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Årstein Justnes

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Professor, University of Agder

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 1h
Here's an independent evaluation of AI detection software by scholars from a Belgian university. Pangram was best, and only GPTZero flagged a 100% human-authored texts as being AI. Mind you, they only tested 40 human texts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Who wrote this? Evaluating the reliability of AI detection tools in higher education - International Journal for Educational Integrity
The widespread and increasing adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education has raised urgent questions about academic integrity and the reliability of AI detection tools ...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My book Ghosts Behind Glass : Encountering Extinction in Museums is now a year old. But it’s not too late for you to get a copy! It’s an affordable full-color journey through natural history museums. Available from anywhere worldwide that you buy your books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Cover of Ghosts Behind Glass with a colorful Carolina parakeet in a bell jar display
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mythwashing and the Two Meanings of Mystery in Manuscript Discovery Stories ancientjewreview.substack.com/p/mythwashin...
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Mythwashing and the Two Meanings of Mystery in Manuscript Discovery Stories
by Eva Mroczek
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm reading PhD applications again and the AI is even more pervasive than last year. Most are obviously unqualified, but some are heartbreaking: potentially have been good candidates but their proposals are such contorted insanities. They would have stood a much better chance without the AI.
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Katherine Southwood @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This fabulous book of essays on the book of Job is now published! Thank you very much to James Harding for bringing it to completion and thank you for the very helpful peer-review that really helped me to improve my contribution. journal.equinoxpub.com/TIBS/issue/v...
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Job | Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Her er gavelenke til hele artikkelen! klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
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KI-språket er ikke nøytralt
Selv bruk av KI til enkel språkvask kan endre både form og innhold i en tekst.
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Noen sjanse for at de setter inn fly for tog?
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it's a Dino-Lite digital microscope (+ Brent's phone)
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Via @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social
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‘Global Minds’ Funding: Brent Nongbri Joins UWA
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exciting job for #envhum postdocs! Project "Tolerating Urban Animals. Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species" (U Copenhagen) is looking for 2 postdocs to work on use of technologies for managing undomesticated/feral urban animals in 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
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Two Postdoctoral positions in Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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BBC Audio | Witness History | The Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1947, a missing goat led to a remarkable archaeological discovery
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Varmt gratulerer, Joe!
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Available now. Many thanks to @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social, the libraries of @unibergen.bsky.social and the University of Agder, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. I’m open to doing interviews or taking questions about the book #openaccess
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Proof that they used beer coasters at Qumran. www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Proofs are back for indexing. Almost there! @sblpress.bsky.social
Title page for *Ezra and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Forgotten Dialogue* (eds. Charlotte Hempel and Michael DeVries, SBL Press)
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kjenner på medfølelse. ;-) God tur!
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Varmt gratulerer!
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excited to announce that my large interdisciplinary project Living Beings as More-Than-Human Heritage (Live Heritage) has been funded by the Research Council of Norway! Over 6 years, we will explore how living beings are both part of cultural heritage and help shape it. www.uis.no/nb/om-uis/th...
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40 millioner til forskning på planter og dyr som kulturarv
Forskere i Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities ved Universitetet i Stavanger får nær 40 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet til å løfte fram levende dyr og planter som en viktig del av vår felles historie.
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2026...
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269 millioner kroner til toppforskning på blant annet matematikk- og leseferdigheter
23 banebrytende forskningsprosjekter får nå millionstøtte fra Forskningsrådet. Blant spørsmålene det skal forskes på er om bedre leseferdigheter kan styrke prestasjonene i matte, hvordan kunstig intel...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
4QKnown Unknown #PAM41864 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 10/09/2026
Publication day is one of my favourite days! Even better when its shared with a friend (@josephscales.bsky.social) Hot off the presses: "Did the Romans Think Jews Wore Trousers?" brill.com/view/journal...
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It is well established that Jews in the ancient Mediterranean were indistinguishable from their neighbours in terms of their dress behaviours. As Greco-Roman clothing (of the Second Temple era) did not include trousers, one should not expect to see representations of Jewish bodies in artwork of the period where they are depicted as wearing trousers. Yet, there are three such representations of Jewish trouser-wearers claimed in scholarship. The first is found on the enigmatic Bacchius Iudaeus issue, the second on a Titus capta issue, while the third is found on a Flavian period cuirass. This article will examine whether any of these images can credibly be claimed to be depictions of captured or submissive Jews, which would imply that Roman and particularly Flavian authorities intended to use the image of the trousers to associate the Jews with “barbarians,” most particularly in their defeat.

