Sara Ronis
@sararonis.bsky.social
associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things.
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today in demonology: selections from @sararonis.bsky.social’s wonderful book on demonological discourses in pre-rabbinic and rabbinic sources.
highly recommended this book. it’s sharp, incisive, and beautifully written.
highly recommended this book. it’s sharp, incisive, and beautifully written.
Demons in the Details by Sara Ronis - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.
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Thinking about this midrash I learned with @sararonis.bsky.social
The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2
The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2
January 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Thinking about this midrash I learned with @sararonis.bsky.social
The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2
The Roman Empire is like a pig - just as a pig covers itself in mud but shows off its hooves as if to say "look how kosher and clean I am!" Rome is prideful and violent and thieving but loves to show off its courts of justice. 1/2
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One of my fav NYE fun facts:
We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania
We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my fav NYE fun facts:
We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania
We celebrate the new year on Jan 1 in large part because the Roman senate needed to hastily appoint Q. Fulvius Nobilior as consul before the start of the year (then, the Ides of March), so that he could go fight the revolting Celtiberi in Hispania
Joining the club of people finishing their conference papers on the plane, and boy do I not like this.
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Joining the club of people finishing their conference papers on the plane, and boy do I not like this.
Going to be at AJS? Come hear my truly wild paper, as part of the panel "Getting Together, Splitting Up: Representations and Realities of Marriage and Divorce in Premodern Jewish Communities." Mon, December 15, 3:15 to 4:45pm.
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Going to be at AJS? Come hear my truly wild paper, as part of the panel "Getting Together, Splitting Up: Representations and Realities of Marriage and Divorce in Premodern Jewish Communities." Mon, December 15, 3:15 to 4:45pm.
This is excellent!
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is excellent!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
For all my concerns about the Babylonian incantation bowls, you cannot deny that this demon's shoulder pads are absolute🔥
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For all my concerns about the Babylonian incantation bowls, you cannot deny that this demon's shoulder pads are absolute🔥
‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time, the tobacco industry pointed to research it subsidized at universities to claim its products were healthy.’ - Olivia Guest.
Curious about folks' thoughts on this.
Curious about folks' thoughts on this.
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time, the tobacco industry pointed to research it subsidized at universities to claim its products were healthy.’ - Olivia Guest.
Curious about folks' thoughts on this.
Curious about folks' thoughts on this.
Doing some reading of publications of Babylonian Incantation Bowls this morning, and reminded all over again about how unhealthy the infrastructure of this field is, from its very foundation on unprovenanced materials, to the requirement to receive the patronage of wealthy collectors (1/2)
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Doing some reading of publications of Babylonian Incantation Bowls this morning, and reminded all over again about how unhealthy the infrastructure of this field is, from its very foundation on unprovenanced materials, to the requirement to receive the patronage of wealthy collectors (1/2)
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Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature
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July 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Particularly interesting to me that the "West" here is represented by Israel, with Bibi kneeling, and the message doubled in Hebrew on the right.
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Particularly interesting to me that the "West" here is represented by Israel, with Bibi kneeling, and the message doubled in Hebrew on the right.
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"masterful" and "an indispensable resource"--Max Strassfield's glowing review of @sararonis.bsky.social's DEMONS IN THE DETAILS at Reading Religion
readingreligion.org/978052038617...
readingreligion.org/978052038617...
Demons in the Details - Reading Religion
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara R...
readingreligion.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"masterful" and "an indispensable resource"--Max Strassfield's glowing review of @sararonis.bsky.social's DEMONS IN THE DETAILS at Reading Religion
readingreligion.org/978052038617...
readingreligion.org/978052038617...
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Just posting this Jewish Women's Archive article about the deportation of Emma Goldman and over 200 other accused anarchists in 1918 for... reasons jwa.org/thisweek/dec...
