@keithpinckney.bsky.social
PhD Cand. HB/OT University of St. Andrews
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When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text
This new translation into English seeks to introduce the reader to the character of the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, while emphasising the fundamental differences between it and the Masoretic ...
www.openbookpublishers.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
First week of teaching Jesus and the Gospels! Students will learn quickly that “Pharisee” can’t be used pejoratively in this space. It is only to be employed descriptively for a Jew in or before the 1st century. University should be a place where harmful caricatures/inaccuracies come to die!
February 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
First week of teaching Jesus and the Gospels! Students will learn quickly that “Pharisee” can’t be used pejoratively in this space. It is only to be employed descriptively for a Jew in or before the 1st century. University should be a place where harmful caricatures/inaccuracies come to die!
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PUBLICATION DAY!
well, sorta. i forgot to post when my JSJ article was published, but it's now available online (open access).
i'm really proud of this one. it's my best attempt to show why εἴδωλον shouldn't be transliterated "idol" but translated "image" in early jewish texts, incl. LXX and NT.
well, sorta. i forgot to post when my JSJ article was published, but it's now available online (open access).
i'm really proud of this one. it's my best attempt to show why εἴδωλον shouldn't be transliterated "idol" but translated "image" in early jewish texts, incl. LXX and NT.
Are Εἴδωλα Idols?
Abstract It has long been taken for granted that the use of εἴδωλον in the language of the Septuagint and its reception in early Jewish texts was unique within the history of postclassical Greek, imbu...
doi.org
January 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
PUBLICATION DAY!
well, sorta. i forgot to post when my JSJ article was published, but it's now available online (open access).
i'm really proud of this one. it's my best attempt to show why εἴδωλον shouldn't be transliterated "idol" but translated "image" in early jewish texts, incl. LXX and NT.
well, sorta. i forgot to post when my JSJ article was published, but it's now available online (open access).
i'm really proud of this one. it's my best attempt to show why εἴδωλον shouldn't be transliterated "idol" but translated "image" in early jewish texts, incl. LXX and NT.
Who are your favorite writers that are also biblical scholars (or adjacent field: Assyriology/Ancient Judaism/Early Christianity)? People that you enjoy *learning* from but also people who make for pleasurable *reading*? Add them below (oh and maybe briefly why): ⬇️⬇️⬇️
January 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Who are your favorite writers that are also biblical scholars (or adjacent field: Assyriology/Ancient Judaism/Early Christianity)? People that you enjoy *learning* from but also people who make for pleasurable *reading*? Add them below (oh and maybe briefly why): ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I finally reached a goal I’ve been going after for the past 6 years, to read 100 books in one calendar year. Here are my TOP 10 books 📚of 2024 in no order ⬇️:
January 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I finally reached a goal I’ve been going after for the past 6 years, to read 100 books in one calendar year. Here are my TOP 10 books 📚of 2024 in no order ⬇️:
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Quick bio post: I'm mainly here to follow and find new (or new to me) scholars in biblical studies and adjacent fields. I'm an acquisitions editor for Baker Academic, acquiring mostly projects in HB/OT. (1/3)
November 19, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Quick bio post: I'm mainly here to follow and find new (or new to me) scholars in biblical studies and adjacent fields. I'm an acquisitions editor for Baker Academic, acquiring mostly projects in HB/OT. (1/3)