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 Incestual Duplication by Female Sex Offenders: Lot’s Daughters (Genesis 19:30–38) as Challenge to Typologies and Violent Family-Systems in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Against the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]
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Tom de Bruin edited the post Incestual Duplication by Female Sex Offenders: Lot’s Daughters (Genesis 19:30–38) as Challenge to Typologies and Violent Family-Systems in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Ellen De Doncker¹
Writing about sexual abuse remains a task to undertake with absolute care, respecting the humanity of all, against the inhuman incident that took place. […]
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Tom de Bruin deposited Whom Shall I Fear? The Irony of Affective Politics in Judges 19 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
In Judges 19, the Levite from Ephraim, together with his concubine, on their journey back home pass by Jebus and refuse to stay in the hometown of the Jebusites, remarking that “we will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites” (Judges 19:12). It is an ironic comment made as it is precisely within the city of Israelites in Gib…[Read more]
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Tom de Bruin edited the post Whom Shall I Fear? The Irony of Affective Politics in Judges 19 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Alexiana Fry
“Forgetting is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”[1]
“…being a fully realized human is the privilege of whites, Christians, and the native-b […]
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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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Editorial preface
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Meredith Warren edited the post 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 1 year ago
Joseph Scales
Introduction[1]
To begin this article, I want to raise three questions. First, when we read of the “elders” in Jewish texts of the late Second Temple per […]
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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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year, 4 months 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 1 year, 4 months 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 1 year, 4 months 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 1 year, 4 months 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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