Joshua Alfaro
@alfarojoshua3
Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and all things Esther. Available for proofreading and editing academic publications. All memes handcrafted by me.
Book of Esther research team and friends @UniSalzburg!
"wow, you study the Bible, so you must be a pastor or rabbi or something, right?"
🧵 Working with high-res medieval manuscript images but struggling with storage costs and copyright restrictions? Just published our practical IIIF-based solution that's transformed how we handle manuscript fragments in paratextuality research 👇 📄 revistas.uned.es/index.php/RHD/…
Nuevo artículo: "Integración de imágenes IIIF en bases de datos de Humanidades Digitales: una propuesta de flujo de trabajo paso a paso" de @ElviraMc1 e Irene Rincon Narros revistas.uned.es/index.php/RHD/… #humanidadesdigitales
There are no “long” centuries. Centuries are all equally one hundred years. That’s why they’re called centuries. You’re welcome, historians.
A century cannot be 190 years, historians need to be stopped.
21.6.25 à 14h30 : Conférence biblique de Jacques Descreux sur les 144 000 mentionnés dans l'#Apocalypse : au @CBernardins Paris et en ligne. #Bible #ACFEB #exégèse @FTheologie @ucly
Lecture (online and in-person): "Translation as imperialism: Late Greek Poetics and the Hebrew Bible" by Tim Whitmarsh, Durham University, Ritson Room, Department of Classics. 19 June 2025, 5:00pm. Register here: tinyurl.com/43mue34c
Publishers: a very simple thing you can do to sell more books is to put the Table of Contents on the website.
I discovered Esther among the Coca-Cola scrolls. I mean bottles.
"From Giant to Pocket Bibles: The Development of the Size of Biblical Manuscripts," 19 June 2025, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Romero Room, COVE 02.10, Sint-Michielsstraat 4, Leuven
Kindle Deal (47% off) on The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis. @OUPAcademic @OUPReligion Check it out! amzn.to/44FNbD3
Book Launch! Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford University Press) has been released today. Thanks to a very generous donor, a free PDF of the book can be found here josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/ Share widely and follow for more updates — TC Schmidt
My article on how we integrate cognitive memory principles into oral Bible translation (OBT) is published in the new issue of The Bible Translator: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Book talk (in-person and Zoom): The Book of Esther: Themes and Issues, edited by Kristin Joachimsen and Helge Bezold, MF Norwegian School of Theology, May 27, 11:30-12:00 CET mf.no/arrangementer/…
Discussing my upcoming course on Dorothy L. Sayers & the Bible @NashotahHouse open.spotify.com/episode/7zP6S1…
📢 CFP Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova University 🍂 (Autumn is a great time to be in the Philadelphia suburbs.) ***Mysticism, Mystery, and Trinitarian Life in Times of Crisis***
Zoom lecture (in Japanese): “The Biblical Archaeology of the Persian Period” by Kaz Hayashi (@KazHayashi_OT), hosted by the Tokyo Museum of Biblical Archaeology, May 31, 2025 2:00-3:30pm JST
Book panel (in-person): Scriptural Vitality: Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics by Hindy Najman. 6 May, 3:30 Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Regisration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Registration is now open for 'Framing Religious Art in UK Collections', a free workshop led by @MaddieHewitson, where we'll discuss how religious art is interpreted and displayed across UK collections. It's free and online, and we'd love to have you join us!
Power and Leadership: Biblical, Anthropological, and Practical-Theological Perspectives, International and Interdisciplinary Symposium organized by Prof. Dr. Veronika Burz-Tropper & Dr. Armin Kummer, June 3-5 2025, KU Leuven, register by May 25 theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/re…