Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
@drewjakeprof.bsky.social
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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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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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...
I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2
Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
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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
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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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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
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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
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!
I cannot for the life of me think where I said that!
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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!
I cannot for the life of me think where I said that!
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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...
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...
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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...
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...
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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
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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...
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
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"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.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"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.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
just learned that My Better Half shares a birthday with @rexparker.bsky.social! and Charles Schulz!
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
just learned that My Better Half shares a birthday with @rexparker.bsky.social! and Charles Schulz!
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"I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one?"
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one?"
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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/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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/display/docu...
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
nothing like turning a page in a book and seeing a sentence you first wrote almost a quarter century ago staring back at you!
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
nothing like turning a page in a book and seeing a sentence you first wrote almost a quarter century ago staring back at you!
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OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!
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
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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Peak BlueSky: you see a random downthread comment and you think they're talking about a senior academic you probably know, but it turns out they're talking about Henry VIII.
What an ass, all in the pursuit of control. What I understand from the little I've read, he was somewhat brilliant in his younger days, then something went terribly wrong.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Peak BlueSky: you see a random downthread comment and you think they're talking about a senior academic you probably know, but it turns out they're talking about Henry VIII.
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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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...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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...
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It was a really stark and sobering contrast to go from the tremendous session @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social arranged at the Boston Athanaeum, where we reveled in the craft and care that has poured into the material text in the history of biblical studies… /1
Very here for these shots being fired. I know that academic publishing is a tough business and margins are tight, but the precipitous drop in production quality across the board in recent years (without a corresponding drop in prices!) has really been something to behold.
I recently got a volume from Brill's series, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, and the poor quality of the paper and binding would be surprising at any price: much more so at over $200. Caveat lector et emptor.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It was a really stark and sobering contrast to go from the tremendous session @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social arranged at the Boston Athanaeum, where we reveled in the craft and care that has poured into the material text in the history of biblical studies… /1
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Festschrift Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony. Nice colection.
Enter our #giveaway! Like, share, AND tag a friend for your chance to win a copy of 'Brouria has Spoken Wisely' Studies in Christian Late Antiquity and Syriac Literature in Honor of Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony. Ends Friday! www.gorgiaspress.com/brouria-has-... #lateantiquity #christianity
'Brouria has Spoken Wisely'
In this volume, Brouria Has Spoken Wisely, specialists in the history of late Roman Christianity come together to honor their dear colleague, friend, and mentor Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, the Martin Bu...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Festschrift Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony. Nice colection.
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
okay this is now annoying. i've resorted to using Chrome's HTML editor plug-in (sigh) since it's mainly clean-up but every time I save it it adds this annoying "\n" that I cannot delete. what is happening??
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
okay this is now annoying. i've resorted to using Chrome's HTML editor plug-in (sigh) since it's mainly clean-up but every time I save it it adds this annoying "\n" that I cannot delete. what is happening??
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The panel on womanist methodologies was amazing. I was privileged to be a part of it. And honored that Dr. Renita Weems pronounced us all OGs. #SBLAAR
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The panel on womanist methodologies was amazing. I was privileged to be a part of it. And honored that Dr. Renita Weems pronounced us all OGs. #SBLAAR
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one final inventing christianity plug before i close this year’s SBL chapter: if you’re interested in the unit, and if you want to get involved, please reach out!! we like to hear creative ideas, want to platform ECRs and underserved scholars, and we’re actually a pretty fun crowd.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
one final inventing christianity plug before i close this year’s SBL chapter: if you’re interested in the unit, and if you want to get involved, please reach out!! we like to hear creative ideas, want to platform ECRs and underserved scholars, and we’re actually a pretty fun crowd.