Ok here it is. Kleya and Dedra being mirrors and foils to one another🧵

Michael F. Bird Jason A. Staples This view (Babylon = Jerusalem) is held by many commentators, including Abauzit, Herder, Züllig, Desprez, Russell, Terry, Milligan, Beagley, Ford, Provan, van der Waal, D. Holwerda, Malina, Barker, Michaels, Campbell, Nigel Turner, Chilton, Jordan, Gentry, and Leithart. 2/

Humanities aren't inherently easier than STEM. America just uses humanities as a dumping ground for our lower-skilled students, because the subjective nature of the grading makes it easier for teachers to get away with giving students good grades for shitty work.

Is Irresistible Grace really what Romans 9 is about? Or does Calvinism miss the point? In this eye-opening convo, Jason A. Staples joins me to rethink one of the Bible's most debated chapters. What if Paul isn’t talking about unconditional election to heaven or hell—but

My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR! (Link to follow.) In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous.

middleclassparty Let's answer some of these... 1. Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you struggled. Especially those of us working in manufacturing at hourly rates. My first paycheck at a good FT job in 1979 was $128.62 after taxes. 40 hr week. $3.62 pr hour. I worked 3rd

I honestly do not know if academics are capable of leaving behind race & sex discrimination in hiring. It's been so deeply ingrained for so long & there are so many ways to keep doing it while pretending not to. And some would rather see the whole ship go down than give it up.

It's possible, of course, that attempted cures could be as destructive as the disease or serve as a pretext for equally illiberal, antimeritocratic projects. But things really are very, very bad on this front. Rigorous, fair federal prosecution in the courts seems the best hope.

middleclassparty 1.) Where do you ppl talking about $7 eggs live? Here in TX, you can get them for normal prices. 2.) My grandma literally had to eat dandelion soup from flowers she and her siblings picked in the park in the Great Depression. My mom ate “hot dog stew” as a child bc it was

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate in 1981 was 16%.

checking sources is always good, but man if you’re reading New Testament scholarship, check the rabbinic citations

Penal Substitutionary Atonement discourse going wild again. So, I’ve not read *all* of Andrew Rillera’s book (but he’s manifestly a much more serious biblical scholar than some of those weighing in on the convo), but this is the key point I’d want to make:

Appreciating this point is crucial to understanding so much of the NT’s theology, theological anthropology, hamartiology, soteriology, and theology of justice. The only proper object of purely punitive (ie non-restorative) justice is Sin itself, which in any case turns out to be

since PSA and Rillera’s book are part of the discourse rn, it’s a good time to mention that in *Jesus and the Law of Moses* (out Aug 19) I have a chapter on the cross where I argue for a penal/wrath component to the cross *and* engage Rillera’s very good book in the process.

Reminder to read more than one verse at a time. The "forsakenness" here is an allusion to Ps 22:1, which Jesus cites in Mark 15:34//Matt 27:46. Jesus isn't prooftexting, he's pointing to the entire psalm. And in Ps 22:24 we learn that God has not in fact forsaken the psalmist.

"This book is groundbreaking." Ehrman's endorsement for The Hypothesis of the Gospels. You can pre-order: a.co/d/6ADGpLl

This list is weak on dragons.