A group those interested in the academic study Jewish and Christian scriptures, canonical and non-canonical.
Julia Rhyder deposited “Unity and Hierarchy: North and South in the Priestly Traditions.” Pages 109–34 in Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible. Edited by B. Hensel, D. Nocquet and B. Adamczewski. FAT 2/120. Tübingen. Mohr Siebeck, 2020. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 days, 5 hours ago
This essay examines select Priestly texts that describe the roles of leaders from the northern and southern tribes in the wilderness cult: the texts of Exod 25–31, 35–40 that concern the sanctuary artisans Bezalel (from the tribe of Judah) and Oholiab (from the tribe of Dan), chosen to lead the construction of the wilderness shrine; the des…[Read more]
Dr. Steven D. Aguzzi deposited Millenarian and Amillennial Theologies of History in Relation to Supersessionism in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
The purpose of this essay is threefold. First we will attempt to define the problem of supersessionism (also known as ‘Replacement Theology’), both by responding to the calls of the Roman Catholic Church within Vatican II to change theologies of supersession, but likewise by addressing the current weaknesses in eschatological though within the Rom…[Read more]
Joey McCollum deposited Learning the CBGM by Design in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Slides for an invited talk on the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) for the Greek Paul Project Webinar.
Michael Miller deposited Name Theology: Judaism in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
An entry for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception on the topic of Name Theology, how this has evolved in different Abrahamic religions from the scriptural origins.
Julia Rhyder deposited “ ‘The Temple which You Will Build For Me in the Land’: The Future Sanctuary in a Textual Tradition of Leviticus,” Dead Sea Discoveries 24, no. 2 (2017): 271–300 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
This article examines the instruction regarding the wood offering and the festival of new oil in fragment 23 of 4QReworked Pentateuch C (4Q365), and in particular its setting at a future temple (בית) in the land. It argues that while 4Q365 23 represents a departure from earlier versions of Leviticus, it should be considered nonetheless as part o…[Read more]
Julia Rhyder deposited “Sabbath and Sanctuary Cult in the Holiness Legislation: A Reassessment.” Journal of Biblical Literature 138, no. 4 (2019): 723–42. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
This article examines the innovative focus on sabbath observance that characterizes the Holiness legislation (“H”). By comparing H’s conception of the sabbath with what is known about this sacred time from other biblical and extrabiblical sources, the article demonstrates that H creatively blends two aspects of the sabbath that were not alway…[Read more]
Julia Rhyder deposited “The Prohibition of Local Butchery in Leviticus 17:3–4: The Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in La Bible hébraïque et les manuscrits de la mer Morte. Études en l’honneur de George Brooke, eds. Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder, Semitica 62 (2020): 307–27. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This article reviews the textual transmission of the ban on local butchery in Leviticus 17:3–4. It explores the importance of the manuscripts from the Dead Sea, in particular 4QLevd and 11Q19, for interpreting the plus at verse 4, attested in the Septuagint and in the Samaritan Pentateuch, as well as the change in address in v. 3, which is found i…[Read more]
Julia Rhyder deposited Christophe Nihan and Julia Rhyder, “Aaron’s Vestments in Exodus 28 and Priestly Leadership.” Pages 45–67 in Debating Authority: Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets. Edited by Katharina Pyschny and Sarah Schulz. BZAW 507. Berlin/Boston, MA: de Gruyter, 2018. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper examines how the description of Aaron’s vestments in Exod 28 encodes a distinct concept of high priestly leadership. This chapter of Exodus has garnered relatively little attention in biblical scholarship, even among recent and comprehensive treatments of the high priest in the biblical and post-biblical traditions. This general n…[Read more]
Joey McCollum deposited CBGM Q&A @CSNTM (Slides) in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Slides for a Q&A session about the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) with staff at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM).
Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites. After clearly elucidating Maimonides’ stance on the topic, this essay examines his view from different angles with various possible precedents in earlier rabbinic literature for such an under…[Read more]
Julia Rhyder deposited “Space and Memory in the Book of Leviticus,” Pages 83-96 in Scripture as Social Discourse: Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings, ed. T. Klutz, C. Strine and J. M. Keady. London: T&T Clark, 2018 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
In this paper I employ social scientific theories that conceptualize space as existing in physical, mental and symbolic fields simultaneously, and combine them with memory studies, in order to offer a new reading of how the authors of Leviticus construed Israel’s cultic origins and what aims they were pursuing with this composition.
Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited The Argument against Attributing Slogans in 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters, 2018. While many scholars consider that Corinthian slogans are present in 1 Cor 6:12–20, this article argues that the attribution of slogans there is an unnecessary exegetical move based on unconvincing arguments. A reading of the pericope will be presented to demonstrate that slogans are u…[Read more]
Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited Jonah’s Gourd and Mark’s Gethsemane: A Study in Allegorical Messianic Intertextuality [accepted version] in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
[NB. PDF is accepted copy, not published version – to cite, please use published version, JSNT 43:3, 2021, 370-388)] A number of scholars have recognized a verbal allusion to Jon. 4.9 in Mk 14.34. However, the Gethsemane account (Mk 14.32-42) may allude to the narrative of Jon. 4 in other ways not previously observed. Some modern interpreters have…[Read more]
Thomas Bolin deposited The Role of Exchange in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Its Implications for Reading Genesis 18–19 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This article reads Genesis 18-19 in the light of the principal of exchange at work in ancient religious belief concerning divine justice. Genesis 18.1-15 and 19.1-29, as examples of the well-worn tale of the divine visitor, are narrative expressions of confidence in a divine justice that rewards the kind and punishes the inhospitable. In the…[Read more]
Thomas Bolin deposited Rivalry and Resignation: Girard and Qoheleth on the Divine-Human Relationship in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This article looks at the repeated gnomic phrase in the Book of Qoheleth, “All is vanity and a chasing after wind” (NRSV) and reads it as a disjunctive parallelism in which the terms lbh and jwr denote mortality and the divine spirit, respectively, thus showing the sense of the phrase to be, “All is mortal, but strives for immortality”. Using R…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited The Old Gods Are Fighting Back: Mono- and Polytheistic Tensions in Battlestar Galactica and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
The representations of religious tension between the polytheistic humans and the monotheistic Cylons in the Sci Fi (now Syfy) channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) is nowhere more evident than in the human “convert” to monotheism, Gaius Baltar, who struggles to proselytize his minority beliefs to other humans. Ancient Jewish…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited “Suspicion Is More Likely To Keep You Alive Than Trust:” Affective Relationships with the Bible in Octavia Butler’s Parables in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents provide readers with often radical re- visions and critiques of biblical texts. This article asks how the principal characters’ affective engagements with Scripture vary, and considers the extent to which fiction may “play” with the Bible, despite its authoritative distanc…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited The Women of Noah in Early Twentieth-Century Science Fiction in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Modern science fiction writers often draw upon the biblical flood story as inspiration for their own narratives. It is not uncommon to find humans fleeing on space arks to escape some cosmic disaster. In the process of adapting the biblical narrative to contemporary circumstances, these writers also frequently transform the unnamed female…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
In the virtual world elaborated in Marvel’s movies (the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or MCU), “science” is creatively, strategically confused with “magic” and/or “religion.” Key supernatural/magical elements of the franchise’s comic-book source material are “retconned” (retroactively granted new narrative coherence and continuity) as advanced…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited “In You All Things”: Biblical Influences on Story, Gameplay, and Aesthetics in Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
This article considers several instances of biblical reception in the science-fiction role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony, 2017). The game’s characterisation of technology, science, and religion has led some commentators to understand Horizon Zero Dawn as presenting a firm rejection of religious narratives in favour of s…[Read more]
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