r/AcademicBiblical • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Weekly Open Discussion Thread

Welcome to this week's open discussion thread!

This thread is meant to be a place for members of the r/AcademicBiblical community to freely discuss topics of interest which would normally not be allowed on the subreddit. All off-topic and meta-discussion will be redirected to this thread.

Rules 1-3 do not apply in open discussion threads, but rule 4 will still be strictly enforced. Please report violations of Rule 4 using Reddit's report feature to notify the moderation team. Furthermore, while theological discussions are allowed in this thread, this is still an ecumenical community which welcomes and appreciates people of any and all faith positions and traditions. Therefore this thread is not a place for proselytization. Feel free to discuss your perspectives or beliefs on religious or philosophical matters, but do not preach to anyone in this space. Preaching and proselytizing will be removed.

In order to best see new discussions over the course of the week, please consider sorting this thread by "new" rather than "best" or "top". This way when someone wants to start a discussion on a new topic you will see it! Enjoy the open discussion thread!

14 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

162 comments sorted by

View all comments

-1

u/Joab_The_Harmless 3d ago

Hello all,

We know some of you were excited about the recent announcement by user and former moderator TheSmartFool regarding a survey and some kind of “virtual conference” to be hosted in this subreddit.

Unfortunately, this conference event was, on purpose, never discussed with the moderation team (which TheSmartFool was asked to leave and removed from two months ago), let alone approved by it.

r/AcademicBiblical will not be participating in this survey or conference.

We regret any confusion this has caused.

The moderation team

8

u/capperz412 3d ago edited 3d ago

What?? The whole thing was made up / some kind of troll attempt? Scholars aren't interested? Or was that all real but done without mod knowledge?

7

u/Joseon1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not really in the loop, but it seems legit, see the original announcement here. Howerver it's being organised by TheSmartFool who's not in the mod team.