We don’t need billionaires to save us. We need them to get out of the way nytimes.com/2024/08/04/bus… via @NYTimes

If you need it, here’s a letter he wrote on hope Love Nick Cave

Check out this great article on premodern slavery for your students (or for yourself)

Came back from my 8am class to find this gem mysteriously sat at my door (I play old-time music) Can’t wait to give it a spin tonight ❤️

La Repubblica article on the controversial absence of slave characters in the new Roman Theatre Exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/0… For an English translation see: jessicaclarke.co.uk/ara-pacis-revi… For my original review see: jessicaclarke.co.uk/full-ara-pacis…

Genesis 1–11, by Ron Hendel, is brand new in the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series!

Transgressing Boundaries conference: The Myth of Multiculturalism in Esther: Comparing Western and Persian Empire “Tolerance". Alexiana Fry

Great & important Data over Dogma (aren’t they all?) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dat…

My colleague Lisa Powell’s book is 🔥

So glad to be a part of this project. My contribution was on social-scientific approaches to biblical studies. Check it out!

Prepping for shoulder surgery in a few hours to fix a torn bicep tendon. The operation should only take about an hour, but recovery will be six months. Any good thoughts/prayers appreciated. Thanks!

📣📣Survival is published! I definitely cried as I opened this box of copies of my new book. I am so glad it’s published & hope trauma survivors find it useful. I’m so proud of it - it really matters SCM Press Westcott House Faculty of Divinity CamTheoFed #trauma #spirituality

Well, this looks cool!

Book launch: Nathan MacDonald 'The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony' at the Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities! With Hindy Najman, Liane Feldman, Arjen Bakker, Julia Rhyder, Harald Samuel , Konrad Schmid, and Nathan MacDonald!

Hey folks! Kinda checked out, here Find me at @mjmcoomber.bsky.social Love to keep the conversation going!

Great news!