Sari Fein, PhD
@sarifein.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies @ Smith College; human, cat, and chicken mom
Lots of wonderful advice here. SBL/AAR meetings can be overwhelming, but there are strategies for making them manageable, productive, and an unexpectedly large amount of fun.
okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Lots of wonderful advice here. SBL/AAR meetings can be overwhelming, but there are strategies for making them manageable, productive, and an unexpectedly large amount of fun.
PSA
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
August 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
PSA
Recommended read for anyone interested in magic, gender, and Judaism.
Some posts I've been dreaming of writing for ages, and this is one of them.
On Jewish women's folk rituals--
On wise women,
healers,
banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 )
and more, across the globe
with MUSIC
a BOOK LIST
and links to contemporary teachers --
come and learn.
On Jewish women's folk rituals--
On wise women,
healers,
banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 )
and more, across the globe
with MUSIC
a BOOK LIST
and links to contemporary teachers --
come and learn.
Jewish women's folk ritual
wise women, healers, banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 ) and more, across the globe
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Recommended read for anyone interested in magic, gender, and Judaism.
I think I just wrote a piece of queer theology?
April 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I think I just wrote a piece of queer theology?
Still looking for a fascinating session to be a part of at #AARSBL 2025? Consider SBL's Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism unit's panel on "the street"!
March 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Still looking for a fascinating session to be a part of at #AARSBL 2025? Consider SBL's Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism unit's panel on "the street"!
I'm delighted to be a co-organizer of this important and timely conference. If you're in the area this week, please join us! @smithcollege.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I'm delighted to be a co-organizer of this important and timely conference. If you're in the area this week, please join us! @smithcollege.bsky.social
I'm excited to be offering a lecture in the Emerging Voices in Judaic Studies Series at @utknoxville.bsky.social tomorrow evening (5 Feb). Jewish history, women's history, reproduction, magic! You can register for the link here: calendar.utk.edu/event/sari-f...
Sari Fein, “'I urge the Spirit Who Sits on the Womb': Jewish Women’s Reproductive Practice in the Ancient World”
In the ancient world, reproduction was critically important yet fraught with risk. Survival of not only the family but the community itself was dependent upon women's success in conceiving, bearing, a...
calendar.utk.edu
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I'm excited to be offering a lecture in the Emerging Voices in Judaic Studies Series at @utknoxville.bsky.social tomorrow evening (5 Feb). Jewish history, women's history, reproduction, magic! You can register for the link here: calendar.utk.edu/event/sari-f...
First week of classes at @smithcollege.bsky.social , let's go!
This semester, teaching Motherhood in Early Judaism, Women and Gender in Jewish History, and Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity ✨
This semester, teaching Motherhood in Early Judaism, Women and Gender in Jewish History, and Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity ✨
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
First week of classes at @smithcollege.bsky.social , let's go!
This semester, teaching Motherhood in Early Judaism, Women and Gender in Jewish History, and Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity ✨
This semester, teaching Motherhood in Early Judaism, Women and Gender in Jewish History, and Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity ✨
Reposted by Sari Fein, PhD
good morning to humanities professors trying to teach empathy in an increasingly cruel world, and only humanities professors.
i hope your coffee is really good today.
i hope your coffee is really good today.
January 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
good morning to humanities professors trying to teach empathy in an increasingly cruel world, and only humanities professors.
i hope your coffee is really good today.
i hope your coffee is really good today.
I feel this lion's pain.
January 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I feel this lion's pain.
Happening now at the AJS annual conference: "Queering the Futures of the Past: Reading Ancient Jewish Eschatology with Queer Theory" with @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social , @brownsmith.bsky.social , Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, @jaedarising.bsky.social and myself. Join us!
December 17, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Happening now at the AJS annual conference: "Queering the Futures of the Past: Reading Ancient Jewish Eschatology with Queer Theory" with @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social , @brownsmith.bsky.social , Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, @jaedarising.bsky.social and myself. Join us!
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TOMORROW!
AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH
Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH
Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
TOMORROW!
AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH
Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH
Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw
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How to cite the Bible? Ethan Schwartz shares his handout for students.
Guide to Biblical Citations: Teaching Resource — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
In my experience, teaching introductory-level classes in Bible and ancient Judaism is a constant process of realizing that things that are intuitive to me are not at all intuitive to my students.…
buff.ly
December 11, 2024 at 5:25 PM
How to cite the Bible? Ethan Schwartz shares his handout for students.
We're only a week away from the AJS online conference and I'm so excited to convene a panel on Teaching Rabbinic Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom with brilliant teachers Matthew Haas, @kristadalton.bsky.social, Erez DeGolan and Madeline Wyze.
December 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
We're only a week away from the AJS online conference and I'm so excited to convene a panel on Teaching Rabbinic Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom with brilliant teachers Matthew Haas, @kristadalton.bsky.social, Erez DeGolan and Madeline Wyze.
