Tyler Smith

@StuartWeeks8 On reception, point her to Jo Carruthers, Esther Through the Centuries (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008). Also very good is Barry Walfish, Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993)

One of my students wants to do some work on Esther, and perhaps especially its reception. Does anyone have any reading recommendations?

@evandeneykel I am partial to the @nyttypos account because the country's "paper of record" has the money to pay for good copyediting but dismantled the copy desk in 2017. Cybershaming students, though, is BS.

@alfarojoshua3 Blessed be the associates

Did you know... you don't have to be Catholic to join the Catholic Biblical Association, you don't have to be European to present at European Association of Biblical Studies, & you don't need to study the "Bible" or be social to participate in the Society of Biblical Literature?

@toosmallathing1 weird on so many levels

The book I'm reading does distance in imperial and metric, but with a strange number of decimal places in the imperial measurements. Things like: "...from the surface of the desert 98.4352 - 328.03 feet / 30-100 meters above ground." What is gained here?

@a_grzybowska_w @alicescrambled Also a strong runner-up: youtube.com/watch?v=h0TRpG…

Seriously, this is what they went with? When ‘Tsarbucks’ was right there for the taking?

@RyanTurnbull20 Oh, there are stupider ways

@evandeneykel I hear those things are great if you like tooth pics

@alfarojoshua3 Hard agree

What if SBL sold t-shirts which were actually funny and didn't reinforce the idea that biblical scholars are condescending jerks whose main function is to say things like "Actually, it's 'the book of Revelation,' not 'Revelations.'"

Take up and read!

@Jtramme11 depends what sort of commentary you're looking for... the first one I'd look at is books.google.at/books?id=eOjYA…

Anyone have any recommendations for a good commentary on Hebrews?

@ChanceBonar ... FOR I BRING YOU TIDINGS OF GREAT OYSTER

@Simcha_Gross Only split when you've got something good to splashily drop in the middle

Splitting infinitives in academic writing:

@ChristophHeilig Both options are also appropriate answers to an ironic or insincere "Thank you!"

If you are a native speaker of the English language, I'd like to know, which or the following two options, if any, seems impolite to you as a response to a sincere "Thank you!"

@jacquesderridad I wish!

You ever feel like there's a genius presiding over your life?

At St Peter’s Abbey

@alfarojoshua3 leads a group of #isbl2022 visitors to see some of Salzburg’s oldest manuscripts

@blind_scholar Keener has an excursus on disability, poverty, and begging in his Acts commentary (vol 2, pp1050ff). Includes a wealth of refs to classical sources you could check out

I just discovered that the ebook of my book is out early and already available for purchase and download! (hardcopy still coming out Aug. 9). I love coming out of Shabbat to excitingly positive news. amazon.com/Demons-Details…

@kellyrader @ba_lyons ditto

@ba_lyons Weirdly, I think I became a professor because I am first gen. I was good at school and knew so little about professional career paths.

Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a PhD. I just remembered that when I was a kid, our window AC unit leaked onto our carpet and a giant mushroom appeared overnight. If you're 1st gen and you also had a mushroom in your living room I see you.