Matthew J. Suriano

Shaming my alma mater.

Every Mennonite knows the story of the Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems who ran across Frozen River to escape capture. His pursuer fell through the ice and Willems sent back to rescue him. He was then rearrested, tortured and killed for his belief.

Friends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.

What was the funerary landscape like in Jerusalem during the post-exilic period? Were there multiple locations for dead kings? We know there were monumental tombs from the late monarchy on the Mt of Olives that were visible. Did these contribute to the Chronicler's value driven imagination? 2/2

Sorry for the late response.
I don't have thoughts on the specific wording in 2 Chr 21:20 (חמדה). Most commentaries have noted that the Chronicler played around with burial notices for kings they didn't like. The question for me is what sort of knowledge was working with. 1/2

Looking forward to this fascinating lecture, which I have the privilege of moderating.

Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the 2024-2025 season on April 16, 2025, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Dr. Kristine Garroway. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required: asor-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The paradox in Eshmun. is that he died at a young age without an heir. There's reason to believe his mother was responsible for his memorialization. This is why his sarcophagus has such an unusually long, extended narrative.
Probably also why we find curses here focused on progeny and lineage.
3/3

The preceding curse in Eshmun. finds interesting parallels with the death notices in the Book of Kings, where the ideals of a proper death are inverted in the Phoen. imprecations.
/joining royal ancestors > royal burial > succeeding progeny/
I point this out in Politics of Dead Kings.
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Pretty much what you stated in the first comment (skeet?). In Phoenician & neighboring cultures, they had this way of using the past to look to the future.
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Mild #spoiler alert for #Primal, but...

I was not expecting Philistines in Season 2

Man sitting in front of a giant chess board, on the black side, at a public library.

Playing chess on a giant board at the library this morning.

A few years back, I heard my wife outside telling someone "You'll never be able to read a book because you can never learn how to read. You're incapable." I was surprised, her words were so uncharacteristically cruel.

Then I realized she was talking to our dog.

And here is HeBAI 14/1 (2025):

A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

#anthropology #archaeology

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Mark Leone's passing. A renowned archaeologist who taught at the University of Maryland for years, he held the rank of Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Also crazy is that the only other person to play in the Final Four & a World Series was Tim Stoddard, who went to the same high school as Lofton, but years earlier!

Four people standing in a library in front of a screen that bears the title of the student's MA thesis: "Diachronic Development of Kinship Terminology in Pre- and Post-Exilic Biblical Literature."

Congratulations to my student Dana Levy for successfully defending her MA thesis in fulfillment of her degree in Jewish Studies at the UMD.
Pictured is Danya with her thesis committee: (me), Max Grossman, and Ed Cook from CUA. Professor Cook served as outside reader.
#Hebrew #Semitics

Cover af an offprint from the Israel Exploration Journal, "A Royal Dedicatory Inscription from Ekron." Autographed by the three authors: "With Compliments, Sy, Trude, and Joseph."

Found this while going thru some old papers!
Years ago when I was a fellow at the Albright in Jerusalem, the director Sy Gitin gave me a bunch of off-prints. This one, the editio princeps of the Ekron Inscription, is autographed by the three authors: Gitin, Trudy Dothan & Joseph Naveh.
#epigraphy

I gave this skeet a posthumous like, lol.

Good to see you on this new space!

Rogers Hornsby
Roy Campanella
Nolan Ryan
Derek Lee
Kyle Hendricks

At ASOR, looking forward presenting my preliminary work on a new edition of the two inscriptions from the Royal Steward's tomb.

Yes, good memories! Glad to see that you're doing well.

Also, my brother leads a much healthier lifestyle than I do.

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Followers = 666
The mark of bsky social

Same. I was #451,033.

Hey #Archaeology & #Classics bluesky! Can someone add @umdarchaeology.bsky.social to archaeology/anthropology and Classics/Ancient World lists & starter packs?
It's the account we use at the UMD for archaeology-related news on campus.

my collection of about 14,000 photos (and growing) of ancient Mediterranean (broadly construed) archaeological subjects with Creative Commons license available here:
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Near Eastern Archaeology sites and artifacts from the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean world

Sharing my Flickr album of Ancient Western Asian archaeology, mostly artifacts at museums, some landscapes.
#AncientBluesky #Archaeology

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