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Esther Hamori

1 year

I'm delighted to share that my new book comes out Oct 31! Pre-order or Who are the monsters lurking in the pages of the Bible, and what do they say about their God?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

My dad survived the Holocaust partly bec a Catholic woman named Maria pretended to be his mom so he could hide in plain sight. Every year at Passover, he replaces the lines about divine vengeance against persecutors w a story of Righteous Gentiles (non-Jews who rescued Jews). 1/3

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

As a scholar of Ancient Things, it is my sacred duty to help bring attention to this

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3 years

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

God's Monsters is out of stock at the press and going into a second printing! But fear not, Amazon still has it in stock, or you can order through your local indie. Thank you, readers!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

This year’s story was about Nikolai & Mikhail Vavrisevich & their family in what’s now Ukraine. The boys asked their parents to take in 2 Jews hiding in the woods. Turned out the parents were already hiding 5 Jews. . You can find more stories there too. 2/3

Vavrisevich, Nikolai and Mikhail - The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

Vladimir-Volynsk, Poland… Fall 1942 – Nikolai, fifteen, and Mikhail, nineteen, lived with their parents in Vladimir-Volynsk, Poland (now Ukraine). When the Germans occupied their town in [Read More]

jfr.org

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Anyone else replace violent bits in any tradition w things that boost peace, courage, best of humanity? My priest-friend leaves anti-Jewish NT bits untranslated in her Easter service. I want to hear more, in any area! Pie in the sky but just imagine if ppl did this en masse 3/3

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

Dear Every Drug Store: Enough with keeping the baby stuff in the "feminine needs" aisle. Do you think we'll buy *more* diapers if we catch a glimpse of them when buying tampons, or vice versa? Put the goddamn diapers next to the CONDOMS. I'd love to see this play out.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

The monsters book is done! Now just cutting 20K words (OUCH) to make it affordable... My thread ("Faculty Friday" featuring yours truly) from half the book ago. What a journey this tour of the monstrous heavens has been...

Union Seminary

@UnionSeminary

6 years

I’m writing a book about biblical monsters. The Bible’s filled with hybrid creatures, vengeful spirits, ghosts, giants & supernatural hitmen, These are bizarre, destructive beings we would ID as monsters ANYWHERE else. Well, they’re monsters when it’s the Bible too.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

“It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book on the Bible completely unlike anything I’ve read before.” -B. Ehrman Bart also drops some big news about our upcoming project in his intro to my guest post. Thank you, Bart, and I hope you all enjoy reading!

Bart Ehrman

@BartEhrman

10 months

New blog post by @ProfEstherJ - enjoy!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

Soooo... Amazon has now sold out too. But there are still copies available through Bookshop (indie bookstore sourcing!) and Barnes & Noble, and the second printing is in process!

Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

God's Monsters is out of stock at the press and going into a second printing! But fear not, Amazon still has it in stock, or you can order through your local indie. Thank you, readers!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

Well this was a *delight* to see from the one and only @kkdumez !😊

Kristin Du Mez

@kkdumez

10 months

If you’re looking for a different spin on Bible study, this book is wild. I’m not through yet but I can say the writing is fabulous & I will never look at a cherub the same way again. 😳 @ProfEstherJ

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

8 months

An honor and a delight!! God's Monsters is on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for "Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction" -- along with these other books that look so good I don't see when I'll get my next project started, so thanks a LOT, HWA

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

#1 New Release in folklore & mythology! Thank you for those pre-orders! Please keep 'em coming -- bookstores decide whether to stock a book partly based on pre-order numbers. This is great momentum, and I appreciate the support!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

@evandeneykel @NotThat_JC Jonah’s whale! When we get to Jonah in my Bible intro course I like to casually refer to it in passing as a shark… just to jolt students into thinking about how much we assume about things that aren’t in the text.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Newsflash! I’ll be giving the Amado Lecture in Jewish Ethics this Feb in LA- “God’s Entourage: Reckoning with the Monsters of the Bible” The Bible’s filled with bizarre, violent monsters... deployed by God. How do we grapple honestly with this disturbing tradition? stay tuned

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Just had a great catch-up w/my PhD advisor from '04. I was so fortunate to have enthusiastic, generous support. I talk w/PhD students whose advisors barely give them the time of day, and crush their spirits. Profs, we have power in our PhD students' lives. Act like it. Prof up!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Did every other academic also read “others” as a verb? (It seemed especially fitting since it was left in a doctor’s office waiting room by a stealth evangelist)

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Making headway on my syllabus for Divination in the Bible and Beyond! (*Liquor not included.)

