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Max Häberlein
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EC researcher Uni Würzburg | Hebrew Bible, LXX & Second Temple Literature
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I am so excited to share news of this volume, which is soon to be released online, which I have co-edited with Alex Kirk for HEBAI 'Does Wisdom have a Sense of Humour?: Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures'.
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Next Monday!
Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, October 20, 2025 15:00 BST: Felix Albrecht will present on "The Greek Psalter: Retrospect and Prospect."
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Feel so seen...
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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At a Coldplay concert reading the 8th volume of Gerhard Kittel’s Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament and shaking my head the whole time so the people who see me on the Kiss Cam know I disagree with it.
October 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Come and join us for our next conference, in Metz - 5-6 November 2025 : Transmission, Variation, Transformation of Deuterocanonical
Literature.
@univlorraine.bsky.social @theologies.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Mal nebenbei keine problematischen Stereotype über das AT reproduzieren - für die evangelische Zentrale für Weltanschauungsfragen ein unmögliches Unterfangen.
September 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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1977 divided by 3 is 659 with no remainder
September 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
And this will be part 2 of my short, sweet return to Old Greek Job!
Conference (on-line and in-person): Anthropology in the Septuagint and its Reception, 19-21 September North-West University, South Africa. DM for information about online participation.
September 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Very excited for next week's conference!
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September 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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#ancientbluesky #romanhistory #skystorians

In AD 197, one Gemellus Horion, a farmer
in Karanis, Egypt, filed a series of petitions in which he describes a terrifying series of events. Two men, Julius and Sotas had, he claimed, come onto his land and attacked his labourer with something awful. 🧵
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Liebe deutsche/Schweizer Bibelwissenschaftskolleg:innen: Ich suche jemanden vielleicht auf der fortgeschrittenen PostDoc-Stufe, der/die als Spezialgebiet Qumrantexte hat? Für eine kleine Fortbildung für Neutestamentler:innen. Meine Recherche/Anfragen waren nicht sonderlich erfolgreich bis jetzt.
September 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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And here it is, my greatest article title to date: “The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)assemblage in the Book of Judith.”

Here Katia and I get into a range of meanings that plunder and artefact manipulation for Judith’s capture and dedication of Holofernes’ items

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August 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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"Mit ihrem Buch ist den Autorinnen ein wichtiger Beitrag zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte gelungen. Angesichts des um sich greifenden Niedergangs an den theologischen Ausbildungsstätten, fragt man sich, ob es nicht längst an der Zeit ist, auch anderen Konstellationen ein solches Denkmal zu setzen."
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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I got my copy of Speaking to Job in Greek signed by the author! @maxavenariolus.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social #IOSOT2025
August 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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IOSOT main paper by Prof Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University) on Jerusalem excavations here in Berlin #IOSOT2025
August 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
On my way to #IOSOT and @ioscs.bsky.social !
August 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.
August 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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When AI people dream of PhD level performances, this is what they have in mind: a heavenly connected, winged writing hand.
A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!
August 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Why do you hate free books?
Oh, you don't?
Then why haven't you downloaded mine yet?
It's free, you can nab it even if you never intend to read it! Then one day maybe you find it nestled snugly in your hard drive, open it, and lose yourself in its intoxicating academic prose.
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
Cambridge Core - Economic History - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
www.cambridge.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Biblical scholars love to find an inscription that says “Only the LORD is God” and say “Actually, that presupposes polytheism.”
August 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Here we are at #LXXD25 in schöne Städte Wuppertal with beautiful German summer weather. Today and tomorrow are parallel sessions. Lots of LXX and @ioscs.bsky.social friends here and new faces. Thank you, KiHoWuppertal!
July 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.
I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.
July 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Stuttgarter Psalter, f.27r
Ps 21(22),22LXX σῶσόν με ἐκ στόματος λέοντος καὶ ἀπὸ κεράτων μονοκερώτων τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου.
"Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the unicorns my humbleness"
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July 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Stuttgarter Psalter, f.27r
Ps 21(22),22LXX σῶσόν με ἐκ στόματος λέοντος καὶ ἀπὸ κεράτων μονοκερώτων τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου.
"Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the unicorns my humbleness"
digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/index.php?id...
July 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📢 Einladung zum Vortrag:
"Ideale Weiblichkeit in sumerischen Frauenstreitgesprächen"

🗓 14.07.2025, 18:15 Uhr
📍Am Bruderhof 1, Burkardushaus & online
🎙 Prof. Dr. Jana Matuszak (University of Chicago)

www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...
Die Diskussion um ideale Weiblichkeit in sumerischen literarischen Frauenstreitgesprächen
Sumerische literarische Streitgespräche aus der altbabylonischen Zeit (2000–1600 v. Chr.) bieten Einblicke in die ältesten bezeugten Debatten um die Definition von Geschlechterrollen. Auf Grundlage einer eingehenden Studie von überlieferten Keilschriftquellen, von denen viele noch nicht ediert und übersetzt sind, zeige ich, dass die von gelehrten Männern für ihre überwiegend männlichen Schüler verfassten Texte für eine strikt binäre, geschlechtsbasierte Arbeitsteilung plädieren. Im Gegensatz dazu besaßen gesellschaftliche Standards und Verhaltensregeln jedoch universelle Gültigkeit; ihre Einhaltung wurde demnach von Männern und Frauen gleichermaßen erwartet. In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen kategorischer Andersartigkeit und geschlechtsübergreifenden Verhaltensnormen untersuche ich mesopotamische Reflexionen zu doing und undoing gender. Die Rekonstruktion der sumero-babylonischen Definition idealer Weiblichkeit, welche die Performativität von Gender voraussetzt und illustriert, leitet über zu einer Untersuchung antiker Aufführungspraktiken, gefolgt von Schlussbetrachtungen zu Autoren und Publikum in Antike und Moderne.
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July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM