JIBS is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing cutting edge articles that embody interdisciplinary, social justice-oriented, feminist, queer, and innovative biblical scholarship. We welcome submissions that challenge canonical and/or disciplinary norms and boundaries or that query the field of biblical studies’ relationship to the broader investigation of human religion, culture, and literature. JIBS will publish two issues a year in summer and in winter.
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Meredith Warren deposited Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Editorial preface
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Meredith Warren edited the post The Social Dynamics Surrounding Yahwistic Women’s Supposed Ritual Deviance in Ezekiel 13:17–23 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Katherine E. Southwood[1]
katherine.southwood@theology.ox.ac.uk
It is difficult to reach a clear understanding of women’s professional work in the Hebrew Bible. This is because sometimes the secondary l […]
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Meredith Warren edited the post “Call Me By Your Name”: Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19
Esther Brownsmith [1]
Even when scholars do not name the unnamed or write new stories for them, we re-create them in our […]
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Meredith Warren wrote a new post Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Guest Editor #1 and Guest Editor #2
Names in the Bible and later Jewish traditions are imbued with great significance and are integral to an individual’s personal identity.[1] Namelessness, therefore, is a […]
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Meredith Warren deposited Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks 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
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks 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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Meredith Warren deposited By Making Me Stink to the Inhabitants of the Land: Intrusive Smells as a Metaphor for Unwanted Migrants in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The verb ba’ash (lit. “to stink”) is used repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible to describe unwanted groups or individuals (Gen 34:30; Exod 5:21; 1 Sam 13:4; 1 Sam 27:12; 2 Sam 10:6; 1 Chr 19:6). However, there is an overwhelming tendency in English translations and commentaries to translate bet-aleph-shin in a figurative sense as “obnoxious” (NIV, NKJ…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited To Work or Not to Work: The Hand and Embodied Wisdom of the Valiant Woman in Proverbs 31:10–31 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The discipline of embodied cognitive science and associated concept of intercorporeality provide the theoretical framework of our analysis of Proverbs 31:10–31. This essay fleshes out the underlying cognitive and meaning-making processes and entailments inherent in the valiant woman’s use of her hands and body as depicted in the poem. The val…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Role of Touch in Comprehending Love: Jesus’s Foot Washing in John 13 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
When Jesus humbly washes his disciples’ feet (John 13), he engages his friends up close using the sense of touch. This article explores how his touch conveys a quality of love that no other physical sense can capture. Sensory Anthropology reveals how touch is often overlooked and undervalued but is quite potent. We confronted these dynamics most r…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited A Bad Taste in My Mouth: Spirits as Embodied Senses in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs contain nuanced discussions of the nature of sin, which is invariably associated with both demonic forces and the human body. The senses are portrayed as human spirits. These senses, when used inappropriately, can allow the spirits of deceit to overcome a person and lead them to sin. Seeing, tasting and…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Entangled Tongues: A Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Reading of Acts 2:1-13 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay explores the meaning of the word glōssa, the tongue, in Acts. The focus of my study will be Acts 2:1-13, the Pentecost narrative, where the reader first interacts with tongues of fire and with the experience of glossolalia, speaking in tongues. I read this passage exegetically (but playfully) while I consider the meaning and usage of…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren wrote a new post The Fantasy of ‘the Bible’ in the Museum of the Bible and Academic Biblical Studies in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jill Hicks-Keeton
Abstract
“The Bible” does not exist as material reality, and yet as a cultural icon “the Bible” animates institutions and enterprises devoted to it. This article assesse […]
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