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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#AARSBL in Boston was awesome. Yesterday alone I had lobster, oysters, clam chowder, and shrimp.

Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Hey, #aarsbl #sblaar. If you're interested in Jewish-Christian dialogue and real talk about supersessionism, please consider stopping by Monday afternoon for session S24-309.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Academics are people who insert a passive aggressive "[sic]" into just the right part of a block quote and think that they've done all that was needed to signal that they regard the source material as complete trash and that's why I'm not worried about chatGPT replacing me yet.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

My spouse has been working on immigration & the church for over a decade, first as the pastor of an immigrant church in Boston, then as an academic. Tonight she is giving a live streamed lecture. In a world of hot takes, here’s an opportunity to hear from a voice with experience and perspective.

engage.theology.sewanee.edu

Lecture: Sanctuary and Citizenship: A Theological Exploration of the US Immigration System, the Rev. Britta Meiers Carlson, Ph.D.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Problematic Sermons on Proverbs 31 Day to those who celebrate.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

New issue of Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 143, No. 4, 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54645 @sblpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @reedcarlson.bsky.social @samsquamptch.bsky.social

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hey folks, what's your favorite nonprofit alternative to academia .edu / Google Scholar / etc. ? I'm not interested in the social media aspects of these sites and I don't really need them for finding resources. I'm mostly looking for a place where I can post my own research.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Student: (Brings up a scholar’s work in class not knowing it’s one of the prof’s grad school buddies) Professor: Ok. So that’s a great connection you made and we should definitely talk about their contribution. First though I have to tell you this embarrassing story about them.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What particularity of your name sometimes causes people to cite you incorrectly? Here’s mine: my first name is more commonly a last name.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ethan Schwartz and I have signed a contract for a coauthored book called, “We Are Israel: The Jewish Roots of Christian Supersessionism.” We’re grateful to Hendrickson for their enthusiasm for this project, and we’re excited to make this intervention. Here's a brief description from our proposal:

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Academia is when you send an email to someone politely reminding them to send you that article that they promised to write for your thing, then respond to another email in which you apologize for having not yet sent the article you promised to write for someone else’s thing.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The Journal of Biblical Literature has just published my article, "Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy (Numbers 5:11–31)" (doi.org/10.15699/jbl...).

A screenshot of the title and abstract for my article. The data is available here: https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1434.2024.2

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“Actually, according to Acts 15, none of us should be eating blood sausage…” -the uninvited thing my brain wants me to say any time I overhear someone talking about blood sausage.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This takeout box is one of my favorites from our family’s Seasonal Asherah Pole. My wife gave it to me for our first Christmas when we lived above a Chinese restaurant in Somerville, Mass. The apartment was small, in a significant state of disrepair, and it always smelled like lo mein. We loved it.

Photo of a closeup of ornaments on a Christmas tree. In focus is a sparkling Chinese takeout box ornament.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

When #sblaar is in San Diego next (2030), I am going to need to set for myself a taco budget.

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is more of a comment that I have disguised as a question. #sblaar24

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Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#sblaar24 friends, this is going to be a fantastic session. Thea’s book offers a fascinating synthesis of several recent trends in scholarship so I think this will be a good opportunity to get several takes on the state of the field in prophetic literature.

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