Good news! My new article has just been published in JANER: on how the god Nabu and the goddess Tashmetu entered the Babylonian pantheon, and how they became a couple. If you're interested, let me know if you need me to send you a copy! brill.com/view/journal...
I'm delighted to announce that Avar volume 2.2 is up! This issue explores knowledge construction and the Ancient Near East. All articles are open access and can be downloaded off the Avar website: avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...
Bluesky, that magical place where Eve Barlow, Hen Mazsig, and a million of other horrible people are not quote tweeted into my feed
If you're contingent faculty working in the ancient world, or know someone who is, I'd encourage you to apply for the SCS Contingent Faculty Grant Program. Closing date 12/31! classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f....
Amazing how many musk bullshit cycles got boosted by dumb reporters
"Contemporary discourse often pits Muslims & Jews against one another. But our research demonstrates that a large amount of seemingly disconnected hateful rhetoric about both—at least in 2017—originated from the same far-right extremist communities" | The Same Extremists Target Both Muslims and Jews
Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends
Biblical Archaeology Review has discussed my new article about Sennacherib's assassination on its blog! www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancien...
The assassination of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, is presented in the Bible as God’s divine justice against an evil king. Outside of the Bible, however,
OPEN ACCESS: The Jewish Annotated New Testament archive.org/details/jewi...
I've been really fascinated by the saga of this "curse tablet," not for any reason related to the find itself, but for its ability to illuminate various, loosely related problems in biblical scholarship and the popular press all at once
