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Sara Ronis
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associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things.
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For all my concerns about the Babylonian incantation bowls, you cannot deny that this demon's shoulder pads are absolute🔥
An image of a demon drawn in the middle of a Babylonian incantation bowl. The demon has wide horizontal hair and triangles where shoulders should be.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Lily had a bath this week so she can sympathize.
A very cute and very clean dog lying dejected on the couch.
December 19, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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Added benefit: this dog will be there, giving her best Fruma-Sarah impression in honor of the day.
A picture of a red heeler with one blue eye and one brown eye, wearing a headscarf with a disgruntled look on her face.
December 11, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Coming to San Diego this weekend? Check out this #aar panel of three brilliant junior scholars working on relationships between the living and the dead in Jewish communities across time and place.
Screenshot of description of AAR Panel "In Community with the Dead? Relations with the Jewish Dead across History, Time, and Space." Sunday, 3pm-4:30pm, Convnetion Center 318 (Upper Level East) Paper 1: Shira Eliassian, Yale University, "The Social Lives of the Dead: Postmortal Sentience and Sociality in b.Berakhot 18b." Paper 2: Emilie Amar-Zifkin, McGill University, "Eulogies Without Words: Gestures of Grief in Medieval Ashkenaz" Paper 3: Ranana Dine, University of Chicago, "Visualizing a “Holy Society:” An 18th Century Czech Painting Cycle of Jewish Obligation to the Dead"
November 19, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Still looking to fill your #sblaar dance card? Check out this panel that's part of the History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Unit. I hear the third paper is going to be wild.
A screenshot of the #sblaar panel on Theorizing Concepts, Community, and Chronology. Talk 1: Tzipporah Machlah Klapper, Harvard University, "Rabbinic homeland Perceptions of the Alexandrian Diaspora." Talk 2: Eliav Grossman (Princeton University), "How did Rabbinic Literature become 'Classical'"? The third talk is my paper, When Fetuses Attack: The Babylonian Talmud and the Criminal Fetus.
November 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Greetings new followers! I like to think of this profile as an opportunity to think about late antique religion, but sometimes it's just - DOG!
Very cute dog staring at the Camera wondering why she is not currently being given treats.
September 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Some exciting news to kick off 5784~
A screenshot of an announcement of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards for 2023 which includes an image of my book, demons in the details, as the winner in the category of Jewish thought and culture.
September 22, 2023 at 5:45 PM
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🎶Proofing time 🎶 (sung to the tune of Semisonic's Closing Time, obviously).
A photograph of the title of article proofs. The title is "The key to the locks: good omen's hair and the nature of Good and evil".
September 6, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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Me: I'm going to use this new platform for high-level academic discourse.

Also me: look at the goofy doggo.
Red heeler's nose close to the camera with their tongue sticking out
August 20, 2023 at 4:46 PM