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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
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andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee

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Andrew Jacobs may refer to:Andrew Jacobs (journalist), reporter for The New York Times and documentary film director and producer Andrew Jacobs (lawyer) (1906–1992), lawyer, judge, and Congressman from Indiana Andrew Jacobs Jr. (1932–2013), lawyer, Indiana state legislator, and Congressman from Indiana Andy Jacobs, British sports personality .. more

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 20
well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture

I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2

Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
Gospel Thrillers: Get your copy of Gospel Thrillers
Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible is available in print and digital formats:Directly from the publisher, Cambridge University Press (digital and print)From an indepe...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3h
had reason to think about my own book when i found out that olivia nuzzi was posting mean things in a subreddit under a fake name as part of her evil plotting

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 3h
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel explores the fascinating history of peoples around the world who have identified as Israelites and what it says about identity itself, and what we want from the past

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 9h
sì!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 9h
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Le lingue del Diavolo
Brutta roba il vomito. Non parliamo neanche delle ossa disarticolate e delle piaghe. Ma diciamoci la verità: e' quando attaccano a parlare in lingue strane che il sospetto che stia accadendo qualcosa ...
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 10h
maybe!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 10h
just saw a website: "Andrew S. Jacobs, storico del cristianesimo, osserva come nei testi agiografici tardo-antichi i santi e i demoni comunichino spesso in lingue straniere o arcaiche, a indicare il loro statuto sospeso tra umano e divino."

I cannot for the life of me think where I said that!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 12h
oh great I'm so glad! and thanks for catching the (ironic!) typo I'll fix it after lunch!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 13h
aah, many happy returns, Candida!

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14h
Again, I cannot stand Amazon or Bezos. However, because _Strike_ comes out in paperback in 2 months, they are fire selling it in hardback for $2.84. So if you want it, you can indeed get it for the price of a cup of coffee. www.amazon.com/Strike-Labor...
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Amazon.com: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Audible Audio Edition): Sarah E. Bond, Hillary Huber, Tantor Media: Books
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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 15h
"She has recognized, perhaps rightly, that there is no place for women like her in Trump’s halls of power. So she’s building herself an escape route."

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h
just learned that My Better Half shares a birthday with @rexparker.bsky.social! and Charles Schulz!

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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 1d
News to me, but apparently this article is out now in #openaccess!

I study the perfuming and ritualization of spaces associated with the memory of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islamic Medina. Part of a special issue on Scents in Medieval Material Culture

www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
The Prophet’s mihrab, with the “Perfumed Column” immediately behind it, in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Pratima! So excited to peruse.

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
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Pratima now has the bonies’ sense of humor @ismipratima.bsky.social · 1d
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
nothing like turning a page in a book and seeing a sentence you first wrote almost a quarter century ago staring back at you!
block quote centered on an otherwise blank page: "This Christian view was comprehensive in two senses of the word: *totalizing*, seeking to gather together all that existed into clear and definable intellectual categories; and *knowing*, seeking to create a cognitive mastery of all that existed in the Christian world."

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
p.s. for those who are interested, I have a dozen or so original translations in addition to this one on my website. it's a pretty idiosyncratic collection of texts but I hear people find them interesting!

andrewjacobs.org/translations/
Andrew Jacobs: Translations
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
💯

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 1d
OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
Picture of the box of author’s copies of my new book, _Smoke & Mirrors_.

drewjakeprof.bsky.social
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
will be very interested to hear what you and your students make of it!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
well that was a fun little moment thinking the webpage I just put up suddenly wouldn't render any non-ASCII characters *including Greek* before I found the right switch to flip

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New Dominion Bookshop @ndbookshop.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to support the authors and our local literary community this fall. Pictured here, our last two author events of the year: Hannah Rosenberg's event for Same, and Inger N.I. Kuin's event in conversation with @aristofontes.bsky.social for Diogenes.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
bake sales

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
cheers!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
hmm that is weird. i'll make sure it's set to normal unicode! (it was showing up fine on my machines but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
thanks, I'll see what I can do! it seems to auto-generate every time I save the file (it's the "free visual html editor" plugin for chrome, btw).

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
there are echoes of many other texts (Thecla, naturally!, looms large) & thought short it's a fascinating contemplation of transformation and fixity, embodied and otherwise, in late antiquity!

enjoy it over some turkey & stuffing with loved ones!

andrewjacobs.org/translations...

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Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
congratulations!

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Matt Delmont @mattdelmont.bsky.social · 1d
Excited to share that my new book is available for preorder! "Until the Last Gun is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America's Soul" is out January 27, 2026 from @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736800...
Until the Last Gun Is Silent by Matthew F. Delmont: 9780593655870 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The untold story of the Black patriots—from soldiers in combat to peace protesters—who ended the Vietnam War and defended the soul of American democracy, from a pre-eminent civil rights historian...
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