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Sara Stone
@wordsfromastone.bsky.social
not Sarah, she/her • PhD researcher looking at victim-blaming in the Hebrew Bible at the University of Glasgow • Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk
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I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
jibs.hcommons.org
excited that my abstract for Oxford Intersections from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has been accepted! my article is titled ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear’
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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
June 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
working on my paper for the Scottish Universities Biblical Studies and TRS Postgraduate Workshop on Wednesday at @trsglasgowuni.bsky.social! my favourite part of academia is getting to make a PowerPoint
June 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
some reminder stickers to get me through the final year of my PhD (ft taylor swift of course)
May 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Ethnic Minority Christians and Scottish Identity 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The brilliant @nhatzaw.bsky.social is looking to speak to Christians from an ethnic minority/global majority background.

Interested? Contact Nuam at nhatzaw@ed.ac.uk.

Please share widely!
April 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation Embodiment in Scripture." Delighted to have this in my hands and delighted to have endorsed it. #CriticalBible
March 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I’m very happy to share that my book ‘Reimaging the Magdalene: Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation’ is now available to buy at all good booksellers (and the dodgy ones too).
March 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
jibs.hcommons.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Sara Stone
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
jibs.hcommons.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...
Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
jibs.hcommons.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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It's great to see this event expanded to include those in theology and religious studies, not just biblical studies. This has always been an excellent event and I've received some of the most robust and useful feedback here.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-u...
Scottish Universities Biblical Studies & TRS Postgraduate Workshop
SGSAH-sponsored day workshop for all PhD students in Biblical Studies & TRS in the Scottish universities
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I’m procrastinating my thesis and speaking about God as Mother-Bear at this! 🧸
Humanimal 2.0 online conference is comming up next week. Keynotes by Suzanna Millar, David M. Carr and Brian F. Kolia. My own contribution will be on animals worshiping in Revelation 4-5. Time to register!
www.humanimalconference.org/program
March 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...
The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think
If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...
religiondispatches.org
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Wrote on my experience of doing not-so-legitimate or serious scholarship @fsrinc.bsky.social!
Alexiana Fry's blog on "playful" scholarship in our @ The Table Mini-Series on Barbie and the Bible is live on fsrinc.org now! Thanks, Meghan Henning & @theopoet.bsky.social for your work on this series & the intro, respectively.

Read Dr. Fry's blog now at: www.fsrinc.org/either-youre...
January 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
marking my last exam from December and this student has used both Taylor Swift and Maisie Peters in their answer and made it relevant to the question (which I assigned) and I just feel like a proud mother 🥹
January 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
haven’t spoken about my research for a long while because ~mental health~ but I’m really looking forward to this!
January 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Back in September, my anthropologist colleague Ida Hartmann and I hosted a workshop with amazing folks from multiple disciplines. Today, the first article went live for our special issue on the proceedings! Check out Katherine Southwood’s return migration to her work: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15...
December 11, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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My Fleabag chapter which began as a paper at the first conference I attended from my shed (very 2020) is finally out in the wild, and in excellent company.
December 12, 2024 at 10:15 PM