Matthew J. Suriano

@duderonomy.bsky.social

1097 Followers 642 Following

Associate professor and occasional archaeologist | scholar of ancient Western Asia specializing in Hebrew Bible | epigrapher | He/him

Man sitting in front of a giant chess board, on the black side, at a public library.
Four people standing in a library in front of a screen that bears the title of the student's MA thesis: "Diachronic Development of Kinship Terminology in Pre- and Post-Exilic Biblical Literature."
Cover af an offprint from the Israel Exploration Journal, "A Royal Dedicatory Inscription from Ekron." Autographed by the three authors: "With Compliments, Sy, Trude, and Joseph."
Screen shot of user profile showing the the number of followers is 666.
Drawing of the Babylonian king "EVILMERODACH" inside an oval portrait framing. He is wearing a feathered hat and European attire.
Photograph of a half-moon beta fish with red fins.
Flyer for the event "Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls." The background contains an image of a scroll.
A plastered skull, missing two front teeth, with cowrie shells as eyes.
Screen shot of tweet by journalist Nir Hasson reporting that Amnon Ben-Tor has died. The text is in Hebrew & is accompanied by a photograph of Prof. Ben-Tor in sun-glasses visiting an archaeological site.
The top paragraph from the snippet of the Wikipedia article "E. Gordon Gee" reads: "Gee's tumultuous tenure at Brown is commemorated annually with the "E. Gordon Gee Lavatory Complex," a collection of portable toilets that appears during Spring Weekend." The accompanying photograph shows two of the portable toilets with signage.
Screen shot from the other site. Image reads: "Only on Twitter - Trending. Shabbat 4,937 posts"