Krista Dalton
@kristadalton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025) Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, American Jewish History, Brandeis
Brandeis University, Department of History
Job #AJO32372, Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Department of History, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
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Amidst all of the IP Adaptations, could someone please remake Wishbone?
Wishbone Knight
ALT: Wishbone Knight
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It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
hey! you! almost 1000 folks have read/downloaded Virginia Burrus's new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, isn't it time you joined them? www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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The allergy to religion that somehow still persists in various social sciences and humanities is itself a critical data point in understanding how we got into this mess.
"We need to relearn how to sit still with our own thoughts." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/o...
Opinion | Seneca’s Solution to the Crisis of Attention
Devote your attention to one idea a day.
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A great opportunity for contingent and independent scholars of religion: $3000 stipend, one-week residency at The Ohio State University (travel and lodging covered), deliver a public lecture and interact OSU community. Deadline: August 15, 2026.
CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications
Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.
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I'm thrilled to say that we are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Religion in the Islam subfield at Denison University! Please share widely among your networks. apply.interfolio.com/188984
Delighted that my next book, Empires, Communities, and Loyalty on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier, is forthcoming with Cambridge UP! It explores when, why, & how questions of loyalty became attached to groups as such, esp. Jews & diverse Christian communities, & their political/social/religious effects
Today I begin my tenure as Chair and Associate Professor of Denison University's Religion Department. I made a little promo to help advertise the department. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4M1...
Why Study Religion at Denison University?
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We are pleased to announce this year's Models of Piety lineup at SBL's annual meeting! "Places of Practice, Practices of Place: Two Perspectives on Religious Community in Rural Syria and Palestine during Late Antiquity" With Dina Boero, Ra’anan Boustan, and Karen Britt Mid Afternoon on Nov 20th.
every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?
I use our LMS and value it as a repository students can access, but this essay resonates with my experience. Have we removed too many "points of friction"? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
You Too Can Quit Canvas
When I started treating the LMS with intention, its limited utility for my course became increasingly apparent.
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Sarit Kattan Gribetz begins a review forum engaging Moulie Vidas' The Rise of Talmud.
Talmud as a New Intellectual Project — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The Bavli might remain the most celebrated rabbinic work, but the Yerushalmi was the first of its kind. The Bavli, in a sense, becomes less unique through Moulie’s reading, and “the Talmud” is…
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Today, Carrie Schroeder reviews Liv Ingeborg Lied and Brent Nongbri's Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/5/26/working-with-manuscripts-a-guide-for-textual-scholars
Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume…
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On this 26th Day of Jewish American Heritage Month, sharing this amazing resource on the Jews of Charleston. I love how it visualizes the community in 1788, 1833, 1910, and 2020 and gives you a sense of key people in each of these moments in time. Kudos to everyone a the Pearlstine/Lipov Center.
Mapping Jewish Charleston
Explore the Jewish presence in Charleston over the centuries through images and texts from our archives.
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People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo agoPeople are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
My book is 50% off through Princeton's Spring Sale if you were looking to snag it at a deal. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
How Rabbis Became Experts
How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine
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Behind on your #AJR reading? Check out the full forum here: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...
Earthquakes and Gardens: Book Review Forum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This review panel features responses from a range of scholars working in Biblical Studies and late antiquity, originally shared at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society.
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Calling all Association for Jewish Studies members! Today's email includes a link to a very important survey that will directly shape the priorities of the organization. Have you been happy? Frustrated? Let AJS know! The survey results will have a direct impact!
It was such a joy to participate last May in this panel on Virginia Burrus's book Earthquakes and Gardens. You'll be able to read all the papers at the AJR forum this week.
Ancient Jew Review@ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis week on AJR, a book review forum on Virginia Burrus' Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society. We begin with an introduction from Peter Anthony Mena www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...
I am helping the Massachusetts Board of Education revise their 6th grade "Abrahamic Religions" unit and was able to direct them to @sblsite.bsky.social's Bible Odyssey resources. Very thankful it exists!
A bit of news! I have accepted a tenured position at Denison University. They recruited me to chair their Religion department, architect a rebuild of its curriculum, and help launch a Jewish studies program. I formally begin July 1st.
Calling all Professors of Religion! Do you teach an intro to the study of religion course? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? Collecting for research purposes.
New essay in a forum on Bavli studies from Yitz Landes, who brings Book History to the study of the Talmud's reception. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...
Book Historical Bavli Questions — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
The book historical question that I will focus on here is the question of the Talmud’s initial reception, of what we may call its canonization. And I mean this not in the sense of its coalescing as…
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Today is the FINAL day for submissions. Rabbinics would love to feature your work!
Krista Dalton@kristadalton.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe SBL call for papers is open for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver. Consider submitting a proposal to the Rabbinic Literature and Culture program unit. @yitzl.bsky.social and I are happy to answer any questions! members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...
The SBL call for papers is open for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver. Consider submitting a proposal to the Rabbinic Literature and Culture program unit. @yitzl.bsky.social and I are happy to answer any questions! members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6mo agoFirst trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776' • Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War • Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind • Has SAG voice actors
