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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I had the chance to comment in this piece by @derosejason.bsky.social for NPR's All Things Considered.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Lucky enough to see this photogenic bear yesterday.

The image shows a young black bear sitting in long grass. Its mouth hangs slightly open as it is smelling the air, probably the offscreen french fries in the car. It looks towards the left of the image. The fur is a mix of black and rust color, flies and green burrs are sporadically dispersed across the head. Its nose is very cute.

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

All SBL Press and Brown Judaic Studies volumes are on sale for 30% off through 5 June. Use code SP2026 at checkout buff.ly/241RcbK

Cover Aramaic Literature from Egypt and the Levant
Tawny L. Holm

Cover Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Their Late Antique Jewish Contexts
Alexander W. Marcus, Jason S. Mokhtarian, editors

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Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FREE NEW BOOK My colleague, Dafna Langgut from Tel Aviv University, has just published a new monograph with Cambridge University Press in the same series I had recently published my 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘠𝘢𝘩𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘮. Her volume is entitled: 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵, 1300–300 𝘉𝘊𝘌. 1/2

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“He used to say that it is strange that we sift out the chaff from the wheat and those useless for war, but we do not forbid scoundrels in politics.” ἄτοπον ἔφη τοῦ μὲν σίτου τὰς αἴρας ἐκλέγειν καὶ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τοὺς ἀχρείους, ἐν δὲ πολιτείᾳ τοὺς πονηροὺς μὴ παραιτεῖσθαι. #Antisthenes

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I remember when I was an undergraduate and the university was switching over to canvas and telling everyone how amazing it would be…it was not amazing.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

After years of reading and studying the Dead Sea Scrolls in school, I finally had the opportunity to see a few in person. A very cool experience. Pictured: Fragments of the Psalms, me and my daughter.

The image shows a dimly lit room. At the bottom of the image are two fragments of Psalms scrolls from Qumran. I am standing over it with my daughter.

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I will be giving the Harshbarger Lecture at Penn State on Feb. 25, on a topic that is increasingly terrible. Link below, also streaming. Register here: events.la.psu.edu/event/harshb...

Flyer for event: "Immigration and Apocalypse: Trapped with the Walls of the New Jerusalem," 5:30-7pm.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I’m looking forward to the talk! Your book is excellent.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Another great Christmas addition to my collection. I’m excited to give these a read/look over during the break.

The image shows two books. Both books have a black background.

On the left is Who Really Wrote the Bible by William M Schniedewind. On the cover is a fragment of the first verse of Genesis found in Cave 4 of Qumran (4QGen-g fragment 1).

On the right is the book The Biblical Qumran Scrolls Volume 1: Genesis to Kings edited by Eugene Ulrich.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

ב[רי] אל תל[ו]ט יומא עד תחזה[ לי]לה “My son, do not c[u]rse the day until you see night.” With the sun currently setting prior to 5pm, I guess one can curse the day early! —TAD C1.1 Ahiqar from the Judean Elephantine Community Late 5th c. BCE Image credit: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

The image is a fragmentary papyrus sheet containing the proverbs of Ahiqar in Aramaic written with black ink. The papyrus is on a light blue background.

The image includes a restored Aramaic text and translation which reads:

ב[רי] אל תל[ו]ט יומא עד תחזה[ לי]לה

“My son, do not c[u]rse the day until you see [ni]ght.”

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

These all look so good. Do you have any favorites so far?

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mid to northern latitude people, northern lights are out right now!

Image is an informative statement put out by NOAA saying a G4 high intensity geomagnetic storm is in progress.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My daughter loves when I read her Stellaluna! The board-book edition is great for her to interact with.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Congratulations on the publication! I’ve read about half of it so far, and it’s such a great and informative read! We just translated TAD A4.7 and TAD A4.9 this past week in an Aramaic course I am taking, and it was quite fascinating to see how they fit into the discussion!

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Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Free to download for two weeks only! Starting today, you can download my new book: Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE) Download it now, and read it later. Please share and spread the word! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗬𝗮𝗵𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗺: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE) Expected online publication date: October 9th. cambridge.org/core/element...

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A fun quote from an Aramaic Letter between siblings 6/5th c. BCE: “(7)But what is this, that you have not sent a letter (1)to me?! [For] me, a serpent bit me and I was dying. Yet, you did not send [word to inquire] (2)if I was living or dead! I have sent this letter about your welfare!” — TAD2.5

This image shows a scan of an ancient Aramaic letter. It is divided into two parts. The top portion (recto) is cropped in the photo so only the last two lines are visible. The bottom is cropped so only the top two lines are visible. The script is not particularly clean and the hand writing is slanted across the papyrus somewhat haphazardly.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Marking my calendar for this. I also highly recommend The Origins of Judaism.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You’re welcome. I have little doubt The Origins of Judaism will be a key influential foundation for me as I start my Master’s this fall. I’m looking forward to your next book!

