PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.https://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3muruydi63ww2Please share and get the word out about our new course! On pre-sale until September 17.  [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3muruydi63ww2https://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3murqe32267jjJoin my email list (no spam, I promise) to stay up to date on upcoming happenings, and get a free ten-minute video about what the Hebrew Bible is! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3murqe32267jjhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3murpix56cnsyI bet if you were a lamassu in ancient Assyria one of the worst things people could call you was a lame-ass-u.05 Sep 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3murpix56cnsyhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mtzkmx5hmqxnOn paper, I know I’m exactly the perfect demographic to love Terry Pratchett, but I’ve never been able to make it all the way through one of his books until I read Small Gods just now. It was pretty good. 27 Aug 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzkmx5hmqxnhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mtjm6m2niyedThis is why I tell students that AI is the forklift in the gym. There’s a time in a place for a forklift, but it’s not part of your fitness plan. The student who uses a forklift to lift all their weights in a weightlifting class isn’t winning. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjm6m2niyedhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mtjlx7dkt3zkWhat was wild to me was the intense conflict of interest training that I, a lowly postdoctoral fellow in the humanities, had to go through at Stanford. Any place where that level of reporting was mandatory was not bereft of possibilities for side profit.  [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjlx7dkt3zkhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mtjlq7tengawThe Bible is a very important text for understanding American culture. But for many of the reasons that make it important to understanding American culture, biblical education in public schools can never be done responsibly here.  [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjlq7tengawhttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mth4u7wp4w4iOne of my most revelatory conversations came early in my biblical studies career, when an old high school friend told me “I don’t like to read the Bible that much, because when I do, it’s not what I expected to be. I just like people to tell me what it means.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth4u7wp4w4ihttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mth45imcoz7kDoes his Twitter bio still say “aspiring race grifter?“ I’m sure he thought that he meant it ironically, but that told me everything I ever needed to know about this guy from the very beginning.  [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth45imcoz7khttps://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3mtawdfgikkw4I would go further and say that, in every case, it is impossible to predict the nature of any community’s religious beliefs and practices from the content of their sacred texts.  [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 05:02 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtawdfgikkw4https://bsky.app/profile/blindscholar.bsky.social/post/3msgfmcmornik"You know, you could go blind from something else long before you go blind from this." - Dr. sharing diagnosis of a degenerative retinal condition with me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:4dsovaowgynuvgyopslq6pvx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgfmcmornik