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Daniel Picus

@danielpicus.bsky.social
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Amateur pastry chef

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've heard *two friends* interviewed on NPR in the past week. @danielpicus.bsky.social on the shofar! + www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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How shofars became the spiritual soundtrack of Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Given and Picus, 2026 (conclusion)
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A million times, this
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in here! First installment in a series of studies on the history of “Talmudic Philology.” Was a total pleasure working with Daniel and Greg, and it’s an honor to be part of this lineup!
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s heeeeeeeere!
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Education advocates should start framing “using public higher ed for workforce training” as a “subsidy.” It’s a subsidy, we’re taking the costs of training off company books and making the public pay for it. College is for learning how to inquire. You want a specific employee, YOU train them
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A mere four months later he instead bestowed upon us an entirely fresh 16k words—offered, poignantly, in memory of Elizabeth Clark. Folks, you will not be surprised to hear that it's really good. Available now in advance access. brill.com/view/journal...
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In August last year, @danielpicus.bsky.social and I reached out to Mark Vessey to ask if he'd consider revising his brief response to an SBL panel a few years back to offer it as an afterword to our special Issue of Philological Encounters, "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology."
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The best part of this is that the papal tiara he is wearing is based on a real one!!!! Tiara of Paul VI!!
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
when overworked pastry dough drives you to obscenities its a
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Palmieri, Jacobs, Knust, and our introductory essay all now published on advance access! Palmieri is open access, but if anybody is itching for PDFs of the others, don't hesitate to be in touch. brill.com/view/journal...
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New publication preview from Beth Berkowitz! Learn more of the vegan ethics that motivated What Animals Teach Us about Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature.
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Book Preview: What Animals Teach Us about Families — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
"One difference between my first book and my most recent one is that this time I let my freak flag fly. My freak vegan flag. What Animals Teach Us about Families is, covertly, a memoir about my…
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Besides everything else, James Van Der Beek was wonderful Don't Trust the B, a truly underrated sitcom
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
it's his day #SuperbOwl
the *original* Bubo the mechanical owl from 1981 CLASH OF THE TITANS
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
proofs! thanks to @greggiven.bsky.social & @danielpicus.bsky.social for inviting me to their show!
“A Clear Account of the Codex Simonideios:”
Ideological Infrastructures of Biblical
Vulnerability in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew S. Jacobs | ORCID: 0000-0003-4886-6287
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia, USA
andrew@andrewjacobs.org
Received 24 June 2025 | Accepted 17 January 2026 |
Published online
Abstract
Soon after Constantin Tischendorf (1815–74) publicized his “discovery” of the Codex
Sinaiticus, notorious manuscript broker (and forger) Konstantinos Simonides stunned
elite literary circles by announcing that Simonides himself had produced this biblical
codex in his youth as a gift for the Russian tsar. Simonides claimed that his “Codex
Simonideios” was illicitly being passed off as an ancient biblical codex after being mutilated
and disfigured. I argue that this brief but explosive debate about manuscripts,
forgeries, and “find” narratives produces a biblical text liable to revision and emendation,
due to new discoveries or new methods, and so vulnerable to mischievous actors
manipulating the possibilities of new discoveries and methods. The iterative process
of attack and defense on display in this codicological debate has remained, in various
guises, from collegial disagreement to scorched earth campaigns, an ideological component
of critical biblical studies.
Keywords
Tischendorf – Simonides – Codex Sinaiticus – biblical criticism – manuscript studies
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
imagining an ancient tiktoker writing the Name as "y*hw*h"
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A recommendation: write with @greggiven.bsky.social, if you can! Truly, though, I can’t wait for this to be out in the world.
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Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"There was a young woman who'd take bread to the poor in a pitcher so the people of Sodom wouldn't see it. The matter was revealed, so they smeared her with honey, put her on a wall, and hornets came and devoured her... a woman killed for an act of kindness." (Talmud, Sanhedrin 109b, Steinsaltz ed.)
