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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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And-BOO 👻 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...

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 9h

circa 5:00, 5:30

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 10h

get ready to learn about the end of the spoils system! with Nick Offerman!

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 11h

does he think... "Soybeans" is a person?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: With soybeans, what is the plan to help farmers? Is it direct checks?

TRUMP: What happens with soybeans is uhhh, we're gonna see more and more I think opening up and part of the reason-- he's got things that he wants to discuss with me and I have things I want to discuss with him

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 11h

WHOA! Classics shots fired!

And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 12h

"NOMOS = LAW"

NPR @npr.org · 12h

Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue. n.pr/4nP8qcq

This #MeToo melodrama isn't great, but Julia Roberts' performance is

Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue.

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

This #MeToo melodrama isn't great, but Julia Roberts' performance is

Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue.

n.pr

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 12h

"Somebody showed me a TikTok--"

i'm gonna stop you right there, pal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16h

this Oglesby essay is really great, perfect launching point for an undergrad class to discuss space, spoliation, empire in ancient & modern worlds

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 17h

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, art historian Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, & the AAR summer school. Then, a video game on repatriation, the Nubian ivory trade, a new Roman wood workshop, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more.

Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)

This week, art historian and AAR Classical Summer School attendee Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, and lived experiences in ancient Rome. Then, a new video game allows you to "r...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 17h

Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)

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Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social · 22h

Any experts on Chabad-Lubavitch here? Could use a fact-checker for a segment in my upcoming video.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Gary Oldman has a monologue in the latest Slow Horses that might be his best acting ever

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

what if this is how antifa's wife found out antifa has a girlfriend

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I'm always saying!

And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

having spent many pages many years ago writing about the late ancient Christian holy land, relics, and Christian imperialism I say: yes

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The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

it's pronounced "National"

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to tell my little stories!

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I lived in Marblehead for 5 years and half of the locals told us it was pronounced MARblehead and the other half marbleHEAD and we could never figure out which half was trying to tag us as outsiders by misleading us

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.10...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Vit. Const.

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The SBL handbook of style : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xiv, 351 pages ; 26 cm

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

& it's such a fascinating disciplinary desire to unpack esp. in religious method/theory classes, where so much of the history of the discipline is structured by attempting to Know Others (imperially or earnestly), from Tylor to phenomenology to "lived religion"

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

yeesh when I was growing up here the only interesting thing about state politics was that one of our senators was married to Elizabeth Taylor!

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

well the good news is by then all air travel may be completely inoperable as well!

And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

particularly once we divest ourselves of Authors As Benchmarks of the Syllabus (where things like "councils" and "emperors" also take on the putative role of authors) then things could be much more fluid 2/2

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I could actually kind of imagine it the way we tend to structure intro Bible courses, which don't move (strictly) chronologically either but provide enough context at the outset to allow students to engage thematically rather than teleologically 1/2

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 1d

The Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Jews of the Islamic World.

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies - Northampton, Massachusetts (US) job with Success Advertising/Cherenson Group - Smith College | 37897363

tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Jews of the Islamic World, to begin July 1, 2026

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I will be really interested to see what your syllabus looks like using AC as a text!

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1d

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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