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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Finally, I offer other use cases for using interactive fiction in the religious studies classroom.

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Jun 3

I present ethical considerations in both designing and playing the game, such as taking seriously the agency of disenfranchised populations, presenting varieties of early Christianities, and developing historical empathy.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Jun 3

In this article, I present the learning objectives achieved by the game: introducing the rich historical context of 50 CE; introducing key teachers and teachings of earliest Christianity; and introducing crucial historiographical questions like “How does one tell history?”

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Abstract: “Bringing early Christianity to life” is a worthy goal, but it is worthier when buttressed by more specific learning objectives. A text-based choose-your-own-adventure-style game, Writing to Paul, invites students to explore the first decades of earliest Christianity.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), “Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.” tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have an article out with @jibs-journal.bsky.social! A little insight into some of my PhD research, thank you so much to JIBS for their guidance and accepting my article, I am over the moon☺️

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Mar 12

We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · Mar 12

Frescoes in Pompeii Reveal the Secret World of Dionysiac Rituals
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Newly Discovered Pompeii Frescoes Reveal a Different—Wild—Side of Ancient Roman Women

“[It’s] a metaphor for a wild, ecstatic life."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Mar 12

We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @WordsFromAStone.bsky.social's latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website. jibs.hcommons.org/volume-6-iss...

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Dr Meredith JC Warren @drmjcwarren.bsky.social · Oct 24

New JIBS issue! Big thanks to guest editors on this one, @isaacsoon.bsky.social Eleanor Vivian and @tdbiii.bsky.social

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special JIBS issue on Disability and the Bible.

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Oct 24

So excited that this special issue is now out and for the opportunity to get on my soapbox about nondisabled interpretations of John 5.

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special JIBS issue on Disability and the Bible.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

- Emma Swai , “A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5."
- Grace Emmett and Ryan Collman, “St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Cor 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

- Grant Gates, “Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs.”
- Matthew Korpman Matthew J. Korpman, “Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees."

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

Guest edited by Eleanor Vivian, @isaacsoon.bsky.social, and @tdbiii.bsky.social, this issue features the following articles:

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 24

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special JIBS issue on Disability and the Bible.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 7

Like his namesake, in Genesis to whom God delegated the naming of the animals, I consider how the Adam of Good Omens uses naming to define the world around him and in doing so, asserts his humanity over his supernatural origins.”

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 7

and specifically with literary and popular cultural engagements with Genesis and Revelation. Approaching the novel primarily via its literary and cinematic intertexts, I position Adam Young as a literary construct who in turn names and shapes other beings out of material from his own mental library.

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 7

Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the character of Adam Young, who is himself named after the first human described in Genesis, I examine how Good Omens intersects with the cultural inheritance of the Bible,..

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 7

Abstract: “In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality…

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Oct 7

🚨✨Now published✨🚨: "Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens" by Clair J. Hutchings-Budd. jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volu...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 25

embracing a queer future free of the constraints of heteronormative reproductivity. But the parable can also be understood as a conservative cautionary tale that insists on temporal reproductive norms and pathologises deviance from full alignment toward a heteroreproductive future.

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 25

and it provokes reflection on the limits that heteronorming structures place on thriving. Read alongside theorists of queer futurity, the parable of the man with two sons affords at least two possible interpretations. It can be understood as a gesture toward a new horizon,

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 25

highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending to the story’s reflections on the conditions of flourishing. Understood this way, the parable of the man with two sons reads as a debate over bodies, kinship, and possession of the future,

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 25

Abstract: Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable,

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Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social · Sep 9

So grateful to the JIBS team for helping me share these thoughts with the world!

Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 9

New Article Day!🤩 Hot off the virtual presses, it's Jane Sancinito's "Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles." jibs.hcommons.org/archive/volu...

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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 25

Now published: Eric C. Smith's "There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death." Don't miss it!

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