Katie Turner
@katieturnerphd.com
Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
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Katie Turner
@katieturnerphd.com
· May 19
Do you know of a museum, library, or archive that offers images from their collection for publication or presenting, for free?
Please use the form below to help crowd-source a list of these magical places!
Please use the form below to help crowd-source a list of these magical places!
Considering ~23% of working-age adults are disabled this seems proportionally correct. www.scope.org.uk/media/disabi...
That this % is more common at elite schools says more about a socio-economic disparity related to diagnosis and support than anything else, IMO.
On a personal note... 1/2
That this % is more common at elite schools says more about a socio-economic disparity related to diagnosis and support than anything else, IMO.
On a personal note... 1/2
I don't think people realize how much the use of academic disability accommodations has exploded over the past decade—especially at the most elite schools. More than 20 percent of Harvard and Stanford students apparently receive some form of accommodation:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Considering ~23% of working-age adults are disabled this seems proportionally correct. www.scope.org.uk/media/disabi...
That this % is more common at elite schools says more about a socio-economic disparity related to diagnosis and support than anything else, IMO.
On a personal note... 1/2
That this % is more common at elite schools says more about a socio-economic disparity related to diagnosis and support than anything else, IMO.
On a personal note... 1/2
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Please share!
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (289814) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion (289814), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, March 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Please share!
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen.
The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE.
#AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
There literally wasn't a single citation given. Even when she referred to the Bible--the ONLY text she refers to by name--she couldn't even cite which verses she quoting.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."
Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.
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This annotated bibliography makes accessible a body of material that can seem forbidding to non-specialists and reveals how valuable it can be for our understanding of the Roman empire -- well beyond histories of the Jews, rabbinics, or ancient Judaism more generally.
Super valuable contribution.
Super valuable contribution.
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This annotated bibliography makes accessible a body of material that can seem forbidding to non-specialists and reveals how valuable it can be for our understanding of the Roman empire -- well beyond histories of the Jews, rabbinics, or ancient Judaism more generally.
Super valuable contribution.
Super valuable contribution.
Sounds incredibly useful! Definitely one to watch.
#booksky
#booksky
I'm writing a textbook for the study of medieval manuscripts in the 21st century & am developing a framework that will be referenced throughout the book: ten touchpoints for medieval book history in Europe with six drivers of change. Here's how it will play out... (image: Codex Amiatinus) 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sounds incredibly useful! Definitely one to watch.
#booksky
#booksky
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If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
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🎙️ New episode!
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
Dr Katie Turner - Jesus Films and Historical Authenticity
Podcast Episode · European Review of History Podcast · 31/10/2025 · 1h 24m
podcasts.apple.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎙️ New episode!
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
This week Dr Katie Turner explores the complex — sometimes contentious — world of “Jesus films”.
Why does Jesus on screen so often look like a Hollywood leading man? And how have films shaped our imagination of the biblical world more than scholarship ever could?
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My latest book challenges two common ideas about modern antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th century: that it was uniquely mild in America and uniquely murderous in Germany. Through a comparative approach I show how both positions need to be retired.
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-Evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880-1945
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in b...
www.routledge.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My latest book challenges two common ideas about modern antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th century: that it was uniquely mild in America and uniquely murderous in Germany. Through a comparative approach I show how both positions need to be retired.
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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Happening this Friday!
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happening this Friday!
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person.
Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.
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Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
Cannot stop laughing at this clip from The Chosen of Romans carrying a chanukiah out of the Temple (during its destruction c70).
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Cannot stop laughing at this clip from The Chosen of Romans carrying a chanukiah out of the Temple (during its destruction c70).
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the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
Hard same.
I am Jewish historian of Christian medieval art. I am certain that knowing something about Catholicism has been pretty vital to my understanding of modernity.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hard same.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Clothing and Identity - new perspectives on textiles in the Roman Empire -- Project website
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
DRESS ID – University of Copenhagen
ctr.hum.ku.dk
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Clothing and Identity - new perspectives on textiles in the Roman Empire -- Project website
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
ctr.hum.ku.dk/research-pro...
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Sure, the author wrote a one-paragraph summary, but wouldn't you like this broken robot to do it instead?
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sure, the author wrote a one-paragraph summary, but wouldn't you like this broken robot to do it instead?
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📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
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People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.