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Andy Judd

@andyjudd.bsky.social
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Old Testament & Deputy Principal (Community) at Ridley College Melbourne. PhD Sydney Uni. Gadamer, Genre Theory and hermeneutics.

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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 2h
I'm an Old Testament guy, but I do love preaching on Jesus' parables every now and then. Thanks to Guy and Steph and the team for inviting me to share on the parable of the talents at City on a Hill www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAW...
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Are you burying what God gave you? (The Talents) | Andy Judd
YouTube video by City on a Hill
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Benchmarking university IT/security/data/social media policies and MY GOODNESS there is so much that combines magical thinking with occasional sadism www.andyjudd.com/blog/did-wil...
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Did Willy Wonka Write your IT policies? — Andy Judd
WAY too many IT policies I see in education combine remind me of Willy Wonka – magical thinking with an occasional streak of cruelty. Here are 6 data, device and social media policy statements (based ...
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fun fact: the student management system used by 40% of Australian higher education providers is a 2007 ASP.NET app that has no MFA implementation. Don't worry it's only holding the migration, medical, financial and academic data of vulnerable people in one of Australia's biggest export sectors
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Magic quills and anti-cheating charms... what I think Hogwarts can teach us about securing online exams against AI use... a little article I wrote last night www.andyjudd.com/blog/the-hog...
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The Hogwarts guide to securing online exams against AI — Andy Judd
In my field of theological education, we have always worn red-and-black robes and studied subjects that sound like they belong in a Harry Potter novel. Now we are wrestling with autonomous writing ins...
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Stumbled on an article by my grandfather (an OT lecturer) in 1962 on why theological colleges are not "the place" for training ministers! Here's my summary www.andyjudd.com/blog/college...
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View from 1962: a theological college is not the place for training ministers — Andy Judd
Donald Robinson's 1962 essay asked what a theological college is really for. Sixty-four years on, his radical, biblical answer still challenges how we train for ministry.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
dude this is HUGE. Praying for y'all
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Wait how did you know my SBL paper title already?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Final month of study leave, I'm finishing of a side quest involving some old English Bibles. Like this beautiful Geneva Bible (1560). Any ideas what the journal article is about?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trying to answer big questions in 3 minutes or less... here's my go at "who wrote the Bible" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUB1...
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Who Wrote the Bible?
YouTube video by Old Testament Hermeneutics with Andy Judd
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Who runs the best course on Biblical Theology (from first year MDiv to PhD seminar level) in the world right now (or when you were a student)?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Is Song of Songs an allegory? Nah. Too sexy. BUT it is definitely theological. It is about sexuality: as important a theological topic as any. And if all we had to go on was narratives describing how the patriarchs treat their wives, then "God as husband" (Eph 5 etc) would not be a great metaphor
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am so jealous of you both
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m pleased to share that my Seminary Now course, Exploring Genesis, is now live. Together we’ll explore how Genesis helps us understand God’s character, humanity’s story, and why this world (like my bow-tie) isn't quite right. Love for you to join me. Explore the course at seminarynow.co/genesis
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A review of Modern Genre Theory in JETS has finally raised the authorial elephant in the room! Evangelicals often struggle with the move between descriptive (this is how people read) and normative (this is how we should read) hermeneutical projects. I tried to be clear, but maybe not clear enough?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
So if I remember Westworld correctly... next week James learns that *he himself* was the AI all along?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@patrick.risky.biz and @metlstorm.risky.biz have reported on attacks increasingly involving asking an agent nicely to do what you want. We can now add: asking nicely *with a sprinkling of pseudo-literary nonsense*
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The fact it took a theologian to notice this, while industrialised educators and lazy recruiters are already using these lucky dip machines to evaluate the work of humans, is WILD
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Extraordinary work here by my favourite (living) German NT scholar @christophheilig.bsky.social LLMs consistently evaluate pseudo-literary garbage as highly persuasive, and yes frontier models are often just as bad. www.christoph-heilig.de/en/post/mani...
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Manipulating GPT-5.x with Pseudo-Literature
Language models are increasingly used not just as generators but as evaluators: they grade outputs, filter candidates, assess arguments. But what happens when these AI judges systematically ride the w...
