Simone
@simonebatyochai.bsky.social
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Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit
https://simonereadstexts.substack.com/
Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit
https://simonereadstexts.substack.com/
I'm experiencing anti-philology discrimination rn
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I'm experiencing anti-philology discrimination rn
studious but naive voice: it's good to see so many of my friends are really into gemara today, b"h
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
studious but naive voice: it's good to see so many of my friends are really into gemara today, b"h
I push my fingers into my eyes
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Motherfuuuckaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Uh!
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Motherfuuuckaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Uh!
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I push my fingers into my eyes
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
and it's made of all the things I have to take
Jesus, it never ends, it works its way inside
and if the pain goes on
aaaaAAGHHHHGH
The best I've read recently have been more about the history of scholarship:
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The best I've read recently have been more about the history of scholarship:
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies and Consequences, on Eliade's hidden past
Jeb J Card's Spooky Archaeology, about how archaeology produced "pseudoarchaeology" and
Roberta Mazza's Stolen Fragments on ilicit manuscript trade
I'm sorry but Kotsko seems straightfowardly correct here, and I'm confused by this response - I don't see him appealing to "long tradition rooted in Christian supremacy" - and I think the PWJ crew has a very unfortunate apologetic tendency to downplay or ignore the parts of Paul that are...
Adam Kotsko has dipped his toes into the Paul Within Judaism literature and written a critique of it. Since I'm the person who alerted him to Matthew Novenson's work, I take some responsibility for this. I have some (friendly but critical) thoughts.
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/on-a-certa...
adamkotsko.substack.com/p/on-a-certa...
On a certain tendency in Pauline studies
Academic inside baseball that I promise will eventually turn out to be relateable
adamkotsko.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'm sorry but Kotsko seems straightfowardly correct here, and I'm confused by this response - I don't see him appealing to "long tradition rooted in Christian supremacy" - and I think the PWJ crew has a very unfortunate apologetic tendency to downplay or ignore the parts of Paul that are...
teeing up my final paper on the Book of Job:
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
teeing up my final paper on the Book of Job:
Man I have incredible friends when I can say "I've been really interested in this stuff" and have someone just send me a copy of this as a birthday gift
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Man I have incredible friends when I can say "I've been really interested in this stuff" and have someone just send me a copy of this as a birthday gift
type of guy who finds out the race has been called from yeshiva world news
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
type of guy who finds out the race has been called from yeshiva world news
man I just remembered balam acab
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
man I just remembered balam acab
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
insane nostalgia, remember when music was like, hey, here's a future that's fragile and both heavy and weightless at the same time
what happened to that vibe
mythicist
they always are
they always are
crazy to pop on here briefly during a break from studying for my Hebrew and Aramaic exam to see someone calling people dogmatic and blinded by religious faith for believing that the Talmud wasn't written in the 8th C BCE but instead c. 1k years later
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
mythicist
they always are
they always are
crazy to pop on here briefly during a break from studying for my Hebrew and Aramaic exam to see someone calling people dogmatic and blinded by religious faith for believing that the Talmud wasn't written in the 8th C BCE but instead c. 1k years later
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
crazy to pop on here briefly during a break from studying for my Hebrew and Aramaic exam to see someone calling people dogmatic and blinded by religious faith for believing that the Talmud wasn't written in the 8th C BCE but instead c. 1k years later
this should be an excellent read
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October 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
this should be an excellent read
I wrote a 5k word essay on Les Enfants du Paradis in less than 48 hrs drawing super heavily from Deleuze and Guattari because I knew the lecturer marking the paper had not read them, and would not read them, so I could justify anything I wrote by appealing to them. A-
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I wrote a 5k word essay on Les Enfants du Paradis in less than 48 hrs drawing super heavily from Deleuze and Guattari because I knew the lecturer marking the paper had not read them, and would not read them, so I could justify anything I wrote by appealing to them. A-
the trajectory from being one of the primary subjects of Rose's "The Shadow of Spirit" to twitter is quite something
September 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
the trajectory from being one of the primary subjects of Rose's "The Shadow of Spirit" to twitter is quite something
what's up I'm just adding paragraph numbers from the Schafer Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur to the translation of Sefer Hahekhalot/3 Enoch in the Charlesworth Pseudepigrapha vol
September 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
what's up I'm just adding paragraph numbers from the Schafer Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur to the translation of Sefer Hahekhalot/3 Enoch in the Charlesworth Pseudepigrapha vol
Aramaic is so cool
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Aramaic is so cool
ok new theory:
the "debate me" new athiest culture of the 9/11 ara was highly beneficial to both that crowd and particularly conservative evangelical Christians, and so those were their primary interlocutors, and that conditioned an entire generation...
the "debate me" new athiest culture of the 9/11 ara was highly beneficial to both that crowd and particularly conservative evangelical Christians, and so those were their primary interlocutors, and that conditioned an entire generation...
