Joshua Alfaro
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Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and all things Esther. Available for proofreading and editing academic publications.
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When I die, I do not want my body donated to science. They have enough funding already. Donate my body to the humanities.
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@AnnaGHughes
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Birds $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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BREAKING: U.S. military has intercepted a high-altitude flying object over Kebar, Washington. Authorities describe the object as "chariot-like in appearance, like four living creatures, each with four wings, with four faces resembling the face of a human, lion, ox, and eagle."
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3 weeks old is a good time to start learning Ethiopic.
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Who else’s phone photo album is filled with pictures of pages from academic books they couldn’t afford?
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The majority of New Testament books can be dated prior to 70 CE.
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Yesterday at 11:32pm we welcomed this little PhD dissertation into the world.
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David defeating the Ammonites, AI generated by ChatGPT.
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She said if this tweet gets 5000 likes we can name the baby Septuaginta.
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A professor from Claremont School of Theology told me that if someone wanted to access material from their Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, they would hand them a copy of a Hebrew manuscript upside down. If they didn’t recognize it was upside down, they would be denied access.
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We finally did it. We found Esther in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Recipe for making a Golem by Abraham Abulafia. Parm. 2784 De Rossi 1390. Results may vary.
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We didn't have any catering at our wedding, but guests were allowed to briefly consult the 3 Brill volumes we purchased with the food budget.
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Ancient Judeans didn't have a "canon" or a "Bible." They just had a bunch of documents in a folder of randomly downloaded pdfs.
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It’s never too early to start reading the Septuagint.
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STOP hating on different biblical studies subfields
Reception history is AMAZING
Textual Criticism is WONDERFUL
Postcolonial Criticism is EXCELLENT
Pauline Studies
Linguistics is EXCITING
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she arrived. Her name isn’t Septuaginta, she’s our Daughter Version.
She said if this tweet gets 5000 likes we can name the baby Septuaginta.
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Looking forwards to sharing my new cutting-edge research in November.
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Philomena Cunk: It’s said that Hebrew is written backwards, from right to left. How can we be 100% certain that’s correct and the Bible wasn’t meant to say “the earth and the heavens created God beginning the in”?
Dr. Scholar McSmartypants, University of Cambrox: Ummmmmm…
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A professor from Claremont School of Theology told me that if someone wanted to access material from their Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, they would hand them a copy of a manuscript upside down. If they didn’t recognize that it was upside down, they would be denied access.
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Yiddish speakers were not consulted in the naming of Schmuckpassage.
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While news outlets are reporting a crocodile virgin birth, some scholars suggest that the crocodile wasn’t a virgin but rather a young female and that a misunderstanding was introduced in the Greek translation.
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Luke the Evangelist, Ge'ez Garima gospels, 4-6th c., from the oldest surviving illuminated manuscript.
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Western academics: We should defer to marginalized communities' interpretation of the Bible.
Majority World marginalized communities: The Bible is God's word and can be used against evil spirits.
Western academics: Wait, no, not like that...
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I’m hearing rumors that Taylor Swift’s new album will have 150 (or 151?) tracks. The 119th song will be the longest, with a total of 176 verses.
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Early Christian communities figuring out the boundaries of the New Testament canon:
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If I had a dollar for every like and retweet I get for tweeting jokes about the cost of Brill books, I would have enough money to buy one half of a Brill volume.
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It’s pronounced “Sibboleth.”
What language opinion gets you this reaction?
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I write all my footnotes and bibliographies without Zotero. In this world of automated, impersonal production, I am truly an artisanal craftsman.
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my wife: hey, there's just one slice of pizza left, do you wanna split it?
me: no, it's okay you can have it.
King Solomon, out of nowhere: YOU, sir, are the pizza's real mother.
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Once I was visiting Harvard and scheduled a meeting with Prof. Jon Levenson. I told myself “Don’t say ‘Old Testament,’ say ‘Hebrew Bible,’ you don’t want to be offensive or sound stupid.” I walk in his office and first thing he says, “So, why do you wanna study Old Testament?!”
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Mr. Rogers writing John 1:1 in Greek. He took 8 years to get what was then the equivalent of an M.Div from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, where he took classes with William Orr, author of the first 1 Corinthians Anchor Bible Commentary.
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The historical Ehrman would never make such an obvious error as claiming (with misspelling) “Greek manuscripts were all written in scriptuo [sic!] continua” (Misquoting Jesus, p. 90). This whole passage must therefore be ascribed to a later, ill-informed scribe.
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Every year, right around Purim, I make my annual trip to Qumran. And every year I discover more ancient Dead Sea Scrolls fragments of the Book of Esther.
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@AntiquitiesIL
hey guys I was walking around Tel Lachish and found what appears to be a very ancient Esther scroll? (Text reconstructed by me and lab-tested by science).
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her: I'm a really big country fan.
me: did you know that in the book of Esther it says the Achaemenid empire had 127 provinces?
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მომავალი ქართველოლოგი five weeks old is a good time to start learning all three scripts of the Georgian alphabet 🇬🇪
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They said, don’t worry, AI robots will never really be able to do everything that humans can. But my Roomba has been aimlessly wandering around every room in the apartment holding an academic book, so right now I’m feeling very replaceable.
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In this paper, I will employ the following theoretical framework: ancient people were just like me, except less intelligent and more superstitious.
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“He said to me: Son of man, eat what you find here: eat this book, then go, speak to the house of Israel.” - Ezekiel 3:1
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In my opinion, all Classicists studying ancient Greek should read at least some of the Septuagint, the largest corpus of Hellenistic Greek literature.
