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Michael Kochenash

@mkochenash.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow of Religious Studies at Washington & Jefferson College | pronounced "CAUTION-osh" | he/him

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Received my contributor’s copy!
Book cover of “Luke and Acts with(in) Second Temple Judaism”First page of my chapter, “The Jewish Character of Luke’s Imitation of Literary Models: Situating Acts within Judaism”
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My recent interview with Jacob Berman on History Valley, discussing Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God and my article "Better Call Paul 'Saul': Literary Models and a Lukan Innovation."
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Luke-Acts and the Invention of Saul of Tarsus: Luke-Acts Isn't Real History! | Dr. Michael Kochenash
YouTube video by History Valley
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Excited to have a hard copy to consult and reread! Thanks, @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social!
Paperback copy of “Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul: History and Reception” by Matthijs den Dulk.
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Many thanks to Patrick and Greg for inviting me to chat about my research! (Also available as a podcast through Apple and Spotify.)
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Hidden Literary Echoes: Homer & Virgil in the Book of Acts | Dr. Michael Kochenash | Ep. 24
YouTube video by Scriptural Works
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Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul is now available in hardback + paperback and I happen to have some spare copies. ***Repost if you’re interested and by March 31 I’ll randomly select a few people who will get a free copy in the mail.*** Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Matthijs den Dulk holds up a copy of his new book in his office
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Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Just 6 days left to apply! Deadline: 8 March. Since this came up in some of the inquiries I've received: we can be flexible with the start date (ideally June 15), and there is no requirement to learn Dutch (whew!)
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Matthijs's book is interesting and convincingly argued—and it's open access! Check it out!
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you are mobile and want to do research related to this theme, this is a great opportunity. Matthijs is a great person to work with (as are the other biblical studies people on faculty there!), Radboud is a great place to work, and Nijmegen is a great place to live, even if only temporarily.
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Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Wine moms.
Roman fresco from the Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii depicting Pentheus being torn by maenads
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Setting up camp at the nonprofit repository: hcommons.org/members/mkoc...
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Michael Kochenash – Knowledge Commons
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...
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Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Very cool to be able to share that my nomination for membership in SNTS has been approved! Many thanks to Dennis MacDonald and @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social for nominating me!
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
H/t @miriamjane5.bsky.social “How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents”
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From the privacy community on Reddit: How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
Explore this post and more from the privacy community
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daniel @thedglove.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Coming soon from Baylor Press!! www.baylorpress.com/978148132208...
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Jesus and Other Sons of God - Baylor University Press
In a world full of demigods, heroes, daimones, and Olympians, how did early Christians conceptualize Jesus’s divinity? What symbols, images, and literary ...
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here’s the playbook: raid public coffers, dismantle public services, use the breakdown of infrastructure they engineer to scapegoat and repress political enemies, and to further privatize what was, is, and should be public.
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Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Inspired by a misinterpretation of maritime law, the Bluths find themselves entangled in a scheme to sell the naming rights to the Gulf of Mexico. It's Arrested Development.
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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
CRINT Essay Prize in Early Jewish and Christian Studies €1,000. (Post-)graduate students and those who received their PhD no earlier than Jan. 1, 2020 are eligible. Essay not exceeding 10,000 words (including footnotes) to Dr. Albertina Oegema (crintessay@gmail.com) by July 1, 2025.
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Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
"Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum" published on 01 Jan 1974 by Brill.
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It Means What It Means Podcast @itmeanswhatitmeans.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year! My conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social on his article “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology” is available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also support the podcast for $5/month on Patreon www.patreon.com/ItMeansWhatI...
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Get more from It Means What It Means Podcast on Patreon
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It Means What It Means Podcast @itmeanswhatitmeans.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The preview of the eleven interviews recorded for 2025 so far will be available for free tomorrow wherever you listen to podcasts! Then my conversation with @mkochenash.bsky.social will be available for free on the first.
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This includes my article, "The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke's Irreconcilable Chronology." You can read it here: www.academia.edu/124333656/Th...
