A group those interested in the academic study Jewish and Christian scriptures, canonical and non-canonical.
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited The Advent Of Imam Mahdi As The Avenger Of Imam Hussein in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Purpose: This article attempts to deal with the events that took place during the advent (reappearance) of Imam Mahdi, the Savior of all the worlds. In fact, in this article, we will discuss the forces that will join him when the Imam of the time appears, and above all, with Imam Hussein and how globalization can pave the way for Imam Mahdi’s…[Read more]
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Christian Frevel deposited Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
proofs, to be published in a volume 2023
Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante, in: Jens Kamlah/Markus Witte (Hg.), Sacred Architecture in Ancient Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times (ADPV 49), Wiesbaden 2023, 153-234.
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Joey McCollum deposited Bayesian Textual Criticism: Evolutionary Genetics and the Transmission of New Testament Texts in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
[Note: these are the slides for the second talk described in the abstract.]
Phylogenetics is an approach developed in evolutionary biology to reconstruct organisms’ relationships of descent based on observations of their trait similarities and differences. It finds a close analogue in textual criticism, where manuscripts correspond to o…[Read more]
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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Meredith Warren deposited Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual function. Generally, this may be because we have some kind of impression that a group of old…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Mother of Rufus and Paul in Romans 16 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Rufus’s mother features in Paul’s concluding list of church leaders such as Phoebe in Romans 16. Paul calls her his own mother. I argue that Rufus’s mother’s inclusion indicates higher status and influence within the Pauline house-churches, building on Elmer’s notion of corporate Pauline authorship.
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Meredith Warren deposited Muted and Hidden Monsters in Revelation 12 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Woman clothed with the Sun makes a brief appearance in Revelation 12; however, her influence upon the imaginations of artists and interpreters is substantive. She is unnamed and yet multiple identities are ascribed to her including individual women (Eve, Mary), corporate institutions (Israel, the church), and ancient goddesses. In this…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Moses Married a Black Woman: Modern American Receptions of the Cushite Wife of Moses in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Americans overwhelmingly assume that Moses married a Black woman. Using sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article highlights interpretations of Moses’s marriage to the Cushite woman in Numbers 12. Utilising cultural-critical reception history—that biblical interpretation is culturally conditioned—readers in the United State…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Forgetting the Forgetter: The Cupbearer in the Joseph Saga (Genesis 40–41) in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Typically, the cupbearer in Genesis 40–41 is interpreted only as a member of Joseph’s supporting cast. However, closely reading this minor character suggests more options for interpreting both him and other anonymous courtiers found throughout the Hebrew Bible. The cupbearer’s actions (and inactions) raise ethical and psychological questions about…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Social Dynamics Surrounding Yahwistic Women’s Supposed Ritual Deviance in Ezekiel 13:17–23 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This article suggests that in Ezekiel 13:17–23 we have an example of the ritual activities of Yahwistic women being undermined. However, rather than opening the hermeneutical crux of attempting to understand what it is the women are doing or how their ritual activity is functioning, I will focus squarely on the broader social dynamics in the t…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited “Call Me By Your Name”: Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Is anonymity a form of violence? The woman of Judges 19 endured gang-rape and dismemberment, and neither the Bible nor its ancient exegetes gave her a name. This article surveys the modern writers and scholars who chose new names for her, examining how their choices of names reflected their broader goals for retelling her story. From there, I turn…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Editorial preface
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Jason Goroncy deposited Ethnicity, Social Identity, and the Transposable Body of Christ in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
This essay attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social, and cultural identities, and the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28; 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 and 10:17; 1 Peter 2:9–11; and Revelation 21:24–26 – it is argued that t…[Read more]
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Julia Rhyder deposited “Festivals and Violence in 1 and 2 Maccabees: Hanukkah and Nicanor’s Day,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 10, no. 1 (2021): 63–76. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This article analyzes the nexus between collective violence, temple violation, and military glory in 1 and 2 Maccabees by comparing two festivals established in the context of revolt and guerilla warfare; namely, Hanukkah and Nicanor’s Day. It argues that the accounts of the origins of these two festivals in 1 and 2 Maccabees reinforce the close c…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited The Value of Egyptian Aramaic for Biblical Studies in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Biblical Aramaic accounts for a small fraction within the two-testament Christian Bible. Studying it would seem therefore to present a modest value for biblical studies, and Egyptian Aramaic, a nonbiblical counterpart from the same historical era, even more so. The present article argues, however, that comparing Egyptian Aramaic with biblical…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited The Privilege of the Living in Caring for the Dead: A Problem of Reciprocity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
What was the significance of ancestors in the Hebrew Bible? The question is spurred by Kerry Sonia’s Caring for the Dead, which argues that the cult of dead kin was an accepted practice in the culture of the biblical writers. In building this thesis, Sonia resists an idea popular in scholarship that the Hebrew Bible promotes a negative view of r…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited What Did Feeding the Dead Mean? Two Case Studies from Iron Age Tombs at Beth-Shemesh in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Feeding the dead was an accepted cultural practice in the world of biblical writers. It is circumscribed by cultic considerations in passages such as Deut 26:14, but there are no texts that prohibit the placing of food inside tombs. Thus, the biblical writers tacitly acknowledged the practice, though feeding the dead is never explicitly prescribed…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Psalms write and express revelation, relationship, and response on and through the body; corporeal vocabulary, awareness of embodiment and somatic metaphors abound. This rhetoric draws people in through reference to common experience and uses somatic language to express thoughts and emotions which often escape conceptualisation, such as confusion,…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Making Meaning of Touch: Revelation and Sensorial Participation in Daniel 8–10 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Throughout Daniel 8–10, Daniel is touched five times by human-like figures. By these touch interventions, he receives both physical and emotional strength which allow him to continue participating in the revelatory experience. This essay argues that embodied participation marked by the sense of touch not only legitimates an authentic revelation b…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Alien and Degenerate Milk: Embodiment, Mapping, and Social Identity in Four Nursing Metaphors in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Using cognitive metaphor theory to examine the four NT nursing metaphors (1 Thess 2:5–9; 1 Cor 3:1–3; Heb 5:11–14; 1 Pet 2:1–3), this article demonstrates that the same nursing frame can be used quite differently. The work of separating the contributions of each input space and then running the blend demonstrates how each metaphor functio…[Read more]
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