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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very happy to receive my copy of @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul this morning! Hartelijk dank!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Coming soon, to a database near you...

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

proofs day! (first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦‍♂️

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

always love it when a journal offers me an open access charge for publishing a book review.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

sometimes only some ALLCAPS insanity will do the trick

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!" not on copy-editing anyway.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

this beauty will take you for a walk anytime, anywhere, but preferably at least twice a day and with plenty of interesting things to sniff.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

so apparently my work on the Gospel of Mark has been making big waves in the field of . . . high energy physics (to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Quantum physics has been kidnapped, this could explain a lot.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

R U a "philological fundamentalist" or a "literary universalist"? I wish I'd read Matthew Hauge's Tour of Hell during my PhD, what hilarious terminology to sling at your methodological detractors!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"one of the most distinguished scholars in the field" - why, thank you!😊 more evidence of MDPI's seriousness as an academic publisher. (please note, I failed A-Level maths and no one has ever or would ever ask me to do their accounts)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

a helpful insight into British cultural traditions

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

if i set this to song and memorised it, that would save me having to look up the correct wording for these statements every time

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

i'm going on leave for a week and will be in the great outdoors somewhere wonderful so you wont see me here for a while. to enhance my own enjoyment through contrast I thought i'll leave this here to make y'all extra miserable:

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

ICYMI my 2022 article on water miracles in the Gospel of Mark and how they relate to Early Jewish traditions is open access here: t.co/yXA7BZE4VQ comments and questions welcome :-)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

cleaning out my Twitter bookmarks, i have no idea what to do with this info, but it seems important to preserve.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

and LiDonnici finishes strong, throwing shade on Charles Seltman for thinking boobs had to be sexy, udderly delightful!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

love it when the last thing you read had you muttering grumpily about historical methodology and then the next thing you read was like it was reading your mind! straight soothing🔥 from Lynn LiDonnici, "The Images of Artemis Ephesia and Greco-Roman Worship," HTR 85:4 (1992)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

sharing this wonderful open access article by my Otago buddy Martin Holmes as applicable to BibS as much as any other historical discipline (link in next comment and highlight 🧵 below)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

always good to find unforced errors in scholarly BRILL publications 🤪

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I check into Bluesky on a whim and it looks like it has suddenly started happening. Welcome amigos! (or if you were here before me, thanks for the follow!)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

can anyone help me realise this dream, pls?

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

actual footage of me as seen by reviewer #2.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

This conference seeks to bring the disciplines of Classics, ancient Judaism, and early Christianity together to investigate supernatural worlds, such as the underworld, heaven, or hell. 2/2

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

🚨🚨CFP!!🚨🚨 An Interdisciplinary Conference on Supernatural Worlds in Classics, Judaism, and Early Christianity. @ Dunedin, NZ and Online, July 2024. Keynotes: Joel Gordon, Kelly Coblentz Bautch, Meghan Henning 1/2

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

OK so what is the current perspective on publishing with MDPI? This sort of thing does not feel remotely legitimate to me (for reference, no one has ever accused me of knowing anything about medieval Judaism)

Email text reads: Dear Dr. Robinson,
We contacted you on 25th of September, regarding a Special Issue entitled "Medieval Judaism and Jewish Diaspora: With an Emphasis on Crypto-Judaism", to be published in the journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444, IF 0.8). Prof. Dr. Lúcia Helena Costigan and Dr. Gabriel Mordoch are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. Based on your expertise in this field, we think you could make an excellent contribution.

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Escape into the thrilling world of the Oxford Annotated Mishnah!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

it's a big subject, but this seems an extreme length for a conference

conference call for papers with a date for the conference of 21st March to 23rd April 2024

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Divine trash talk in Job! (Pawlak, Sarcasm in Paul's Letters, p57)

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Jack Sasson's Jonah commentary was so good that it took three scholars to write the replacement !!! . . . (srsly tho, more commentaries should be team written - esp. in the major series)

picture of book cover. JONAH: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY.
Authors: GRAYBILL, RHIANNON, John Kaltner and Steven McKenzie

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

been wanting to read this for a while now, it's a good one!

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

hopefully you did better than this guy, who I think only got the author, editors, chapter title and page number correct and everything else wrong!

Alan F. Segal, “Heavenly Ascent in Hellenistic Judaism, Early Christianity and Their Envi-
ronment,” in Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung: Geschichte und
Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung, ed. Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase,
ANRW (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1980), 1334

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

this book cover is an excellent example of what to do if you want even the finest of scholars to be unable to correctly reference your volume and to make it near impossible for the average nerd to ever find the chapters within. WorldCat denied this book even existed in any library on the planet.

a very complex German book cover with multiple series volume numbers to coordinate

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

this is how you make bibliography, slackers!

a list of 4 journal articles by the same author where all the titles are basically the same except for the last word

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Jonathan Robinson @jonrobinnz.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

For those like me who worry their piety may be insufficient in the event...

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