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
University in Paris: *advertises permanent job in my specific discipline, requires instruction in French* Me: Let's gooooooo!!! *opens Duolingo for the first time in three months*
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It Means What It Means Podcast @itmeanswhatitmeans.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
The first interview for 2025 has been recorded! Thanks to @mkochenash.bsky.social for sitting down with me to discuss his article “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology.”
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Retweeting for weekend people
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Thanks to the generosity of the Radboud Excellence Initiative, my article in the newest issue of 𝘑𝘉𝘓 is open access! Read it here: www.academia.edu/124333656/Th...
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Coming soon: October 14, 2024
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Luke and Acts with(in) Second Temple Judaism
The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are nearly always attributed to a single gentile author writing for a gentile audience. Many studies thus concentrate on how Luke and Acts as gentile Ch...
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Esther Brownsmith, PhD @brownsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
I have fantastic news! Today is the release day for my new book, "Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor," and it's currently Open Access on the T&F website! Take a look if you're interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, or metaphor theory. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
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Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative | The Devouring Metaphor | Est
This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Happy NEH Fellowship submission deadline day to all who submit!
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Rob Heaton @robheaton.com · 29/02/2024
Hey, that’s me (and @mkochenash.bsky.social)!
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Many thanks to @robheaton.com for this thoughtful review of my book and to both Rob and @rheaclassical.bsky.social for the opportunity to state publicly what I think about accusations of parallelomania!
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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Newly published essay by Heather Macumber on gamifying the final exam in biblical studies classes. It's a game-changer! #biblicalstudies #gamification www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/1/...
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Gamifying the Exam — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
“In this exercise, students are not simply studying and rereading material but testing themselves repeatedly. The process of making the cards and even coming up with helpful questions for their pe...
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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Raise your hand if there are currently more NFL coaching jobs open than tenure-stream positions in your academic discipline.
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
In accordance with SBL's #OpenAccess policy, you can now read the full text of “Unbelievable: An Interpretation of Acts 12 That Takes Rhoda’s Cassandra Curse Seriously” here 👇
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Unbelievable: An Interpretation of Acts 12 That Takes Rhoda’s Cassandra Curse Seriously
Journal of Biblical Literature 141 (2022): 337–57.
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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Anyone looking for an amazing (and free) place to do their PhD in Biblical Studies? Come study with me (and others!) Radboud university is entertaining applications for next year. No tuition fees. No residency requirements. We accept part-time students. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJvt...
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
PSA: This book "does not meet" "the highest standards with regard to proper documentation in [Eerdmans] academic books." Interpret that legalese as you will.
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Withdrawing Ancient Wisdom - EerdWord
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing is withdrawing Ancient Wisdom, written by Walter T. Wilson, and declaring it out of print.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I swear every year the Godzilla posts come earlier and earlier
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
I’ve just learned that NT scholar dale martin has passed away of liver cancer. There were serious, credible accusations of sexual harassment. Also he was on my diss committee and wrote work I found inspiring and original. My heart goes out to his other fellow students and also to those he mistreated
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Dr Sophia R.C. Johnson @letsgosojo.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
SBL Women Authors! It's that time of year again when we get to celebrate your books that have been published since last November! Drop the title/author of new books in bib studies and adjacent fields from female-IDing authors below 👇
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
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Rob Heaton @robheaton.com · 27/09/2023
🎙️New podcast! I spoke with @mkochenash.bsky.social about his “Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God,” featuring Virgil’s Aeneid, Luke’s innovation/invention of the name Saul, and even some Bugs Bunny! Listen @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/roman-self-r...
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Podcast | Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan…
Subscribe for free. Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
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Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Many thanks to @robheaton.bsky.social for the invitation to discuss my book on the New Books in Biblical Studies podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/roman-self-r...
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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Please sign this petition to save Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Australian Catholic University! #medieval @ahahistorians.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
"if the dating is correct (and that’s a significant “if”)" Brent Nongbri weighs in on P. Oxy 5755
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The Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575
The publication of the latest volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri has been in the news. Among the newly published pieces is a small fragment of a leaf of a papyrus codex that contains a previously unknow...
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