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Professor of the Interpretation of the OT, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St John’s. Pentateuch, ritual, cult, priesthood, temple. Views my own.
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Reminder to self: your casual asides responding to questions at an online conference with 300 scholars on the line can come back to haunt you.

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Phew…the second #SBL paper is written. It’s about nations, empires and borders in the ancient world. Contrary to the popular view (eg Hazony, Wazana, Liverani) I’m going to argue that defined borders are typically not what nations in a multipolar world agree…but what imperial hegemons impose. 1/2

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So…looking forward to SBL in a week’s time and just wondering how many attendees are going to take up the special conference offer of a 10% discount on a midweek wedding while we’re in San Diego.

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Exciting opportunity of a permanent post in Second Temple Judaism at Cambridge. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43152/

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Look what came in the post today!

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