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Ekaputra Tupamahu

@ekaputrat.bsky.social

Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.

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Joseph Foltz@jofoltz.bsky.social · last wk.

I couldn’t be happier to recommend Jennifer Barry’s (@jennisifire.bsky.social) new monograph to anyone working on (early) Christianity and/or the late ancient world! Check out my review of “Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination” here:

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

Jennifer Barry opens her new monograph, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination , by invoking Sara Ahmed’s notion of the “Feminist Killjoy.”

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Daniel C. Smith@dcsmith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My book, _An Exotic Apocalypse: Revelation and the Appropriation of Judaism in the Roman Empire_, is officially forthcoming with Penn State University Press. It'll be the inaugural book in their _Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean_ series.

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Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The phrase “washes up” is perhaps not the best way to describe a newly found fragment of Homer on parchment 📜 . But I do love that it’s Book 12 and dated to the 4th century CE—in Coptic. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/09/scra...

Scrap of 1700-year-old copy of The Odyssey washes up in Utrecht - DutchNews.nl

A 1700-year-old scrap of parchment containing verses from the Odyssey has been discovered in the library of Utrecht University. Researcher Mark de Kreij came across the fragile artefact two years ago ...

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Andrew Jacobs@drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Enabled by the same functional advantages that once made it the medium of choice for universal digital communication, text becomes increasingly estranged from us as it is made into fuel for the models and machines." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tex...

When Words Are No Longer for Us

Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed@annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm quoted in this @bostonglobe.com piece on Alice Hoffman's new book, *Witches of Cambridge*--which had its seed in a paper for my "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" class @harvarddivinity.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/a...

Burnt out on publishing, Alice Hoffman finds new magic at Harvard - The Boston Globe

The "Practical Magic" author's work at the Divinity School led her back to the art she loved.

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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

Column: Dolly Parton inspired me with lyrics that chronicled the travails of women who endured sexism and unequal pay in the workplace. In her song “9 to 5,” Parton sang, “There’s a better life, and you think about it, don’t you?” I did.

Column | The financial (and life) lessons I learned from Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’

Facing workplace sexism and bias, Dolly Parton’s message of resilience offers the strength to keep fighting for your worth.

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Dr. Nick Posegay@nposegay.northsky.social · 3mo ago

I am very tired of academics and feel compelled to spend the day looking at cool manuscripts. The undertext here is John 14–15 in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (~700 CE), a dialect similar to Jewish Palestinian Aramaic written in a script resembling Syriac. The overtext is Hebrew poetry copied ~900.

Brownish parchment manuscript folio with several sections torn from the edges, sitting on a blue background. There are about 30 lines of Hebrew text in black ink, which appear upside-down from this perspective. Behind the Hebrew is about 20 lines of light-brown, much-faded Christian Palestinian Aramaic text in 2 columns. The classmark is CUL T-S 16.98 (additional images here: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00016-00098/1)Multispectral image photograph of the same manuscript from the previous image. The Hebrew text now appears bright teal, clearly distinct from the Aramaic text behind it, which is now dark purple. The background looks grey.
Ekaputra Tupamahu@ekaputrat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m really pleased to receive the news that I’ve been elected as a full member of the Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). Many thanks to Jostein Ådna and Tat-siong Benny Liew for writing letters of nomination on my behalf.

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Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is a Eurocentric denialism maybe rooted in an original Greek sense of inferiority: Egyptians and Hittites produced whole written literatures while Greek peoples were still nonliterate. They left prose annals and memorial inscriptions where Greek bards left us beautiful, myth-saturated poetry.

Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.
Andrew Jacobs@drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

okay the rough outline has shifted a bit to make room for more in-class work on the final "casting the saints" assignment. also including snapshot of (rough draft!) of the assignments. comments welcome (but please be nice I'm fragile!)!

SCHEDULE You will find links to readings and guided questions on the Canvas module for that day. All readings must be done before coming to class and you must bring readings with you to facilitate discussion. Please reach out if you have any difficulty accessing Canvas, the modules, or the readings. On (most) Wednesdays we will also be setting aside time for an advising activity (more details on Canvas in the module for that day). Aug 26 (W): Introductions: Ethics in the Liberal Arts No readings Aug 31 (M): The ethics of Superman (1): Origins Readings: Action Comics #1 (1938); Saints: A Very Short Introduction, introduction Sep 2 (W): The ethics of Superman (2): Adaptations Reading: Superhero Ethics (excerpt) Sep 7 (M): Christian sainthood: the basics Reading: Saints: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 1 Sep 9 (W): How to read a saint’s life Reading: Jerome, Life of Paul the First Hermit Sep 14 (M): Apostles Reading: Acts of Paul and Thecla Sep 16 (W): Martyrs Reading: Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas Sep 21 (M): Yom Kippur: No class Sep 23 (W): Monks Reading: Theoderet of Cyrus, “On Simeon the Stylite” Sep 28 (M): Holy harlots Reading: Life of Pelagios Sep 30 (W): Casting the saints: in-class workshop Oct 5 (M): Reading days: No class Oct 7 (W): Presenting the saints (1) Oct 12 (M): Presenting the saints (2) Oct 14 (W): Looking ahead ASSIGNMENTS Your grade in this class will be based on the following components: 1) Participation: 30%. Your presence in every class in required; while in class you must demonstrate evidence of preparation, attention, and participation. To facilitate active participation you must take notes on readings in your Commonplace book and every class will begin with a common question about the reading. 2) Ethical analysis: 15%. A directed analysis of the ethical decisions and quandaries in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas drawing on discussions in class on September 16. Due by 5pm on September 24 3) Ethical comparison: 15%. A directed comparison of the morality and humanity of Simeon and Pelagios drawing on discussion in class on September 28. Due by 5pm on October 8. 4) Casting the saints: 20%. A creative assignment in translating a saint’s life into a modern media property, begun in group discussions on September 30; brief individual presentations in class on October 7 and October 12; artifact due by 5pm on October 14. 5) Commonplace book check-ins: 10% (total). Twice during the quarter I will ask you to upload notes (from readings or in class) taken in your Commonplace book. 6) Engaging grounds: 10% (total) More information on all assignments can be found on Canvas and all written work will be turned in to and returned through Canvas. I prefer that you do not use generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to do written work.
Andrew Jacobs@drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 5mo ago

okay I have a veeeeeery rough outline of this class for context: it's a half-semester first-year course engaging ideas about ethics i'm using (modern, u.s.) superheroes as my theoretical framework then we close read these lives to probe the moral/physical limits of humanity