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Biblical scholars love to say “I don’t do theology” until it’s time to apply for grant money.
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Idea: an academic journal that gives literature reviews of 18th and 19th century scholarship, so you can find out easily who already thought of your great idea without needing to read 1800 pages of FRAKTUR font.
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I should have been a numismatist. I hear there’s a lot of money in numismatics.
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BREAKING: Archaeologists have discovered a lost ancient text that changes everything.
ALSO BREAKING: We regret to inform you that somehow, in 1851, Johannes von Pretzelburger already wrote an article about it in an on obscure and impossible to find journal.
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So, Paul’s Letter to the Romans was slightly less expensive than a Brill monograph.
“Paul’s letters were surprisingly expensive to us, but actually the reason is that his letters were uncommonly long.” Randy Richards estimates that Romans would’ve (conservatively!) cost over $2000 to prepare and send in todays dollars.
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Greek Psalm 50(MT 51):14-20 on wood 6th/7th c. Egypt. Written on both sides; on this side vv.15-18: "Lord, my lips you will open, and my mouth will declare your praise..." I like to imagine it hung in a late antique kitchen next to a sign that said "Bless this mess."
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How many academic monographs should be on a baby registry?
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A very moving memorial of Jim Aitken and presentation on his contribution to Septuagint studies organized by Anna Angelini and Romina Vergari.
#EABS2023
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Inspired by Taylor Swift, I will be re-releasing academic papers I wrote when I was 18 years old.
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I feel like if you have €170 to spend on a book, you probably already know the answer.
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Little-known fact: after returning to Philemon, Onesimus opened up a mens formal wear store.
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Calling it “the Mesozoic Era” is anachronistic. The dinosaurs had no such concept and never would have called it that.
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My 2 year-old niece Niña just asked me, "Tito Josh, why don't people read the critical apparatus? Is it because they're scared that a textual variant will overturn their whole elaborately constructed theories?" Everyone in the room clapped. She is so wise.
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For people who may not be familiar with those books, I recommend the Oxford Handbook of the Cambridge Companion to Very Short Introductions.
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David defeats the Ammonites, AI generated by ChatGPT, part 2.
David defeating the Ammonites, AI generated by ChatGPT.
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a few years ago I was upset about narrowly missing a spot at a U.S. university in the news now. Today, I'm thankful to say that I have an incredible advisor, Dr. Kristin De Troyer, a world-class textual scholar who also finds time to send flowers on the occasion of my engagement.
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I hired a bunch of sports fans to chant “DEFENSE!” at my dissertation defense. I hope my advisor doesn’t mind.
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When you learn that there’s a 5th Book of Maccabees, preserved in Arabic and Syriac.
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Welcome new followers! If you are interested in Ethiopian history, art, and Ge’ez language, check out my personal favorite accounts:
@ArtEthiopic
@BereketWL
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@he_negash
@BeInfProject
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@he_negash
reminds me of the last two columns of this pentalingual Psalter in Ge’ez, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, and Armenian
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Met a couple named Susanna and Daniel today and I didn’t even embarrass myself by saying “Wow, just like the ancient Jewish book written in Greek included in the Septuagint and revised by Theodotion!”
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I have trust issues due to scholars citing scholarship they clearly haven’t read.
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🚨A PSA for Biblical scholars🚨
Please stop unironically using the term ‘booty’ to talk about plunder.
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Now out: The Books of the Maccabees: Literary, Historical, and Religious Perspectives, ed. Jan Willem Van Henten, with essays by Sylvie Honigman, Katell Berthelot, Tessa Rajak,
@hock_jana
, and my own: "The Toil of Abbreviating: 2 Maccabees in Comparison with Greek Epitomes"
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I'm pleased to announce that I have just discovered a fragmentary ancient document that can be reconstructed and interpreted to support ideas I already strongly believe in.
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Unfortunately, there were not enough 'likes' to name the baby Septuaginta. And my suggestions of Junia, Enoch, or Vashti were not approved. But the baby’s name will be biblical in the sense that, like most biblical name-givings, the mother chose the name.
She said if this tweet gets 5000 likes we can name the baby Septuaginta.
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they're a 10, but they're divided differently depending on if you're Jewish, Protestant, or Catholic
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lost Pauline letter just discovered (!!): Paul’s Letter to the Philippines 🇵🇭
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In the ancient Near East, clothes were considered a symbol of status.
I love reading commentaries on the Apocalypse that say something like, "In the Greco-Roman context, the sea turning into blood would have been seen as an ominous sign." Like...yes...that is true in every context.
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Academic monographs: $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Send pdfs to others as you would have them send unto you.
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Much like Home Alone 3, the book of 3 Maccabees capitalized upon the success of the first two installments of the Maccabees franchise by sharing their name yet without including any of the original characters.
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Before Twitter, what did people look at when they were supposed to be writing articles?
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This word is key.
Learn the basics of Biblical Hebrew on our website:
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Yeah, but can AI do THIS (*brings all the bitterness and baggage from my religious upbringing to my academic research*)???
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@tashakaminsky
@noemie_issan
There us an excellent recent book on this: Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar. Dr. Dunbar talks about her book on this podcast here
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vintage Hebrew, Ethiopic, and Georgian script posters from the small Judaica bookshop Austeria in Siracusa
#eabs2023
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Morton Smith, Jacob Neusner’s own teacher, hijacking an SBL session and distributing to everyone copies of Lieberman’s scathing review of Neusner’s book which says the right place for this book is the waste basket.
Forget Drake and Kendrick... tell us the best academic beef you've encountered during your research👂
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