Andrew Jacobs
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs‘s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Interpreting conversion in antiquity (and beyond) on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure the historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges the diverse processes, contexts, and meanings of conversion but nonetheless sees the phenomenon as a way to access the con…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThe seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThe seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Gender, Conversion, and the End of Empire in the Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
The seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (“Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized”) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment in the text, the last voices of Jewish resistance belong to the wife and mother-in-law of one of the dialogue…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs‘s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPaper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPaper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs‘s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
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Paper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Paper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs‘s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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