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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Finally, I offer other use cases for using interactive fiction in the religious studies classroom.

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I present ethical considerations in both designing and playing the game, such as taking seriously the agency of disenfranchised populations, presenting varieties of early Christianities, and developing historical empathy.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

In this article, I present the learning objectives achieved by the game: introducing the rich historical context of 50 CE; introducing key teachers and teachings of earliest Christianity; and introducing crucial historiographical questions like “How does one tell history?”

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Abstract: “Bringing early Christianity to life” is a worthy goal, but it is worthier when buttressed by more specific learning objectives. A text-based choose-your-own-adventure-style game, Writing to Paul, invites students to explore the first decades of earliest Christianity.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), “Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.” tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Frescoes in Pompeii Reveal the Secret World of Dionysiac Rituals mymodernmet.com/casa-tiaso-f...

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Newly Discovered Pompeii Frescoes Reveal a Different—Wild—Side of Ancient Roman Women

“[It’s] a metaphor for a wild, ecstatic life."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...

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Dr Meredith JC Warren @drmjcwarren.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

New JIBS issue! Big thanks to guest editors on this one, @isaacsoon.bsky.social Eleanor Vivian and @tdbiii.bsky.social

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

So excited that this special issue is now out and for the opportunity to get on my soapbox about nondisabled interpretations of John 5.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

- Emma Swai , “A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5." - Grace Emmett and Ryan Collman, “St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Cor 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

- Grant Gates, “Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs.” - Matthew Korpman Matthew J. Korpman, “Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Guest edited by Eleanor Vivian, @isaacsoon.bsky.social, and @tdbiii.bsky.social, this issue features the following articles:

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special JIBS issue on Disability and the Bible. jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volu...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Like his namesake, in Genesis to whom God delegated the naming of the animals, I consider how the Adam of Good Omens uses naming to define the world around him and in doing so, asserts his humanity over his supernatural origins.”

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

and specifically with literary and popular cultural engagements with Genesis and Revelation. Approaching the novel primarily via its literary and cinematic intertexts, I position Adam Young as a literary construct who in turn names and shapes other beings out of material from his own mental library.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the character of Adam Young, who is himself named after the first human described in Genesis, I examine how Good Omens intersects with the cultural inheritance of the Bible,..

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Abstract: “In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality…

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

🚨✨Now published✨🚨: "Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens" by Clair J. Hutchings-Budd. jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volu...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

embracing a queer future free of the constraints of heteronormative reproductivity. But the parable can also be understood as a conservative cautionary tale that insists on temporal reproductive norms and pathologises deviance from full alignment toward a heteroreproductive future.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

and it provokes reflection on the limits that heteronorming structures place on thriving. Read alongside theorists of queer futurity, the parable of the man with two sons affords at least two possible interpretations. It can be understood as a gesture toward a new horizon,

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending to the story’s reflections on the conditions of flourishing. Understood this way, the parable of the man with two sons reads as a debate over bodies, kinship, and possession of the future,

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Abstract: Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable,

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Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

So grateful to the JIBS team for helping me share these thoughts with the world!

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Now published: Eric C. Smith's "There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death." Don't miss it!

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

… which largely embraces working people as foundational supporters of the early Jesus movement. This article examines why and how attitudes toward commercial and artisanal workers changed so that a faith that once welcomed professionals later denied them.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

… emphasizing the virtue of their brothers and sisters. Yet this rejection of commercial and artisanal workers runs counter to the attitudes displayed in the New Testament, especially the letters of Paul and Acts of the Apostles, …

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

… Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt and that its faithful were the lowest members of society. Apologists of the 2nd and 3rdcenturies denied that Christianity welcomed these workers, …

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Abstract: Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. …

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

New Article Day!🤩 Hot off the virtual presses, it's Jane Sancinito's "Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles." jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volu...

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Folx. This is really good. Totally loved it. Everyone should read it.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Just published: @brownsmith.bsky.social's "Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther," the latest article in our Special Issue: Seminal Issues in Biblical Genitalia. Read it here: jibs.hcommons.org/volume-5-iss...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Dr Rebekah Welton is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter. She has publications on the roles of animals, food and alcohol in Israelite cultures as well as on retellings of biblical texts in popular visual media, such as video games.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

We are pleased to announce that Dr Rebekah Welton (University of Exeter) has joined our editorial team! 👏👏 Submit your article at jibs.hcommons.org

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Also congratulations to Michael Pope for breaking the record for number of uses of the word "semen" in a single article: 61! 🥳

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Hooray! Another article published in our latest issue of JIBS! This one really puts the "semen" in Seminal Issues in Biblical Genitalia. Check out Michael Pope’s "What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb?", available now. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-5-iss...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

The second article from our special edition, Seminal Issues in Biblical Genitalia, is now published. Head to our website to check out Michael Peppard's "Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519)." jibs.hcommons.org/volume-5-iss...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Just published, the first article from our special edition, Seminal Issues in Biblical Genitalia: Sara Parks PhD, "The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision." jibs.hcommons.org/volume-5-iss... The other articles are coming soon!

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Just published in @aabner.bsky.social -- an article by Leah Stanley examining JIBS's citational ethics policy. Read it here: aabner.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Reminder about our CFP for our Special Issue on genitalia. We've got a great foundation for the issue & we are still welcoming additional submissions, to publish on a rolling basis throughout 2024. So if you miss this deadline, please still send us your articles. jibs.hcommons.org/calls-for-su...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

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Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @scibs-sheffield.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Our next online research seminar is on 13 November at 2pm UK time, featuring Dr Valerie Hobbs (Sheffield). Please email Dr Meredith J C Warren for the link to join.

Light blue poster with meeting info and abstract. In this talk Dr Hobbs will introduce her latest book, which details her first 22 years of life moving through three concentric circles in the Christian Far Right in the United States. Dr Hobbs will then discuss in more detail the book's feminist, autho-ethnographic approach and, through that, what messages about the sacralisation of escalating violence the book aims to convey.

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Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Please stop by!

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Are you thinking about where to publish your next article or shorter note? JIBS editors will be at SBL/AAR in San Antonio & we’d love to hear your ideas. Drop by & chat from 3-4pm on Saturday, at the Grand Hyatt bar.

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Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Hey everyone! The Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies is now on Bluesky! @jibs-journal.bsky.social

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Now available Open Access at the Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies (JIBS): Ellen De Doncker, “Incestual Duplication by Female Sex Offenders: Lot’s Daughters (Genesis 19:30–38) as Challenge to Typologies and Violent Family-Systems.” jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volume-5/…

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

We are so happy to be here! Check out our archive for previous issues, and be sure to send us submissions for our ✨special issue✨ on genitalia. More info on our website: jibs.hcommons.org

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