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Andrew Jacobs may refer to:Andrew Jacobs (journalist), reporter for The New York Times and documentary film director and producer Andrew Jacobs (lawyer) (1906–1992), lawyer, judge, and Congressman from Indiana Andrew Jacobs Jr. (1932–2013), lawyer, Indiana state legislator, and Congressman from Indiana Andy Jacobs, British sports personality .. more

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 20

well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture

I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2

Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...

Gospel Thrillers: Get your copy of Gospel Thrillers

Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible is available in print and digital formats:Directly from the publisher, Cambridge University Press (digital and print)From an indepe...

scalar.usc.edu

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2h

yeah i don't think earmuffs, a sweater, and a cup of coffee are going to suffice here, Weather Avatar

weather app showing it's 28 degrees. there is a cartoon figure in pants and a sweater wearing earmuffs and holding a mug of something

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 14h

Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible job at Dartmouth

Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16h

My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...

Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters

Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.

hyperallergic.com

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17h

it's someone's job to find the exact right photo of Dawn French for these pieces and I think that's beautiful

The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17h

okay but I finally looked up the movie they made based on the story and it is banaaanas

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Cat Person (film) - Wikipedia

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 19h

another happy arrival! many thanks to @maiakotro.bsky.social for this highly polished gem!

get yours for 40% off (code: E25KTRST)!

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Maia Kotrosits, AFTER TRANSFORMATION: A LYRICAL HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY with a cover featuring a late ancient textual with a leaf

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19h

Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.

Screenshot of email which reads: Recently, there has been an increase in phishing attempts targeting University students, with several incidents reported over the past week. These scams have become more direct and aggressive, often involving individuals impersonating University officials to obtain sensitive information. It’s more important than ever to stay vigilant and informed to protect both your personal data and the University’s information.

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 20h

pilemaxxing

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 21h

The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).

Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex.
But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In
"Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about.
Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.)

What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The
"female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe.
This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.
"You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing.
When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it.

$Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…$

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 21h

also "we did it to save the filibuster" is not meaningful to anyone who hasn't been the senate for 150 years

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 21h

Alumni and friends of UVa Religious Studies: you are invited to our reception at the AAR/SBL annual meeting!

Sunday, November 23, 8-11pm at First Church Boston.

The venue is not a literal ship as in years past, but the etymology of “nave” keeps us in line with UVa tradition.

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 21h

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 21h

"The rest of this review will be grumpy..." BCMR, you never disappoint

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 22h

they honestly believe that when WH & congressional Rs renege on this "deal" they can go on TV all whiny and indignant ("How dare they we had a deal") and the US public will side with them instead of being furious at their incompetence?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
a writ of certiorari is denied.

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 1d

Our review forum of Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ continues with a contribution from Raphael Magarik. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophec

Weak Prophecy As A Critique of Just-So Secularization Stories — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

First, she argues that this distinction is not a historical shift from one sort of texts to another, but rather as a persistent, transhistorical tension, found both in biblical prophecies like Isaiah…

www.ancientjewreview.com

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

so weird I had it backwards! but obvs this makes more sense all around.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

I got to go on @mikemotia.bsky.social 's podcast, New Books in Late Antiquity, and talk about my new book, Things Unseen!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Ellen Muehlberger,

Podcast Episode · New Books in Late Antiquity · 11/10/2025 · 1h 14m

podcasts.apple.com

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 1d

I'm featured in Publisher's Weekly in the ramp-up to the #AARSBL book panel. If you're in Boston for the annual meeting, please come by.

AAR/SBL 2025: Changing People, Changing Worlds

Yale University religious studies scholar Yii-Jan Lin sees parallels between immigration stories and the Book of Revelation.

www.publishersweekly.com

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

i'm obviously angry at Senate Ds for caving for absolutely nothing because they realized their flights would be delayed, but when Schumer gives a predictable pissy press conference in 3 weeks whining about Senate R's "reneging on their deal," I will be incandescent w rage

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 1d

News story on the book launch for /The Pearlsong/ a few weeks ago

Celebrating 'The Pearlsong' through scholarship and song

A mystical poem recounting the tale of a Parthian prince sent to Egypt by his parents to recover a sacred pearl from the clutches of a monstrous serpent is the…

news.harvard.edu

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not even on the panel and I have a million questions!

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

am I misremembering that DB got permission from Bentley *not* to learn Armenian to translate some Athanasiana for the diss/book? (and did we already have this conversation?)

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

i keep seeing how faithful GDL's FRANKENSTEIN is to the novel so I assume it's just three hours of Robert Walton writing a letter to his sister from his arctic expedition ship

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Minor League rebranding season has begun. One or two teams either move and change names/identities (more common) or stay put but just totally rebrand like Salem (less common, but pumps up merchandise sales, which is not nothing). Anyway, the Salem Red Sox are now the...Ridge Yaks

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Dr. Christina Hotalen @drchristinah.bsky.social · 1d

MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!

(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)

Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

I remember a character in POISONWOOD BIBLE making the same observation--one of the white daughters who'd spent most of her adult life in Congo visiting her mother in the US after many years

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 2d

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

binghamton.interviewexchange.com

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