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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

One of the institutions I work for is looking for a new Religious Library Director! Come work with me in Ohio 🥰 www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/e...

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Employment Opportunities | MTSO

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

You still have a couple of days to sign up for my online class on Archaeology and the Bible; we start on Thursday! www.religiondepartment.com/HBArchaeolog...

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Archaeology of the Hebrew Bible with Tine Rassalle

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Here's our latest pyramid scheme.

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Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Just published: THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES is the first book to explore such adaptions of its textual sources in medieval video games. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover for THE GERMANIC HEROIC TRADITION IN VIDEO GAMES features a video game controller with a blurred tv image in the background

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible. The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.

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Steve Price @slashersteve.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.” — Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang a.co/1TJOyIP

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

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A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Looks like historians are worth $140-170k to ICE??? Reporting to all humanities departments so that they adequately pay folks at the same rate the US government thinks we’re worth even as they’re dismantling academia

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 08/09/2025

THANK GOD UNIVERSITIES ARE DISSOLVING RELIGION DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS DOING. BOY THIS IS GREAT!

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Just go my free copy of "The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 2," for which I sourced and captured the images. It's over 1200 pages! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Let's destroy natural beauty and UNESCO cultural heritage for even more decadence 😒

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Playing With History @playingwithhistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Ubisoft has debuted a free #AssassinsCreed Discovery Tour app, available on web and mobile. This strips away gameplay elements, allowing users to explore medieval Baghdad, complete research missions, and access a huge codex of historical info. www.ubisoft.com/mirage-medie...

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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Add to the "jobs I interviewed for and am now glad I didn't get hired for" pile. But also, OLLU, a Catholic, Hispanic-serving institution in San Antonio, TX, is cutting the Spanish major? Hard times indeed...

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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I need some help translating this Chinese text into English. It’s from the base of my mom’s 19th-c umbrella stand. Thanks in advance.

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Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Trump Day 228: Trump announces Department of War, administrative officials to be armed, no more compensation for flight delays, gun ban for transgender people contemplated, ‘references to Republicans redacted from Epstein files’, 12th death in ICE custody: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-22...

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Trump Day 228: Trump announces Department of War, administrative officials to be armed, no more compensation for flight delays, Trump considers banning transgender people from carrying guns, “references to Republicans redacted from Epstein files,” twelfth death in ICE custody - Reporters Online

New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 228.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 04/09/2025

Let's review another painting together, another one by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, this time the 'Boerenbruiloft' (farmer's or peasant's wedding) from c. 1567. Another glimpse of what life was like for common people in the 17th century! Time to check out some details.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble

As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

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Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of

In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 02/09/2025

In await of #archInk2025, sharing past work I created this during #archInk 2021 to explore what archaeological illustration can be outside of technical artifact drawing. Showing constructions - bolder stones, mortar residue and with a walled window using bricks - all forming a remaining wall

Archaeological wall illustration showing building remains with labeled features: clay bricks forming a walled-up window frame on the left, mortar residues, boulder stone construction in the upper and general areas areas, and overall forming a remaining wall section. The drawing uses different textures and shading to distinguish between construction materials and phases. Signed as archInk 2021 with the prompt "archaeological illustration", created by Jona Schlegel

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm watching KPop Demon Hunters and I absolutely love it 🙈 it's like looking into the future of pop culture

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I actually have a bunch of PhDs in my pocket. it's not as useful as you'd think. half of them keep telling me niche facts about the agricultural power of Norfolk in the 1700s, and the other half keep asking me if I can help them find funding

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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

#Archaeology (🏺) peeps (skeeps?): My Redbubble shop is now open! Get your archaeology/CRM tshirts, stickers, and more. This is the first drop with more to follow. When these designs are gone, they’re gone! www.redbubble.com/people/Archa...

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ArchaeoTees Shop | Redbubble

ArchaeoTees is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ugh, I wish DC was closer, cause with the Tel Dan being currently on display, and the Dead Sea Scrolls coming afterwards, I need a monthly visit to the Museum of the Bible 😭 www.museumofthebible.org/exhibits/tel...

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The Tel Dan Stele | Museum of the Bible

Step into history and encounter one of the most significant biblical archaeological discoveries of the last century, the Tel Dan Stele—containing the earliest-known extrabiblical evidence for the “Hou...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/09/2025

Oh boys and girls, auntie Jo has found another real estate gem... and it only costs 4 million Euros... This may be one of the most gorgeous houses I´ve ever seen. A Dutch 1917 villa: www.funda.nl/detail/koop/...