Keywords: Judaea Capta; Bacchius Iudaeus; clothing; dress; propaganda; Flavians; iconography
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
4QJoni Mitchell #PAM41863 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The article I co-wrote with Charlotte Hempel ("Rules and Rule Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls") for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion went live this week! If you would like a PDF version, let me know. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Rules and Rule Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Abstract. The language of rules and rule texts is used with reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls found in eleven scroll caves near the site of Qumran based on
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My book “Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism” now has a @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social page: www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/moti.... Available soon in open access
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Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism
The battle is about to begin. The odds are against our heroes. But a rousing exhortation can secure victory. In war, leaders call their soldiers to violence. Joseph Scales collects and analyses every ...
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In honor of International Literacy Day, here are a several infrared images of scribal exercises from Qumran. First up is 4QExercitium Calami A (4Q234) dated to the Herodian period. (Images via the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library.) www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
Infrared image of 4QExercitium Calami A (4Q234)
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
4QYelling #PAM41706 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
4QRubik's snake #PAM41706 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
4QBroken Heart #PAM41692 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Colleagues at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, PL) have an exciting opening for a 36-month long postdoc in Greek literature within a new project on book circulation in late antiquity. See www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... for details. Note the deadline: 02 Oct 26.
Screenshot of a job posting referenced in the post. The content is as follows:  Offer No.: 4973

Institution: Faculty of Humanities

City: Toruń

Position: assistant professor (adjunkt) - research staff

Discipline: The Field of the Humanities - Literary Studies, The Field of the Humanities - History

Posted: 2026-09-03

Expires: 2026-10-02

Keywords: Ancient Greek literature, Byzantine literature, ancient history, Ancient Greek language, digital humanities, post-doc project NCN

Description (field, expectations, comments): The competition is open to persons who meet the conditions set out in Article 113 of the Act of 20 July 2018 - Law on higher education and science (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668) and the following qualification criteria:
The job offer concerns a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position within an NCN-funded research project “Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity” led by Dr Marta Szada (m.szada@umk.pl).
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
4QStating the Obvious #PAM41374 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
4QProfile PAM41368 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#PAM41362 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#PAM41361 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There's a crack in everything #PAM41360 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Deeply saddened by the hateful reactions to Amy-Jill Levine being elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association. She is a scholar of incredible caliber and very deserving of this honor. Period.
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think @michaeldevries.bsky.social might be able to help here. I used an Azusa fragment 7 years ago.
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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
4-year PhD position in Children’s Media in English at the NTNU Department of Teacher Education, working on “Global Childhoods on Screen: Children’s Film, English Learning, and Critical Media Literacy.” This is a salaried position working with wonderful folks (my former colleagues!), deadline Sep 30:
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PhD Candidate in Children’s Media in English (306713) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD Candidate in Children’s Media in English (306713), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Disputation: Håvard Haugland Bamle - University of Agder
PhD candidate Håvard Haugland Bamle will defend the thesis “… and I never really knew what to do”. Environmental Song Lyrics in a Time of Ecological Crisis for the PhD degree. Bamle has followed the P...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Bra jobba, Joe. Jeg savner imidlertid «porridge». ;-)
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Finished my subject index for my forthcoming book “Motivating Violence in Ancient Judaism: Pre-Battle Speeches in Second Temple Literature” (Mohr Siebeck). I expect some things will be removed for being too marginal but if anyone’s interested, here it is. (Alt-text added but without full list)
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Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Proofs are back!
First page of the proofs for the article "Remnant and Identity Formation in Ezra-Nehemiah and the Damascus Document" from the forthcoming volume *Ezra and the Dead Sea Scrolls* (eds. Charlotte Hempel and Michael DeVries) with SBL Press.
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Open question: is the honey Samson scrapes from the lion’s remains pure or impure in Judges 14:8-9 and why?
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fantastic detective work from @michaeldpress.bsky.social - tracking down the forged letter used to fake an old provenance for recently looted cuneiform tablets! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
(Göttingen ... du bør sikkert hilse fra Tor Vegge ...) ;-)
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Finnes det en offisiell "tag"? If not, gidder du koke opp en? #HelligCopter? (høhø?)
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Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oioi, har store forventninger til liveblogging fra konferansen, kjenner jeg. ;-) Dro ikke kjensel på bygningen – Myren Gård?
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Michael Johnson @scrollsgeek.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm delighted to announce “Susanna and the Elders,” a special issue of the Journal of Ancient Judaism 17.2. Grateful to co-editor Noam Mizrahi, the journal’s editors, and our authors for bringing this collection to life. brill.com/view/journal...
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Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I am deeply honoured to have received this prize. I’ll write up some posts specifically about the book later today and the contribution I hope to make to understanding ancient Judaism through its arguments. Thank you @biajs.bsky.social
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