A group those interested in the academic study Jewish and Christian scriptures, canonical and non-canonical.
Collin Cornell deposited The Costobar Affair: Comparing Idumaism and Early Judaism in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This article examines the Costobar Affair, a narrative aside in Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities and a moment in the history of Idumeans, to revisit the parting of the ways and the relationship of early Judaism and early Chistianity to their next-door neighbors in other Hellenistic Levantine traditions (such as “Idumaism”).
Paul Michael Kurtz deposited The Spirit of Jewish Poetry: Why Biblical Studies Has Forgotten Duhm’s Psalter Commentary in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This essay addresses the generation and perpetuation of interpretative modalities in academic communities. It tells a story of curbed reception on account of theological interference. In the end, Duhm interpreted the Psalms as a product of Jewish communities under the Seleucids, Hasmoneans, and Romans. This inquiry argues the historicist…[Read more]
Cat Quine deposited Athaliah and the Theopolitics of Royal Assassination in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
While the kingdom of Israel experienced eight military coups in its shorter history, the kingdom of Judah saw only four assassinations of its monarchs, three of which were Athaliah, her usurper, and his successor. This sequence of untimely royal deaths in Judah stands in contrast to the stability of Israel’s royal line under the Jehuite d…[Read more]
Joey McCollum deposited The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The open-cbgm library is an open-source software implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) designed with customizability and performance on large-scale collations in mind. The library is free to use or modify and has been tested on real data from the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) of the New Testament. This presentation first…[Read more]
Christian Frevel deposited “Mit meinem Gott überspringe ich eine Mauer”/”By my God I can leap over a wall” : Interreligiöse Horizonte in den Psalmen und Psalmenstudien/Interreligious Horizons in Psalms and Psalms Studies in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Als „kleine Biblia“ (Luther) hat der Psalter eine herausragende Rolle in Judentum und Christentum. Auch im Koran ist die Wertschätzung Davids hoch und die Psalmen klingen im Hintergrund mancher Sure an. Welches Potential können die Psalmen im Trialog der abrahamitischen Religionen entfalten? Was bedeutet es, wenn im Beten der Psalmen der eine…[Read more]
Hugo Méndez deposited Did the Johannine Community Exist? in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
This article challenges the historical existence of the ‘Johannine community’ – a hypothesized group of ancient churches sharing a distinctive theological outlook. Scholars posit such a community to explain the similarities of John to 1, 2 and 3 John as well as the epistles’ witness to a network of churches. Against this view, this article calls a…[Read more]
Michael Miller deposited The Name of God and the Name of the Messiah: Jewish and Christian Parallels in Late Antiquity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This study argues that there is a tradition, arising from a ‘Jewish milieu’, based around the exegesis of select biblical passages, indicating that the messiah bears the Divine Name. This tradition appears to predate the Christian movement, and is referenced also in rabbinic literature. In the first section we highlight a tradition regarding the…[Read more]
Evgeny Shalman deposited Revised Age of Patriarchs in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Ages of patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 are usually interpreted as literal, symbolic or fictional. We suggest alternative interpretation of literal one. In Genesis 5 not only age of patriarch is abnormally long but also the ratio of maximal age to minimal begetting age is unrealistic from common human experience (the ratio is approximately 15).…[Read more]
Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article, we see how the third-party accounts of Sarai in…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Activism in the Classroom: A Case Study on De-Patriarchalising Biblical Studies for Future Generations in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Efficient activism in the classroom and beyond is contingent upon the ability to identify and understand ideological principles, to express opposition to injustice, to challenge and de-centre authority and privilege, and to redistribute power to those without. Moreover, it requires collective and collaborative action. This article is a case study…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the Stripping of Jesus as Sexual Violence in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Recent work in biblical studies has given increased attention to a reading of Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. This article explores how the stripping of Jesus might be understood as an example of abuse ‘hidden in plain sight’. Most students are initially surprised or doubtful when it is suggested that Jesus is a victim of sexual violence. How…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Embodied Readers: Teaching about the Earliest Christians in Rural Protestant America in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This article discusses the ways in which my Introduction to the New Testament class at the University of Tennessee engages with and offers students tools for understanding and participating in social activism, particularly around race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, and class. In recent years I have added new readings and class projects to…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Re-reading 1 Kings 21:1-16 Between Community-based Activism and University-based Pedagogy in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Biblical studies in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been partially constituted by the community-based activism of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research over a period of more than thirty years. This essay reflects on a particular series of contrapuntal…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Reading the Whole Bible with Integrity: Identifying Context, Identity, Community, and Antisemitism in Christian Hermeneutical Practices in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the New Testament, where does Jesus fit in, and why do these questions even matter? In the context of the biblical studies classroom for Christian ministerial training, being able to answer these questions is an essential part of effective and responsible biblical interpretation…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited ‘If not with others, how?’: Creating Rabbinic Activists Through Study in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Together we seek to model the redemptive, liberatory, activist, feminist approach to collaborative working to which both authors are committed as teachers, students, rabbis and activists. In our rabbinic chain of tradition (more particularly through other female rabbis) we explore, through the lenses of student and teacher, the 5-year rabbinic…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Activism in the Queer Biblical Studies Classroom in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This article serves as an injunction for queer biblical studies to be reclaimed and mobilised as activist practice. First, I discuss the application and activist potential of queer theory – in and beyond the academy. To address concerns around queer elitism, I argue how rupturing the binary between theory and practice recharges the accessibility a…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Confronting Judeophobia in the Classroom in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
After an arrest was made in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting (27 October 2018), it came to light that the shooter’s social media page was emblazoned with a citation from John’s Gospel 8:44 and a rough paraphrase of what the shooter thought it meant: “Jews are the children of Satan”. In the days that followed the shooting, educators scrambl…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Teaching Environmental Activism and Ecological Hermeneutics in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This article argues that ecological hermeneutics, when taught in the biblical studies classroom, needs to draw on its roots in environmental activism. It recommends prioritising the urgency of the contemporary crisis alongside activist ways to respond to it over the teaching of the history and methodology of this approach. Singling out two topics,…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Armies of Misfits: Mobility Disabilities and Activism in the Biblical Studies Classroom in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This article argues for the disabled body as a site of resistance and for the biblical studies classroom as one venue to mobile towards world-changing activism. After reviewing a range of models from disability studies (the medical, social/minority, religious and political/relational models) this article advocates for what the authors call…[Read more]
Meredith Warren deposited Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible: Teaching for Social Justice in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Courses on the Bible, gender, and sexuality offer many opportunities to promote social justice in the classroom. Instead of emphasizing course content, this article focuses on practical strategies and tactics that incorporate social justice into the everyday teaching of these courses. Drawing on feminist, queer, and affect theory, as well as…[Read more]
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