Marshall Cunningham
@marshallcunningham.bsky.social
Assistant Instructional Professor in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East at UChicago; Section Editor at Religion Compass: ANE; he/him/his; Let’s ride bikes; Go Cubbies!
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A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 84, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine.
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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You didn't get a doctorate so you could 'get your syllabus approved' and then 'not depart from it' and just 'tell the students what they need in order to work in their profession'.
You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.
You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
You didn't get a doctorate so you could 'get your syllabus approved' and then 'not depart from it' and just 'tell the students what they need in order to work in their profession'.
You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.
You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.
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Had to write about Angus King's declaration that "standing up to Trump didn't work" because I've never heard anything bleaker in my life.
badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...
badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...
We’re Not Asking For Much, Angus
"Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work."
badfaithtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Had to write about Angus King's declaration that "standing up to Trump didn't work" because I've never heard anything bleaker in my life.
badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...
badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.
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We academic types like to think of our jobs as our callings, but just remember: a university is your workplace and your employer. It is not your family or your saviour. We trade our labour for pay like anyone else. Love what you *do*, but remember: institutions can't love you back.
*join a union
*join a union
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We academic types like to think of our jobs as our callings, but just remember: a university is your workplace and your employer. It is not your family or your saviour. We trade our labour for pay like anyone else. Love what you *do*, but remember: institutions can't love you back.
*join a union
*join a union
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Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...
September 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...
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In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.
I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.
I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.
The "Starving artist" trope was started by ppl who didn't wanna pay artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc) & wanted it to seem a good thing. Artists suffering for art, starving artists, doing it for love only/shunning money - All myth turned folklore as reason to NOT FUCKING PAY US OUR DUE.
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.
I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.
I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.
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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
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I just love my bike so much.
May 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I just love my bike so much.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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So the fact that the Achaeans left us a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a wooden horse, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the prophet Laocoön and his sons that they insist we don’t bring the horse inside the walls of Troy. Laocoön is an Aegean-class Loser!!! MIGA
May 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
So the fact that the Achaeans left us a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a wooden horse, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the prophet Laocoön and his sons that they insist we don’t bring the horse inside the walls of Troy. Laocoön is an Aegean-class Loser!!! MIGA
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The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them
April 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
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"I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late" -Mahmoud Khalil, today in the @washingtonpost.com
Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
April 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late" -Mahmoud Khalil, today in the @washingtonpost.com
Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.
April 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.
JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine.
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 84, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
April 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine.
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Third time I’m posting this article today. Because I believe it’s correct and essential for everyone’s wellbeing.
April 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Third time I’m posting this article today. Because I believe it’s correct and essential for everyone’s wellbeing.
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This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:
I am not sure that an article has ever better encapsulated a thing that causes me an almost insurmountable level of frustration.
There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...
There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...
There Are Other People In The World | Defector
Pay attention to the things around you! Be aware of the space you take up, and the space other people take up, and when those two things might come into conflict!
defector.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I am not sure that an article has ever better encapsulated a thing that causes me an almost insurmountable level of frustration.
There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...
There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...
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How I think I look when teaching/how I actually look
February 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
How I think I look when teaching/how I actually look
Look For The Helpers - defector.com/look-for-the...
Look For The Helpers | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Everyone knows what ...
defector.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Look For The Helpers - defector.com/look-for-the...
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It’s all shiny and real now!
January 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s all shiny and real now!
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Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??
January 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??
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this is the Audubon sketch for A Podcast
When you see drawings like this you know the New York Times has just talked to a group of huge dipshits
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is the Audubon sketch for A Podcast