Sara Ronis

@sararonis.bsky.social

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associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things. She/Her

List of conference presentations at this panel. The second presentation reads "Bad Romance: Rereading the Divorce Formulae in the Babylonian Incantation Bowls" - Sara Ronis, St. Mary's University, Texas.
An image of a demon drawn in the middle of a Babylonian incantation bowl. The demon has wide horizontal hair and triangles where shoulders should be.
A very cute and very clean dog lying dejected on the couch.
A picture of a red heeler with one blue eye and one brown eye, wearing a headscarf with a disgruntled look on her face.
Screenshot of description of AAR Panel "In Community with the Dead? Relations with the Jewish Dead across History, Time, and Space." Sunday, 3pm-4:30pm, Convnetion Center 318 (Upper Level East) Paper 1: Shira Eliassian, Yale University, "The Social Lives of the Dead: Postmortal Sentience and Sociality in b.Berakhot 18b." Paper 2: Emilie Amar-Zifkin, McGill University, "Eulogies Without Words: Gestures of Grief in Medieval Ashkenaz" Paper 3: Ranana Dine, University of Chicago, "Visualizing a “Holy Society:” An 18th Century Czech Painting Cycle of Jewish Obligation to the Dead"
A screenshot of the #sblaar panel on Theorizing Concepts, Community, and Chronology. Talk 1: Tzipporah Machlah Klapper, Harvard University, "Rabbinic homeland Perceptions of the Alexandrian Diaspora." Talk 2: Eliav Grossman (Princeton University), "How did Rabbinic Literature become 'Classical'"? The third talk is my paper, When Fetuses Attack: The Babylonian Talmud and the Criminal Fetus.
Very cute dog staring at the Camera wondering why she is not currently being given treats.
A screenshot of an announcement of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards for 2023 which includes an image of my book, demons in the details, as the winner in the category of Jewish thought and culture.
A photograph of the title of article proofs. The title is "The key to the locks: good omen's hair and the nature of Good and evil".
Red heeler's nose close to the camera with their tongue sticking out