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Christoph Heilig @christophheilig.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
1/ 🚨 New preprint: I tested whether the entire GPT-5 model family can be manipulated through pseudo-literary nonsense. 100,000+ API calls across all five releases. The answer is yes — and the implications go well beyond literary evaluation. 🧵
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Oh cool!! That's definitely going to need an episode.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Not nearly enough discussion of what soft synth stack @jameswilson.io is running off his Polybrute behind him
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Clement of Alexandria with important teaching on the under-developed theology of MAN BATHS: "Bathing for pleasure is to be omitted. For unblushing pleasure must be cut out by the roots; and the bath is to be taken by women for cleanliness and health, by men for health alone." (Paed bk 3 ch 9)
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Thank you!
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Actually Knoppers article was in 1996, but yeah, did the whole discussion just move on?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Anyone know where the vassal treaty / unconditional royal grant hullabaloo over the Davidic covenant is up to? I haven’t seen anything since the 80s
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thinking about the genre of Judges, I went and looked up a form critical commentary on the book of Judges. The answer? "Judges has no genre. Judges is not a book. There is no such thing as Judges and you are wrong to even ask this question. This commentary should not exist." OK thanks my bad.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"I only wish I could have read this book when I was a graduate student" ☺️ awww... Just saw this review of Modern Genre Theory in Bulletin for Biblical Research by Daniel Smith which says nice things and (more importantly for the review genre) nicely summarises what the book is and who might use it.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Microsoft forcing Copilot on me (no I don't want you write my sermon for me, that's the part of my job I like!!) pushed me to the free open source LibreOffice.org No regrets. Word compatible and loads everything quicker. Why are we still paying Microsoft to ruin things? (yeah okay Active Directory)
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Friend it is not.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This is how it ends: academic hyper-regulation, despite contributing nothing to knowledge or learning or formation of actual students, steadily increases until 2035 when AcAdmin accounts for 100% of the cost of higher education. The System's solution is never not more System.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Shocking if true.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Did a little sermon in City on a Hill's "Ask Anything" series answering the question "how should Christians respond to the 'woke' movement?" open.spotify.com/episode/0A0I...
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How should Christians respond to the ‘Woke’ movement?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Not sure about this Doug! Baker is still a family-owned business I think? And Logos is held by private equity. My experience with Zondervan is they are an amazing team with the passion of a family business
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
a bargain at any price!
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Got asked to do a little sermon at my church on whether the Bible and Darwinian Evolution are compatible or contradictory www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlEJ...
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Is it okay to believe in evolution? And if yes, where to draw the line with Darwinian theory?
YouTube video by City on a Hill
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Oh man. Thanks for sharing. She was an amazing teacher
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Trivia time: three people kill lions in the Hebrew Bible. Who are they?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Transferable skills for cyber no doubt, with all that lateral movement
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Gets her gymnastics talents from you?
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"This cookbook is terrible". I guess I only have myself to blame for this review of Modern Genre Theory 😆
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My nerdy book on Gadamer and why people don't agree on what the Bible means is now in paperback for the bargain basement price of USD $45 / AUD $90. www.routledge.com/Playing-with...
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Playing with Scripture: Reading Contested Biblical Texts with Gadamer and Genre Theory
This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture. Reading texts as Scripture brings two hermeneuti...
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A thoughtful review of Modern Genre Theory from Aaron Downs on his substack. (I'll take "mostly right" any day of the week!) aarondowns.substack.com/p/book-revie...
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Book Review: Modern Genre Theory (Judd)
Andrew Judd thinks its time to retire classical genre theory in favor of modern genre theory. I think he's (mostly) right.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My 6 year old casually discussing “phonemes” and “split di-graphs” and “open syllables” over breakfast with her brother 🤓😳 The things they learn in the first 6 months of school!
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
You were on this trend like 15 years ahead of the rest of Australia
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I know you're all wondering what happened with the Melbourne Anglican Archbishop election thewadrproject.com/2025/05/28/a...
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A New English Archbishop for Melbourne Anglicans: The Process from the Inside by Andrew Judd
On Saturday 24 May 2025, the Anglican Church Diocese of Melbourne reached an historic inflection point, voting to elect Bishop Ric Thorpe as the next Archbishop of Melbourne.
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Matt 4:9!
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
All that love thy neighbour stuff wreaks of communism
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I can think of some, in my context, but we have a very different set of legal, cultural and governance factors here … with their own drawbacks (the process itself becomes the punishment, for example). Abuse is horrible and corrosive because it often leaves only imperfect responses
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Bold play there, dedicating a chapter on treaty curses to your wife
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Andy Judd @andyjudd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Superb work. I read them in the lead up to preaching on Good Friday and quoted you twice!
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