Deportation of Emma Goldman as a radical "alien" | Jewish Women's Archive
On December 21, 1919, Emma Goldman, along with 248 other radical "aliens," was deported to the Soviet Union on the S.S. Buford under the 1918 Alien Act, which allowed for the expulsion of any alien fo...
jwa.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Just posting this Jewish Women's Archive article about the deportation of Emma Goldman and over 200 other accused anarchists in 1918 for... reasons jwa.org/thisweek/dec...
Jews who are involved in synagogues in Texas: my schedule opened up for Shavuot. PM me if your synagogue wants to bring me in as a scholar-in-residence.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jews who are involved in synagogues in Texas: my schedule opened up for Shavuot. PM me if your synagogue wants to bring me in as a scholar-in-residence.
Squeeeeeeee.
today in demonology: a chapter from another book i wish i wrote, by @sararonis.bsky.social.
there are book titles, and then there are book titles that slay us. and books that slay us too. check it out.
there are book titles, and then there are book titles that slay us. and books that slay us too. check it out.
Demons in the Details by Sara Ronis - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
February 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Squeeeeeeee.
Sarah Bond and Stephanie Wong offering brilliant context for the "Roman" salute.
The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute
Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.
hyperallergic.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sarah Bond and Stephanie Wong offering brilliant context for the "Roman" salute.
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
Hello academic friends! I'm looking for either articles, podcasts, or short YouTube videos on the "manosphere" and the different models of masculinity that it promotes. Appropriate for undergraduates. Any suggestions? Thanks!
January 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hello academic friends! I'm looking for either articles, podcasts, or short YouTube videos on the "manosphere" and the different models of masculinity that it promotes. Appropriate for undergraduates. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Call for Applications: 2025 Contingent Faculty & Independent Scholars Research Grants
Deadline: February 3, 2025
The AJS will award $1,000 research grants to assist scholars who do not have any guaranteed institutional funding.
Learn more and apply now:
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Deadline: February 3, 2025
The AJS will award $1,000 research grants to assist scholars who do not have any guaranteed institutional funding.
Learn more and apply now:
#ajs #jewishstudies
AJS Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants
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December 26, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Call for Applications: 2025 Contingent Faculty & Independent Scholars Research Grants
Deadline: February 3, 2025
The AJS will award $1,000 research grants to assist scholars who do not have any guaranteed institutional funding.
Learn more and apply now:
#ajs #jewishstudies
Deadline: February 3, 2025
The AJS will award $1,000 research grants to assist scholars who do not have any guaranteed institutional funding.
Learn more and apply now:
#ajs #jewishstudies
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Lots to unpack here, but I’ll just say: The U.S., which has won innumerable military victories, messed with Canada once.
In response, they marched on our country and burned the White House to the ground.
Not really a flannel-wearing bear I’d want to poke, tbh.
In response, they marched on our country and burned the White House to the ground.
Not really a flannel-wearing bear I’d want to poke, tbh.
December 24, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Lots to unpack here, but I’ll just say: The U.S., which has won innumerable military victories, messed with Canada once.
In response, they marched on our country and burned the White House to the ground.
Not really a flannel-wearing bear I’d want to poke, tbh.
In response, they marched on our country and burned the White House to the ground.
Not really a flannel-wearing bear I’d want to poke, tbh.
My work laptop just died, and campus tech support is closed for two weeks. I assume all this happened intentionally to make sure I wasn't distracted from the 12 days of Christmas?
Looks like Christmas break is going to be an actual break...
Looks like Christmas break is going to be an actual break...
December 23, 2024 at 6:05 PM
My work laptop just died, and campus tech support is closed for two weeks. I assume all this happened intentionally to make sure I wasn't distracted from the 12 days of Christmas?
Looks like Christmas break is going to be an actual break...
Looks like Christmas break is going to be an actual break...
A fascinating update on religious freedom and laws prohibiting abortion in Indiana -
Success in Indiana: religious right to abortion left in place
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December 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM
A fascinating update on religious freedom and laws prohibiting abortion in Indiana -