Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025In the Season 2 finale of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Rebecca Krawiec tells us about Christian women from late antiquity who sought to transform their bodies inside and out. Listen: www.womenwhowentbefore.com/.../wearing-... 020
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025New episode! People groups, power, hierarchy, and othering - big themes in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In this episode we learn from Dr. Jackie Murray about what race was and wasn’t in Ancient Greek literature. www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/rac... 030
Reposted by Rebekah HaighDr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Tell your libraries (and wealthy humanities-supporting philanthropists) that my book _God, Slavery, and Early Christianity: Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas_ can be pre-ordered!🏺 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...cambridge.orgGod, Slavery, and Early Christianity | History of religion 3245
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Why does sex education matter? Can menstruation cure rabies? Join us as we talk with Dr. Shai Secunda about the Babylonian rabbis’ science of blood and menstruation in Zoroastrianism! www.womenwhowentbefore.com/episodes/bad... 030
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Share with your friends! To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth we’re giving away a guest’s book every week in March! Post a review of the podcast on your favorite app to be entered into that week’s drawing. On Sunday every week we’ll draw a winner. 111
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I am happy to announce the successful defense of my dissertation @Princeton! It’s been an incredible journey with some pretty amazing people. 130
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024In S2E4 of Women Who Went Before, Dr. Julia Watts Belser sat down with us to talk about blemishes in rabbinic Judaism, dancing at weddings, and where their (and our) ideas about disability become harmful. Listen and explore the episode’s show notes: t.co/TgJmUq7k2J 031
Reposted by Rebekah HaighYitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024New position at The Jewish Theological Seminary: The inaugural Robert S. Rifkind Chair in American Jewish history (open-rank, tenure track) 🗃️ www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...h-net.orgH-Net Job Guide 056
Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Interested in some preliminary thoughts on ethnicity and ritual violence in Revelation? Check out my session today at #AARSBL24 010