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

Okay niche tweet: I learned Akkadian from the 1st ed of Huehnergard's grammar... and I'm cited in the 3rd ed. THIS IS MY FAVORITE FOOTNOTE EVER I'd heard about it but never seen it for myself (thanks @bellahadith 's site)

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

@SamuelSpinner Love this. My grandpa was a navy doctor and when he started they gave him a gun in parts in a paper bag. When he finished his service, and they asked him to return his gun and he handed them back the paper bag, never opened.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

DAMMIT ha ha ha finally finished creating my syllabus for a class on ancient Near Eastern texts and just cracked up noticing that my abbrev for one text and the collection it's from is... Baal (SAC) TELL ME i do not need to change my entire abbrev style in order to avoid this

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

8 months

If anyone wants to hear me talk about the myth of the garden of Eden, I'll be on tonight's new episode of History's Greatest Mysteries, 9pm on the History Channel, which I don't get, so hey, let me know how it was! (Well okay, it's also streaming on their website starting Tue.)

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

We need to face what’s actually in the Bible & grapple with the Bible’s legacy of the sanctification of violence. (yep, including NT!) The Bible is not a go-and-do-likewise monolith, it's a rich collection of many voices, and how you read them matters

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

I write about the monsters of (biblical) literature because of the monsters of reality. The ancient thinkers struggle to make sense of the world around them, a world of danger, violence, and grief... as we struggle to make sense of the monstrosities of our world. Struggle on.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

My class @UnionSeminary , “Miriam, Ruth, and Other Nasty Women,” will have a lot to discuss this week as we continue to focus on women who dare to speak out or act boldly, come what may. #NotJustAncientStudies

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

I keep abbreviating my "Divination in the Bible and Beyond" course “Div BnB,” which sounds like a really interesting place to spend a weekend

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

My 5-yr-old: "Hey, Mr. Mommypants!" Me: "It's Dr. Mommypants."

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

11 months

Congratulations to @maklelan for being named the 2023 recipient of the Society of Biblical Literature's Richards Award for Public Scholarship! Obviously well deserved!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

I learned many things in the process of trimming my book from 107K words to 80K... one of which is that a properly typed ellipsis counts as 3 words, ARE YOU KIDDING ME. Bet that em-dash is feeling pretty smug right about now. It always knew it would be vindicated someday.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

Fun news! You can find a chapter excerpt from my new book, God's Monsters, as a feature in the Oct issue of Christian Century!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible -- officially out on Halloween -- is shipping early!!

Shoshana Kessock 🌻

@ShoshanaKessock

1 year

@AdneSadeh @ProfEstherJ I just started it and it is SO GOOD. The references to horror films and representations of these ancient creatures in modern media create a very accessible point of reference, and the descriptions are spot on.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Okay, I've cut thousands of words from the biblical monsters book, but the footnote apologizing to Tchaikovsky STAYS

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

I wish all the pious people denying that King David was a rapist were as offended by rape in real life. On a TV special I called David a murderer, rapist, and bastard (& his sons grow up to be rapists like daddy). ALL the hate mail I got was men blaming Bathsheba.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

11 months

Want to catch a glimpse of some biblical monsters, and see what's so worthwhile about paying attention to them? Check out my essay that went live today --

Seraphim, Cherubim, and More: Monsters in the Bible

The terrifying creature sinks its fangs into human flesh, felling its prey. The camera pans out. Oh god, the horror—it’s a whole pack, and they’re laying waste to multitudes.

www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Just found a 2019 course eval where a student says my class was fantastic... except for the day I brought my 3-yr-old since kids are really distracting. Because obviously I woke up that day and said "Screw childcare, I want to teach a seminar w/a 3-yr-old!"

