Jennie Ebeling
@siduri1.bsky.social
Archaeology of west Asia in the Bronze and Iron Ages, baking and brewing tech, women in Canaan and ancient Israel, history of biblical archaeology. Professor of Archaeology @ U Evansville in Indiana. Editor-at-large @ Eisenbrauns/PSU Press.
Colleagues: please reach out if you're working on a book that might be a fit for Eisenbrauns and planning to attend ASOR or SBL in Boston. I'd be happy to meet with you to talk about your project over coffee or a drink!
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Colleagues: please reach out if you're working on a book that might be a fit for Eisenbrauns and planning to attend ASOR or SBL in Boston. I'd be happy to meet with you to talk about your project over coffee or a drink!
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The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
Great energy at No Kings in Evansville, IN!
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great energy at No Kings in Evansville, IN!
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the season on Oct. 8, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Kevin McGeough with panelists Jennie Ebeling and Bill Caraher. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required: tinyurl.com/bdet3w97
FOA Webinar: Kevin McGeough, Jennie Ebeling, and Bill Caraher - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Friends of ASOR Panel Webinar: "Readers of the Lost Ark: The Ark of the Covenant from Biblical Religion to Contemporary Culture" on October 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the season on Oct. 8, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Kevin McGeough with panelists Jennie Ebeling and Bill Caraher. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required: tinyurl.com/bdet3w97
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been.
Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs.
That's it.
Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs.
That's it.
June 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been.
Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs.
That's it.
Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs.
That's it.
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'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
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This headline is misleading in so many ways
Battle for biblical archaeology intensifies as Israeli researchers face academic boycott
nypost.com/2025/05/04/w...
nypost.com/2025/05/04/w...
Battle for biblical archaeology intensifies as Israeli researchers face academic boycott
A leading archaeology journal has effectively barred submissions by Israelis on Judea and Samaria unless they “have cooperated with the relevant Palestinian authorities.”
nypost.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This headline is misleading in so many ways
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Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
If it wasn't clear already: "A.I. is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists."
Let's all say it together again: "a.i." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists
May 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If it wasn't clear already: "A.I. is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists."
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This is Clint Eastwood-bantering-with-an-empty-chair levels of friendly fire.
April 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is Clint Eastwood-bantering-with-an-empty-chair levels of friendly fire.
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The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
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Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.
April 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.
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Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research
A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.
www.tampabay.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
yep
Make no mistake that the people doing this to our educational system under the pretense of fighting antisemitism will be busily deploying antisemitism a week or two from now to deflect blame for the global economic crash they just caused.
April 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
yep
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Please repost wide. Jim Banks must be sued and lose his own job. This type of callous cruelty cannot be tolerated.
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Senator Calls Fired Worker a ‘Clown’ Who ‘Probably Deserved It’
Sen. Jim Banks said that he wouldn’t apologize for his response to former budget analyst Mack Schroeder.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Please repost wide. Jim Banks must be sued and lose his own job. This type of callous cruelty cannot be tolerated.
www.thedailybeast.com/watch-republ...
www.thedailybeast.com/watch-republ...
Brien Garnand presents "How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context" on Wed April 2 at 2:00 Eastern. Registration is free.
FOA Webinar: Brien Garnand - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Friends of ASOR Webinar - Dr. Brien Garnand presents: "How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context " on April 2, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Brien Garnand presents "How to Re-Place Carthaginian Votive Dedications into Context" on Wed April 2 at 2:00 Eastern. Registration is free.
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.
March 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.