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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. .. more

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Nov 8
A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...
Annette Yoshiko Reed '91: Rediscovered Stories - Phillips Exeter Academy
Annette Yoshiko Reed ’91 examines cultural and religious forgetting.
exeter.edu

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d
January 2 is the feast day of Saint Basil of Caesarea, which usually means that I order a Margherita pizza or eat pesto pasta while rereading Philip Rousseau (edited by Peter Brown) 🍃 archive.org/details/basi...
Basil of Caesarea : Rousseau, Philip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xix, 412 pages : 24 cm
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d
Welcome to the Public Domain, AS I LAY DYING (1930) 📖

🧠 William Faulkner’s groundbreaking modernist novel uses multiple narrators & stream-of-consciousness storytelling to reshape American literature.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d
Pointing angels 👉👈

BL Add MS 11695; The 'Silos Apocalypse'; 1091-1109 CE; Spain, N; ff.52v, 59r, 63v, 77r

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
Happy horse birthday on the year of the horse no less!!
mismatched.bsky.social Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 2d
happy horse birthday everybody
hownottodraw.bsky.social Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 2d
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
On paper, 2025 looked like a great year for me. In lived experience, I was mostly filled w/alarm at attacks on US universities, Rel Studies, & Jewish Studies. My hope for 2026 is for more opportunities to use what I have to help protect & preserve knowledge-making

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Forgetting History and the Humanities in the American University
Reflections on recent news from the University of Oregon, Virginia Tech, and the University of Chicago
open.substack.com

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 2d
Happy New Year - 2026 already, wow!

In the #Roman world, lamps were often given as New Year's gifts - on this example, a winged Victory inscribes a shield with a wish for happiness in the new year, surrounded by coins & dried fruits (also traditional new year gifts).

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 2d
happy horse birthday everybody
hownottodraw.bsky.social Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 2d
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
明けましておめでとう! Best wishes to all for a happy & healthy 2026
Orange on mochi next to little horse statuettes

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Richard Heatwave Berler @heatwavekgns.bsky.social · 2d
Canceling more labs, libraries, closing down buildings at NASA’s Goddard Space Center…when I was growing up in the ‘60’s, science was revered. Now science is being attacked and it’s voice is being increasingly lost in a cacophony of babble… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 2d
A Roman terracotta lamp with Victory holding a shield inscribed with a wish for a happy and prosperous new year. Around her are representations of things that were usually given as gifts to celebrate the New Year: money (here three coins), and dried fruit (dates and figs). 🥳 🏺 1/

#MetMuseum 📸 me
Winged Victory holds a shield inscribed with a New Year's wish for happiness: ANNV / NOVM FAV/STVM FEL/ICEM MI/HI, which transliterates as 'Annum Novum Faustum Felicem Mihi' - literally 'A happy, fortunate, and prosperous New Year to me'. It's a self-referential wish for happiness and good fortune in the new year. Around her are representations of things that were usually given as gifts to celebrate the New Year— money (in the form of three coins) and dried fruit (dates and figs). Roman, mold-made, 2nd half of 1st century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (06.1021.291)

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d
Observing the heavens in the initial 'V'(erba) at the beginning of Ecclesiastes
#Heavensabove
BnF Latin 16745, Bible, 12th century, f.108r
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
“Historicity as process rather than episode” = so perfectly put 🙏🙏

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
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Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d
It’s 2025. Surviving is doing A LOT

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svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social · 3d
great series from @annetteyreed.bsky.social on classic hermeneutical themes such as analytical relevance and Weberian adequacy. the question of relevance is, i think, a place to stress historicity as process rather than episode.

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Away from a Definition of "Apocalyptic," pt. 1
Reflections on dangers of disembodied categorization, revised from my unpublished Enoch Seminar talk from 2021
humanhistoriesofkn.substack.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 3d
When I taught at Penn, I remember hearing from undergrads who fell in love with history at that same museum as kids, often inspired by the Sphinx! A reminder in these times when art & knowledge are under threat that our museums really matter, incl in ways that are slow & delightfully unpredictable

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 3d
When he was little, I taught at Penn & used to take him all the time to @pennmuseum.bsky.social - which at the time had this Ravana statue at the top of the stairs www.penn.museum/collections/...

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 3d
My son’s band has a new EP - with a song inspired by the Ramayana; check it out on @bandcamp.com = ravananyc.bandcamp.com/album/he-die...
he dies in lanka, by Ravana
4 track album
ravananyc.bandcamp.com

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 4d
Imagine being a higher ed PR department and instead of just paying for AI marketing slop, you hire a third party to make AI marketing slop for you.

You’re imagining all universities right now.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting piece on shifting Christian eschatologies and their geopolitical ripples
jacobin.com/2025/11/evan...
End-Times for Christian Zionism
Evangelical Christian Zionism used to be one of the most coherent voting blocs in the US. But cracks are starting to appear in this coalition as its members grow disillusioned with Israel and enamored...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d
Oops, sorry not to be clearer; posted too quickly—I know about IHRA and effects on our faculty, but not teaching this year means I don’t have a sense of student experience (i.e. the topic of the linked NYT piece)

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 4d
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d
Much Ge’ez!!

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 4d
Many factors delayed the last MS report of 2025, but the #vatican did manage 17 #Manuscripts last week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Much Ge'ez, strange narrow MS, Arabic stories, Sistine Music and more.
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 52 of 2025
Despite Christmas coming in the middle of the week, the Vatican got in two digitizing days and added seventeen manuscripts this week. It was an unusual distribution with eight, the largest fraction, ...
www.wiglaf.org

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 4d
Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.

Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 4d
The weight of history needs your support.

Your contribution helps ensure every page, every fragment is digitized. Celebrate 60 years of preservation by joining the $75,000 match, protecting stories across cultures and centuries.

Support preservation: hmml.org/give

#HMML60 #PreserveAndShare
Manuscripts on a bookshelf at the State Archives of Florence, Italy. Learn more: https://hmml.org/collections/repositories/italy/archivio-di-stato-di-firenze/

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d
“There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack.”
www.chronicle.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-humanities-is-over-thats-not-a-good-thing
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 4d
(Should clarify = I’m on leave now so can’t speak well to the situation at Harvard—not posting to confirm or contest, just curious)

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 5d
“A movement that once vowed to rescue higher education from ideological excesses is now perfecting and entrenching them.” Curious if this NYT article’s claims resonate w/experiences at different US colleges too? Here’s a gift link = www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com