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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
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andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee

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Andrew Jacobs may refer to:Andrew Jacobs (journalist), reporter for The New York Times and documentary film director and producer Andrew Jacobs (lawyer) (1906–1992), lawyer, judge, and Congressman from Indiana Andrew Jacobs Jr. (1932–2013), lawyer, Indiana state legislator, and Congressman from Indiana Andy Jacobs, British sports personality .. more

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 20
well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture

I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2

Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
Gospel Thrillers: Get your copy of Gospel Thrillers
Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible is available in print and digital formats:Directly from the publisher, Cambridge University Press (digital and print)From an indepe...
scalar.usc.edu

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 4h
#JusticeForIan

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 5h
New pod! Mike talks to Christopher Bonura about A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination

If you're liking the show, please rate and review!

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open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 5h
Here's now the video recording of that excellent talk:
#ArabicBible

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 7h
Beginning my Coptic lecture today with a bit of MLKjr:

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Martin Luther King Jr., “Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience” (1961) tinyurl.com/5d2sxe8r
Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
tinyurl.com

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 8h
It is MLK day—which means that although I am not teaching my Ancient Middle East class until later this week, I still always go back and read the pastor and activist’s essay on Mithra for his Greek religion class. kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...
Tauroctony (Mithras Slaying the Bull) Dura-Europos, block J7, Mithraeum, ca. A.D. 170-71 Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos 1935.98 Mithras Slaying the Bull (Tauroctony) Dura-Europos, block J7, Mithraeum, ca. A.D. 168-69 Limestone with traces of pigment The Mithraeum at Dura-Europos is unique in featuring not one but two reliefs of Mithras slaying the bull (the tauroctony) in the center of the cult niche (at right). In both, the god appears in his habitual pose-plunging a dagger into the bull's throat-accompanied by the usual attendants: raven, dog, snake, sun, and moon. In the later, larger relief, the dedicant and fellow initiates are depicted to one side. Although dedicants and family members do appear in cult images elsewhere at Dura-Europos and at Palmyra, such iconography is extremely rare in Mithraic images.Yale art museum label

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 19h
fancy!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 22h
huh I did use Google Lens last week to translate instructions for putting together something that were only in chinese. curioser and curioser!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 22h
the weird thing is *both* accounts still have the "smart" features turned out. but maybe I'll try turning them off to see if the message disappears on the afflicted account.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 23h
ugh that's what I was afraid of. I haven't clicked on the stupid gemini logo but maybe this is a way of making you click on it if only to try to shut some of these features down.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 23h
sorry, it's not my UVa email, it's a gmail I set up to be a work address when I left my last full-time professor job! (I have way too many email accounts)

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 23h
i have two gmail accounts (personal and work) open in different windows. my personal gmail account keeps throwing this irritating "AI SUMMARY" flag at the top of every email I read; the work email does not. the settings for both seem identical. any theories, fam?
A little widget that says "Summarize this email" that makes me want to throw my laptop off my roof

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 23h
it's snowing up a treat here

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
happy birthday, Dr. C!

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Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social · 1d
In case you haven't yet heard about it, there is an interesting new project on 'Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity' being led by Matthijs den Dulk (Radboud University). Currently hiring for a 3-year postdoc. Application deadline is 8 March.
www.eiec.info/home
EIEC
Image: Jesus and the dog-headed men, Kiev Psalter, 1397
www.eiec.info

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
on UVa president's potential $8.5M payout if the new board moves to remove him:

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Ruth Jones is great in it!

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
👑🐝

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Krisanne Combs @ennasirk.bsky.social · 1d
Non paywall link archive.is/WZNib

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I prefer the term Artificial Person myself @maddavenport.bsky.social · 1d
I made Gwen rewind The Mummy because I felt sure that I or someone on here would need this for a meme
A screenshot of 1999 bisexual tour de force The Mummy with the closed caption (CURATOR SCREAMING) and a shot of torch-wielding zombies descending on a curator

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
no alas nor is it a spinoff from Blackish

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
the shop is on Archangel Lane

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
yeah gattis isn't for subtlety

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
oh it's a mystery thing
www.imdb.com/title/tt3206...
Bookish (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 6.8 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bookish: Created by Mark Gatiss. With Mark Gatiss, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey. Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling case...
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, Polly Walker is absolutely a draw! There's a great collection former Marple/Poirot actors (she, of course, did both!)

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Jerrance and Terrance

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 1d
Benjamin Franklin, born on this day 1706: “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d
I'm thinking I may need to get through the whole season to gauge how I feel about it but so far tilting in the "enjoy" direction

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d
are folks watching BOOKISH on PBS? what are we thinking about it?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d
Choosing to leave these people in these positions would compound harm. I agree with my colleagues that we need to consider ways to depoliticize higher ed boards (and we have some ideas of how to do that) but the current Governor and AG of VA are not the ones to politicize it.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2d
no I think you're right

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
There are 17 seats on the Board of Visitors, which oversees the school, but before the resignations on Friday, there were only 12 members, all appointed by the outgoing governor, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican.