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Public outreach and education (https://t.co/UWdpSe7OLJ…). 1/2 of @readingpartypod. Assyriologist. She/her. Queer. Trans rights are human rights.
Jan 30, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
The two youngest of my children are in bed, and I have a couple of minutes before the next two have to have teeth brushed and stories read, so I'm going to address my outing as a trans woman by keyboard warrior for Christ, @MenWhoSawJesus. First off, if you're new here, hi! I'm Megan. I'm a cis woman, AFAB, and I'm married to cis man and fellow queer, @DJHammurabi1 <3 Josh is an atheist, and deconverted from evangelical christianity during the first year of his PhD at the Johns Hopkins University.
Mar 31, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
No-one is owed a platform. No-one is entitled to space on anyone else's YouTube channel or podcast, in anyone's book, article, or research. 🧵1/8

If you show yourself to be a bigot, then do not be surprised when there are social and professional consequences. No-one is deplatforming Price because of his politics. Price is being deplatformed because he is a bigot. Bigotry is not a political stance, unless you happen to be a fascist.

I don't care who you vote for. I care whether you view other, marginalized groups as lesser.
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Sep 8, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
Concerning the Book of Daniel: “The traditional view also holds that the book was composed during the period of its historical setting, during the last days of the Babylonian Empire and the early Persian period in the sixth century B.C.E. Such a dating of the book is belied... By a number of internal oddities, though, most notably a series of historical problems. [Discusses the first historical problem]. Second, the book speaks of King Belshazzar as the successor and son of Nebuchadnezzar (5:1, 2, 30; 7:1). Yet, Belshazzar was not the son of...
Jun 14, 2019 10 tweets 2 min read
“Why should we listen to you? You don’t work at a university, you haven’t published anything - you’re a failed academic who makes videos on YouTube!”

A thread. We’ve had this kind of comment/criticism leveled at us a couple of times over the past year, and I want to take a minute to address it.

For those who don’t know, Josh graduated with his Ph.D. and then left the academic world. He doesn’t teach outside of YouTube, and he doesn’t
Feb 15, 2019 13 tweets 6 min read
I saw a tweet recently asserting that ancient, non-Christian/Hebrew peoples didn't see value in documenting peoples lives, focusing only on myths and gods. While this may seem like a reasonable statement to make, I'm here to say that, actually, quite the contrary is true. 1/? While yes, we have many literary/religious texts from the ancient near east (I'm thinking specifically of Mesopotamia and Egypt, but others too), we have FAR more textual evidence for daily life, history, medicine, science, trade, taxation, bureaucracy...the list goes on :)