst things about being an academic and a parent is having to explain to my kids again and again why we have to move. Australia. Canada. The UK. Of course, I’m privileged to have a job to move to. But building and disconnecting from communities repeatedly.
Tired.
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At last my article “The Little Messiah” is now available in JBL. This is the second piece in a trilogy of works that focuses on shortness in the New Testament.
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Ya’ll are liars. These are my true intellectual beginnings.
post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey no matter how cringe
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Move aside KJV-only peeps, there’s a new sheriff in town:
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Today I'm grateful for museums who release high resolution images of their artefacts into public domain so that people like me can use them in their books without having to dish out $$$ that we don't have.
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Another friend dead from COVID. get vaccinated folks.
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Two arguments that make me laugh that scholars use against the historicity of apocryphal gospels:
1) “Some of them clearly draw and reproduce the synoptic material.” But so do Matthew and Luke? +
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I do all of these things. I guess that must make me a Christian woman.
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I will be trying to read through the Old Testament and New Testament in Greek this year. Join me with the tag
#greekbibleinayear
! I’ll be using this plan:
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**Job Alert**. It is my great pleasure to announce that
@CrandallU
is looking for a TT Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (with a focus on biblical studies) for July 2024. Please see the posting below and distribute it to your networks:
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We work to create a better world, not just to think in but to live in. We’re also looking for examples to follow, for leaders in a communities who don’t punch down, but lift up. I’m so tired of seeing people punched down.+
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Pleased that my article on “Little James” in Mark 15:40 is now available in New Testament Studies:
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Most NT commentaries should be called homilies with footnotes.
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Here’s my SBL publication brag post:
- I moved my family of 5 from one country to another in a pandemic
- I have been in lockdown since March 23rd
- I have spent every night waking up to take care of my daughter born in February of this year
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My article on "Disability and New Testament Studies" from April this year is available freely online at the moment (I'm not sure for how long!):
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Has anyone put the Synoptic Gospels into Turnitin? I'd love to see who it thinks has plagiarised the other.
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It’s proof day! Many thanks to
@IanNelsonMills
, Alex Kirk, and Garrick Allen who made this piece 1000% better:
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Final day of viva prep consists of me laying next to an open Bible in the hope new ideas come to me by osmosis.
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Who decided this was the pattern we wanted to see on our office ceilings?
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Classics: hey let’s take a break.
Late Antiquity: oop, I guess we’re up.
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Friend, it's not that your body doesn't fit the world, it's that the story this world tells itself can't make sense of your body. You confound it, because your body refuses to be categorized, patterned, classified, and controlled.
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Got a 8-10 paragraph rejection feedback email from JSNT. Was really helpful and encouraging for making a piece I’ve been working on better and expanding my horizons on what could be done with it. Thank you reviewers.
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Normally I’d be nervous about a job interview, but this pandemic has been so lonely that I’m actually just excited to talk to other people
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Everyday in scholarship I wake up and think, “Who can I follow? Who is leading?” We watch what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Some of us speak up. Others keep to themselves. But we are always watching.
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Anyone out there make up their own bedtime stories these days? I’m currently on a series about a pair of arctic wolf cubs who lose their mother and are on a journey to find her, encountering different friends along the way.
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Tomorrow is release day for my book, A Disabled Apostle, in the UK, published by
@OUPAcademic
@OUPReligion
. I've had a great publishing team working with me to make this happen and I'm excited to share it with the world.
#ADisabledApostle
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“The project that I have to write, I do not write. The project that I do not have to write, I do write. Who will rescue me from this body of death?” - Romans 7 (An Academic’s Translation)
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Yesterday, I got another response on a journal article, accepted to JBL (pending some revisions). I was worried that the previous rejection was a start of a long rejection streak (😅). I will say the experience with JBL has been quite impressive. +
Reading a 12-page reviewer 2 screed on a journal article that was denied today (where the reviewer also left their name). I'm learning a lot, but I'm also like:
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My website is now live. I will be updating some of the pages in the coming weeks, but you can see descriptions of my current research projects and some forthcoming articles/book chapters that will be appearing in the next year or so. Enjoy!
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To those going to
#sblaar23
this year who have permanent jobs: How about we make it a point to each of us buy one meal for a student/independent/non-TT/adjunct scholar? There will be folks there who are skipping meals because they could barely afford the plane ticket and hotel.
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Hi friends, if you're an SBL member, please consider nominating
@candidamoss
for the new Richards Award for public scholarship: +
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