Adjunct Professor of Bible @LaSierraNews. PhD Candidate in New Testament @UniBirmingham. MAR Second Temple Judaism @Yale
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If anyone is interested in challenging previous scholarly assumptions and reconstructing the marginalized voices of ancient women, please consider taking a look at my recent article in ZAW on the prophetess Noadiah in Neh. 6:14. Published open access here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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this is the first ai video i've seen on the internets with near universal acclaim
when ai is used to make something this obviously good, the overwhelming love people have for it makes even the most rabidly anti ai people reluctant to reply with their usual "ai slop" insults
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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.
Agreed. Biblical studies had a good run but it’s time to shift. 🤣
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My newest article is out!
It’s called “Enslaved Women, Women Enslavers: Kyriarchy and Intersectionality in the New Testament” and I wrote it for a class I regularly teach - Women, Gender, and the Bible - to interrogate issues of gender and slavery in the NT. @FeminismInRelig
Truly, this is well deserved praise for a book as important as this. It is absolutely brilliant and should be required reading in any NT class. I can’t stop telling all my colleagues to buy it.
"Moss has synthesized her findings and produced what is probably the most important book in New Testament studies written in the last half century."
TX to Brent Nongbri for this astonishing review.
brentnongbri.com/2024/04/28/… @littlebrown @WmCollinsBooks
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Seeing your friend's post about their proposal for an SBL paper being accepted = 😀
Realizing that you submitted to the same section but have received no email = ☹️
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Thank you to @TIME for publishing my essay about invisible workers and the rise of Christianity
time.com/6960036/hidden-hist…
#classics #history #Bible
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Thank you to @spectator for this review in which they describe God’s Ghostwriters as a “massive achievement,” and “persuasively argued” and (to my delight) warn readers they are in “for a shock” @littlebrown @news_ub
spectator.co.uk/article/new-…
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Thank you to @SalvadorRyan and @Independent_ie for calling God's Ghostwriters a "tour de force" and "an intellectual triumph [that] encourages us to think of the New Testament...in provocatively exciting new ways"
independent.ie/entertainment…
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We often do not talk about the value of being wrong. Sometimes you publish something or think something that turns out to be wrong. And that’s important because once proven wrong you know that there are better arguments, better evidence, and then you know how to be right. 1/3
Excited to announce that I’ve had an article accepted for publication at Oxford’s Journal of Theological Studies. Super excited for this one to come out and thankful to the anonymous peer-reviewers for thinking it valuable for New Testament Studies and research on 1 Enoch.
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I appreciate these clarifications. My explanation of what a given biblical author likely meant ≠ what I believe about God, the Bible, and morality.
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The Bible nowhere tells women it's their responsibility to cover up so men aren't tempted. It does tell men it's our problem if we're lusting after women & if OUR EYES cause us to stumble, gouge them out. It's hyperbole, but it clearly identifies the cause of stumbling. Grow up.
This isn’t right. Scholars should not be abusing their anonymity during review to speak this way. I’ve also had negative experiences. I once had a different journal’s review tell me that they wasted their life reading my paper. Rest of their review only got worse. Sigh
