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kristadalton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Kenyon College. Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025). Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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I wrote a short piece about some of the immediate and larger historiographical interventions I tried to make in my recent book!

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After Friday we will begin review of applications! Spread the word that we are looking for a 1 year VAP in Judaism. Happy to answer any questions.

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JOB: Tenure-track position at Spelman College in African American Religions with subfields including (but not limited to) womanist theology/ethics, African religious traditions in the diaspora, queer studies in religion, decolonial studies in religion, and/or science and religion. Deadline: 3/10

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I made my students take selfies with one book that they got from the campus library to cite for their first paper. I also banned all websites (except for online databases like JSTOR).

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Hot take: we can do better than "trans people have always existed!" I say, actually it's CISNESS that is the newfangled, upstart invention. It's not that trans people existed before. It's that the whole cis/trans binary is rubbish. Hear me, a pre modern historian/ Talmud scholar, out...

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Sharing via @seforimchatter.bsky.social elsewhere since he's not so much here...THIS WILL BE AMAZING. @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social 😍 @emwjournal.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social @jwaonline.bsky.social #earlymodern www.amazon.com/dp/069126861...

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CFA: M.A. Scholarships for the Study of Antisemitism, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2025 Learn more and Apply: tinyurl.com/HJSprospectivestudents

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@postrafelite.bsky.social perfect Bio! Glad to see you in the blue skies 😍

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well hellooooo

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In The Woman Question in Jewish Studies, Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff take a critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field. Out now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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My proposal to form a Jewish studies concentration was denied. Pretty disheartening news from an institution I've given so much to.

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–Are you a classical Marxist or a New Left Marxist? –I’m a Teen Vogue Marxist.

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This month AJR is featuring a panel of scholars celebrating Simcha Gross's 2025 National Jewish Book Award winning monograph, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity. We begin with an overview of the book's interventions from Christine Hayes.

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We made a Jewish feminist starter pack for our great new community here! Who should we add? go.bsky.app/MNtodjs

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My book How the Rabbis Became Experts is now available for preorder! Officially out on Apr 22, 2025. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Next year I am on sabbatical, and we are searching for a 1 year VAP replacement in Judaism at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

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ChatGPT: The Soul Eater read by Stephen Fry h/t a colleague not on social media www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pf4...

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Another semester, another attempt to teach while the world is on (literal) 🔥.

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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

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tell those maids-a-milking to wait, it's that time of year again friends! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2016/1/...

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As Hanukkah 🕎 begins tomorrow night, a note on a fascinating scholarly discussion. It involves the magnificent "Elephant mosaic" discovered in a late antique synagogue in Huqoq, in the Galilee. Upon discovery, many speculated that it is the earliest Jewish depiction of the events of Hanukkah. 🧵1

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Open access: Sean W. Anthony and Stephen J. Shoemaker, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Strategius of Mar Saba, 2024 isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

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I’d rather make students write on clay tablets than use AI to help me teach.

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I started a list for Syriac Studies - please reply to be added! go.bsky.app/9sUvunP

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AJS is coming up next week! Swing by this Tuesday session featuring papers engaging the recent book by Simcha Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity. Zoom room 06.

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Writing tip no. 10: read and reread your sources until you hear voices, then write a deeply human story about your historical subjects. Readers want to learn about real people, making real choices, in real circumstances, in real time. Make your actors complex and multi-dimensional. "Humanize"!

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enormously grateful to Ellen and the crew for pulling this together! #NAPS2025 will mark the 20th anniversary (!!!!) of the first time I delivered a public talk on #GospelThrillers, I'm thrilled* to bring it back home! *get it?

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