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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today’s book research note (inspired by @simchagross.bsky.social’s work): it’s amazing how many scholars victim-blame ancient rebels for revolting against the Roman state, claiming they should’ve chosen a “better” time to commit to violent collective action

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe you're the subject of an ancient prophecy? Sounds like an email that kicks off a delightful urban fantasy adventure!

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Edit: blind people notice the pattern just fine, lol. Must be some other explanation.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the way down to "don't kill a snake because it might emasculate him" and act like a petulant toddler to get him to do what you want." Bitches and submissive evangelical wives, unite in expending extreme effort to manipulate your men without them knowing!

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This episode exploded my brain this AM because I'm also reading Kristin Kobes-Dumez's book Live, Laugh, Love on the cultural production machine of evangelical womanhood, and the advice in this book literally mimics advice for properly submissive conservative wives from 125 years ago.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean the American right is fully committed to normalizing disability slurs and are finding a fertile audience across the political divide. Because ableism is really popular and easy for people to perform, even though they think they are good people.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is fantastic

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"What holiday was Jesus born on?" and "What holiday did Jesus rise from the dead on?" Looking in vain for the Matzot option.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And this: "What did Noah build to survive the flood? a. Noah's plane b. Noah's truck c. Noah's boat Noah's Ark"

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Honestly most of the time I wouldn't call it out, but when the whole point of the question is identifying the weapon...

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, except it was a sling instead of a slingshot and those are two very different weapons.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also some strange word choices. "How many recommendations did Moses make? a. 1 b. 10 c. 100 d. 7" (and no, of course there was no "613" option)

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OMG, 7yo stumbled on a Roblox quiz about Jesus, clearly written by a fundamentalist group with dubious biblical literacy. What did David use to kill Goliath? a. spear b. sword c. slingshot d. bow and arrow

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho...

Voucher programs and the private schools they increasingly fund have proliferated across the country. Yet those schools often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public - for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more
voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain, including those with disabilities.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s so depressing to see how many of my peers have minimal or no employment this academic year, when meanwhile every Classics department I know has more work than can reasonably (or safely) be accomplished by the number of staff they have left.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yup. The left assumes the bipartisan institutions that drifted left over the 1900s (higher education) will do the job for them and they will not. MAGA will capture or destroy those institutions without an active effort by the left/center-left to fund and defend them.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So much of the ancient statuary and portraiture study I've been doing for this book has led me to the discovery that once upon a time, scholars were so eager to identify the subjects as well-known historical figures that they made leaps and bounds to identify them, without any evidence.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm making an online course and I think it's pretty good. Today is the last day to get it for $49, so you should probably do that.

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Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The first session of my new course, The Bible Against Kings, is now up! Today is the last day of pre-sale pricing, so go check it out now if you’re interested in critiques of monarchy and tyranny from the ancient Levant. www.parchmentandclay.com/the-bible-ag... (Edited 9:42 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

A slide from Lesson 1 of the Bible Against Kings. It shows a 19th century painting of a biblical scene—the dedication of the Jerusalem temple by King Solomon. Solomon stands at the top of the temple steps surrounded by various officials, important people, and everyday citizens.
The text reads
"Heroic kings? Solomon Dedicates the Temple of Jerusalem by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1896-1902."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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“We likewise perceive political ideologies and political parties in subconsciously gendered ways. In contemporary American discourse, liberalism is female-coded, conservatism male-coded. As a result, rivers of ink are spilled to frame liberals as possessing sole agency, and hence responsibility. There is a palpable aversion to saying voters who loudly proclaim the most extreme racism, sexism, threats of violence, or deranged conspiracy theories are doing anything wrong. They are just reacting. Reacting to alleged liberal disrespect, to alleged liberal cultural dominance, to some kid hundreds of miles away on a college campus using obtuse social justice terminology, to Democratic politicians getting their messaging a bit wrong, not ‘talking their language.’ We shouldn’t even be thinking about what is wrong with them—we should be asking what we did to provoke it. We should be careful, always so careful, not to ‘set them off.’”

