Final blatant self promotion for this year (or is it?) My open access chapter on early Hasmonean statehood is now available. Thanks FOR2757LoSAM degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

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Topping off an amazing year as a fellow at Harvard NELC Harvard Classics I’m delight and proud to announce this symposium! If you’re in the are, come!

Meets arrested development

fresh audio product: • Nimrod Flaschenberg <Nimrod Flaschenberg> discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe <Qoyllur’s Steersman> revisits the (useful) hype around ChatGPT leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S23…

Here is something hopeful: 3 teenage Israelis, representing over 200 who declared they will not enlist in the Israeli army. They refuse to serve the continuous dictatorship in the occupied Palestinian territories and the emerging dictatorship within Israel. Listen and share!

Und was ist ein Mensch ohne Papiere? Weniger als ein Papier ohne einen Menschen!

Last year I gave a lecture on the ever expanding discourse of martyrdom in ancient Judaism - here it is in action

A weird time to celebrate, but this also happened today!

Daniel 7:8

I briefly talked about the political economy of Israel at war for Al Jazeera's pod, The Take. Please listen: aljazeera.com/audio/podcasts…

Please submit your abstracts to our new session on "(Post-) Imperial Spaces in the Late Hellenistic Levant and Beyond" at ASOR this November asor.org/am/2024/approv…

Tomorrow! DM for link

Ever wondered about the Seleucid conquest of Jerusalem, the local elites involved, and their memory in the late Hellenistic period? Have a look at my new article! (dm for pdf) Forgetting the Seleucids doi.org/10.30965/21967…

Come work in Helsinki Call for Positions: four post-docs and a PhD student academia.edu/119793607/Call… via Academia

Merch just dropped!

The policy of the Israeli government is forever war. It is the key to its vision of the destruction of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank, and it is the key to its political survival. Full text: jacobin.com/2024/08/netany…

Very grateful to Ancient Jew Review for throwing a spotlight on my dissertation!

Alma Itzhaky und ich haben einen langen Artikel über die Transformation der israelischen Gesellschaft seit dem 7. Oktober geschrieben. Es ist kein optimistischer Text.

Alma Itzhaky and I wrote an analysis of Israeli society since October 7th. The trauma of that day was used by the worst forces in power to turn the country into a Jewish Sparta. The future looks bleak. jacobin.com/2024/10/octobe…