Michael Kochenash

Very cool! And kudos on the great endorsements!

Setting up camp at the nonprofit repository: hcommons.org/members/mkoc...

No problem! I do think they changed it recently, and it doesn’t make much sense.

It shows up after you sign in. It links to: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/sblpress/jbl

Not sure why you have to sign in to see it though; you have to sign in again on the SPC website. 🤷‍♂️

That’s too bad. Hope you find the right outlet for it!

If you haven't already, you might inquire with the Journal for the Study of Judaism.

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...

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...

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.”

I'll just say, I think it's imprudent to oppose calls to nuclear disarmament, especially because (1) possessing nuclear weapons has no material bearing on whether/how the US supports Ukraine and (2) there's no chance the GOP even entertains the idea of eliminating our nuclear arsenal anyway.

What am I missing? I’m no Tulsi fan, but she’s not saying anything here that Chomsky or the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wouldn’t say, right? Nuclear disarmament (even if one-sided, especially if it’s the US) would make the world safer. There’s just no reason to believe Trump would do it.

Ugh, that's awful.

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

H/t @miriamjane5.bsky.social “How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents”

Jesus and Other Sons of God - Baylor University Press In a world full of demigods, heroes, daimones, and Olympians, how did early Christians conceptualize Jesus’s divinity? What symbols, images, and literary ...

Coming soon from Baylor Press!!

www.baylorpress.com/978148132208...

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.

Another to add is @fairmediawatch.bsky.social

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.

Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum "Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum" published on 01 Jan 1974 by Brill.

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.

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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.

You might add @nosternl.bsky.social (Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion).

In my experience, 9-12 months is pretty typical with JBL, so I doubt there's anything worth checking in on at this point.

Thank you!

Can I join please?

Thank you!

Can I join please?

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...

Thank you!