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, January 7, 2025.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
we have this exotic thing here that maybe hasn’t made it ‘across the pond’ yet it’s called jewish people
tweet that reads ‘keep seeing things about films releasing in America on December 25. Do Yanks really go to the cinema on Christmas Day?’
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Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 19/12/2025
attn: @danielpicus.bsky.social
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's also like - the whole idea that if a practice is at all influenced by another practice, it is therefore not real is extremely ahistorical
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Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 17/12/2025
A cast iron skillet oven-heated to 400F will give you wok hei, and allowed me to create a phad see ew that actually tastes correct.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My most boring personality trait is that I am extremely grinchy about Christmas, and I love this.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/11/2025
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Puff pastry by yours truly 😇
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Isaac Meister @imeister.org · 28/11/2025
The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
At the bargaining table with @haw-uaw.bsky.social, the Harvard administration has repeatedly refused to agree to any contractual protections against discrimination or harassment. Their rationale? Harvard already has comprehensive policies and procedures for such things that work perfectly well!
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A mackerel tabby with huge green eyes and extremely alert ears giving the camera sideeye
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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I am very honored that my book Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity won the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship!! Cheaper paperback version now slated to appear in just a few months, but for now the book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For the past year I’ve spoken against instrumentalizing charges of antisemitism and attacks on free speech and academic freedom, and for justice & peace in Israel-Palestine. I’ve seen colleagues & students targeted for harassment because of their identities or their politics. 🧵1/
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
“fix your hearts or die” is as about as good a life philosophy as one can get, RIP to David Lynch for fixing mine
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kritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 16/01/2025
the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
2ar2oyle already climbing the charts. true gargoyles are saying, water
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Thoguhts Of Life—Ive replaced evero screen in my goon cave w/ a diff. translation of the Epic Of Gilgamesh. My mind has become rather Honed
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Still a newcomer to Gilgamesh but these guys arrest me every reading - the text is so intensely focused on the human that somehow I am startled to remember there are giants, scorpion men, things of that nature in the world
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Refusal, abolition, complete noncompliance—if you think otherwise you’re getting paid by somebody, somehow
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birdrightsactivist @probirdrights.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
it is exaustin being so hansome all day
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
DUNE (dir. Villeneuve, 2021)
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.
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Ancient Jew Review: The First Ten Years — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon the past 10 years of Ancient Jew Review.
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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
10 years ago we had an idea to make an online space to feature academic work about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. Feels like such a lifetime ago!
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Six months later, I have finally, I think, figured out this coffee cake. One more test bake.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Going to the hospital TO GIVE BIRTH TO HIM, I should clarify.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
My grandfather passed last week, and I returned from the funeral in Los Angeles with his mother's coffee cake recipe which, according to family lore, she made and took a bite of right before going to the hospital (in 1926 Madison, WI).
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Tiny and Dainty
A tiny grey and brown tabby kitten (Phoebe) sits on someone’s torso with her front paws crossed, glaring at the camera
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
I was one of those Americans, and the sequel to this is that so many of us had a lot of fun, and kept on asking Andrew and Robyn why they didn’t have another Super Bowl party. It was a while before they told us the truth
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Meet and greet
Two cats, one larger and orange, one tiny and black/brown tabby, look at each other over a laundry basket weighted down with flour.The large orange cat touches noses with the tiny tabby kitten.
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Some personal news
A photo of an extremely tiny black and grey tabby kitten peeking out of a small pyramidal cat bed
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Baking thread 2024. Beer bread with honey and rosemary.
A loaf of fresh quick bread, cut in half and sitting on a cutting board
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Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Five years of Cecil, who only grows sweeter and more perfect
A small orange cat is bunched up like a loaf on a green blanket, his head falling forwardThe same small orange cat in a similar position, but with his head completely fallen forward, resting on the green blanket.A small orange cat with a white belly, dramatically illuminated by a ray of light from a window, looking at the viewer with big eyesA small orange cat curled up on top of a pillow at the back of a sofa, against a light green wall, giving the camera side eye
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