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Evan Caddy
@excadthedra.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at ACU (North Sydney): textual criticism in Daniel 3 and the Additions to Daniel. Evangelical Anglican 🇦🇺 Somewhat pedantic. Wrote a song about pigeons. Misses TTRPGs. Selah.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Nov 14
Oh hey, given I've got no publications yet, this is the thing I pin to my profile. I didn't write most of it and I botched the audio tech, but it's still a fun time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlM...
The Septuagint Song (with Additions)
YouTube video by Evan Caddy
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 10d
If you want the nichest possible answer to this question, it's "Daniel is the fourth man in the fire."

I can't tell you where I found it, and I might be hallucinating it, but I'm pretty sure that somewhere in the ancient literature on Dan 3, this is a take.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 14d
Something something "with tears"
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 14d
Four legs good; two legs BETTER
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 15d
Surely there’s someone working on a modern-day retelling of Caligula that just slowly morphs into a weird drama about Donald Trump
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 17d
A great🧵

One day somebody’s going to write a PhD on Charlie Kirk’s funeral as the consummation of American evangelical syncretism. Like, there’s so much text and sub-text here. Just deeply disturbing.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17d
"You see, Charlie looked at politics as an on-ramp to Jesus. He knew if he'd get all of you rowing in the streams of liberty, you'd come to its source, and that's the Lord."

--Rob McCoy, Kirk's pastor

Sooo... what exactly does that mean? If we follow Kirk's politics we'll become Christians?
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 27d
Jim's RPG: a system where your primary skills are:
Mowing
Fencing
Painting
Cleaning
Roofing
Electrical
Plumbing
Flooring
Removals
Hazardous Material
Blinds
Termite and Pest Control
I.T.
Pool Care
Security
Glass
Security Doors
Insurance
Tree and Stump Removal
Dog Wash
Window and Pressure Cleaning
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 29d
Book Announcement: The Authority of the Septuagint
Book Announcement: The Authority of the Septuagint
I’m excited to announce a new book coming out this October with IVP Academic, entitled The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches. This is a project tha…
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Sep 7
OHHHHHHH
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Sep 4
WAIT I was just looking at the hardcover price!
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Sep 4
This is the kind of thing that I (as someone in a very different part of the humanities) would love to get my hands on. That academic pub price tag, though :c
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Sep 4
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Sep 2
If you're itching to read about "Apocalyptic" in the most arcane senses of that term, perhaps to distract you from much else apocalyptic in our times, this is the series for you! humanhistoriesofkn.substack.com/p/away-from-...
Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 1" / Image = Alice and Humpty Dumpty Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 2" / Image = mysterious figure with Scythe Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 3" / Image = Angel, swooping down with a chain
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Aug 26
So Bluesky's a fairly glum place, but as a small piece of good news: I got married 😊
A picture of a bride and groom laughing together in front of a church.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 28
Something something Second Foundation
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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · Jun 27
‘I have sometimes asked myself what would have happened if modern science, instead of … converging on the study of matter, had begun by the consideration of mind—if Kepler, Galileo and Newton, for example, had been psychologists.’
– Bergson, 1913
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 25
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 24
One of the big realisations for me in reading Daniel and the prophets was that these books had to mean something when they were written down, rather than being gibberish for several hundred years.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 24
Particularly helps when you’re trying to understand what Jesus and the gospel writers are trying to do with Daniel.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 24
Like, it’s really helpful to read the final kingdom as Rome, but only if you’ve read it as Antiochus first.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 24
I’ve been kind of surprised to find myself coming back to the more traditional Western schema, not as authorial intent (it’s definitely not what the book was originally about), but as a theological overlay.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 24
🎶(Shekhinah Shekhinah)🎶

Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of lying hips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of lying hips.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 23
One day …
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 22
He's a twisted, arrogant, bloodthirsty fool, and he'll meet his end, the same way as any tyrant, any King of the North or South.

"Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." (Exod 15:21)
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 22
"He will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many. He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him." (Dan 11:44–45)
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 22
I wonder what that young Ukrainian woman was feeling about it that, given all she's experienced and suffered.

Then, a few hours later, I saw that the US had bombed Iran—and I wonder how she feels about that, too.

And there's my reflex when I see news like today's: to turn to the book of Daniel:
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 22
The passage this morning was Exodus 14, the crossing of the Red Sea, but with an unusual focus on what was happening before the crossing: the approach of the Egyptian army, the Israelite panic, and the intervention of the LORD in cloud and fire.
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · Jun 22
There was a young woman who visited my church this morning. I learned later (from my partner) that she and her family had fled Ukraine a few years back; she's not a Christian, but with all that's happened to her, she's looking to make some sense of life.
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