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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Sep 8

excited that my abstract for Oxford Intersections from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has been accepted! my article is titled ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear’

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Dr Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · Jun 22

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!

💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)

Let’s see where it ends up…

#Giveaway

The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Jun 2

working on my paper for the Scottish Universities Biblical Studies and TRS Postgraduate Workshop on Wednesday at @trsglasgowuni.bsky.social! my favourite part of academia is getting to make a PowerPoint

Title page of PowerPoint titled ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Bathsheba and the Geography of Women’s Fear’.

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · May 12

some reminder stickers to get me through the final year of my PhD (ft taylor swift of course)

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Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social · Apr 23

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Ethnic Minority Christians and Scottish Identity 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The brilliant @nhatzaw.bsky.social is looking to speak to Christians from an ethnic minority/global majority background.

Interested? Contact Nuam at [email protected].

Please share widely!

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · Mar 21

"Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation Embodiment in Scripture." Delighted to have this in my hands and delighted to have endorsed it. #CriticalBible

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Dr Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social · Mar 20

I’m very happy to share that my book ‘Reimaging the Magdalene: Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation’ is now available to buy at all good booksellers (and the dodgy ones too).

The book cover which features Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy

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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...

Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies

jibs.hcommons.org

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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...

Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies

jibs.hcommons.org

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Mar 13

When I talk to students about Jephthah, we’re all a bit baffled about his idiocy 😂 that’s interesting about the vow! it wouldn’t surprise me, and I love these depictions of Jephthah in films, thank you so much for sharing, I will definitely be using them in future presentations☺️

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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...

Volume 6 Issue 1 – Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies

jibs.hcommons.org

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · Mar 10

Extended Call For Papers: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties

CFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties Edited by Ilaria W. Biano Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time …

popularcultureandtheology.com

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Mar 7

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PJ Wilson @pjwils.bsky.social · Feb 26

It's great to see this event expanded to include those in theology and religious studies, not just biblical studies. This has always been an excellent event and I've received some of the most robust and useful feedback here.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-u...

Scottish Universities Biblical Studies & TRS Postgraduate Workshop

SGSAH-sponsored day workshop for all PhD students in Biblical Studies & TRS in the Scottish universities

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m procrastinating my thesis and speaking about God as Mother-Bear at this! 🧸

Sébastien Doane, PhD @sebastiendoane.bsky.social · Feb 27

Humanimal 2.0 online conference is comming up next week. Keynotes by Suzanna Millar, David M. Carr and Brian F. Kolia. My own contribution will be on animals worshiping in Revelation 4-5. Time to register!
www.humanimalconference.org/program

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Feb 27

it went well thank you! it’s from a paper that should hopefully be published soon so keep an eye out 👀

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Feb 27

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · Feb 14

Recent news about changes to the ESV translation

ESV Bible update includes 68 word edits, reverts Genesis 3:16 translation to 2001 wording

The English Standard Version Bible is undergoing its first text update in nearly a decade, with revisions to 36 passages across 42 verses, the ESV Translation Oversight Committee announced

www.christianpost.com

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...

The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think

If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...

religiondispatches.org

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Jan 19

Wrote on my experience of doing not-so-legitimate or serious scholarship @fsrinc.bsky.social!

fsrinc.bsky.social @fsrinc.bsky.social · Jan 18

Alexiana Fry's blog on "playful" scholarship in our @ The Table Mini-Series on Barbie and the Bible is live on fsrinc.org now! Thanks, Meghan Henning & @theopoet.bsky.social for your work on this series & the intro, respectively.

Read Dr. Fry's blog now at: www.fsrinc.org/either-youre...

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Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social · Jan 9

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Jan 9

in the past the research seminars have been hybrid, I’m assuming this semester it will be the same @garrickvallen.bsky.social?

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Jan 8

marking my last exam from December and this student has used both Taylor Swift and Maisie Peters in their answer and made it relevant to the question (which I assigned) and I just feel like a proud mother 🥹

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Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social · Jan 8

haven’t spoken about my research for a long while because ~mental health~ but I’m really looking forward to this!

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