Excited to have another article published before the end of my PhD! This time in a new interdisciplinary journal from @academic.oup.com. It’s titled “Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear” and is another little insight into my PhD thesis. doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Sara Stone
@wordsfromastone.bsky.social
not Sarah, she/her • PhD researcher looking at victim-blaming in the Hebrew Bible at the University of Glasgow • Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk
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Excited to have another article published before the end of my PhD! This time in a new interdisciplinary journal from @academic.oup.com. It’s titled “Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear” and is another little insight into my PhD thesis. doi.org/10.1093/9780...
excited that my abstract for Oxford Intersections from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has been accepted! my article is titled ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear’
working on my paper for the Scottish Universities Biblical Studies and TRS Postgraduate Workshop on Wednesday at @trsglasgowuni.bsky.social! my favourite part of academia is getting to make a PowerPoint
some reminder stickers to get me through the final year of my PhD (ft taylor swift of course)
🏴 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Ethnic Minority Christians and Scottish Identity 🏴 The brilliant @nhatzaw.bsky.social is looking to speak to Christians from an ethnic minority/global majority background. Interested? Contact Nuam at nhatzaw@ed.ac.uk. Please share widely!
"Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation Embodiment in Scripture." Delighted to have this in my hands and delighted to have endorsed it. #CriticalBible
I’m very happy to share that my book ‘Reimaging the Magdalene: Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation’ is now available to buy at all good booksellers (and the dodgy ones too).
I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
jibs.hcommons.org
I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Extended Call For Papers: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties
Extended Call For Papers: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties
CFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties Edited by Ilaria W. Biano Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time …
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It's great to see this event expanded to include those in theology and religious studies, not just biblical studies. This has always been an excellent event and I've received some of the most robust and useful feedback here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-u...
Scottish Universities Biblical Studies & TRS Postgraduate Workshop
SGSAH-sponsored day workshop for all PhD students in Biblical Studies & TRS in the Scottish universities
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I’m procrastinating my thesis and speaking about God as Mother-Bear at this! 🧸
Humanimal 2.0 online conference is comming up next week. Keynotes by Suzanna Millar, David M. Carr and Brian F. Kolia. My own contribution will be on animals worshiping in Revelation 4-5. Time to register! www.humanimalconference.org/program
Recent news about changes to the ESV translation
ESV Bible update includes 68 word edits, reverts Genesis 3:16 translation to 2001 wording
The English Standard Version Bible is undergoing its first text update in nearly a decade, with revisions to 36 passages across 42 verses, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee announced
christianpost.com
This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...
The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think
If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...
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Wrote on my experience of doing not-so-legitimate or serious scholarship @fsrinc.bsky.social!
Alexiana Fry's blog on "playful" scholarship in our @ The Table Mini-Series on Barbie and the Bible is live on fsrinc.org now! Thanks, Meghan Henning & @theopoet.bsky.social for your work on this series & the intro, respectively. Read Dr. Fry's blog now at: www.fsrinc.org/either-youre...
Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
marking my last exam from December and this student has used both Taylor Swift and Maisie Peters in their answer and made it relevant to the question (which I assigned) and I just feel like a proud mother 🥹
haven’t spoken about my research for a long while because ~mental health~ but I’m really looking forward to this!
Back in September, my anthropologist colleague Ida Hartmann and I hosted a workshop with amazing folks from multiple disciplines. Today, the first article went live for our special issue on the proceedings! Check out Katherine Southwood’s return migration to her work: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...
My Fleabag chapter which began as a paper at the first conference I attended from my shed (very 2020) is finally out in the wild, and in excellent company.
Final reminder of the Call for Papers for the international conference next year: "Theology and Integral Ecology: New Approaches to our Planetary Crisis". April 24-25 next year. Proposals invited on all aspects of theological approaches to nature. lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/conference20...