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Lynn Huber

@lhuber.bsky.social
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Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art. www.lynnrhuber.com

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
My latest. Trump’s lies lead directly to the killing of Renee Good by ICE. And those lies, and the violence they are spawning, are coming for us all. www.whitetoolong.net/p/trumps-lie...
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Eva Puschautz @eve9445.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
First Session of #aarsbl25 day 3 for me are 5 papers all around the Revelation of John. - @lhuber.bsky.social is presiding.
Picture of Lynn Huber at the lectern introducing the session. Next to her the 5 speakers, sitting at a table.
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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
it’s never too early for gratitude, but today I’m thankful to be home and for these awesome mini-zines Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social made for her review of *Trans Biblical* this past weekend!
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Vol. 48, No. 2 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/2 @sagepub.com @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @ntright.bsky.social @clarissabreu.bsky.social @lhuber.bsky.social The Future of Revelation and Gender Studies
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Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Volume 48, Number 2
Table of contents for Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 48, 2
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hey pals! There’s a great review of @lhuber.bsky.social ‘s Revelation commentary in this issue. It’s paywalled but I’m happy to send you a pdf if you don’t have access through your library. Just ask me.
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Revelation - Susan Hylen, 2026
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 22/06/2025
Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified. I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war. And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump. My statement:
Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/06/2025
Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Portland, Oregon #NoKings
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement
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OPB @opb.org · 13/06/2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.
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Trump upends historic Columbia River Basin agreement, bringing uncertainty to salmon recovery efforts
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/06/2025
The AAUP calls for the immediate release of David Huerta & the immediate cessation of these violent & reckless ICE raids that are terrorizing hard-working families from coast to coast. An injury to one is an injury to all. #FreeDavidEndRaids www.aaup.org/media-releas...
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gracejisunkim.bsky.social @gracejisunkim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Happy Pentecost. What a great night with Homebrewed Christianity's @trippfuller.bsky.social and Will Rose at Holy Trinity Lutheran - Chapel Hill!! We discussed Spirit, Pentecost, and #WhenGodBecameWhite Hope to see many at Theology Beer Camp 2025! www.theologybeercamp2025.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 09/06/2025
Escola, 38, is the first openly nonbinary artist to win the award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.
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Oregon-Born Cole Escola Wins Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
Rachel Saslow
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.
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Eva Puschautz @eve9445.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Car time = work time Preparing my last text based lecture of the semester. We'll be analysing the 7 seals in revelation 6-8,1 and I'm so excited to use @lhuber.bsky.social revelation commentary as my basis. Especially the way she connects the text to today is immensely helpful to me!
Picture of my laptop on my lap, in the middle front seat of a mini bus. A PDF of Lynn Huber's commentary on revelation is opened and passages are marked on the open page.
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Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Happy to report that EVERY student (who was actually in class) remembered & got correct on their exam this amazing coin of Maximinus Thrax that was modified to put his head on a pike with a worm eating his brain and bird pecking out his eye. The most memorable damnatio memoriae!
coin of Maximinus Thrax modified to put his head on a pike with a worm eating his brain and bird pecking out his eye
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This might be the most foolish decision by a government since the acceptance of the Trojan horse. 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump
The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here's a thing you can do today: @5calls.org has printable posters. Print & hang up in your neighborhood. More people need to be calling their reps and a lot of them don't know how. You can be the one to get them started. 5calls.org/printables
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5 Calls Printables - Google Drive
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System
An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It’s not that they don’t know what the constitution says. They know what it says. Just like they knew what it said when they asked Pence to ignore it. They just don’t care. They believe it can be rewritten by bending it to their will, if enough of them decide to do it.
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PRRI @prri.org · 09/05/2025
PRRI President and Founder @robertpjones.bsky.social, Ph.D., asserts, “as Trump is slowly but surely steering our country toward authoritarianism, the divides in the country can no longer be understood with the traditional labels of Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal.”
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"A free fall not seen in modern history": 100 days of destruction
Trump has been more aggressive in his efforts to destroy democracy than any other autocrat in recent decades
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RNS @rns.org · 02/05/2025
“Clayborn is more than a historic building. It is sacred ground. It is the beating heart of the civil rights movement, a symbol of struggle, hope, and triumph that belongs not just to Memphis but to the world," Memphis Mayor Paul Young wrote. religionnews.com/2025/04/28/t...
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The Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.'s final days suffers a devastating fire
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Clayborn Temple was undergoing a $25 million restoration that was slated for completion in 2026.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/05/2025
1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Lies, Pseudoscience
The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
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Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Had a great experience sharing my current research project at UCSB. It was really energizing and I’m excited to get back to writing. #acwriting #writing #amwriting #relwriting
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
✨ proofs day ✨ for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! I’m thrilled that the dissertation-turned-book will be out in the world some time this fall, and hope that folks enjoy wading through hundreds of pages about the Shepherd, slavery, spirit possession, and the formation of Christian ethics.
Title page for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity with Cambridge University PressScreenshot of the first half of the book’s table of contents.

Introduction 1
Goals and Thesis of the Book 5
Chapter Layout 13
Slavery: Definitions and Debates 17
Doulology and Moving beyond Mere Metaphor 20
Overview of the Shepherd 30
Why the Shepherd of Hermas? 36
Translating the Enslaved and Enslavers 40

Chapter 1. Usefulness, Loyalty, and Property: Characteristics of God's Enslaved Persons

Slavery and Usefulness for the Tower 48
Enslaved Loyalty and Coerced Obligation 59
Enslaved Persons as Property 75
Conclusion 90

Chapter 2. “Give Me the Little Book": Enslaved Literate Labor in the Shepherd 91

Hermas as Copyist and Inscriber 99
Hermas as the Assembly's Copyist 106
Hermas as the Shepherd's Taker of Dictation 113
Hermas as Enslaved Messenger 116
Hermas as Enslaved Lector 121
Conclusion 129Second part of the book’s table of contents.

Chapter 3. Possession and Enslavement through the Holy Spirit 131

The Human Body in the Shepherd 135 Enslavement to the Passions & Spiritual Affect 141
The Enslaving Holy Spirit 148
Passion-Causing Spirits 156
Conclusion 164

Chapter 4. Enslaved Surveillance and Spirit-Flesh Symbiosis 166

The Enslaver's Presence & Enslaved Surveillance 166
The Spirit & the Flesh in the "Slave Parable" of Sim. 5 177
Conclusion 198

Chapter 5. Instrumental Agency and Ecclesiastical Unity 200

Agency among the Possessed/Enslaved 201
Masterly Extensibility and the Enslaver's Instrumental Agents 208
God's Enslaved Persons as God's Prostheses 215
Impossible Choices and Death 230
Ecclesial Unity and Chipping Away at God's Enslaved 241
Persons
Conclusion 255

Book Conclusion 257
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Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion - DU/Iliff @duiliffjdp.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Congratulations to JDP faculty Dr. Christy Cobb's for her newest book! 📖🎉 You can find more info and buy it here: www.eerdmans.com/978080288413...
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Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
GIF of Bruce Willis in 12 Monkeys. His head is shaved and a caption reads, “maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.”
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Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’ve been thinking about Abu Graib since Kristi Noem posted her picture.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
!!! The NC Board of Elections reveals that EVEN IF it throws out all the votes contested by Jefferson Griffin and the state Supreme Court, Justice Allison Riggs is STILL on track to narrowly win the race. HUGE news from @bryanranderson.bsky.social: andersonalerts.substack.com/p/riggs-supr...
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Riggs on track to win NC Supreme Court race
Based on a court filing from the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Democratic Supreme Court Justice will defeat Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Do this folks. Do. This. 202-224-3121.
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Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Don't sleep on this -- open access! With a contribution by the inimitable @lhuber.bsky.social ! www.routledge.com/Revelation-a...
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Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse an...
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 07/04/2025
My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/04/2025
Folks: Saturday was HUGE, POWERFUL, & HISTORIC! Now we have to keep the pressure on. Join us tomorrow, April 8, as workers across the country stand up & demand NO cuts to education & life-saving research. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/ research. www.killthecuts.org
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2025
Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portland, Oregon #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @climatebrad.hillheat.com
A massive crowd of protesters gathers in a public area, holding colorful signs advocating for democracy and social justice.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff
Portland OR Hands Off Rally
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