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Allison Barbee Evatt
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PhD student @ Emory - thinking about bodies, gender, and disgust in the New Testament & apocrypha
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today’s the day!!
Promo graphic for my book _Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions_. The graphic features a discount code for 30% off if you purchase directly from Oxford University Press. That code is AUFLY30 (case sensitive).
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion has a new website! Check it out: gdr.emory.edu
Home | Emory University | Atlanta GA
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November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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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My recent volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts, is currently on sale through Amazon for only $4. If you’re interested, here’s the link!

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October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.

so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions
Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature
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October 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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First day of my last year of coursework!! 🤪 but also how did I get here already 😳
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration Database is live at historyofincarceration.com.

Both the platform and the data are very much a work in progress, and we will continually update it over the coming years. I hope that it is useful, and if you would like to contribute, please do be in touch.
Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration online database
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August 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.
Abstract for my forthcoming article: This article seeks to overturn more than one hundred years of scholarship that has suggested that Asclepius, the preeminent Greek god of healing, was reputed to heal by touch. Previous scholars have interpreted a small number of Attic votive reliefs as depicting touch-miracles analogous to those attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. In light of epigraphic and literary depictions of Asclepius as a divine physician, I argue that some of these reliefs show Asclepius administering medical or surgical cures, while others represent Asclepius employing the physician’s compassionate hand (παιωνία χείρ). In contrast, Jesus is portrayed as a source of divine power, which he is able to transfer to a sick or injured person by means of a simple touch without any need for a physician’s techniques. Similar touch-miracles in the Septuagint and the Genesis Apocryphon indicate that antecedents for touch-miracles attributed to Jesus can be found not in Greek healing cults but rather in Jewish traditions. Keywords: Asclepius, Amphiaraus, Jesus, healing, miracle, touch, votive A relief found at the Asklepieion in Piraeus, which shows depicts a reclining woman in the center; a bearded Asclepius stands at the head of her bed and reaches down to touch her right shoulder with both hands. Behind Asclepius stands Hygieia, and at the foot of the bed are positioned a group of smaller figures including a bearded man, two women, and a child A votive relief dedicated by Archinos. The left part of the image contains two figures; the smaller individual, Archinos, extends his right arm to the larger figure, Amphiaraos, who holds the arm from below with his left hand while touching his upper arm or shoulder with his right hand. The scene on the right side of the image shows Archinos reclining on a bed with an attendant standing near his head. Coming up from behind the bed is a snake, whose mouth is open on Archinos’s shoulder.
August 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding
SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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For the last day of discussion groups in Interpretation of the New Testament, I had my students draw the pericope of the woman who anoints Jesus. They could go based off a specific passage, or from memory. Sharing (with permission) some of my favorites here!
Six different pencil illustrations of biblical passage. Features to note include Simon pictured with his mobility aids, the inclusion of the hammer the woman used to break the jar of ointment, purple sparkly oil created using lipgloss, and a realistic woman’s profile carefully washing the outstretched foot of Jesus.
April 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Just gave my first lecture ever and it went so well 🥹 academia is rough but days like today affirm I’m doing the right thing
April 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Today, @christycobb.bsky.social and I’s JSNT article dropped! Go read “The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies”

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The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies - Chance Bonar, Christy Cobb, 2025
Ancient Mediterranean literature and artistic depictions portray enslaved persons as diminutive, marginal, and non-descript—when they are portrayed at all. In t...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Thinking about the time I simply wrote “I’m sorry” for one of the essays on my AP language & composition exam…and now all I do is write 😮‍💨🤡
February 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I passed!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️
allisonbarbee.bsky.social Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · Dec 18
scheduled my Greek exam and I am scared 😀
January 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A little end of semester update 🤩
A screenshot of Fall semester grades showing term GPA as 4.0, with grades for 7 courses all reflecting “S” or “A.”
December 29, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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scheduled my Greek exam and I am scared 😀
December 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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This is the most Atlanta thing I’ve ever seen
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December 17, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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why does my immune system always choose to give up during finals week
December 9, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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I was so excited to try a new recipe tonight, only to realize the chicken I ordered for pick up “may contain traces of wheat.” #celiacdisease sucks sometimes 😢
December 3, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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my prof just apologized & asked me to repeat my comment b/c he was struck by how everything around me was pink - laptop, water bottle, shirt, etc.
Is the title "Elle Woods of New Testament scholars" taken?
November 18, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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the pomodoro technique is when you write one email and then scroll for 15 minutes. you do not need to fact check this
November 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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the SBL FOMO this year is SOOO real 😭
November 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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November has hit and I am tired 😩
November 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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sooo excited to announce that I’ve accepted an offer to attend @emoryuniversity @laneygradschool to get my PhD in New Testament!!! so so excited to be closer to home 🍑🤓
March 30, 2024 at 1:18 AM