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

10 months

God's Monsters is back in stock! Second printing came out in time for the book's first monthiversary. 🎇🥲Thank you to everyone who made that necessary!

God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

www.amazon.com

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

@SteedDavidson @Simcha_Gross I don't know more than that about Simcha's experience, but I can tell you he's not the only one

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

I wish everyone in biblical studies would watch this video -- Dan McClellan is an absolute hero in this response to misogynistic bullshit... and with priceless delivery

Dan McClellan

@maklelan

2 years

Responding to Dr. David Falk's misogyny.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

Nature or nurture? Is kiddo's latest a sign that I bring my work home too much? ...or *just enough*?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

I'm thrilled to share that GOD'S MONSTERS has received a starred review on Booklist! It comes out on Halloween and you can pre-order now -

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

We can know people by what they fear. If you're afraid of our society taking sexual assault allegations more seriously (or afraid of immigrants, afraid of Muslims, etc.), you're telling me who you are. Thanks for the heads up.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Congratulations to my *former* PhD student, Carolyn Klaasen, for defending her terrific dissertation on biblical & Ugaritic stories of women killing men, & how those stories (counterintuitively!) reinscribe hegemonic masculinity. Congrats, Dr. Klaasen! @cskpickles @UnionSeminary

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

Check out my thread about the book I'm writing on biblical monsters! I'm delighted to be featured in @UnionSeminary 's inaugural "Faculty Friday" highlight of a professor's writing.

Benjamin Perry

@FaithfullyBP

6 years

One of the best classes I took @UnionSeminary was “Monster Heaven” with @ProfEstherJ . The monsters we create reveal who we are, and that’s just as true for biblical bogeymen. Read this thread to learn more!!!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

YES Also incensed at The Guardian's quotation of the perpetrator, Jan Joosten, trying to wax poetic about his sexual exploitation of children, as if his feelings are the tragedy here. That too is what it looks like when systems prioritize the perspective and reputation of men.

Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed

@AnnetteYReed

4 years

I've long thought of patriarchy/misogyny in academia as defined in pt by governing assumption that *reputations* of men are more important to keep safe than the *bodies* of women, children, &c. But still utterly shocked & horrified by this--both the deeds & the attempt at erasure

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

After the onslaught of the last 2 weeks—synagogue hostages, Maus ban, synagogue bomb threats, Tucker Carlson’s “Soros” conspiracy theories, neo-Nazis in Orlando—Whoopi brushing off the Holocaust as just some white on white thing scares the living fuck out of me. It’s terrifying.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

11 months

#AARSBL23 Come Mon at 9 to hear sbl AND aar scholars (whaaat?) discuss what they found compelling & how it connects with their work--in Buddhism, new religious movements, monster theory & theology, biblical studies, teaching & who knows what! I'm so grateful for their engagement.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

The giants’ cities were “large and fortified AF.” No doubt.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

11 months

I love how these two categories converge. If you raise an eyebrow at that, you should read the book!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

[feed cleanse] Lord Vader when nobody's looking

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

@JewishWonk Yes! A topic close to my heart... I always appreciate your tweets and hope you stay tuned for my book on monsters out next fall! God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible. (Hope Twitter's around for the cover reveal in Jan!)

