Knowledge Commons | Hugo Méndez | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/hugomendez/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Hugo Méndez is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:31:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ffb23860363e5c36c08b8aced078ceb1 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Biblical Studies via email https://hcommons.org/groups/biblical-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-11/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:26:29 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 3e84ae5b2b3587ff89acf10631095ead Meredith Warren deposited St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902583/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:26 -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 0a76225dcc83a80fe5cd3a1d2c803b03 Meredith Warren deposited A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902580/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:19 -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 525ac4042d5e261744a1e48ba5ff7297 Meredith Warren deposited Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902577/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:12 -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 ad0db98f5a3b3ed9502887c24bddb6af Meredith Warren deposited Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902574/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -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 cac38539e3f3e7101d249227d0970367 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901080/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:31 -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 0a8e86d2f420750f71433ca105077124 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901079/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:30 -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 9cab0efe12edcddd5f66d98aa4a9c707 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899806/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:26 -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 8f91a38cc3b0ff5825bbdbca04c825ce Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898295/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:34 -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 a38499f49a06c8f954929d0d3464fa57 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891070/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:05 -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 bc137830eefa8baa7a6cec89750c90cd Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891069/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -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 82e29c70aef17757c6a7e187cc780d96 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887283/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:29 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 95de0496ad185b77d16e41a275edab51 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887282/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:27 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 f85c3a300f135c9a2f9aaa30e6a4c725 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884602/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:22 -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 b964dd7e5981f01f67a78e7215bcd5f6 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884601/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:21 -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 f9cee781744b83a75c0a179f772fbb1d Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884598/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:10 -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 9ebcec700b7972b8e810170e0a6ccbc9 Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884597/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:09 -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 ba02bb019dd4eda20f4e8e93fc8cbfcf Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884592/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:19 -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 3c70f5cb686968429afec27a8fd89619 Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884591/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:17 -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 a2dc512bdc4b9389015dd1202e27a529 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882937/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:02 -0400 This paper outlines an investigation into three instances within the Babylonian Talmud where biblical stories of sexual encounters are interpreted as multi-coital events involving figures like King David, Bathsheba, Zimri, Cozbi, Sisera, and Jael. Despite the absence of explicit descriptions of sexual encounters in the Bible, the Talmud…[Read more]

]]> 0 2db72caedadd8ae605f11c78333f9866 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882936/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:01 -0400 This paper outlines an investigation into three instances within the Babylonian Talmud where biblical stories of sexual encounters are interpreted as multi-coital events involving figures like King David, Bathsheba, Zimri, Cozbi, Sisera, and Jael. Despite the absence of explicit descriptions of sexual encounters in the Bible, the Talmud…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7fb2c91790f236dbbcb1d43677f755c Thomas Bolin deposited Jonah 4,11 and the Problem of Exegetical Anachronism in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879326/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:51 -0400 Modern interpretations of Jonah 4,11 see God's reference to the Ninevites' animals as an example of divine solicitude for all created life. This article, rather, looks at the reference in light of ancient religious and po-litcial beliefs. Doing so demonstrates that the Ninevite beasts' function in the story is as sacrficial animals. The offering…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee69ab4dcad35bc942b63ed9703732be Thomas Bolin deposited Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879323/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:22 -0400 The first part of this article reviews significant scholarly contributions on the Book of Jonah for the last ten years. Looking specifically at the work of Serge Frolov, Yvonne Sherwood, Ehud Ben Zvi, Lowell Handy and T.A. Perry demonstrates that exegesis of Jonah has entered a very fruitful period, free of the anti-Jewish biases characteristic of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bb42c4468ccf858d01ebe0a4414384f Christian Frevel deposited … SCHÖN GESTALTET WIE SÄULEN AM BAU EINES PALASTES? GYNAIKOMORPHE ARCHITEKTURELEMENTE IN DER KLEINKUNST DER SÜDLICHEN LEVANTE UND DIE DEUTUNG VON PS 144,12 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878174/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:00:03 -0500 erschienen in: Stefan Münger, Nancy Rahn, Patrick Wyssmann (Hgg.), 'Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!' 'Drink of the Wine which I have Mingled!', Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 303, Leuven 2023, 124–152.

]]> 0 f8332511e4c56e07a6eeeb2c23dd4325 Matthew Korpman deposited The Biblical Case for Faithful Disobedience: Learning from Exodus 32 | Adventist Today 32.1 (2024): 26-29 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876993/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:39 -0500 For many Christians, the two words in the English language that don’t seem possible to combine are “faithful” and “disobedience.” For Adventists especially, who have too often grown up hearing an emphasis solely on obeying the commandments of God, such ideas are all too unthinkable. If God says it, the saying goes, that settles it. Yet, Ellen Whi…[Read more]

]]> 0 f74001a253e094596923634e9bece7e5 Joey McCollum deposited Phylogenetics and the CBGM @ CSNTM (Slides) in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876472/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 Slides for an introductory lecture on phylogenetics and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) for the staff at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM).

