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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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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2h

i thought i was moving back to the south!

Travis Koshko @traviskoshko.bsky.social · 2h

MONDAY: Snow showers start before sunrise & taper around sunset. Setup & accumulation spread will be VERY similar to last Friday. Mountains could see higher amounts than range contours indicate. Biggest takeaway: roads will be slippery & travel tricky. Be safe!

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Travis Koshko @traviskoshko.bsky.social · 2h

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Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social · 5h

Going to be at AJS? Come hear my truly wild paper, as part of the panel "Getting Together, Splitting Up: Representations and Realities of Marriage and Divorce in Premodern Jewish Communities." Mon, December 15, 3:15 to 4:45pm.

List of conference presentations at this panel. The second presentation reads "Bad Romance: Rereading the Divorce Formulae in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls" - Sara Ronis, St. Mary's University, Texas.

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John Maddening? @johnmaddening.bsky.social · 7h

Movie theaters forever

Jon Hamm as Don Draper watching a movie in a theater as he smokes. God, I can’t imagine how terrible it would have been to watch movies in a theater where a good percentage of attendees were having a cigarette. The haze? Your eyes stinging? The smell on your clothes afterward?

I only flew on one airplane when smoking was still allowed. It was awful. Bars used to be terrible too when we were all packed in with folks ripping heater after heater. I had a house once that had a mud room entrance in back that had the washer and dryer in it, and I would take my clothes off and throw them in the washer as soon as I got home. Didn’t work as well when I went home from the bar with a woman I met there — they would be all like, what are you doing, can’t we talk a little while first? And when I would explain, then it’s all “no, this has to be washed on delicate!” or “you mix whites and colors?”. So I’d end up getting up in the middle of the throes of passion (i.e. flailing around attempting not to disappoint her the first time we were together) to go downstairs and swap out the loads so her clothes weren’t destroyed. It totally ruined the mood, or at least that’s what I told myself when she didn’t call back even when the ironing was done properly.

Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh yeah, so the last time I remember anyone smoking in a movie was a screening of CASINO in 1995 at the Skyway Theater in downtown Minneapolis. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a three hour crime epic. My roommate at the time went with me and he smoked. Normally he would just duck out the emergency exit to the stairwell (this was a three story six auditorium multiplex), but when he saw (and smelled) a couple guys smoking weed about ten rows up, he said “fuck it” and lit a smoke.

Years later at the Rosedale AMC, some dickweed was vaping and blowing huge clouds straight up. He got thrown out, which is the last time any usher at any AMC location has actually removed a disruptive patron.

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 8h

Abba David will solve it all this year, I have faith!

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 15h

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

oh no ELSBETH coming for Bellicheck...the Kings are merciless

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

are you working for the devil for free? you know the devil can pay you. you shouldn't be an advocate for the devil for free.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

War and Community in Late Antiquity | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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

wake up, babe, new apocryphal infancy gospel dropped

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Folks you may have been baffled by the “Kevin Costner presents the first Christmas” ad you just saw on ABC

And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event

Kevin Costner’s enormous silhouette behind three people on camels with a star streaking through the sky, there’s probably a horizon joke in here but honestly I’m too delighted by this poster to reach for it

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

dozy snowy #Caturday

Giuseppe the cat sleeping on a ledge bed with a view of a snowcapped roof through the window

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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

this was an episode of SCRUBS!

Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 1d

NYT headline:
Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies

Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.

A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the fourth instance in nearly 50 years in which an organ donor passed the virus to a recipient, federal officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that an Idaho man was on his rural property in October 2024 when a skunk approached him and scratched him on the shin.

About five weeks later, the man started to hallucinate, have trouble walking and swallowing, and had a stiff neck, according to the C.D.C. report.

Two days after his symptoms started, he collapsed of what was presumed to be a heart attack, the report said. The man was unresponsive and taken to a hospital, where he died.

Several of his organs were donated, including his left kidney.

A Michigan man received the donated kidney. Five weeks after the transplant, he started to experience tremors, weakness, confusion and urinary incontinence, the report said.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

Rachel Harlow, her hair pulled back in a chignon, in an Oscar de la Renta dress in 1972

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

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Sarah D. Bunting @sarahdbunting.bsky.social · 1d

"I SAID, 'HAPPY #CATURDAY'"

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 1d

I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo

Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm

YouTube video by Incisive Thoughts

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Joan Taylor @joantaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Christmas listening! Was great talking to Shirley.
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Jesus’s Childhood in Historical Context | Bible & Beyond Discussions

Discover how Roman violence, Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, and his migration to Nazareth shaped Jesus’s childhood, with scholar Joan E. Taylor.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

lol

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

can we refrain from calling this "inaugural" until they award a second one? my guess is either he gets it every year or it's a one-off

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

From @theathletic.com: “This is truly one of the great honors of my life.”

FIFA President Gianni Infantino awarded President Trump a new golden trophy, a golden medal and a certificate, and told him: “This is your prize, this is your peace prize.” nyti.ms/44Gy4s6

President Donald Trump in a navy suit and red tie picks up a medal with two fingers during a ceremony. Text reads: "President Trump Awarded Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize"

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

the mountain is back! but fog is creeping back in..

snowy suburban landscape w a leafless tree covered mountain in the background

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 2d

all the Best First Article Prize details are here: www.patristics.org/grants-and-p...

NB: the piece does not have to have been published in JECS to be considered!

Grants and Prizes – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society

www.patristics.org

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 2d

📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?

Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026

Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 2d

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

the fifa peace prize trophy with zombie-like hands holding up a crumbling earth

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 2d

📣Are you a NAPS member? Did you publish your first article in 2024 or 2025? Do you like cash money?

Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026

Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

in Early Zoom days some version I had allowed you to see your Zoom room from inside Zoom and copy it to paste in an email and that's just gone and it is veeeery annoying!