William Brown

I'm looking forward to #aarsbl2024 and seeing friends and friendly faces. I'll be talking about divine scribes, the labor of textual production, and book history on Tuesday morning.

Does anybody have expertise in Hittite? I need some support engaging with a Hittite text, but I never took Hittite.

Are you looking for a job as an editor, writer, reader, and group facilitator (I see you, teachers)? I highly recommend checking out this opportunity with my current employer! Message me with any questions about the role or #altac marketing strategies. quanta-technology.com/career/senior-…

@kevinfoth My Amazon Kindle Scribe is great for PDFs. Although I occasionally buy books still, it is very helpful for PDFs of chapters, full books, and articles. It is also affordable.

@GradSkoolStrugs A more positive one: you have to have an academic job to contribute to and participate in academic discourse.

What is something that you thought before grad school that ended up being completely wrong about academia?

If you are an editor and would like to look at working at a great organization with great people (and with me too), let me know! I can give you some more information. Or you can just apply. quanta-technology.com/career/senior-…

After 12 years publishing in biblical studies, I'm excited to see my first business publication in print in @HarvardBiz. On newsstands now! hbr.org/2024/07/the-mi…

@WillKynes @HarvardBiz Congrats!

@Tine_Rass I hope things look up sooner than later. Perhaps our paths will cross at ASOR 2025!

@ProfChrisMJones I may or may not be doing the same thing for an adult ed class right now. :)

Terry in "Soul" the best representation of Belet-seri that I've seen to this day. I'll die on this hill. youtu.be/5zqfPScW59E?si…

If you, or someone you know, is looking for an SBL/AAR 2024 roommate, feel free to send me a direct message on Twitter.

@jenniferguo Wait until you see what engineers do. :) It makes ANE abbreviations look like an organized society.

In those days there were no editors. Everyone abbreviated as was right in his own eyes. (my response in the Discord talking about abbreviating ANE sources. on that note, DM me if you want to join a Discord community of biblical studies & theo grad students!)

I'm looking forward to seeing folks in San Diego next November at the Book History session! @danielpicus

@snarkademic My abstract for the Book History session at SBL was accepted. It will be my third paper and second year presenting at SBL. :D When the Gods Wrote: Comparing Divine Scribes in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mesopotamia.

Tell me about something good from your week or something you're looking forward to, please. (If it's a book or film, I'm taking notes!)

I'm 96% sure the real secrets of Ea (nisirti Ea) aren't the textual corpora themselves but rather Ea's perfect vision over thousands of years (i.e., the ability to read cuneiform on a tiny tablet).

New review of Nathan MacDonald's monograph. thebiblicalreview.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/rev…

Three new issues of our fantasy adventure comic series are up on Kickstarter now!

My favorite out-of-context comment (that I wrote in the margins of a book): "What about Moses? Was Moses just a fish"? So many secrets of Ea and the apkallu.

New review of Neil Van Leeuwen's "Religion as Make-Believe." thebiblicalreview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/rev…