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

This is as good a day as any to announce that I am ¼ Transylvanian

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

1 year

Every Passover, my dad selects a story of a gentile who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. This year: Giorgio Perlasca, who nonchalantly set himself up in the Spanish embassy in Budapest & issued protective passes to thousands of Jews & I think often of Maria, who sheltered 1

Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

My dad survived the Holocaust partly bec a Catholic woman named Maria pretended to be his mom so he could hide in plain sight. Every year at Passover, he replaces the lines about divine vengeance against persecutors w a story of Righteous Gentiles (non-Jews who rescued Jews). 1/3

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Making final tweaks to GOD'S MONSTERS at the last possible moment! Currently removing refs to Harry Potter (bec @jk_rowling ). What's a good modern example of a monster that can only be seen by some people? I'm already using the hellhounds of Supernatural @cw_spn . Other faves?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Happy Halloween! In honor of spookiness and monsters everywhere (okay FINE, timing’s coincidental), I’ll be talking about the biblical monsters of God’s entourage at Johns Hopkins this Monday evening. It’s free and open to the public. Come on down!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Is it just me, or does everyone w/a small child automatically provide sound effects even when child is not there? Me alone at the grocery checkout: "Beep boop." Clerk: raises eyebrow, silently moves on.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

One month of live talks (online) by monster writers, horror makers, and more! I'll be coming to you on Oct 12 with "The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters: or, And You Thought the Devil was Bad" Very psyched to be in some awesome monster company here!

Spooky Evenings

@spookyevening

3 years

We are back live every night at 8pm EST September 26 - October 31! Stay tuned for details. #horror #horrorpodcast #horrorstudies @upmiss @DevilsAdBooks @NEWesleyan @BernadettePhD @landrew42 @joe_laycock @cinriter

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Divination in the Bible and Beyond syllabus time! Bible: dreams, stars, necromancy, birth omens, arrows, prophecy, etc What MODERN div wd u want in this class? Politics of legitimacy ("ours" is real/sophisticated, "theirs" isn't) - rdg recs considering race &more in mod div?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

News of the day: 1. My book on Baal, coedited with Stephen Russell, has gone live on the Brill website! 2. Dude Chutes and Ladders is *deep*. It's the ultimate game of chance, yet every picture represents what you did to deserve your fate. Contemplate.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Thank you to the person who just sent me this. Yep... book coming out this fall!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

@maklelan What biblical marriages show: "Different kinds of unions are accepted in different places and times, evolving in tandem with broader cultural shifts." I wrote this a million yrs ago & wish it would stop being relevant

Biblical Standards For Marriage

Opponents of marriage equality often appeal to the Bible to support their views. So what is this "biblical standard for marriage" we keep hearing about? Marriage in the Bible is not restricted to one...

www.huffpost.com

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

I don’t know, looks radical...

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Can't wait to fill out my #SBLDressCodeBingo card with all the senior white dudes wearing jeans that are magically acceptable on them

Matthew Thiessen

@MattThiessenNT

2 years

SBLs: "Attire is business casual. Feel free to be comfortable in slacks, polo shirts, sweaters, blazers, skirts, blouses and most importantly, comfortable shoes. We also recommend you dress in layers as temperatures in meeting rooms can vary."

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

my 5 yr old has discovered Depeche Mode and has just informed me that “there is a very good song called Personal Cheesus” I could not be prouder

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Ooh, I’m all spooky in black and white… this should be fun tonight “The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters: or, And You Thought the Devil was Bad”

Spooky Evenings

@spookyevening

3 years

Tonight our guest is @ProfEstherJ who will present a talk entitled The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters: And You Thought the Devil Bad. Join us live at 8pm EST / 7pm CST. Link in bio for details. @UnionSeminary @HumanitiesNe @NEArtsCouncil #thedevil #horrorpodcast

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

This was such a fun night! If you're curious about "The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters," you can now catch the whole talk & conversation in a single video. Thanks, @spookyevening ! Stay tuned for book info, too... via @YouTube

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

@bethallisonbarr @TGC Hardly the main point, but the use of "less wooden" there is pretty funny. [Um, not on purpose.]

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Looking forward to talking about prototypical monster traits and the monsters of the Bible this weekend, and can't wait to hear these other papers too!

