Rebekah Haigh
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Rebekah Haigh
@rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social
Visiting prof @uiowa, researching ritual and violence in the New Testament and DSS | co-host of @womenbefore
In the Season 2 finale of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Rebecca Krawiec tells us about Christian women from late antiquity who sought to transform their bodies inside and out.

Listen: www.womenwhowentbefore.com/.../wearing-...
August 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New episode! People groups, power, hierarchy, and othering - big themes in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In this episode we learn from Dr. Jackie Murray about what race was and wasn’t in Ancient Greek literature. www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/rac...
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Why does sex education matter? Can menstruation cure rabies? Join us as we talk with Dr. Shai Secunda about the Babylonian rabbis’ science of blood and menstruation in Zoroastrianism! www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/bad...
March 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Share with your friends! To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth we’re giving away a guest’s book every week in March! Post a review of the podcast on your favorite app to be entered into that week’s drawing. On Sunday every week we’ll draw a winner.
March 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I am happy to announce the successful defense of my dissertation @Princeton! It’s been an incredible journey with some pretty amazing people.
December 20, 2024 at 3:51 AM
In S2E4 of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Julia Watts Belser sat down with us to talk about blemishes in rabbinic Judaism, dancing at weddings, and where their (and our) ideas about disability become harmful.

Listen and explore the episode’s show notes: t.co/TgJmUq7k2J
December 9, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Interested in some preliminary thoughts on ethnicity and ritual violence in Revelation? Check out my session today at #AARSBL24
November 24, 2024 at 10:10 PM