In the Season 2 finale of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Rebecca Krawiec tells us about Christian women from late antiquity who sought to transform their bodies inside and out.

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New episode! People groups, power, hierarchy, and othering - big themes in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In this episode we learn from Dr. Jackie Murray about what race was and wasn’t in Ancient Greek literature. www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/rac...

Tell your libraries (and wealthy humanities-supporting philanthropists) that my book _God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas_ can be pre-ordered!🏺

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Why does sex education matter? Can menstruation cure rabies? Join us as we talk with Dr. Shai Secunda about the Babylonian rabbis’ science of blood and menstruation in Zoroastrianism! www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/bad...

Share with your friends! To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth we’re giving away a guest’s book every week in March! Post a review of the podcast on your favorite app to be entered into that week’s drawing. On Sunday every week we’ll draw a winner.

I am happy to announce the successful defense of my dissertation @Princeton! It’s been an incredible journey with some pretty amazing people.

In S2E4 of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Julia Watts Belser sat down with us to talk about blemishes in rabbinic Judaism, dancing at weddings, and where their (and our) ideas about disability become harmful.

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New position at The Jewish Theological Seminary: The inaugural Robert S. Rifkind Chair in American Jewish history (open-rank, tenure track) 🗃️

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Interested in some preliminary thoughts on ethnicity and ritual violence in Revelation? Check out my session today at #AARSBL24