Jonathan Robinson
@jonrobinnz.bsky.social
χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη
Ostensible Bible Scholar
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Publications: https://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
Ostensible Bible Scholar
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Publications: https://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
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Jonathan Robinson
@jonrobinnz.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Kia ora koutou! (be well, everyone)
I'm loving all the new follows. And feeling the pressure not to disappoint.😜
I am a New Testament teacher/researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand. I have also served in churches in the UK (where I'm from) and NZ. 1/4
I'm loving all the new follows. And feeling the pressure not to disappoint.😜
I am a New Testament teacher/researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand. I have also served in churches in the UK (where I'm from) and NZ. 1/4
interested!
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...
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 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
interested!
another one bites the dust
August 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
another one bites the dust
So, I think the (professional) copy editor has introduced a number of grammatical errors into my manuscript - presumably caused by not understanding the sentence, and possible prompted by an AI grammar checker. 1/
July 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So, I think the (professional) copy editor has introduced a number of grammatical errors into my manuscript - presumably caused by not understanding the sentence, and possible prompted by an AI grammar checker. 1/
proofs day!
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
July 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
proofs day!
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
is it me or has LOEB online gone up in price dramatically? I am no longer allowed to buy it in USD, but have to buy in pounds or Euro.
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
is it me or has LOEB online gone up in price dramatically? I am no longer allowed to buy it in USD, but have to buy in pounds or Euro.
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AI is not powerful enough to dominate. Right now a lot of its biggest investors are panicking because it doesn't work as promised. So they're trying to offload their debt onto consumers by making AI seem inevitable. It's a Ponzi scheme, and once they get their money back the marketing will stop.
June 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
AI is not powerful enough to dominate. Right now a lot of its biggest investors are panicking because it doesn't work as promised. So they're trying to offload their debt onto consumers by making AI seem inevitable. It's a Ponzi scheme, and once they get their money back the marketing will stop.
new blogs in the theology/bible space xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-fr...
A Fresh Crop of New Blogs
I've been hearing rumours that blogging is making a comeback. Some of us never went away, but I admit, it's been slim picking round here for...
xenos-theology.blogspot.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
new blogs in the theology/bible space xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-fr...
book recommendations wanted please: what are the key important eco-theology / creation care books / resources that a theological library should have in stock?
June 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
book recommendations wanted please: what are the key important eco-theology / creation care books / resources that a theological library should have in stock?
great thread. obrigado!
What truly new things have we learned about how the prophetic books of the Bible came to be? An interview I just did with @haydentank.bsky.social made me reflect on how I was completely wrong on a key point and what a great recent book tells us about the values behind ancient Hebrew literature. 🧵
May 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
great thread. obrigado!
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Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)
May 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)
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I never really researched Nuremberg, so I was unaware until today that the famous “Nuremberg Defense” (“we were just following orders”) was not, in fact, the only defense offered by Nazi criminals at Nuremberg.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I never really researched Nuremberg, so I was unaware until today that the famous “Nuremberg Defense” (“we were just following orders”) was not, in fact, the only defense offered by Nazi criminals at Nuremberg.
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need to sample this for a bass synth! also, yay for kākāpō!
A milestone: #kakapo mating calls have been heard on the North Island of NZ for the first time in over a century. At least 2 of the 3 #kakapo males at the fenced sanctuary of Maungatautari have "boomed" this summer. #conservation www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Video: www.scienceagency.co.nz
May 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
need to sample this for a bass synth! also, yay for kākāpō!
Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?
Book Review ouch: "There is a basic historiographical nettle here which Strelan refuses to grasp, or grasps so weakly that he comes away badly stung." 1/3
April 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Book Review ouch: "There is a basic historiographical nettle here which Strelan refuses to grasp, or grasps so weakly that he comes away badly stung." 1/3
yep. i don't care how many crimes a person has committed this kind of punishment is a crime against humanity. there should be heavy sanctions from right thinking nations against the USA and El Salvador over this.
Duncan writes that Christians need to recognize that what the Trump administration is doing to these men is not only unjust, it is evil.
The Trump Administration is Throwing People in Hell
Even if the White House were to prove its claims that these men broke the law, there is no justification for what President Donald Trump and his subordinates are doing.
buff.ly
April 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
yep. i don't care how many crimes a person has committed this kind of punishment is a crime against humanity. there should be heavy sanctions from right thinking nations against the USA and El Salvador over this.
My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)
April 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)
Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!
genius. this needs an update to include the use of AI. possibly on the topic of Vegetative Electron Microscopy. Happy Birthday Tom.
At number seven, Lobachevsky a song about academic plagiarism. And, naturally, Lehrer manages to take a dull topic and turn it into an absolute banger of a tune. /9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHa...
Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky
YouTube video by FreddeTl
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
genius. this needs an update to include the use of AI. possibly on the topic of Vegetative Electron Microscopy. Happy Birthday Tom.
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The Revelation Reception Network has a website!
The Revelation Reception Network - Universität Regensburg
The Revelation Reception Network is an international scholarly network that focuses on the historical and contemporary reception of John’s Revelation (Apocalypse). The interdisciplinary network was…
www.uni-regensburg.de
April 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Revelation Reception Network has a website!
no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦♂️
April 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦♂️
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Archaeoethnologica: Conversing with Chaos in Antiquity - Book / Conversando com o Caos na Antiguidade - Livro
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv...
#AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv...
#AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky
April 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Archaeoethnologica: Conversing with Chaos in Antiquity - Book / Conversando com o Caos na Antiguidade - Livro
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv...
#AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv...
#AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky
article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.
April 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.
ok, i hadn't thought about it like that. hmmm.
1/x I fear some have interpreted this as suggesting that Eisgruber (Princeton’s president) wasn’t being that courageous. That wasn’t at all my intention: I have a very high opinion of him, and the act deserves great praise. What I did mean is a little complicated, though…
Those wondering why Princeton’s president has spoken out while other U.S. university presidents haven’t are missing something obvious:
Princeton doesn’t have a medical school. It relies very minimally on federal science funding.
Your ethical conclusions may vary, but that’s the reality.
Princeton doesn’t have a medical school. It relies very minimally on federal science funding.
Your ethical conclusions may vary, but that’s the reality.
March 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
ok, i hadn't thought about it like that. hmmm.
one part of me think 👼, stay out of all the pointless culture war antagonism online, the other part of me 😈, I'm saving this meme for later!
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
one part of me think 👼, stay out of all the pointless culture war antagonism online, the other part of me 😈, I'm saving this meme for later!