Joseph Laycock

@joe_laycock

5 years

Please share if you or someone you know is going to the #aarsbl2019 and has an interest in monsters of the Hebrew Bible, the horrid spawn of Loki, the intersection of the "monstrous" with issues of race and gender, or dragons!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Congratulations to these three women for their 'Outstanding Service in Mentorship'! It's GREAT to see this recognition of what's usually invisible labor. Q: Is this the only SBL award that is unpaid?

SBL

@SBLsite

2 years

The SBL and the CSWP are delighted to announce the 2022 recipients of SBL’s Outstanding Service in Mentorship Award — Drs. Hindy Najman, Felicity Harley-McGowan, and Jacqueline Vayntrub. Learn more about these amazing scholars here: .

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

So glad for fantastic news in a tough job market! -- @ylandman1 appointed tenure-track Asst Prof at Jewish Theological Seminary --Brian Rainey appointed tenure-track Asst Prof at Interdenominational Theological Center (shoes of Randall Bailey!) Congrats to both and to JTS & ITC!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Wait, in late December the Franklin Institute already had their Tu BiShvat decorations up -- 13 trees in the lobby alone! But now, on Tu BiShvat, they're all gone. Help make sense of this, @JewWhoHasItAll !

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

So tired of hearing that if it was silent prayer it's private & generic. He knelt. That's a Christian position of prayer. Jewish & Muslim forms each look different. How 'bout those on the 50 yd line? There's no generic prayer, even in silence. This was public school Xn worship.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

Spent the morning in DC at Flake's office, Collins', and a few others. Seeing all the cheery groups of "women for Kavanaugh" in person is deeply unsettling and brings home the reality: We cannot be complacent in November! Do not assume a blue wave. VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

So... I should wait till tomorrow to email the British Museum about permission to include in the biblical monsters book some very cool ancient images of winged serpents (think seraphim!) and Jewish and Christian anti-demon amulets, right? Not quite the day for it?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

A student from my 2012 “Ruth and Esther” class @UnionSeminary emailed to thank me for our day on Ruth as a non-native speaker of Hebrew: an immigrant, poor, speaker of a foreign language. And damned if she doesn’t save the day! Ancient wisdom for the win. (Thanks @penelopebarter )

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

Uh... the Hanukkah miracle of having enough oil is super impressive, but a miracle of having enough dish soap after making latkes (which we eat because of the oil) would also be convenient

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

I just spun a dreidel on my fingertip for 2 full seconds before it landed on the table and kept spinning, so I guess I’ll retire now #HarlemGlobalist

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

@Yair_Rosenberg Making it work on a tiny city patio! The fairy lights are nice in the dark, but the piece de resistance is the string of laminated drawings of fruit & veg by the 5 yr old, labeled "bluberes," "spinch," "dats and graps"... Chag sameach from our little sukkah to yours!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Excited to be teaching my Monster Heaven course again this semester, this time as a guest at Jewish Theological Seminary! Gear up folks, ‘cause I just wrote a really fun assignment. Oh come on let’s just start now!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Good morning, Pasadena! Come on down to Fuller today to hear all about the biblical God's entourage of monsters! Also please tell me where the good coffee is.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

best dedication I've seen in a long time, @WalkerSensei

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Great discussion in Job class today on how reading the book as "wisdom lit" shapes our expectations in unhelpful ways. Students got so much out of this panel ft. Kynes, Collins, Dell, Weeks, & Vayntrub @eshetbaalathaov @StuartWeeks8 @WillKynes @sladams11

Wisdom as a category for studying ancient texts and discourses

In recent years, some interpreters have questioned the value of the “wisdom” designation as a generic category or even a useful descriptor when studying the ...

www.youtube.com

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

In grief, anger, and anxiety after the synagogue massacre, I needed to be silent, but I deeply appreciate all who've been writing to support where needed and to teach where needed. I've thanked those I know, and want to thank those I don't, especially @Yair_Rosenberg @TheRaDR .

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Agh, killing some serious darlings today... cutting a really cool section that represents 2 wks work, but coming back to it a month later I can see that the chapter is just cleaner without it. Writers/editors, I know I'm making the right choice here, but please cheer me on!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

My 6 yr old is currently feeling desolate and only wants us to play Leonard Cohen and I could not be prouder.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

Gotta love it when people appreciate the eerie!

Adne Sadeh: Jewish monster hunter

@AdneSadeh

4 years

@ProfEstherJ got your book! Am looking forward to getting into learning about women prophets and necromancers in the Torah!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

So what are the chances that today's inclusion of “yippee-ki-yay, motherf*cker” in my angels chapter is gonna be allowed to stay in the book? I swear to God it’s appropriate in context.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

Yesterday my almost 3-yr-old saw me play the beginning of a gorgeous & flashy piece by Sarasate (Ziegeunerweisen) on the violin. He asked me to play Baby Shark. So I did. He was so excited he peed in his pants. Sorry, Sarasate.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

Union prof here loving this one

JP O'Connor

@MJPOC

3 years

Where did you go to Seminary? Union, Princeton Sem, Yale Div, Duke

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

For all the students who've listened to me rail on about the variety of unethical activities of the Museum of the Bible, don't take it from me -- check out the superhero-crimefighting-level intellect of @artcrimeprof via @slate

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

What I really do for a living is open the Bible, turn it upside down and give it a good shake, and see what comes falling out. (Turns out it's a lot of horrible monsters.) Will that fit on my tax forms?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

2 years

I got to see cover design ideas for my biblical monsters book and they are SO awesome! I can't wait. In the meantime, here's last October's talk -- have a creepy Halloween! "The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters" via @YouTube

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

4 years

ALL OF THIS. And I'll add: how stunningly self-centered, and self-centering, it is for people to see a man's sex crimes against children... and think that forgiveness is *theirs* to give! That erasure of the children, on top of everything else, is its own form of brutality.

Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed

@AnnetteYReed

4 years

From at least what I've seen, most of the pushback to Stephen Young's @RDispatches piece on "himpathy" for Jan Joosten has pivoted on his claim there (citing me & @AntheaButler ) that "we cannot separate the work from the person" - hence, a thread... 1/?

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

Fun time giving a special lecture on my work on biblical monsters @UnionSeminary yesterday. Love to see people so engaged while I mess with your view of seraphim and cherubim! Wish we’d had time for the full cohort of God’s monsters... but it’s a long list.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

"When a wronged man or woman cries out to you, be there and judge their case! This only I have demanded from you!" -- prophet of Adad of Aleppo, reported by Nur-sin to King Zimri-lim of Mari, ca. 1800 BCE (A. 1121 + A. 2731, trans. Nissinen) Oldest story in the book.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

I love this! Can people (okay, can I) get physical trading cards?

Adne Sadeh: Jewish monster hunter

@AdneSadeh

3 years

Made a new #jewishmonsterhunting trading card. The #Nehushtan is Moses' copper serpent that channeled God's power to heal Israelites from the bites of the flying flaming seraph serpents. It was later destroyed by King Hezekiah because the Israelites were making offerings to it.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

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My interview in US Catholic went live last week: Traditional interpretation has sanitized biblical stories of God deploying monsters against people. That’s a loss. What poignant expressions of the pain & chaos of life! The Bible isn't about easy answers.

Leviathans, giants, and bears, oh my! Monsters of the Bible.

Sanitizing biblical stories of violent monsters erases an entire facet of who God is, says this biblical scholar.

uscatholic.org

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

3 years

God has been released in the US!

Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou

@ProfFrancesca

3 years

💥US publication day!💥 God: An Anatomy is now out in the wild! ✋😇💪

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

Fun time doing this interview about the biblical God's entourage of monsters!

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

5 years

My 3 year old is singing a song that's 3 parts incomprehensible babbling, the likes of which we've never heard before, and 1 part chorus of "no pants today!" He sings for the nation. He sings for the world.

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Esther Hamori

@ProfEstherJ

6 years

The 2-yr-old, sitting on his teeny green scooter in our bedroom in front of my grandmother's dresser: "Foo [whew], I glad I found a parking spot." Long live city kids.

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