If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

Yeah and if they don't, maybe we do?

Full disclosure, this is a highly self-aggrandizing take, honed over a good 5 years of explaining to patient colleagues/editors why I am, yes, yet again, badly blowing even this already extended deadline...

Nothing but facts here. Organizing and defending your colleagues is what protects everything else. Solidarity forever. ✊

Organizing one's colleagues is service to the profession, of the highest order. Every bit as worthy a scholarly pursuit as teaching, advising, peer-review or committee work, and—yeah—even research. Pass it on.

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Excited to share my review of Jodi Magness’ ‘Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik’s Schweich Lectures’ in the recent issue of The Jewish Review of Books!

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Interested in learning Coptic? Check out my 8-week primer focused on Gospel of Thomas (Sahidic/Lycopolitan Mixed Dialect).

Part 1 Starts Oct. 27

Asynchronous and Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) via The Religion Department

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There is a Syndicate symposium taking place on Isaac Sharp's excellent book, The Other Evangelicals, featuring responses by William Stell, Jane Hong, Kelsey Hanson Woodruff, and myself. Stell and Hong's essays are up now. Mine will post on Monday. Check it out.
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#ForthcomingPublication (2026)
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The gathering in 2018 was one of my favorite conferences ever. I met so many cool people there for the first time, and it was a great introduction to the broader field of apocrypha studies for me.

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why?

Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors.

C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily?

O: I didn’t ask because

C: They were dead?

I fucking hate writing sometimes. It's like somebody hands you a tree and an axe and says "I need a table by dinner time, and make it pretty." Like, fuck you. Who the fuck does this for a living? It's fucking stupid.

This piece is just out, part of this volume: brill.com/display/title/70849

Happy to send a pdf out to anyone interested.

Absolutely!

Volumes of the CSWR's new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), are released concurrently as open-access PDFs and affordable, but appealing, hard copies. My book is already avail., and the next (Muller, Porphyry) will be by year's end.

so The Rapture is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah? Is this deliberate or another one of those "sorry it was the only day that worked for everyone" situations?

As always, if anybody needs a PDF of ours or any other contribution here, just DM me your email!

Out now: New issue of MTSR featuring a symposium on @feelingtheory.bsky.social's WILD EXPERIMENT, in which @maiakotro.bsky.social and I take the opportunity to fire off some long-simmering hot takes on how J. Z. Smith is used in discussions about comparison as a method.
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oh & unlike academia dot edu you don't have to join to access archives on KC!

I have all my stuff on KC linked on my professional website and you can access it all from there (along with my various course websites and online essays):

andrewjacobs.org/vita.html

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.