Nathan MacDonald
@nathanmacdonald.bsky.social
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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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Passed! Yesterday I passed my viva. Thank you to Professor Salvesen and Dr Kantor for such a wonderful conversation. Thank you to Marieke and @nathanmacdonald.bsky.social for all your support and encouragement to get me to this point!

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Passed! Yesterday I passed my viva. Thank you to Professor Salvesen and Dr Kantor for such a wonderful conversation. Thank you to Marieke and @nathanmacdonald.bsky.social for all your support and encouragement to get me to this point!

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Wonderful! Congratulations!

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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.
Extract from Mark Brett, Debating the Nation

I have heard it said in jest that the idea of an ecumenical Abraham was invented by genial Swiss scholars who see the biblical ancestor in their own image.

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Some of the Hittite examples Wazana discusses.

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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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Yes me too. Looks very exciting.

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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!