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florida is now teaching students that slavery was good for the slaves

In academia too, there are all kinds of funny math reasons and justifications and rising costs but you don't have to think it actually makes sense that tuition is much higher than it's ever been but all the jobs are lower paying and more stressful too. You can refuse!

CfP for another ANE open access journal

Happy birthday to @maiakotro one of my favorite scholarly interlocutors, someone whose work inspires me a great deal, and someone who I have met in person at least once, for SEVERAL minutes

Sometimes I feel like Melville read the Bible

Ugh the nanny state

This is what you like to see, college presidents telling board members that the reorgs are mainly to tamp down on us libs and not, say, for the purposes of education

If you've ever wondered whether really top flight college sports programs are meaningfully part of the university they represent, good news, they may also be owned by hedge funds

This is so extremely true.

Today, Andrew Tobolowsky writes about the history of the Hebrew Israelites, and how (and why) different groups create different Israels. buff.ly/3sjzjx6

Back when twitter existed, I had the ambition to write a piece detailing the history and context of the particular anti semitic conspiracy theories Kyrie Irving et al. spread - it turned into a more general reflection on Hebrew Israeliteism. But here it is ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/8/20…

Outside of the #Bible there is no evidence for the existence of many of the tribes. biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-…