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Jon Berglund

@jlberglund.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen. Los Angeles to Scotland.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

***#twitterstorians*** Tenure-track job postings in History or History-related fields, March 2025 A thread. (I will add more postings over the course of the month) 1/

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Tomorrow: FROM THE SCALPEL TO THE LOOM: Reclaiming the Art of the Torah’s Composition at the Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting. Including a sneak preview of Eva Mroczek's forthcoming "Tales from the Cave: Losing and Finding the Biblical Past"

As much as the Hebrew Bible has usually been seen as a source of world literature, we also have much to learn from seeing it as an example of it. In particular the Torah's emphatically woven quality can offer a uniquely illuminating view into ancient ideas and practices of literary production.Seeing its literary form as an example of a global phenomenon suggests that the Torah may be the clearest instance of a remarkably cross-culturally pervasive image for literary creativity: the *textile* mode of production. Rather than the medical metaphor of a scalpel, or the animist metaphor of a living community, cultures from Babylon to Greece and Medieval Europe have used the image of weaving, intertwining, or knotting words together to form a text (literally, “woven thing”). Sophus Helle* recently argued that this may be the most productive way to theorize authorship historically, a “middle ground“ between pure originality, with the lone genius who creates everything ex nihilo, and pure convention, a text as entirely a function of its history and environment.

*Helle, 2019. “What Is an Author? Old Answers to a New Question.” Modern Language Quarterly 80: 113–39.

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Greg Fewster @gpfewster.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Coming April 15, 2025, but now available for pre-order! www.mqup.ca/authentic-pa... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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Authentic Paul, The | McGill-Queen’s University Press

McGill-Queen’s University Press

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Jon Berglund @jlberglund.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

All facts. (Also, I really missed the mark on accessibility with my presentations and want to do better next time.)

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

*sees a grafted citrus tree* Omg I can use this in class to explain Romans 11

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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire @wagesofcyn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

#SBLAAR24 folks: come join me at 1pm at the Omni for an excellent invited panel on everyone’s (least) favorite verse, Gal 3:28. There will be puns! There will be pithy side comments! There’s a rogue Bill Clinton reference!

Screenshot of the SBL page for the 1 pm Paul and Politics/Feminist Hermeneutics session

Screenshot of the SBL 1 pm Paul and Politics/Feminist Hermeneutics session

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Rachel Danley @racheldanley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The joy of reunion with fellow Aberdeen Divinity friends! So grateful 🥰 #aarsbl24 @abdndivinity.bsky.social @jlberglund.bsky.social @melissacmtan.bsky.social @jeanninemhanger.bsky.social @lmigram.bsky.social @lydiasomanglee.bsky.social @mattemeyer.bsky.social @wagesofcyn.bsky.social

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Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some tips for those who may be attending #SBLAAR for the first time:

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Jon Berglund @jlberglund.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For folks attending #sblaar24, I’ll be presenting two different papers on Ephesians, incarceration, and enslavement. Would love to see you there if you can make one.

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Rachel Danley @racheldanley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello! I’m figuring out how to be a NT scholar and first year professor in Kansas teaching a 4:4 load from Hebrew to gen eds. Big transition from finishing my PhD in Scotland in June. I love seeing what others are writing and posting your successes! Survival encouragement welcome!

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