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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This point 💯 If you want to know more about the Ahnenerbe (the Nazi "heritage" research institute conducting archaeological work, incl. Atlantis stuff), read Pringle's book. If you want to know more about pseudoarch in among the more contemporary far-right, I wrote a little something about it. 🏺

Book cover for heather pringle's book, called "The Master Plan."

First page of a chapter I wrote called, "Manufacturing History: Atlantis, Aryans, and the Use of Pseudoarchaeology by the Far-Right"

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A year ago, I heard that Oklahoma City had approved a plan to build Legends Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the entire Western hemisphere. Why were we building the Tower of Babel in the Heartland? I decided to investigate. This essay is the result. (gift link) thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...

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What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens? - The Pickup

Okie ex-pat JP Brammer goes long on Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and whether or not Oklahoma is for dreamers.

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"The two main themes we explore with war are the human emotions that are causing this conflict, because the exacerbation of certain emotions can lead to conflict, and the cyclical nature of violence." www.eurogamer.net/history-is-r...

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"History is repeating itself" The real-world inspirations of Hell is Us are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago

Eurogamer talks to Rogue Factor about Hell is Us.

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

As more and more evidence is coming out lately hat the Turin Shroud is, indeed, fake (www.independent.co.uk/news/science...) and (www.livescience.com/archaeology/...), a prestigious seminary near me is inviting a pseudo-archaeologist to give a talk next month, and I feel like I should say something?

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Frauds, illegal tomb robbery, and forged documents This is the antiquities market in a nutshell. Don't trust a single artifact that passes through an auction house eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Man tried to smuggle hundreds of ancient artifacts through JFK Airport, court records say

Ashraf Omar Eldarir was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling antiquities. The case comes amid upheaval in the art world over tomb raiders.

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

As someone who was addicted to the Waldo books as a child, I'm just so giddy video games like Hidden Folks exist 😁 Games are how I through the day these days

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Player entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 1925, one of just three African American students admitted that year. Intending to be a teacher, she majored in Latin with minors in French and religion. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1929 and completed her master’s at Oberlin College in 1930. /2

Willa Beatrice Player in doctoral robes.

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Roger D. Isaacs @rogerdisaacs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Israel Antiquities Authority seizes a rare 2,100-year-old Hellenistic lead weight in Jerusalem, inscribed ‘Heliodorus, son of Apollonius, agoranomos’, a market official ensuring fair trade. ☀️⚖️ #Archaeology #HellenisticIsrael #IAA

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2,150-year-old dolphin artifact seized in Jerusalem

Researchers aim to identify the origin of the weight, found in an antiquities shop, based on the mammal's illustration.

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oh fun, just in time for this semester’s discussions on the politics of neoclassical art and architecture 🙃

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost. This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ashraf Eldarir, an Egyptian doctor, became involved in the “more financially lucrative” trade of smuggling antiquities into the US Eldarir pleaded guilty to four charges of smuggling and is due to be sentenced at a court in New York today. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

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Jail looms for 'prodigious' Egyptian antiquities smuggler linked to British Museum | The National

Ashraf Eldarir gave up being doctor in Egypt to earn more selling stolen ancient artefacts in US

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 27/08/2025

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“The specific cuts [at University of Oregon] reflect a misunderstanding of the essential reasons for the existence of the university. Cuts in teaching & research should always be a last resort, after budgets for administration, athletics, & other nonacademic programs.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon

The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.

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Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Long-form update on the Israeli bill to put archaeology in the occupied West Bank under civilian authority -- part of the Israeli government's larger plan to annex the territory. www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologis...

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Archaeologists dig in against antiquities bill aiming to deepen Israel’s hold on West Bank

A push to shift oversight of excavations in the territory to a civilian authority sparks worries of creeping annexation, with researchers fearing they'll bear brunt of any backlash

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Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

As part of my Dead Sea Scrolls class at the seminary, they asked my to try to connect my class to the topic of (modern) social justice. I never really thought about this: does anyone know any good resources?

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Right. Where can I read something on the history of anti-zionism among jews? I know (or think I know) some basics but my search results are trash in their various biases and politics. I'd love a smart accessible history book or a couple of solid PR articles.

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