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Dr Tom de Bruin
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(he/they) non-binary New Testament & Early Christianity scholar, author, sci-fi fan. Assistant Prof Radboud University | Editor of JIBS | Treasurer British NT Society.
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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · May 31
Awesome way to start the day! My article on nonhumans (animals and demons) in an early Christian text has been published in the Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha! It’s open access, so free for all to read!
Get it here: doi.org/10.1177/0951...
Article entitled Animals and demons: Nonhuman beings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Abstract reads: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In this text virtuous humans are protected from nonhuman animals and this protection is a sign of a person's virtue. Furthermore, nonhuman animals plot against human ones and attempt to gain mastery over them, using the same terms as would be used for other nonhuman, demonic forces possessing humans. This article suggests that in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, these types of nonhuman opponents are not neatly distinguished, and that these categories bleed into one another. This suggests that a less strong distinction in the classification and discussion of animals and spirits is beneficial for early Christian text
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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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October 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
The Trump administration demanding that UCLA screen international students for their political opinions and deny the existence of trans people is a fascist move plain and simple
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 15
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
3:164 • Make five years of payments — $200 million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations. • Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted. • Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor. • Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests." • Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized. • End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities. • Give the government access to "all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social
The British New Testament Society conference is taking place in Manchester. Tonight, we have a panel on decolonising New Testament Studies. #bnts25
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September 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
We're off to a great start in the new Reception, Critical Theory, and Interdisciplinary Studies seminar at #BNTS2025.

@tdbiii.bsky.social chaired our first session, which featured papers on decolonising hospitality, positionally and applying Bakhtin to Romans.
September 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
In-person booking for the conference may have closed, but online registration remains open until 31st August, at the lower rate of £60.

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August 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
🚨Booking closes tomorrow for in-person attendance. Don’t miss out!🚨
bntsoc.bsky.social British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Jul 10
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

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BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
August 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
There are just ten days left to book your in-person place for #BNTS2025 - booking will close Friday 15th August.
bntsoc.bsky.social British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Jul 10
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

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BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
tdbiii.bsky.social
My chapter on Christian fans of My Little Pony and their fan texts is now open access via my university! Really happy with how Dutch copyright works for academia! [link in first comment]
#fanfic #MLP #fanstudies #fan #fanfiction #fanfic #MLP #fanstudies
Screenshot of chapter entitled “the Bible and My Little Pony”
July 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
We’ve managed to secure some more en-suite rooms! Based on the first round these are likely to sell out quickly, so don’t delay.
bntsoc.bsky.social British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Jul 10
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

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BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
En-suite residential packages are already sold out - time to book your place!
bntsoc.bsky.social British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Jul 10
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

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BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
July 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
Ten days left to enter my book giveaway! Tell your friend to enter, (and tell your librarians to buy one please and thanks).
siobhanjolley.bsky.social Dr Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · Jun 22
I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!

💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)

Let’s see where it ends up…

#Giveaway
The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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bntsoc.bsky.social
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...
BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
July 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
tdbiii.bsky.social
So excited to see everyone in Manchester in September. I’ve already registrered!!!
bntsoc.bsky.social British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social · Jul 10
📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now.

estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...
BNTS 2025 poster, with the information from the Skeet.
July 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
Last week @tdbiii.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Soeterbeeck about contemporary feminist biblical reception. It was also the eighth hottest day since Dutch records began. Feeling very grateful for friends and colleagues able to be brilliant in extreme conditions and for what’s coming next!
My title slide with spooky trees overlaid with my name and the text ‘Feminist Afterlives: A Haunting’
July 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Britain has an especially rigid class structure which roughly breaks down into a very small number of people who actually matter and a vast rabble of inferior people who don’t matter at all. When the latter harshly criticise the former, the real people go *absolutely apeshit*.
iris #bsky @unallowedclown•22hS. this is all pure speculation on my part that isnt to be taken seriously - i think its that mainstream feminism is dominated by the concerns of middle to upper class white women who were given endless air time in the largest british newspapers to slander trans people whereas in JACK & @LOSERLABRYS • 1d does anyone know why britain is so particularly transphobic
July 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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voxweb.bsky.social
Het vertrouwen van de medezeggenschap in het college van bestuur staat ernstig onder druk. Dat schrijft de Universitaire Gemeenschappelijke Vergadering (UGV) in een open brief. Het ontbreekt aan transparantie, zelfreflectie, visie en zorgplicht.
Medezeggenschap hekelt gebrek aan reflectie bij college van bestuur: 'De relatie is afgelopen jaar verslechterd' - Vox magazine
Het vertrouwen van de medezeggenschap in het college van bestuur staat ernstig onder druk. Dat schrijft de Universitaire Gemeenschappelijke Vergadering (UGV) in een open brief. Het ontbreekt aan trans...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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alexianafry.bsky.social
After a lovely lunch, @tdbiii.bsky.social talks about how fans of The Chosen series believe the women characters are “liberated,” even as they are most certainly… not.
Tom in a linen orange/rust colored button up top and black tank underneath with two white colored beaded necklaces, in front of his laptop, and in the background on a tv screen the text says “‘liberated’ women of the chosen” tom de bruin (he/they) and a woman wearing a wrap on her head with the caption “he sees you” the chosen season two.
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
#ForBibleNerds and #Booksky, this might be for you.
June 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!

💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)

Let’s see where it ends up…

#Giveaway
The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
June 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
tdbiii.bsky.social
Holland is great for academia, all articles are Open Access after 6 months. Freely accessible today is my: 'My Body Made Me Do It: Noninvasive Possession in Early Christianity' in *Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives* (OUP 2024)
hdl.handle.net/2066/309371
My Body Made Me Do It: Noninvasive Possession in Early Christianity
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June 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Jesus.
cbsnews.com CBS News @cbsnews.com · Jun 12
A Florida sheriff warned protesters in a press conference on Thursday that "we will kill you, graveyard dead" if they throw weapons or point a gun at officers.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey made the remark at an event with local law enforcement that declared Florida as "The Anti-Riot State."
June 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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siobhanjolley.bsky.social
We're hosting the 2025 meeting of the Bible, Critical Theory and Reception Seminar here at @uomreligion.bsky.social today, with some great papers ahead.

If you're interested in joining us next year, drop @tdbiii.bsky.social, @drrebekah.bsky.social or me a line!
BIBLE CRITICAL THEORY AND RECEPTION SEMINAR The University of Manchester 10th June 2025 University Place, 6.208 and Zoom Welcome and Lunch Clair Hutchings-Budd Big Beard in the Sky: A preliminary exploration of Pratchett's Discworld novels as an ethical project. Jo Carruthers Is the Bible a dangerous book? Tom de Bruin Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique of Contemporary Interpreters' Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Coffee Break Taylor Weaver Christ-types and Paul-types: Is there a Paul-type? James Crossley Robin Hood's Bible Plans for next year Close Dinner at Bundobust (Oxford Road) bctrsem@gmail.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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alexianafry.bsky.social
Our second and third sessions are on Thursday, June 26th, featuring papers on HB/OT and reception, as well as female characters ( @jackiewyse.bsky.social; @tdbiii.bsky.social; @onikaprincess.bsky.social)! (3/4)
A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "TEXTS FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION." Below it, more details in black: "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 9-10.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Kirsi Cobb & Karen Langton." Below this in a grid of gold, with grey text: 9:00 is Queering Balaam by Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary; 9:30 is Psalm 22 as Impassioned Repudiation of Gendered Scapegoating: An Affective Model of Interpretation by Rena MacLeod, Central Queensland University; 10:00 is Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique: Contemporary Interpreters’ Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by Tom de Bruin, Radboud University. A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "FEMALE CHARACTERS." Below in black holds more details, "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 4-5.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Alexiana Fry & Karen Langton." in a gold grid with grey text, it says, 4:00, The Figure of Sarah at the Intersection of Gender and Narratology by Uta Schmidt, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau; 4:30, From Harem to Household: The Politics of Consent in Esther and Rhoda’s Stories by Princess O’Nika Auguste, Dublin City University; 5:00, A New Approach to Queen Julia Berenice: Hellenistic Queen, Pious Jew, and Diplomat by Emily Howe, Royal Holloway, University of London
June 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Study: 83% Of Web Content Unfit For Human Consumption
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Study: 83% Of Web Content Unfit For Human Consumption
June 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM