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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proofs! Pretty surreal to think that this is pretty much how it’s going to look out there in the wild ina few months time (hopefully sans a few typos — already spotted a couple!)

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My monograph, forthcoming in the Vetus Testamentum Supplements series published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, now has a webpage! brill.com/display/titl... Publication date is early next year, so start saving your pennies

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Social Memory and the Book of Proverbs

"Social Memory and the Book of Proverbs" published on 25 Feb 2027 by Brill.

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s release day for my new song, Wish You’d See, featuring the incredible, Cait on vocals! Available now wherever you stream your tunes Apple Music: music.apple.com/za/album/wis... Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2L31wn...

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Passed with no corrections! (Didn’t get a chance to get a picture with my examiners afterwards, so here’s a picture of me waiting to go into my viva this morning.) #PhD #PhDone #Scholarship #OldTestament #Proverbs

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Got some exciting news today — coming soon (sort of) to a JTS near you, my latest article, “Openness, Context, and Meaning in Proverbs: An Approach to the Sayings in Proverbs 10–22”!

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

PhD dissertation submitted ✅ Earlier today I enjoyed a culminating moment of three years of work. The dissertation is now in. Time to take a break — then begins the preparation for the viva in early December!

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Publication day! My article, “Introductory Matters: Tracing the Aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the Book’s First Collection,” published in SJT, is now up under FirstView doi.org/10.1017/S003... The article is a minor rework of a paper I gave last year at the @abdndivinity.bsky.social PGR Symposium

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Introductory matters: Tracing the aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the book's first collection | Scottish Journal of Theology | Cambridge Core

Introductory matters: Tracing the aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the book's first collection

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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We have formally deactivated our old Twitter/X account and no longer have any affiliation with the platform. For continued updates and news about Divinity in Aberdeen, please stay tuned here on BlueSky.

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Really excited to share that my article, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17,” is now available online — and it’s open access! doi.org/10.1163/1568...

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Proofs! Coming soon (hopefully) to a Scottish Journal of Theology near you.

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Proofs are in for my forthcoming article in Biblical Interpretation, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17.” I’m really happy with how this article turned out and really excited to see it out in the world.

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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi friends, as we are new to this platform, we need to rebuild our network from the other place. Could y'all help us out a bit? A little bit of crowd sourcing can go a long way! Do share our profile with those in your networks who you think might be interested the Divine work we do here in Aberdeen!

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

My article, “Stillness and Salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in Its Context” is now up online—and it’s open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Coming this Friday on all major platforms, in time for the beginning of Advent, my take on one of the old faithfuls, Once in Royal David’s City! If you’re a Spotify user you can presave it by following this link: show.co/MqE7H67

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Crutch word at the moment: “particular.” Given what I’m working on, this is not without good reason, but now that I’ve noticed it, I’m painfully aware every time my fingers find those letters on the keyboard.

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

I’m remembering why I used to set my alarm for 05.30. I’m up before everyone else and loving the quiet of the morning. Getting up early like that was sort of detailed when my kids were born, but maybe it’s time to get back into it.

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Yesterday I got the news that my article “Stillness and Salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in Its Context” has been accepted for publication in JSOT 🎉

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

As a South African working on a PhD in Hebrew Bible I can’t say I expected to read a book about Abraham Lincoln for a not insignificant part of my research, but here we go

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Matthew A. O’Kelly @matthew-a-okelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

First impressions, the look and feel isn’t as nice as Threads. But Threads hasn’t turned out to fill the space for me, so let’s see what this Sky place is like.

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