@kazhayashi.bsky.social
PhD Hebrew Bible / Old Testament || Associate Professor of Old Testament at Bethel University/Seminary || Biblical Archaeologist || Bible and Christianity in Japan, Anime, and Manga
SBL proposal submitted! Good luck to those trying to make the March 4th deadline!
02.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I presented my paper on AI and spiritual formation! It’s nice to be back at my Alma mater and attend Baylor’s Symposium on Faith and Culture!
27.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s in the impact of AI in Christian higher education! I specifically address the question of how generative AI makes educators reassess the importance of spiritual formation in our teaching!
20.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Me prepping my conference paper in presenting next week at Baylor University’s Symposium on Faith and Culture.
20.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy Valentines Day! Did you know that the first time the Hebrew word אהב “love” appears in the Bible is when God tells Abraham to sacrifice Isaac whom Abraham “loves” (Gen 22:2)? This story captures the main themes of the Bible “Love God” and “Love your neighbors” (Matt 22:37-40)
14.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my academic heroes passed away. Muraoka was the most influential Japanese Semitic linguist. But his life as a Japanese Christian is what really inspired me. I worked with him on a forthcoming publication and he was supportive of me as a junior scholar.
williamaross.com/2026/02/11/i...
The most expensive Pokemon card (a Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10) owned by Logan Paul is up for auction and is currently at 3.4 million dollars!
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First article of the year done! (It’s an article I’ve been working on this Christmas break!)
07.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want to go to this Batman museum… imagine all the artifacts from Gotham.
06.01.2026 22:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why does every streaming services have every language except Japanese when watching Pokemon which is a Japanese anime? I don’t get it. 😞
06.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scholarship is humbling. I spent days researching and I thought I learned everything I need to know about a topic. Then I found a publication on an inscription I didn’t know about which completely made me revise my draft. We have to be carful not to make rash conclusions!
05.01.2026 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s one of those days when you’re researching Old Persian inscriptions using books published in German. #academia #historian
24.12.2025 13:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me catching up on One Piece watching the story of Bartholomew Kuma. It’s one of the most emotionally moving story.
23.12.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One struggle when publishing on biblical archaeology, finding pictures and getting permission for pictures takes hours and sometimes even requires payment…
19.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cycle of a professor working at a teaching institution. I teach full time during the semester, I grade full time at the end of the semester, and I write full time once the semester is over.
18.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I am finally done grading hundreds of pages of papers after three days straight of grading…
17.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I will cherish the memories I have with Tom. I read his book Shifting Sands at TEDS, and I got to meet him when he visited my class. While I was a PhD student at Baylor, we had lunch at conferences and shared a good laugh and talked about archaeology.
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/milestones/t...
It’s the last week of classes @BethelSeminary and @BethelU! I am proud of my students! I set a time of reflection, and students realize how theological education is life changing! Those who didn’t know any Hebrew are now reading Ruth in Hebrew! Others know how to read OT genres! Hallelujah!
08.12.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Doktormutter Deirdre Fulton wrote a wonderful advent devotional that highlights the radical message of the Gospel. She encourages us to have hope in the midst of difficult times and reminds us that Scripture challenges us to pray for our adversaries!
alumni.web.baylor.edu/advent/2025-...
I was featured in Disciple Dojo’s video highlighting JM’s time in Boston! I met JM at Every Voice’s reception IBR/SBL!
I was glad to meet another Christian martial artist and talk about my research and the work of Every Voice!
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I want to honor the life of Gary Long. Gary was the first person who took me out after I moved to MN. He told me about the culture of Bethel, he resonated with the challenge of being a transplant in MN, and we shared the love we have for students and the OT. He will be missed.
02.12.2025 16:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I have been elected as a steering committee member of the Institute for Biblical Research’s Asian and Asian-American Biblical Interpretation! I am excited to serve along these amazing colleagues!
29.11.2025 23:03 — 👍 135 🔁 15 💬 14 📌 1
A common question I answered during SBL, “How’s life and weather like in Minnesota?”
Well I came back to a snow storm 🌨️ (the photo is my yard) and Next week, the lowest projected temperature is 5 degrees Fahrenheit/-15 Celsius! 🥶
I’m done with IBR/SBL.
I gave two presentations, one which was described as “a work of art.”
One highlight of my trip was visiting Harvard’s famous Museum of the Ancient Near East! (The curator is a friend of mine who works on the same archaeological excavation).
The last thing I did at SBL was organize Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Old Testament/Archaeology lunch!
I am so encouraged to see how friends are serving God and educating the next generation!
