Hi folks, been away for a while dealing with Ye Olde Personal Lyfe but it's fabulous to log back in and see so many great people here. Spending some time now working on a new research project involving Jewish cinema, biblical text and neurolinguistics. So far, kinda fun.

Posted this on the "other" place...here's the final paragraph for my forthcoming book on Persian imperial myth and the formation of Jewish scripture.

Well shoot, I wouldn't mind that.

I have to get through the editing stage, which is killing me. I feel like I'm swimming/drowning in this material and terrified that for all I've read through and thought about, it's not enough and I'm missing something essential.

Okay, my first "for real" post. I've been doing work on post-colonial approaches to ancient Persian imperialism, but could use some suggestions for recent research (in the last, say, 5 years). If anything springs to mind, please chime in!

This is my second post.

Okay, NOW what?