Knowledge Commons | Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/journal-for-interdisciplinary-biblical-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:41:58 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eb2d7ea85f92e0f39228023d69703f45 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post The Psychological Impact of Ostracism and the Silent Treatment and their Application to the Psalms in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/12/05/the-psychological-impact-of-ostracism-and-the-silent-treatment-and-their-application-to-the-psalms/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:50:15 -0500 Robert Revington, Hannah Fonseca Becar & Merrill G. Greene

revingrc@mcmaster.ca; channah.fq@gmail.com; greenem@kingswood.edu 

Reading the Psalms from a psychological perspective is not a new phenomenon.[1] […]

]]> 83ce17ce8aa13af60f9abbbe1ae0359e Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/06/03/writing-to-paul-using-interactive-fiction-to-explore-early-christian-worlds/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:32:00 -0400 Sarah F. Porter[a]

porters@gonzaga.edu

It’s 50 CE. You’re Chloe, a resident of ancient Corinth. You receive a letter from a panicked messenger, but can you read it? [Roll for literacy.]

So begins an […]

]]> 13e50d8b2563e442eb63907e2d6d2678 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah’s Daughter, and Himpathy in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/03/12/oh-poor-jephthah-jephthah-jephthahs-daughter-and-himpathy/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:59:59 -0400 Sara Stone

Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk

Judges 11 tells us the story of Jephthah and his daughter, his only child, whom he must sacrifice in order to keep his vow to God. The narrative is written in a way […]

]]> e0b8d6c38310a413a164f8bfbf0dc130 Meredith Warren deposited St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902584/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:30 -0400 In this note, we introduce readers to St Paul of the Thorns, a painting by Elizabeth Tooth, which is part of an exhibition entitled Reimagining Paul. Using visual arts interpretive methodologies, disability studies, exegesis of 2 Corinthians, and exhibition visitor feedback, we consider the distinctive contribution of visual art to discussions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7e44d184a0d918c14e354c0d0e7463a Meredith Warren deposited A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902581/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:23 -0400 Within Johannine texts, impairment carries associated meanings to the point that the narrative figure is reduced to the impairment rather than having an independent and/or complex identity. A metanarrative of disability exists within these texts, regarding assuming that attitudes, capabilities or attributes relate to particular impairments. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 d18ea8c8c347cb330f270197c72c24c3 Meredith Warren deposited Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902578/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:16 -0400 A surprising consensus among scholars working on 3 Maccabees is that the story of Philopator’s supernatural intervention appears strikingly similar to an epileptic seizure. Likewise, the same observations have been made by others about Heliodorus’s episode in 2 Maccabees. Surprisingly, none of these scholars appear to be self-aware that this is…[Read more]

]]> 0 e45fc1330c6a3f526582c89a94bc0548 Meredith Warren deposited Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902575/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 Royal illness and disability recur as motifs within the accounts of the Davidic monarchs provided in the books of Samuel and Kings. Recent work done on the intersection of disability studies and the Hebrew Bible provides a framework for tracing this motif throughout the history of the southern kingdom in 1 and 2 Kings. Under this framework, kings…[Read more]

]]> 0 2503221fa7c2e1995d638bb335ac97f0 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/st-paul-of-the-thorns-a-note-on-disability-visual-criticism-and-2-corinthians-127b-10/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:12:41 -0400 Grace Emmett and Ryan D. Collman

grace.emmett@outlook.com; ryan.collman@gmail.com

The purpose of this note is to offer initial remarks about how one might read St Paul of the Thorns (Elizabeth Tooth, oi […]

]]> 48b9a21a4bd2636fada6ea0844c1fec5 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/a-metanarrative-of-disability-in-john-5/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:07:57 -0400 Emma Swai

emjswai@gmail.com

Critical disability readings of impaired mobility are relatively rare within the forum of biblical studies. As a result, there is a danger of recurrent tropes being […]

]]> a5ec516cbc6d48528dfa4372fa5d42ce Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/epilepsy-as-punishment-from-god-a-disability-reading-of-2-and-3-maccabees/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:05:11 -0400 Matthew J. Korpman 

mkorpman@lasierra.edu

Disability is still a new and slowly growing part of the critical approaches that encompass modern biblical studies. In that respect, there has yet to be a d […]

]]> 36c4e61b7f9cb585d166564f1aa411ec Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/davidic-kings-with-disability-illness-disability-and-ideal-monarchs/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:02:13 -0400 Grant F. Gates[1]

grant.gates@cst.edu

This paper builds upon the interdisciplinary approach of reading the Hebrew Bible with the support of disability studies that has been introduced in both biblical […]