]]> 0 92a5d40c1bc5e0434240f2a88ccf27c9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El mundo cananeo antiguo. Ritos y sacrificios humanos en el antiguo Israel. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876314/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:14 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, en la época herodiana los judíos habían civilizado sus antiguos ritos y costumbres a través de la gran influencia recibida, primero de los babilonios y persas y, luego, de la cultura del helenismo; pero han llegado hasta nosotros sólidos testimonios que no permiten ocultar el carácter sangriento de sus más antiguas (y no tan…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c6544a609ca0ca74f4fb4d9a268bcc9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El mundo cananeo antiguo. Ritos y sacrificios humanos en el antiguo Israel. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876312/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:11 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, en la época herodiana los judíos habían civilizado sus antiguos ritos y costumbres a través de la gran influencia recibida, primero de los babilonios y persas y, luego, de la cultura del helenismo; pero han llegado hasta nosotros sólidos testimonios que no permiten ocultar el carácter sangriento de sus más antiguas (y no tan…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd6853a6a4850646472b02f8ebab72e3 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El árbol cósmico: árbol sagrado y árbol del mundo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876308/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, las primeras culturas agrícolas desarrollaron una visión cósmica del mundo, dentro de la cual el significado del mito, expresado en el ritual, se habría convertido en la base de las elucubraciones «espirituales» y «religiosas» posteriores. Se trataba del misterio central que explicaba la renovación periódica del mundo a tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9e1097c52c110876b0ff06c3d9f52f3 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / De la Memra judía al Logos. O cómo el Verbo (Jesucristo) se hizo carne humana. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876051/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:28 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la respuesta a la pregunta de cómo «el Verbo se hizo carne» es relativamente sencilla de responder, si la contemplamos desde el componente simbólico que le otorgó el misticismo greco-oriental (la inmanencia de un fragmento de divinidad en el interior del individuo) y que encontró su primigenio significado en el discurso narrat…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9318b049eaf2ed85dad7ca2412b3d74 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Arboles sagrados del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876047/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:19 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la cultura del antiguo Israel tampoco escapó a los insoslayables orígenes neolíticos protagonizados por la diosa de la vegetación y por el árbol en el entorno de las primeras culturas agrícolas. El prototipo bíblico del árbol se encontraba en el Edén (el Dilmun mesopotámico y el jardín o paraíso persa: «pairi-daeza…[Read more]

]]> 0 881a07fbc9671c68595044f9d5c7b0cc Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Arboles sagrados del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876045/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:16 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la cultura del antiguo Israel tampoco escapó a los insoslayables orígenes neolíticos protagonizados por la diosa de la vegetación y por el árbol en el entorno de las primeras culturas agrícolas. El prototipo bíblico del árbol se encontraba en el Edén (el Dilmun mesopotámico y el jardín o paraíso persa: «pairi-daeza…[Read more]

]]> 0 4286a0f4932a065de6196fe4f6dbbe1c Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876043/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:11 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 ceb1251b536ab60e0197563fa63d979f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876042/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 079754e7ce69afefd508a414b836dce9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Zoroastro, profeta de Ahura Mazda. En la antesala del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876038/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la turbación de los padres de la Iglesia de los siglos segundo y tercero no pudo dar respuesta coherente a las sorprendentes semejanzas que encontraron entre la religión de Mitra y el cuerpo de sus doctrinas, todavía heterogéneas y en proceso de formación. No dudamos de que la posición adoptada por Justino, que luego se conver…[Read more]

]]> 0 50eed9d976fbf4e20c888b92a9254107 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Una Perspectiva Radical y crítica de los Orígenes del Cristianismo. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876036/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:02 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 83f8fc79b38de8db0569ea4f149656de Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Una Perspectiva Radical y crítica de los Orígenes del Cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876034/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:59 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0f0e6f780fd6db40acd7d2532d3e9a9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El Rey Sagrado del Ritual Neolítico, el Siervo Sufriente de Isaías y el Dios Tammuz. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876031/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:53 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb603b88f9ef69399bf58dd4eec1a50 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El Rey Sagrado del Ritual Neolítico, el Siervo Sufriente de Isaías y el Dios Tammuz. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876030/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:52 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4ee4f31ff4e746e1a97c3f7e49d3612 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro): Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876018/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:36 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 d45182d0af93494ebe2ac45324979dd9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro): Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876016/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:31 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7ee6ca328a4814d0421c7055b8fa8a5 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario (corregido). in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873735/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:03:40 -0500 Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

]]> 0 d768f3f2a4380020b2c1b31f4cb71180 Matthew Korpman deposited "Teaching the Gospel to Law Students," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 6.1 (2022): 8-10. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870498/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:35 -0500 A short peer-reviewed essay exploring my pedagogical approach at teaching a required Introduction to New Testament course for students at a Criminal Justice program. It outlines creative ways to engage students in biblical material by focusing attention on those aspects of it that directly relate to the legal profession and sensibility.

]]> 0 a24a1cb467a23110af9e2bf4288ce05f Matthew Korpman deposited "Is it False Testimony? Studying Luke 16:1-13 as the Rehabilitation of a Rejected Parable," Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 18 (2022): 144-167. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870496/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:29 -0500 Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

]]> 0 86a67095bc6c87b9f00f28e4f401ac75 Matthew Korpman deposited "Is it False Testimony? Studying Luke 16:1-13 as the Rehabilitation of a Rejected Parable," Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 18 (2022): 144-167. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870495/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:28 -0500 Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

]]> 0 6aa74ea15ca2a6d8087846113216b137 Matthew Korpman deposited "Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It," Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870491/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:11 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c04836ff699e6c79ff7fab5c3a46904f Matthew Korpman deposited "Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It," Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870490/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:10 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1f64c46c2dbf97e4789615c27106ecf Matthew Korpman deposited "When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22," Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870483/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:39 -0500 The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm's reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fd37c096f75b47fb3045948bf7f2a1 Matthew Korpman deposited "When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22," Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870482/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:38 -0500 The passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm's reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]

]]> 0 379520faec803560263a909ec49230f0 Matthew Korpman deposited “The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha.” Pages 74-93 in the Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. Edited by Gerbern Oegema. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870474/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:04 -0500 Discussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]

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