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Joshua Alfaro

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Septuagint studies, Hebrew Bible, and all things Esther. Available for proofreading and editing academic publications. All memes handcrafted by me. https://gastrosophie.academia.edu/JoshuaAlfaro

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 1d

Hybrid meeting: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew, 7 November 2025, 9:30–17:00 (CET), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/online. Register here: networkinstitute.org/2025/10/03/e...

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 21d

Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 23d

It was an honor to contribute an essay to this festschrift for Robert Hanhart, whose edition of Septuagint Esther has been a constant companion on my desk for many years.

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Sep 6

Chiasm-haters need to read Teeter's essay "Biblical Symmetry and Its Modern Detractors," which deals with *why* scholarship became skeptical but also finds that "biblical compositions appear designed to be read and understood as a fractal-like hierarchy of recursively embedded structural levels."

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'll be presenting for the EABS Graduate Seminar on September 18th at 7:00pm CEST on "A More Ethical Esther? Violence in the Versions of Esther 8–9." Message me if you would like the Zoom link.

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Sep 1

You: I will write a balanced book review with fair critiques where necessary.
Michael V. Fox: Here's a scathing review of a whole academic journal that shouldn't even exist.

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 24

Glad to help! I was always curious about why there are so many stories like this too.

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 23

it's mostly just a list of examples, but Peter Norton, Episcopal Elections 250-600, 191-96 talks about this. Also Rapp, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity, 141ff.

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 22

1. I don't know but wouldn't be surprised if he got it from OL. 2. Hilberg's edition is here: archive.org/details/CSEL56

Epistularum pars III (CSEL 56) : Jerome, Saint; Hilberg, Isidor, 1852-1919 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The fifty-sixth volume of Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) also known as the Vienna Corpus. Containing letters 121-154 of St. Jerome. Book...

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 21

if you're interested in Jerome's translations of the Psalms, Martijn Jaspers has been working on this and will have an essay in the 2022 IOSCS volume on "Polysytem Theory and Jerome’s Latin Psalter Translations." www.arts.kuleuven.be/english/our-...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Aug 12

🧵(1) Exciting news regarding the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project, which photographed more than 9,000 manuscripts in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994 and is the largest repository for scholarly access to texts in Geʻez.

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Update: Cataloging progress on the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML)

Update: Cataloging progress on the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) page

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 15

My #IOSOT2025 book haul is clearly dominated by Georgian children’s books.

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone at #IOSOT2025 brought their 2013 Munich bag, still in good shape 12 years later. They just don’t make conference bags like they used to.

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 13

I got my copy of Speaking to Job in Greek signed by the author! @maxavenariolus.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social #IOSOT2025

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Aug 2

Biblical scholars love to find an inscription that says “Only the LORD is God” and say “Actually, that presupposes polytheism.”

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Jul 21

"wow, you study the Bible, so you must be a pastor or rabbi or something, right?"

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Elvira Martín-Contreras @emartincontreras.bsky.social · Jul 1

Working with high-res medieval manuscript images?
Just published our practical IIIF-based solution that's transformed how we handle manuscript fragments in paratextuality research and manuscript studies overall
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#medievalmanuscripts #paratexts #IIIF #codicology #HHDD

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Jun 10

Lecture (online and in-person): "Translation as imperialism: Late Greek Poetics and the Hebrew Bible" by Tim Whitmarsh, Durham University, Ritson Room, Department of Classics. 19 June 2025, 5:00pm. Register here: tinyurl.com/43mue34c

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Jun 8

Publishers: a very simple thing you can do to sell more books is to put the Table of Contents on the website.

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · May 25

I discovered Esther among the Coca-Cola scrolls. I mean bottles.

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · May 20

"From Giant to Pocket Bibles: The Development of the Size of Biblical Manuscripts," 19 June 2025, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Romero Room, COVE 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, Leuven

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · May 7

Book talk (in-person and Zoom): The Book of Esther: Themes and Issues, edited by Kristin Joachimsen and Helge Bezold, MF Norwegian School of Theology, May 27, 11:30-12:00 CET mf.no/arrangemente...

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · May 4

Yes, May 6th this coming Tuesday.

Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · May 4

Book panel (in-person): Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics by Hindy Najman. 6 May, 3:30 Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · Apr 30

Free online workshop: Framing Religious Art in UK Collections www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/framing-re...