]]> cc6a3c5dd7d8a5fedd84d5de3a13b310 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901081/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:36 -0400 In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 18eb6f84c46031be49d561b0c284ee9a Meredith Warren edited the blog post Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/07/naming-as-human-agency-in-terry-pratchett-and-neil-gaimans-good-omens/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:17:41 -0400 Clair J. Hutchings-Budd

cjhutchings-budd1@sheffield.ac.uk

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he […]

]]> 3de084e7a858d2bd793601f7ab9e8ca1 Matthew R. Anderson deposited Walls, Paths, Gardens, and a Gravediggers' Pub in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900702/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:37 -0400 Matthew R. Anderson's walking explorations through North Dublin help him reflect on colonisation, decolonisation, and Land in both Ireland and North America.

]]> 0 3f411d6fc96dd722f8f0eaf5fe068a0a Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899808/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:44 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 232756cd8cd5219aa6f1653c4823a510 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/09/25/there-was-a-man-who-had-two-sons-a-parable-of-futurity-reproductivity-utopia-and-social-death/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:09:07 -0400 Eric C. Smith

ecsmith@iliff.edu

Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. The […]

]]> c1f29c051e6eadd84214de70c9e862de Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898296/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:39 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 11986564e3d5d1a1a3c26cd7e0ca7f0c Meredith Warren edited the blog post Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/requiring-apologia-merchants-and-artisans-in-acts-of-the-apostles/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:25:27 -0400 Jane Sancinito

Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu

The fragmentation of early criticism of Christianity poses a challenge to both theological and historical analyses of the early Christian movement and its place in […]

]]> d3c18c588b3d9ca9d629c37ef1d9a2a5 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891074/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 e51c16c5afff1e3ea5b4b862183b47de Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891073/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:23 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa532f68f32cd946c16e34d627e496e0 Meredith Warren edited the blog post Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/07/05/queer-futures-and-phallic-humour-in-the-book-of-esther/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:49:57 -0400 Esther Brownsmith

ebrown8@udayton.edu

I begin this article by presenting a joke, taken from the book of Esther, chapter 1, verse 7.

Question: “How abundant was the wine at King Ahasuerus’s dri […]

]]> a15b41f64fb00eb100cfc05ec4ebcd4d Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884603/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:28 -0400 The language Luke uses to depict conception in his infancy narrative calls upon established medical discourse for fertilisation. My argument in this philological study is that ancient gynaecology prompts us to give full weight to the literal meaning of Gabriel’s term sullambanein (“to conceive/grasp”) and to ask what grammatical and material objec…[Read more]

]]> 0 77365beb3b28ed8fe129764464af723e Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884599/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:16 -0400 This article offers a new interpretation of the phrase “Jewish weight,” especially as it is used in the Greek papyrus known as CPJ 3.519. The Roman-era papyrus preserves part of a work of otherwise unknown fiction, probably a script of a comedic mime about an athletic contest in a gymnasium. Contrary to previous interpreters, a new reading of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b945a9421c60a4c9b1af1af7f7fa219d Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884593/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:24 -0400 Biblical Hebrew is known for its creative avoidance of mentioning intimate body parts. Did such euphemisms continue in Greek-speaking Judaism? This article proposes that the “Greek hat” in 2 Maccabees 4:12 is not (or at least not only) a literal hat or a vague metaphor for Hellenism, as has been suggested through the centuries. Instead, it is a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 47e8d9bc22106c08695b1e2337fd8d32 Tom de Bruin edited the post What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/what-exactly-did-mary-conceive-in-her-womb/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:32:06 -0400 Michael Pope

Mike_Pope@byu.edu

In a strictly qualitive sense, we can fairly say that Luke, more than any other New Testament author or text, is concerned with women’s fertility and the functions of t […]

]]> 937b596a5a487d73650e254114a5ce24 Tom de Bruin edited the post The Greek Hat:2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/the-greek-hat2-maccabees-412-as-a-euphemism-for-reverse-circumcision/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:27:35 -0400 Sara Parks

sparks@stfx.ca

Biblical Hebrew is known for its creative avoidance of mentioning intimate body parts.[1] Did such euphemisms continue in Greek-speaking Judaism? Michael Peppard has argued for […]