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is an incredibly well written book with an interesting and compelling analysis of the evidence for the rise of widespread Torah observance. I highly recommend it.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The Pout-Pout Fish is my 10 month old’s go to bedtime series but perhaps the Iliad will be her current daytime listen? She’ll probably enjoy it more than when I read her excerpts from the Oxford Handbook on the DSS. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

The image shows a book sitting on a carpet that is past its prime. On the top left of the book rests the hand of an infant attempting to eat the book. The book is the Iliad translated by Emily Wilson.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s a wonderful piece. She does a good job painting the scene of something that’s so hard to describe. It’s fun that her experiences in 1979 are quite similar to the ones I had in 2017 and 2024. (For both everyone was cheering, ect).

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

And of course the dogs witnessed it.

The image depicts a small dog (miniature schnauzer) begrudgingly wearing solar eclipse glasses that read “Great North American Total Solar Eclipse”, he has a big nose and a brown beard.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

One year ago today, I was lucky enough to witness a total solar eclipse. It’s easy to see why these events held such fascination to the ancients.

The image depicts the moment before the moon covered the sun during the total solar eclipse in 2024. While the bright solar disk is being obscured, the hot gases that surround it are being revealed as a soft cloud like a cotton ball laid around a circle. The bottom left has a bright white light, and looks like a ring with a large stone.

The image depicts the moment of totality during the 2024 Solar eclipse. The image is a wide shot with cars in the foreground, leafless trees in the midground and a hazy sky with a bright white dot. The sky is dark around the eclipse but brighter at the edges.

The image depicts the moment the moon covered the sun during the total solar eclipse in 2024. While the bright solar disk is being obscured, the hot gases that surround it are being revealed as a soft cloud like a cotton ball laid around a circle. Little jets that are like small clumps of thread are in random places around the dark circle of the moon, these are solar prominences.

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Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This Friday, I will be participating in a conference in Palermo entitled: “What Jewishness of Jesus after J.P. Meier?” The entire conference will be broadcast online (over Zoom). Registration is FREE and OPEN to all! See link to register below. 1/2

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Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

—𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 & 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱— I will be delivering the plenary lecture at this year’s “Spring Bible & Archaeology Fest 2025” seminar, hosted by the Biblical Archaeology Society on April 5–6 (online). Link in the following post. @bib-arch.bsky.social

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Spreadsheets of empire”. A look at state archives from ancient Girsu during the era of the Akkadian empire founded by Sargon c.2300 BCE. They show the inner workings of empire (red tape), and moments in the lives of people, like those who swept floors in temples www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Their “protestors don’t have jobs” argument shows they are either disingenuous or clueless (probably both) to the fact that a portion of people don’t work M-F. When I worked in healthcare the schedule was all over the place and every other weekend was a mandatory. Not that Vance cares about logic.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

He did not bend his neck

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What a mockery these weak men have made of the USA.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I have been admitted into an M.A. program in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. I cannot wait to continue my studies.

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Dr. Kipp Davis @drkippd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I am happy to announce that I will be offering a ten-lecture course for everyone interested in biblical Hebrew, starting on Tuesday 4 March @2000 ET/1700 PT. For all of my Patrons and Channel Members, I am offering an exclusive 20% discount. Sign up here: www.patreon.com/c/kippdavis

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“Hate is fear’s kin.” συγγενὲς γὰρ φόβῳ μῖσος #Philostratus

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Can’t wait for it to come out in the US! I will definitely be getting it.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I wish they could too, our world would be an infinitely better place. Instead too many of them spent their time trying to justify the worst possible things.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

During a Bible study I casually brought up that the Gospels contain antisemitism and I think some in the group almost crucified me

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’m looking forward to reading this!

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

i wrote this book because i wanted to share something i genuinely love. if you enjoy my posts on here, i think you’d like the book which you can pre-order here 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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Between Two Rivers

Listen to content by Moudhy Al-Rashid.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I (sadly) grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical church (thankfully Jewish Studies/Classics deprogrammed me) and they were sure every year was the last, and secretly reveled in worldly chaos. They also had borderline gnostic tendencies with their view of the Hebrew Bible. It’s so disheartening.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sadly, for many of those I know it’s the same reason they are both antisemitic and support Israel: they view Trump, the Jewish people, ect as a means to an eschatological end. They see them as a necessary fulfillment of Revelation. They don’t care if it means the annihilation of others. It’s wrong.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Writing a brief educational summary on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls while my daughter DJs next to me on her FP kick piano gym is certainly a combination. #ancientbluesky

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Going through old files, I found this in my undergrad folder. A DSS fragment agreeing with the LXX (and Josephus) against the MT about the height of Goliath (4 cubits vs 6 cubits).

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