Michael Kochenash
@mkochenash.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow of Religious Studies at Washington & Jefferson College | pronounced "CAUTION-osh" | he/him
Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org
STAND UP FOR YALE
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My recent interview with Jacob Berman on History Valley, discussing Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God and my article "Better Call Paul 'Saul': Literary Models and a Lukan Innovation."
Luke-Acts and the Invention of Saul of Tarsus: Luke-Acts Isn't Real History! | Dr. Michael Kochenash
YouTube video by History Valley
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Excited to have a hard copy to consult and reread! Thanks, @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social!
Matthijs den Dulk@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 5mo agoAvailable now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!
Many thanks to Patrick and Greg for inviting me to chat about my research! (Also available as a podcast through Apple and Spotify.)
Hidden Literary Echoes: Homer & Virgil in the Book of Acts | Dr. Michael Kochenash | Ep. 24
YouTube video by Scriptural Works
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Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul is now available in hardback + paperback and I happen to have some spare copies. ***Repost if you’re interested and by March 31 I’ll randomly select a few people who will get a free copy in the mail.*** Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Just 6 days left to apply! Deadline: 8 March. Since this came up in some of the inquiries I've received: we can be flexible with the start date (ideally June 15), and there is no requirement to learn Dutch (whew!)
Matthijs den Dulk@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 7mo agoPlease share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.
Matthijs's book is interesting and convincingly argued—and it's open access! Check it out!
Matthijs den Dulk@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 5mo agoAvailable now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!
If you are mobile and want to do research related to this theme, this is a great opportunity. Matthijs is a great person to work with (as are the other biblical studies people on faculty there!), Radboud is a great place to work, and Nijmegen is a great place to live, even if only temporarily.
Matthijs den Dulk@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 7mo agoPlease share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.
Setting up camp at the nonprofit repository: hcommons.org/members/mkoc...
Michael Kochenash – Knowledge Commons
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University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...
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Very cool to be able to share that my nomination for membership in SNTS has been approved! Many thanks to Dennis MacDonald and @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social for nominating me!
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
H/t @miriamjane5.bsky.social “How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents”
From the privacy community on Reddit: How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
Explore this post and more from the privacy community
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Here’s the playbook: raid public coffers, dismantle public services, use the breakdown of infrastructure they engineer to scapegoat and repress political enemies, and to further privatize what was, is, and should be public.
How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)
Inspired by a misinterpretation of maritime law, the Bluths find themselves entangled in a scheme to sell the naming rights to the Gulf of Mexico. It's Arrested Development.
CRINT Essay Prize in Early Jewish and Christian Studies €1,000. (Post-)graduate students and those who received their PhD no earlier than Jan. 1, 2020 are eligible. Essay not exceeding 10,000 words (including footnotes) to Dr. Albertina Oegema (crintessay@gmail.com) by July 1, 2025.
Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
"Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum" published on 01 Jan 1974 by Brill.
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Happy new year! My conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social on his article “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology” is available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also support the podcast for $5/month on Patreon www.patreon.com/ItMeansWhatI...
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The preview of the eleven interviews recorded for 2025 so far will be available for free tomorrow wherever you listen to podcasts! Then my conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social will be available for free on the first.
This includes my article, "The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke's Irreconcilable Chronology." You can read it here: www.academia.edu/124333656/Th...
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y agoNew issue of Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 143, No. 3 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/53655
University in Paris: *advertises permanent job in my specific discipline, requires instruction in French* Me: Let's gooooooo!!! *opens Duolingo for the first time in three months*
The first interview for 2025 has been recorded! Thanks to @mkochenash.bsky.social for sitting down with me to discuss his article “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology.”
Thanks to the generosity of the Radboud Excellence Initiative, my article in the newest issue of 𝘑𝘉𝘓 is open access! Read it here: www.academia.edu/124333656/Th...
I have fantastic news! Today is the release day for my new book, "Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor," and it's currently Open Access on the T&F website! Take a look if you're interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, or metaphor theory. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative | The Devouring Metaphor | Est
This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language
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Happy NEH Fellowship submission deadline day to all who submit!
