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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So honored and excited to have my book reviewed in this format!

Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My 7-year old’s new thing is to leave a stash behind the pillow when he doesn’t want to have to take toys back up to his room. I can admire the creativity.

Spider-man mask and small toys in the corner of a couch, behind a pillow.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Anyone else’s kids make scrolls on a Saturday morning and then hide them? 😅 I like to think they are playing DSS but I’m not sure that’s what is going on.

Yellow paper scroll rolled and tied with twine and placed on the couch.

Two pillows hiding the scroll in the corner of the couch.

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Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I was delighted to visit Bible & Archaeology (bam.sites.uiowa.edu) recently to talk about early nativity scenes! 🤓 youtu.be/nKBm6FYKoEc?... We cover the catacombs, frescoes, Life of Brian. And it's the closest I've ever come to invoking "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals"...

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This Is The Oldest Nativity Scene We Have

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It’s here!!! So exciting to finally see a printed copy of my book!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Miracle of miracles: all of my advisees signed up for an advising appointment, showed up at their scheduled time, and came with a tentative course schedule. Amazing.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Who am I likely to forget in writing acknowledgments that I absolutely should not forget to thank?

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Getting pulled away from book manuscript revisions to attend a committee meeting feels like such an intrusion.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

11-year old lunch box pseudepigraphy … my favorite part of this child taking over school lunch packing responsibilities this year.

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Rebekah Haigh @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Share 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.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I assigned all of 2 Maccabees for my students to read for class today, and they actually READ it!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I only recently discovered Luhrmann, and wow - having grown up in a charismatic Pentecostal tradition, I feel so seen.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yesterday I told the kids they could not go out to play in the snow because there was less than 1” - not enough to play in. They responded with a 6-page, illustrated treatise, arguing why they should be allowed to go out anyway. They got to go out.

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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Hanukkah is most identified with the menorah, which of course commemorates the so-called miracle of oil. Or does it...? 1/12 🧵

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a man is sitting at a table with the words another festivus miracle written on it

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with the words another festivus miracle written on it

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Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hanukkah is typically commemorated as a "clash of cultures". It represents the battle between a clearly defined and largely monolithic "Judaism" against a clearly defined and largely monolithic "Hellenism". This narrative is increasingly problematized in scholarship. 🧵 1/20

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Catching up on some recent(ish) publications on time, while enjoying the snow flurries.

Two books: The Construction of Time in Antiquity, edited by Jonathan Ben-Dov and Lutz Doering, and Time: a Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by Sarit Kattan Gribetz and Lynn Kaye.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Final grades submitted. Now it’s on to “time and temporality” in the DSS and time at home with the kids!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of my favorite end-of-semester questions from students in my DSS class is “Why weren’t any of these texts included in the Protestant Canon?” Maybe there needs to be a final activity where they debate/argue/campaign for the inclusion of a particular text.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Never dreamed I’d be excited about revising my book manuscript, but reviewer 2 came in with some clutch recommendations I cannot wait to read! It’s currently my motivation to get through grading and a short writing assignment.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

60 final projects graded. 8 to go.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Probably my favorite (ever) student depiction of Sheol - the basement at Grandma’s house where it’s dark and you can hear the TV and voices upstairs, but if you scream no one will hear you.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Surprise pictures from my son are the best. Came home to an angry scarecrow with happy clouds in the background.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The one who got me started on the PhD journey and the one who saw me through the finish line. Such incredible scholars, professors, and mentors! (Also featuring my amazing SBL roomie and my doctor-sister!)

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of the highlights of #SBLAAR24 for me was meeting so many of you in person for the first time, including @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social who shared some Women Who Went Before swag. One of my favorite podcasts!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thanks, friend! It was so great to have you there!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I recommend both of these all the time. Definitely essential reading!

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Woman Zion’s (Round) Table was one of the best sessions I have attended at SBL/AAR. Not only were the presentations super engaging, but the discussion times (interspersed throughout) were so thoughtfully planned and facilitated. Excited to see Cindy Dawson’s book coming out soon!

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Folks, another starter pack - this one devoted to scholars of Early Judaism. (If you are a PhD student or have a PhD in the field and want to be included let me know.)

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Super excited to see everyone at SBL/AAR and participate in this session on women and women’s voices in Pseudepigrapha/Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature!

SBL session description: paper presentations by Karina Hogan, Cynthia Chapman, and Rebecca Harris

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Snow is the best antidote for the post holiday slump.

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Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Seems strangely appropriate to be returning to a book project on liminality after a 9-month hiatus spent working on birth imagery in 4 Maccabees. Now if I could just get some momentum going before the semester begins …

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