Annette Yoshiko Reed

@annetteyreed.bsky.social

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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

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d

Jewish Studies has for decades been a canary in this coal mine, alas…

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d

For those w/o a sub = archive.ph/o1kkS

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d

“…universities are becoming more reliant on wealthy benefactors. But the networks that fund research and programs can also entangle top universities with morally compromised figures… complicity and compromised institutional integrity.”
www.chronicle.com/article/a-mo...

‘A Moment of Reckoning’: After Epstein, Higher Ed Faces Hard Questions About Its Proximity to Power

Weeks after the release of a new cache of files about Jeffrey Epstein, the fallout on campuses nationwide is coming into focus.

www.chronicle.com

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d

The important question, though, is which photo is better #1 or #2…?

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2d

Shaul interview HDS news
www.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/02...

Advancing Scholarship in Judaism at HDS: A Conversation with Shaul Magid | Harvard Divinity School

In a recent conversation, Shaul Magid, Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at HDS, reflects on teaching Judaism at a multireligious divinity school and the future of religious studies.

www.hds.harvard.edu

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Implicit Religion @implicitreligion.bsky.social · 2d

CFP IR US: The call for papers for the Implicit Religion US Conference, "Challenging Narratives" is live. #IRUS

CFP DEADLINE: 3rd April 2026

CFP: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic...

CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 4d

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.

www.lemonde.fr

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Implicit Religion @implicitreligion.bsky.social · 6d

CFP IR UK: The call for papers for the 48th Implicit Religion Conference, "Knowingness, Agency and Authority" is live. #IR48

DEADLINE: 27th March 2026

www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic...

CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 6d

Np! 👇
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d

Like the layout of a Talmud page, with Mishnah surrounded by Gemara &c (If I don’t say this, my spouse will read downward top to bottom and hence backward chronologically, rather than starting with the quoted tweet below then going up to read the comment.)

Talmud page with Mishnah in middle, surrounded by commentary etc

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Vanessa Bentley (she/her) @piratev.bsky.social · 6d

Hoooooly crap. The Chronicle article is paywalled, but here’s the executive order: www.sos.ok.gov/documents/ex...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d

Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical.

This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.

Iowa universities reviewing low-enrollment majors, could close or merge programs

The University of Iowa is reviewing undergraduate majors with low enrollment – like African American studies and gender, women's, and sexuality studies – after the Board of Regents last year mandated ...

www.thegazette.com

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 7d

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 7d

We live in a delusional rich man's fever dream.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune

The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

fortune.com

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Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social · 7d

Can we do anything to get British Library manuscripts online? The absence is such a nuisance!

www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026/...

Can we do anything to get British Library manuscripts back online?

I'm still working away at producing an English translation of the "letter 149" attributed falsely to St Jerome, De Solemnitatibus Paschae, which probably dates to the 6-7th century. This evening I ran...

www.roger-pearse.com

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 8d

I’m invested! Keep us posted 😻😻

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9d

Np! I think what’s funny is that quote-tweets are such a young genre but can come to feel natural & thus taken for granted until someone points it out—much like when someone first sees a page of Talmud & initially has no idea where to start reading, and one realizes that too :)

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 9d

Um, yes? (I.e., the issue with quote tweets for those who don't regularly use X or Bluesky is the visual relationship between the commentary-tweet [above] and the lemma-tweet [below]--is there something similar in online newspapers I haven't noticed and/or have come to take for granted...?.)

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d

I also find it to be a great example of how the material forms of texts shape reading practices in ways that come to feel natural

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 10d

My spouse is not on Bluesky, X, etc., so every time I send him a link or screenshot of a quote tweet &c., he gets confused, and I have to explain, “it’s like the Talmud; it’s like the Talmud”

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu

Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 16d

Fascism and anti-intellectualism go hand in hand.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 17d

Medieval scribes at work.

A 13th-century Bible manuscript is filled with historiated initials, a few of which depicts scribes with their essential tools: a quill pen for writing and a penknife for sharpening the nib and scraping away mistakes.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Large historiated initial letter C decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a blue robe and a red undergarnment and a hat.

Large historiated initial letter O decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a saint writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a red robe and a blueish undergarnment and a hat.

Large historiated initial letter A decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotic type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a blue robe and a grey undergarnment.

Large historiated initial letter P decorated in different colors and in gold to introduce a new section of the text in gotich type. It depicts a monk writing text on a leaf of paper as a scribe, holding both a quill as well as a pen knife. He wears a grey robe.

Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 18d

More is more!

Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 18d

The fact that people in my field look at theory as unrigorous will never cease to irk me, even if I agree that knowing the sources backward and forward is the ultimate foundation. More is more.

Excerpt from a scholar's recent publication of 'rules' for Islamic studies academics.
#58 advises that reading al-Ghazali does you fiftyfold more good than reading theorists of religion
#59 is a weird adaptation of Jack and Jill where theory and method fall down the religious studies hill...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18d

Oh baby

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 18d

The fact that people in my field look at theory as unrigorous will never cease to irk me, even if I agree that knowing the sources backward and forward is the ultimate foundation. More is more.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 19d

'The editors of this volume have laid down a challenge, nothing less than the promotion of a new late antiquity: Eurasian Late Antiquity... the continental regions of Eurasia were subject... to forces bringing them together... a “hidden grid” of linkages connecting them.' Averil Cameron, p. 419