Happy Bible nerd after 2 days of great panels (incl. teaching the Bible with film, color in ancient synagogues, maternal voices in deuterocanonical lit., a review panel for The Prophetic Body), great tacos, and great catch-ups with great people over (occasionally great) coffee. Thanks SD! #sblaar24
November 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Happy Bible nerd after 2 days of great panels (incl. teaching the Bible with film, color in ancient synagogues, maternal voices in deuterocanonical lit., a review panel for The Prophetic Body), great tacos, and great catch-ups with great people over (occasionally great) coffee. Thanks SD! #sblaar24
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Border-crossing in Jewish Studies
University of Glasgow
7-9 July 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025
Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance:
bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/
University of Glasgow
7-9 July 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025
Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance:
bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/
November 12, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Border-crossing in Jewish Studies
University of Glasgow
7-9 July 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025
Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance:
bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/
University of Glasgow
7-9 July 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025
Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance:
bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/
Fully 40% of the people on this airplane flying from Boston to San Diego are frantically typing things about Bible on their laptops at 37000 feet (and I am proud to count myself among them). #sblaar24
November 22, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Fully 40% of the people on this airplane flying from Boston to San Diego are frantically typing things about Bible on their laptops at 37000 feet (and I am proud to count myself among them). #sblaar24
Reposted by Sari Fein, PhD
Do I know anyone who’ll be at SBL/AAR this weekend and is bringing an “OWL” device (something like the below link, not necessarily that exact version) that they’d let me borrow on Saturday afternoon?
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November 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Do I know anyone who’ll be at SBL/AAR this weekend and is bringing an “OWL” device (something like the below link, not necessarily that exact version) that they’d let me borrow on Saturday afternoon?
www.amazon.com/Meeting-Owl-...
www.amazon.com/Meeting-Owl-...
Honored to have an essay among the great work in this volume!
Happy Birthday Bible and Critical Theory!
So excited for this special issue!
Congratulations and thanks to Rhiannon Graybill, Rob Seesengood, and all of the amazing contributors!
@rhiannongraybill.bsky.social
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/volum...
So excited for this special issue!
Congratulations and thanks to Rhiannon Graybill, Rob Seesengood, and all of the amazing contributors!
@rhiannongraybill.bsky.social
bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/volum...
VOLUME 20, NO. 1 (2024)
bibleandcriticaltheory.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Honored to have an essay among the great work in this volume!
Hey y'all! I'm excited to be celebrating the 🎉 20th anniversary 🎂 of the journal the Bible and Critical Theory at #sblaar24 this weekend. Come join us! @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Hey y'all! I'm excited to be celebrating the 🎉 20th anniversary 🎂 of the journal the Bible and Critical Theory at #sblaar24 this weekend. Come join us! @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social
I benefited so much from the mentorship of the @jewish_studies AJS Paula Hyman Mentoring Program last year. Applications for 2024-2025 are due tomorrow (May 31). Early career scholars from underrepresented genders are encouraged to apply! www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional...
Paula Hyman Mentorship Program
www.associationforjewishstudies.org
May 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I benefited so much from the mentorship of the @jewish_studies AJS Paula Hyman Mentoring Program last year. Applications for 2024-2025 are due tomorrow (May 31). Early career scholars from underrepresented genders are encouraged to apply! www.associationforjewishstudies.org/professional...
Good morning SF! Looking forward to presenting at the @jewish_studies conference this afternoon as part of the panel "Beyond Gynaecology - female bodies, expertise, agency and competition in Jewish late antique culture(s)."
December 17, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Good morning SF! Looking forward to presenting at the @jewish_studies conference this afternoon as part of the panel "Beyond Gynaecology - female bodies, expertise, agency and competition in Jewish late antique culture(s)."
Self promotion always feels awkward but in the spirit of Hanukkah, I'm proud to share a recently published article on the Maccabean mother of seven. Queer theory! Martyrdom! Latkes! (Less so the last one.) brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
December 7, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Self promotion always feels awkward but in the spirit of Hanukkah, I'm proud to share a recently published article on the Maccabean mother of seven. Queer theory! Martyrdom! Latkes! (Less so the last one.) brill.com/view/journal...
Reposted by Sari Fein, PhD
queer, trans, religion people!
Please share!
The deadline for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference has been extended to the end of September!
Pass it on and get your proposals in!
studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...
Please share!
The deadline for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference has been extended to the end of September!
Pass it on and get your proposals in!
studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...
September 15, 2023 at 4:06 PM
queer, trans, religion people!
Please share!
The deadline for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference has been extended to the end of September!
Pass it on and get your proposals in!
studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...
Please share!
The deadline for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference has been extended to the end of September!
Pass it on and get your proposals in!
studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...