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

trying to spread the word that fundamentalist stone on the Bible, and that it can be way more fun if you read it without any of these pesky ideas that it has to be correct or all agree with itself. Also, that it contains some absolute Proto-anarchist bangers.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

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Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For the upcoming release of The Bible Against Kings, I'm making Ancient Sayings about the unflattering things that Sumerians had to say about royalty! Ancient Sayings #86: Dangers of the Palace... but for whom? youtu.be/uItx1cUtr-U

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Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And you can find presale information about The Bible Against Kings here: www.parchmentandclay.com/the-bible-…

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

This is also wrong. Research is part of the core mission of the university - certainly of all the humanities disciplines in the university - for centuries. What happened was that research came to be oriented toward subsidizing private corporate profit press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Creating the Market University

When science adopts the logic of the market

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Mr. Bible Lore Podcast @haydentank.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Eric is a phenomenal scholar and folks should check this out! Make sure to listen to his ep of Bible Lore Pod as well if you'd like to understand how good he as at this!

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please share and get the word out about our new course! On pre-sale until September 17.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Join my email list (no spam, I promise) to stay up to date on upcoming happenings, and get a free ten-minute video about what the Hebrew Bible is!

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Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We’re launching our first course soon, and right now it’s available for a sweet presale discount. Sign up to learn about cool anti-monarchic and anti-authoritarian texts from the ancient Levant! www.parchmentandclay.com/the-bible-…

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The Bible Against Kings

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Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I made a neat little video about why I use the term Hebrew Bible instead of Old Testament or Tanakh, but I did that sneaky thing where you have to sign up for my email list to get it. You should sign up for my list anyway, so it’s kind of a win-win. www.parchmentandclay.com

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Parchment & Clay

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I bet if you were a lamassu in ancient Assyria one of the worst things people could call you was a lame-ass-u.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On paper, I know I’m exactly the perfect demographic to love Terry Pratchett, but I’ve never been able to make it all the way through one of his books until I read Small Gods just now. It was pretty good.

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 23/08/2026

What We Know About Amargi, An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Debt. My response to Paul Vigna’s @nytimes guest essay: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

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Opinion | An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit (Gift Article)

In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it?

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 23/08/2026

Mutatis mutandis, if we are going to look to Sumerian amargi as a way to address American debt by benefitting its state workers, we should see what is happening to the debt of America's public servants: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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‘Profoundly cruel’: Errors upend student loan forgiveness program

Trump’s Education Department is clawing back credit toward loan forgiveness due to errors it said were made during the Biden administration.

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 23/08/2026

When we talk about debt remission, we are usually talking about Old Babylonian mīšarums, a form of redress used by kings such as Hammurabi or Rim-Sin I. Many kings announced them and they were recognized in legal documents. We have one extant copy from the time of Ammi-ṣaduqa (1646-1626 BCE).

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

they say learning Latin will make you a better speller, meanwhile i am out here writing "litteracy" and "exspenses"

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why I tell students that AI is the forklift in the gym. There’s a time in a place for a forklift, but it’s not part of your fitness plan. The student who uses a forklift to lift all their weights in a weightlifting class isn’t winning.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Correct. They are being defrauded.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What was wild to me was the intense conflict of interest training that I, a lowly postdoctoral fellow in the humanities, had to go through at Stanford. Any place where that level of reporting was mandatory was not bereft of possibilities for side profit.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Bible is a very important text for understanding American culture. But for many of the reasons that make it important to understanding American culture, biblical education in public schools can never be done responsibly here.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Back when I knew him, he was a gentle and thoughtful soul. We’ve lost touch since, but social media now shows me that he is deep into militaristic anti-VAX libertarian things now. Hard not to posit a connection.

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Right? It was shared in something of a confessional tone, but it was still unusually honest.

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