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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Read an article that was very difficult to understand this morning so now I must rot on the couch for at least an hour 🤨

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American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

On May 3, 2026, the AAR Board of Directors sent a letter to the leaders at the University of Denver, urging them to reconsider their plans to eliminate the Department of Religious Studies. Read the letter here: aarweb.org/news/letter-...

As a prestigious institution of higher learning that seeks to produce high quality research and is committed to the liberal arts, DU has obligations beyond providing basic career preparation. We support DU’s goal of supporting current and future scholarship that can “address important scientific, sociopolitical, and cultural questions of the new century.” But DU cannot reach that goal if it eliminates the department that has at its center intercultural literacy and critical consciousness of world religious traditions.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast! youtu.be/_H7IivvTn8E?...

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Why Jesus Never Condemned Slavery

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just almost got hit head on when a Waymo crossed a double yellow line. But tell me again how AI technology makes everyday activities so much safer and more efficient 🙃🙃🙃

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Does abstract writing ever get easier? Signed: a girl with a lot of thoughts

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Adam DJ Brett @adjb.co · 12/02/2026

I'm stunned and disappointed to see the shuttering of yet another piece of public religious studies scholarship. #acrel #amrel #aarsbl #sblaar

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

i have three(!) emails from students asking questions adjacent to class materials. not clarifications, these are personal research questions. tell me again how religious studies isn’t serving US college students.

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Found a good place to write with big windows so now I have to keep it a secret for the next three years so no one infiltrates my space

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Presentation ✅ looking forward to see where this project on intimate & emotional labor goes! 🤗

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you catch me napping in a hotel lobby today, no you didn’t 😴😴 #aarsbl25

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

today’s the day!!

Promo graphic for my book _Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions_. The graphic features a discount code for 30% off if you purchase directly from Oxford University Press. That code is AUFLY30 (case sensitive).

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion has a new website! Check it out: gdr.emory.edu

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Home | Emory University | Atlanta GA

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

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Christy Cobb @christycobb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My recent volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts, is currently on sale through Amazon for only $4. If you’re interested, here’s the link! a.co/d/2CiYMh6

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons. so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

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Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions

Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

First day of my last year of coursework!! 🤪 but also how did I get here already 😳

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Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

Abstract for my forthcoming article: This article seeks to overturn more than one hundred years of scholarship that has suggested that Asclepius, the preeminent Greek god of healing, was reputed to heal
by touch. Previous scholars have interpreted a small number of Attic votive reliefs as depicting touch-miracles analogous to those attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. In light of epigraphic and literary depictions of Asclepius as a divine physician, I argue that some of these reliefs show Asclepius administering medical or surgical
cures, while others represent Asclepius employing the physician’s compassionate hand (παιωνία χείρ). In contrast, Jesus is portrayed as a source of divine power, which he is able to transfer to a sick or injured person by means of a simple touch without any need for a physician’s techniques. Similar touch-miracles in the Septuagint and
the Genesis Apocryphon indicate that antecedents for touch-miracles attributed to Jesus can be found not in Greek healing cults but rather in Jewish traditions.
Keywords: Asclepius, Amphiaraus, Jesus, healing, miracle, touch, votive

A relief found at the Asklepieion in Piraeus, which shows depicts a reclining woman in the center; a bearded Asclepius stands at the head of her bed and reaches down to touch her right shoulder with both hands. Behind Asclepius stands Hygieia, and at the foot of the bed are positioned a group of smaller figures including a bearded man, two women, and a child

A votive relief dedicated by Archinos. The left part of the image contains two figures; the smaller individual, Archinos, extends his
right arm to the larger figure, Amphiaraos, who holds the arm from below with his left hand while touching his upper arm or shoulder with his right hand. The scene on the right side of the image shows Archinos reclining on a bed with an attendant standing near his head. Coming up from behind the bed is a snake, whose mouth is open on Archinos’s shoulder.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

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Kelly Holob @kholob.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding

SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

For the last day of discussion groups in Interpretation of the New Testament, I had my students draw the pericope of the woman who anoints Jesus. They could go based off a specific passage, or from memory. Sharing (with permission) some of my favorites here!

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just gave my first lecture ever and it went so well 🥹 academia is rough but days like today affirm I’m doing the right thing

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thinking about the time I simply wrote “I’m sorry” for one of the essays on my AP language & composition exam…and now all I do is write 😮‍💨🤡

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I passed!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

scheduled my Greek exam and I am scared 😀

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is the most Atlanta thing I’ve ever seen

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

why does my immune system always choose to give up during finals week

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I was so excited to try a new recipe tonight, only to realize the chicken I ordered for pick up “may contain traces of wheat.” #celiacdisease sucks sometimes 😢

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

my prof just apologized & asked me to repeat my comment b/c he was struck by how everything around me was pink - laptop, water bottle, shirt, etc. Is the title "Elle Woods of New Testament scholars" taken?

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 14/11/2024

the pomodoro technique is when you write one email and then scroll for 15 minutes. you do not need to fact check this

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

the SBL FOMO this year is SOOO real 😭

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

sooo excited to announce that I’ve accepted an offer to attend @emoryuniversity @laneygradschool to get my PhD in New Testament!!! so so excited to be closer to home 🍑🤓

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

1 PhD app submitted, 8 more to go 😎

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Another wonderful Ancient Fiction session overflowing with apocrypha, fan studies, magic, & superstar presenters. @allisonbarbee.bsky.social @vox-magica.bsky.social Katharine Fitzgerald & Acacia Chan Not pictured: @emilygathergood.bsky.social

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

The fabulous speakers of the Ancient Fiction Unit’s panel on Enslavement in Ancient Fiction before delivering their equally fabulous papers. @nickelder.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @christycobb.bsky.social @joshking.bsky.social

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I.T. Soon @isaactsoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

BOOK GIVEAWAY! I'm giving away a two copies of my book, "A Disabled Apostle" (@OUPReligion)! It is open to non-academics, students, and those who do not have TT academic employment. I'll send it anywhere in the world. Repost/QT to enter. Deadline Sept 17th 11:59 pm ADT

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Allison Barbee Evatt @allisonbarbee.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

afternoon pilgrimage for coffee was ruined by the fact that the campus starbucks hasn't gotten pumpkin spice in yet 😭

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