September 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
ok new theory:
the "debate me" new athiest culture of the 9/11 ara was highly beneficial to both that crowd and particularly conservative evangelical Christians, and so those were their primary interlocutors, and that conditioned an entire generation...
the "debate me" new athiest culture of the 9/11 ara was highly beneficial to both that crowd and particularly conservative evangelical Christians, and so those were their primary interlocutors, and that conditioned an entire generation...
help, I need either a concordance to the Hekhalot Literature or a pdf of the Schafer Synopse which is keyword searchable
this is an emergency (I have realized something cool I might want to write a paper on which needs some intense lexography)
This is also very much serious and only 20% a joke
this is an emergency (I have realized something cool I might want to write a paper on which needs some intense lexography)
This is also very much serious and only 20% a joke
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
help, I need either a concordance to the Hekhalot Literature or a pdf of the Schafer Synopse which is keyword searchable
this is an emergency (I have realized something cool I might want to write a paper on which needs some intense lexography)
This is also very much serious and only 20% a joke
this is an emergency (I have realized something cool I might want to write a paper on which needs some intense lexography)
This is also very much serious and only 20% a joke
Reposted by Simone
Reposted by Simone
I miss the good old days when lack of consensus reality was due to Kant's arguments about objectivity in the Critique of Pure Reason and not due to fascists successfully infiltrating 21st century tech consensus machines and useful idiot liberals cheerleading the process
September 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I miss the good old days when lack of consensus reality was due to Kant's arguments about objectivity in the Critique of Pure Reason and not due to fascists successfully infiltrating 21st century tech consensus machines and useful idiot liberals cheerleading the process
Slightly diminish a book from the Bible
in a needlessly contrarian voice:
Anniversaries
in a needlessly contrarian voice:
Anniversaries
Slightly diminish a book from the Bible
Internship
Internship
Slightly diminish a book
The Opening Acts of the Apostles
The Opening Acts of the Apostles
September 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Slightly diminish a book from the Bible
in a needlessly contrarian voice:
Anniversaries
in a needlessly contrarian voice:
Anniversaries
I find this pretty stunning (it's on his blog for the curious) as the information provided makes it pretty likely that a) this was Sheffield Phoenix, and b) they've learnt from the criticisms levelled at them last time, and the reviewers rejected the MS outright, no revisions could salvage it
I see that our friend Richard Carrier, PHD is keeping up with the zeitgeist by announcing that failing peer review is actually passing peer review if you take into account the fact that the reviewers failed to recognize his incredible, unsurpassed maverick genius, and that this is a scandal
September 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I find this pretty stunning (it's on his blog for the curious) as the information provided makes it pretty likely that a) this was Sheffield Phoenix, and b) they've learnt from the criticisms levelled at them last time, and the reviewers rejected the MS outright, no revisions could salvage it
building on this I think it's very doable, and that there's a pipleline here:
evangelical -> athiest -> biblical minimalist crypto-conspiracism -> crypto-gnostic/perennialist idealism -> jungian "cultural christianity" and/or just fascism
there are a lot of different off-ramps ofc bc this is real
evangelical -> athiest -> biblical minimalist crypto-conspiracism -> crypto-gnostic/perennialist idealism -> jungian "cultural christianity" and/or just fascism
there are a lot of different off-ramps ofc bc this is real
some religious studies person needs to do a study of the youtube economy of ex-vangelicals getting really into ultra-fringe biblical minimalist stuff and treating that in the same awed tones as some kind of liberatory/soteriological secret
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
building on this I think it's very doable, and that there's a pipleline here:
evangelical -> athiest -> biblical minimalist crypto-conspiracism -> crypto-gnostic/perennialist idealism -> jungian "cultural christianity" and/or just fascism
there are a lot of different off-ramps ofc bc this is real
evangelical -> athiest -> biblical minimalist crypto-conspiracism -> crypto-gnostic/perennialist idealism -> jungian "cultural christianity" and/or just fascism
there are a lot of different off-ramps ofc bc this is real
I see that our friend Richard Carrier, PHD is keeping up with the zeitgeist by announcing that failing peer review is actually passing peer review if you take into account the fact that the reviewers failed to recognize his incredible, unsurpassed maverick genius, and that this is a scandal
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I see that our friend Richard Carrier, PHD is keeping up with the zeitgeist by announcing that failing peer review is actually passing peer review if you take into account the fact that the reviewers failed to recognize his incredible, unsurpassed maverick genius, and that this is a scandal
it's crazy to me to think that this text, written down around 2000 years ago, was already ancient when it was written down
(Song of the Sea, 4Q14/4QexodC)
(Song of the Sea, 4Q14/4QexodC)
![detail of a fragment from 4Q14/4QexodC containing the Song of the Sea; at the top of the fragment you can read מי] כמוך באלי[ם (Ex 15:11)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t3cu66gypkh33s6dv7vytbt7/bafkreid6jb4twavil6du4r537vut3m7rpadxksoogqapz3zrmt3rqji5ma@jpeg)
September 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
it's crazy to me to think that this text, written down around 2000 years ago, was already ancient when it was written down
(Song of the Sea, 4Q14/4QexodC)
(Song of the Sea, 4Q14/4QexodC)