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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

continuing this saga, I think I have some leads on the giver of the bible (I need to confirm via primary sources) but I've got another mystery - something written on the rear endpaper (under a note dated Jan 1942, on the Tomatin)

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't know Greek, but I know enough to think this isn't proper Greek - perhaps someone who has learnt Greek and been in the "not knowing enough Greek to be dangerous yet" stage might be able to shed some light on it?

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ok guys you don't have to pretend anymore woke two is just modernism again right? You can tell me If not that's ok that'll just be woke 3

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

for people in other timezones, any help with this would be great

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

for people in other timezones, any help with this would be great

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am an English major at heart and have ranted about how Eliot is terrible, and my father also majored in English and, while tipsy, made me rage and rage by saying that when it came down to brass tacks, Ulysses is a book about nothing, and thus the proverbial tale told by an idiot we are

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

oh the Academics from fields that doesn't involve assessing arts have discovered arts criticism

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

look, if there's anything to actually complain about regarding the Odyssey movie it has to be that it doesn't open with frying kidneys nor describe the sea as "scrotum-tightening"

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsay Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Congratulations to the Society of St Pious X for their victory over GAFCON in the "who will go full schismatic first" bracket

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

you know what's crazy with how education is headed I can see the emergence of a market at some time in the future consisting of students paying overqualified and underemployed graduates to mark their essays because they want genuine feedback from a real person and their fees don't buy that anymore

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

broke: this woke: wondering how much would have been achieved sooner if the Mongols hadn't ended the Islamicate Golden Age, and how different things would look if that trajectory had continued

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm gei (gay but also kind of rei)?

https://www.idrlabs.com/neon-genesis-evangelion/test.php

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BearPascal @bearpascal.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

IF THE KNICKS CAN WIN THEN SO CAN COMMUNISM

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I actually kind of want to write this paper Clines is equal parts unbelievably perceptive and frustratingly myopic (the partner essay to this is pretty egregious in places, but to the point of being boring)

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date or be married to you? (Yes, this is just a random page from Clines' DCH)

a page from Clines' Dictionary of Classical Hebrew's entry on אשר describing various grammatical uses of the word

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Entry: שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת n.f. ear of grain

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A proposal for a paper entirely via the title: "why is There a 'Why is There a Book of Job and What Does it do to You When You Read it?' and What Does it do to You When You Read it?"

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network @networkerrors.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Red morph eastern screech owl from yesterday #birding #owl #screechowl

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

at risk of being a boring ass by joining the pile on I think there are two very important things being missed in everyone's responses to this, the first being very basic: if this were true how would we know this? At the very least there would be documents from command saying something like this.

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

very tempted to quote anyone citing that bit in Galatians in support of James Talarico with the rejoinder that actually the rest of the letter relies on the reality of the insitution of slavery for the whole bit about those who are in slavery and those who are free and inheritance...

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Living in New Zealand is a non-stop thrill-ride.

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I now have all of Milgrom on Leviticus and no vols match each other The cost one pays for bargain hunting

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

since there's discourse on bluesky culture vs twitter culture again, I just wanna say that on bluesky I haven't had a bunch of people I was friends with turn on me and call me a "metaphysical zionist" for pointing out that the theological concepts a philosopher was invoking against...

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

it's cool how bluesky has now (at least for the first time I've noticed) matured enough that the "mistaking a descriptive statement for a prescriptive one" thing is endemic this platform might develop into twitter yet at this rate

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

when I was in my late teens/early 20s everyone was reading Nietzsche and Foucault and pretending to read Deleuze and Guattari Kohelet is once again proven entirely correct

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

this guy just threw all this gold into the fire and the statue just fell out by itself, honest

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

right I'm gonna try and crowdsource something on this platform for the first time: what are some examples of conservative Christians painting their opponents as Marcionites or Gnostics who reject the "Old Testament"?

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hello from my new house G-d is good

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Pulling a Walter Benjamin and unpacking my library (I finally have a flat of my own)

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

an extremely niche bookshop selling mostly stuff that interests me and making most of its money through selling history books and antiquarian religious volumes

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

לב אנוש ישנא פניו אם לטוב ואם לרע Beentjes ed. of the Hebrew MSS of Ben Sira, Brill, 1997 This is MS A, V, v, 19 (13:25) "The heart of a man changes his countenance either for good or for evil" is how I would render this modifying the NRSVue which depersonalizes it

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

the whole UFO thing was started as a counter-intelligence operation to obscure US R&D/defense stuff during the cold war and they lost control of it, meaning a non-negligible chunk of the conspiracism about the government in that movement is reading actual events through a heavily distorted lens

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I can't go back there Not back to the park The brown monk ghost will catch us And make us lust-rockers Make us wear huckleberry masks

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

מה בשר לאלה ומה יחשב עפר ואפר לספר אלה מקץ לקץ ולהתיצב במעמד לפניכה לבוא ביחד עם בני שמים ואין מליץ להשיב דבר כפיכה

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

For the people who think that Vance might have a point in his rejoinder to the Pope on purely historical grounds, I think it's important to couch this in context in order to understand what both parties to the dispute are actually saying in order to understand what's going on -

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We need journalists who will ask Vance if he has spoken to his bishop about these issues, and if he has discussed whether his comportment is in accordance with the teachings of the Church as made manifest in the Magisterium

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm late to the party but, while we're at it: the Aga Khan has no plan to tackle inflation

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

a belated poem for Pesach George Oppen - Exodus www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57148/...

Exodus
By George Oppen
Miracle of the children the brilliant
Children the word
Liquid as woodlands Children?

When she was a child I read Exodus
To my daughter 'The children of Israel. . .'

Pillar of fire
Pillar of cloud

We stared at the end
Into each other's eyes Where
She said hushed

Were the adults We dreamed to each other
Miracle of the children
The brilliant children Miracle

Of their brilliance Miracle
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Entry: [רָחַם] vb. denom. love. Pi. have compassion Qal I love thee Pi. have compassion, compassionate Pu. be shewn compassion, compassionated

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Bible has changed significantly over time, and we have concrete records of many of those changes - they're not hypothetical. And that we have records of those changes means that they were after at the earliest after c250BCE, so those changes are, compared to the scope of the bible, recent

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ok, callout post for the tiktok bible guy @maklelan.bsky.social I jest, but I think this deals with some pretty important issues, that I've spent a chunk of the past two years studying thanks to @haydentank.bsky.social for feedback on drafts of this simonereadstexts.substack.com/p/rememberin...

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Remembering the Prophetic Critique

A response to Dan McClellan

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

simonereadstexts.substack.com

Remembering the Prophetic Critique

A response to Dan McClellan

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I know a Joke about Rashi on Ex. 18:13, but I can't tell it now, because the timing isn't right

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