Matthew James Goff

Professor @FSUReligion. Antiquity nerd.

[Matthew James Goff @MatthewJGoff]

Still More Highlights

Saturday, 6:30-8:00 AAR Keynote: J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, “Slavery in the Heart of Freedom: Race, Romance, and Religion through the Lens of BDSM

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actually there's one more paper in that Sunday session
• Joseph Hellweg, Somatic Scripture in Song: Indigeneity & Islam in Ivory Coast, West Africa

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(2/2)
• Panayotis League, – Scriptural Satire or Sonic Sacrilege? The Curious Case of Mamouzelos
• Ray Person, Jr., – Word Selection in Conversation, Oral Traditions, and Textual Transmission of the Hebrew Bible
• Shem Miller, – The Oral World of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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More Conference Highlights:
(1/2)
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
SBL/AAR Invited Panel: Scripture off the Page: Re-Imagining Religious Studies through Performance
• Matthew Goff, Florida State – Listening to Lost Voices: Singing, Teaching, and Studying in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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More Highlights:
SBL Keynote, Friday 7:00-8:30. Prof. Musa Dube, Emory University “Prophets and Professors of the Bible at the Crossroads: Eco-Criticism, Pandemics, and Pedagogy Reimagined”

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(2/2)
• Jason Tatlock, Georgia Southern University – Suffering Messianism and the Dead Sea
Scrolls
• Alana Zimath, Florida State – Good vs. Bad Angels: Examining Angelic
Sources of Astronomical Knowledge in the Book Jubilees
• Matthew Goff, Are We Post-Pseudo-Jubilees Yet?

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Some conference highlights:
Session 1: Friday, 4:45-6:45

SBL: Dead Sea Scrolls I
• Carmen Palmer, Stetson University – Appearances Can Be Revealing: Physiognomic
Representations and Generative Memories within the Dead Sea Scrolls and Beyond
(1/2)

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If you're nerdy: the Southeastern Regional annual meeting (virtual) for the SBL and AAR is this weekend! Registration: https://t.co/SrTYrWCNfw
Conference page: https://t.co/MXCodwBZk2

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Conference highlights:
SBL Keynote : Musa Dube, "Prophets and Professors of the Bible at the Crossroads: Eco-Criticism, Pandemics, and Pedagogy Reimagined"
AAR Keynote : J. Lorand Matory, "Slavery in the Heart of Freedom: Race, Romance, and Religion through the Lens of BDSM"

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Calling all nerds! The Southeastern regional AAR.SBL meeting will be held virtually at Florida State University on Mar. 11-13. You can register here (with a $10 registration fee for students): https://t.co/Gb2XEf2yIJ...

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The Department of Religion at Florida State is having a Virtual Open House about our graduate program, on Dec. 10 (next Friday), for prospective applicants. Feel free to spread the word. Anyone who is interested in attending should email me ([email protected]).

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Follow up tweet:

I am happy to report that the SBL Keynote speaker will be Musa Dube (Emory) and the AAR Keynote speaker will be J. Lorand Matory (Duke)
https://t.co/fawpX2ofo9
https://t.co/0fZQ0K98Lm

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Attention nerds:

Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the Southeastern Regional conference of the AAR/SBL. The deadline is Oct. 15. You can submit a proposal here:
https://t.co/uweKDjVGdU

The meeting will be virtual.

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Spread the word throughout the land:

https://t.co/deGlCdWllu

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@AnnetteYReed Thanks for the shoutout! Also I don't really keep up my Academia page anymore.

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Calling all nerds: the Southeastern regional AAR.SBL will be held virtually at Florida State on Mar. 12-14. You can register here (with a $10 registration fee for students): https://t.co/mwAJahEYUj. The conference landing page is here: https://t.co/mPqkJcEdQC.

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Here is a new volume I edited along with my friends Matthew Goff and Greg Schmidt Goering. Essays from a group of excellent scholars, stemming from a conference held at Union Presbyterian Seminary (where I teach) and UVA.

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