ATobolowsky

Associate Professor (Hebrew Bible) at William and Mary. He/Him/His. Author of the Myth of the Twelve Tribes of
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[Biblical Archaeology Review @BibArch]

Outside of the #Bible there is no evidence for the existence of many of the tribes. https://t.co/WYyseDyfEi

[Ancient Jew Review @ancientjew]

Today, Andrew Tobolowsky writes about the history of the Hebrew Israelites, and how (and why) different groups create different Israels. https://t.co/tTaYKhGuNY

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@isaacsoon2 Thanks so much!

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Back when twitter existed, I had the ambition to write a piece detailing the history and context of the particular anti semitic conspiracy theories Kyrie Irving et al. spread - it turned into a more general reflection on Hebrew Israeliteism. But here it is https://t.co/1ZbVd9KNwc

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@seedpods Thanks Richard!

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@JosiahBisbee Thanks!

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@adamkotsko It's funny you say that. My third book will be done soon, I'm working on my fourth, I have no articles currently under review and I'm not working on any

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@adamkotsko And this isn't sour grapes. Peer review has generally been quite good to me. The outcome still feels predetermined by who they find to review it

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@adamkotsko If they get somebody cool who shares many of my assumptions it's getting in, if they get somebody more conservative than me it isn't, and that's true for most ppl who have worked on this long enough to send in something basically reasonable most of the time

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This is so extremely true.

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Do universities think that's good or bad? If good, stop bragging about how wonderfully and exclusively STEM the place is - especially at a place like this whose BRAND is totally opposite. If bad, well, I'm sure they could make it worse

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This stuff drives me up the wall but somehow it's the majors part of it that is getting me the most, rn. Students major in the things their parents and society tell them they must major in, all W & M is doing here is bragging about society's ferocious hatred of the humanities

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But at the same time, especially at universities LIKE W&M, what students major in and what they take can be very different things. I work at this university, I teach a humanities subject, I virtually never have a class under 30 students. They're mostly not majors.

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@adamkotsko Probably a Fight Club situation

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If you've ever wondered whether really top flight college sports programs are meaningfully part of the university they represent, good news, they may also be owned by hedge funds

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EXCLUSIVE: Florida State University is working with JPMorgan Chase to explore how the school’s athletic department could raise capital from institutional funds, such as private equity https://t.co/0hg95TUofu

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This is what you like to see, college presidents telling board members that the reorgs are mainly to tamp down on us libs and not, say, for the purposes of education

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It's this kicker who bet the under : https://t.co/5eeIitQCdh. You could of course say well but he still wouldn't miss a kick on purpose. But nobody would act surprised that you'd be concerned he would. They only do that when its judges who hold our destiny in their hands

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I saw something the other day about a college athlete betting on college sports. Obviously, it would be hard to prove that he tried any less hard because of his bets. But it's not mysterious to ppl that it's SUSPCIOUS, which is why the rules exist

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In other words people only pretend to be confused about why ethic standards exist in political cases. It's not because we know the ppl violating them did anything wrong, it's because we know that tempting them to is dangerous