]]> c1597be63a49ffa989d01ceac61f791e Tom de Bruin edited the post Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/bearing-a-jewish-weight-a-new-interpretation-of-a-greek-comedic-papyrus-about-athletics-cpj-3-519/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:20:15 -0400 Michael Peppard

mpeppard@fordham.edu

This short article attempts to solve a puzzle that I have been pondering for almost twenty years, since I first wrote a letter to Dr. Günter Poethke at the […]

]]> 77785db6fa876cb0074401be7c61dbfb 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856293/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:12:35 -0400 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]

]]> 0 500ee5e0d26421e6135fcf5410e7f7bd Tom de Bruin edited the blog 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 https://jibs.hcommons.org/2023/08/22/incestual-duplication-by-female-sex-offenders-lots-daughters-genesis-1930-38-as-challenge-to-typologies-and-violent-family-systems/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:43:13 -0400 Ellen De Doncker¹

ellen.dedoncker@uclouvain.be

Writing about sexual abuse remains a task to undertake with absolute care, respecting the humanity of all, against the inhuman incident that took place. […]

]]> f049234301e1ae3291cfab1c0ac73b72 Tom de Bruin deposited Whom Shall I Fear? The Irony of Affective Politics in Judges 19 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851462/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 02:23:39 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e98a14d172b46779e97e9d5005d974be 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 https://jibs.hcommons.org/2023/07/10/whom-shall-i-fear-the-irony-of-affective-politics-in-judges-19/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:04:46 -0400 Alexiana Fry

alexianadfry@gmail.com 

“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 […]

]]> 99fa4a8a8625a362d1a1010c8b7b00a9 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819746/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:42 -0400 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]

]]> 0 24c8484d0966e61bebc5fdd415a710f4 Meredith Warren deposited The Mother of Rufus and Paul in Romans 16 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819743/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:36 -0400 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.

]]> 0 b7f573a0de3e6c40321a059a4fb30705 Meredith Warren deposited Muted and Hidden Monsters in Revelation 12 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819740/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:29 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5f15c692de80324341030e7443944169 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819736/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:18 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7d596c7f1d02286c8518111b0551858b Meredith Warren deposited Forgetting the Forgetter: The Cupbearer in the Joseph Saga (Genesis 40–41) in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819733/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e956248886502d739e1fb404a09e7982 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819730/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:24:05 -0400 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]

]]> 0 20597291623920860f989b708992c998 Meredith Warren deposited “Call Me By Your Name”: Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819727/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:23:59 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bbf49835c276f1ac0c28bc4b8efd05ab Meredith Warren deposited Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819724/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:23:52 -0400 Editorial preface

]]> 0 4bbba967766a0463bb36c3702c101fe2 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 https://jibs.hcommons.org/2022/11/02/4-2-scales-worthy-of-honour/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:20:19 -0400 Joseph Scales

joseph.scales@sas.ac.uk

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 […]

]]> 689ab1198e040f31328f32edf5f4701a 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 https://jibs.hcommons.org/2022/11/02/4-2-southwood-social-dynamics/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:49:06 -0400 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 […]

]]> fb7f66423176f71c50403eadfa28042e 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 https://jibs.hcommons.org/2022/11/02/4-2-brownsmith-call-me-by-your-name/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:41:56 -0400 Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19

Esther Brownsmith [1]

Esther.Brownsmith@mf.no

Even when scholars do not name the unnamed or write new stories for them, we re-create them in our […]

]]> aa592c0e32b24fa7a9be42c796122cee Meredith Warren wrote a new post Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2022/11/02/4-2-editorial/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:20:56 -0400 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 […]

]]> 6efdbc95cb3e6f82a98f5f7ba4c9bdb5 Meredith Warren deposited Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789019/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:23:51 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2ae886de9ac51cd91d5ddbfc54a72bdb Meredith Warren deposited Making Meaning of Touch: Revelation and Sensorial Participation in Daniel 8–10 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788832/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:56 -0400 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]

]]> 0 100fbf8b42887d1f7a88ee8e3abd226d Meredith Warren deposited Alien and Degenerate Milk: Embodiment, Mapping, and Social Identity in Four Nursing Metaphors in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788829/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:50 -0400 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]

]]> 0 951ff6c4c8fb829cf777e44177a44757 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788826/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6182b3d8f8e5087b676c2265fb85ef87 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788823/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:37 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f72ea519f0e71b8e596f608f6e9c89cb 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788818/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:07 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6dc36e35c07eb9296f29fa4ff9653d5e 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788815/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:00 -0400 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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