Simone
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Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit now with Professorial validation of my forays into Critical Theory (poor fellow)
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Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit now with Professorial validation of my forays into Critical Theory (poor fellow)
https://simonereadstexts.substack.com/
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But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'In the tavern's mirrors, they could look into the eyes of those turned away from the crowd, who were curled up, and unable to walk, and in those eyes you could see memories of an incident, an assault, a murder.'
'In the tavern's mirrors, they could look into the eyes of those turned away from the crowd, who were curled up, and unable to walk, and in those eyes you could see memories of an incident, an assault, a murder.'
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
“Because the truth was, and he knew it well, he had terrible cows.”
“Because the truth was, and he knew it well, he had terrible cows.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 AM
But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...
But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'In the tavern's mirrors, they could look into the eyes of those turned away from the crowd, who were curled up, and unable to walk, and in those eyes you could see memories of an incident, an assault, a murder.'
'In the tavern's mirrors, they could look into the eyes of those turned away from the crowd, who were curled up, and unable to walk, and in those eyes you could see memories of an incident, an assault, a murder.'
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
“Because the truth was, and he knew it well, he had terrible cows.”
“Because the truth was, and he knew it well, he had terrible cows.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:40 AM
But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...
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You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
A blue dog plays a drum in the bottom margin of f. 313r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
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Cryin' all the time
A blue dog plays a drum in the bottom margin of f. 313r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4pti1W1
January 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time
A blue dog plays a drum in the bottom margin of f. 313r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4pti1W1
Cryin' all the time
A blue dog plays a drum in the bottom margin of f. 313r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4pti1W1
Ok but are those accounts really similar? Maybe I guess
January 14, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Ok but are those accounts really similar? Maybe I guess
New Sun Zero Bracket Bracket Bracket? Good imo
January 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
New Sun Zero Bracket Bracket Bracket? Good imo
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Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Adorno: On Propaganda (ca. 1942/43)
Translation of an unpublished fragment from the materials for ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism.’
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January 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Burrowing owl - from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives 🪶
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Burrowing owl - from the CLM #PenAndInk Archives 🪶
conjugating verbs just to פְּעַל something
slaughtering a baby cow just to veal something
putting on a face mask just to peel something
January 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
conjugating verbs just to פְּעַל something
season's greetings to all who celebrate
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Santa Claus Is Jesus, by Racial Skeleton
track by Racial Skeleton
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December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
season's greetings to all who celebrate
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death cannot hold back light
and there is one who is merciful to those who sleep in the dust
and one day, the world will be renewed, and he will give life to the dead... one day
עד מתי...
and there is one who is merciful to those who sleep in the dust
and one day, the world will be renewed, and he will give life to the dead... one day
עד מתי...
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
death cannot hold back light
and there is one who is merciful to those who sleep in the dust
and one day, the world will be renewed, and he will give life to the dead... one day
עד מתי...
and there is one who is merciful to those who sleep in the dust
and one day, the world will be renewed, and he will give life to the dead... one day
עד מתי...
man, I'm not at all convinced that arguing with Christians about their religion is a good thing but I do sometimes wonder how they'd react to true things like "Paul was a metaphysical racist who thought that gentiles were incapable of moral agency and just really, really into sexual immorality...
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
man, I'm not at all convinced that arguing with Christians about their religion is a good thing but I do sometimes wonder how they'd react to true things like "Paul was a metaphysical racist who thought that gentiles were incapable of moral agency and just really, really into sexual immorality...
Time for the second attempt at a reading group in this bad boy
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Time for the second attempt at a reading group in this bad boy
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Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much
On "Paul Within Judaism"
After Adam Kotsko
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much
As a graduate student in a biblical studies programme I don't think this is correct - everyone in the field has stories of people they've encountered who thought like this, gone to uni to study the bible, learnt the requisite languages, and then realised how much more complicated everything is.
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
As a graduate student in a biblical studies programme I don't think this is correct - everyone in the field has stories of people they've encountered who thought like this, gone to uni to study the bible, learnt the requisite languages, and then realised how much more complicated everything is.
Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much
On "Paul Within Judaism"
After Adam Kotsko
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Right, new post, first in a while, forgive me I am sickly and suffer much
the Hebrew here is the least of the problems but like.... what do you even say about that treatment of Hebrew
the plagiarism machine writes better than this
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
the Hebrew here is the least of the problems but like.... what do you even say about that treatment of Hebrew
I'm experiencing anti-philology discrimination rn
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I'm experiencing anti-philology discrimination rn
studious but naive voice: it's good to see so many of my friends are really into gemara today, b"h
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
studious but naive voice: it's good to see so many of my friends are really into gemara today, b"h
I push my fingers into my eyes
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Motherfuuuckaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Uh!
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Motherfuuuckaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Uh!
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I push my fingers into my eyes
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
The best I've read recently have been more about the history of scholarship:
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The best I've read recently have been more about the history of scholarship:
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
I'm sorry but Kotsko seems straightfowardly correct here, and I'm confused by this response - I don't see him appealing to "long tradition rooted in Christian supremacy" - and I think the PWJ crew has a very unfortunate apologetic tendency to downplay or ignore the parts of Paul that are...
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'm sorry but Kotsko seems straightfowardly correct here, and I'm confused by this response - I don't see him appealing to "long tradition rooted in Christian supremacy" - and I think the PWJ crew has a very unfortunate apologetic tendency to downplay or ignore the parts of Paul that are...
teeing up my final paper on the Book of Job:
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
teeing up my final paper on the Book of Job:
Man I have incredible friends when I can say "I've been really interested in this stuff" and have someone just send me a copy of this as a birthday gift
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Man I have incredible friends when I can say "I've been really interested in this stuff" and have someone just send me a copy of this as a birthday gift
type of guy who finds out the race has been called from yeshiva world news
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
type of guy who finds out the race has been called from yeshiva world news
man I just remembered balam acab
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
man I just remembered balam acab
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe