Knowledge Commons | Phillip Long | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/plong42/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Phillip Long is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:18:31 -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]

]]> f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -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]

]]> 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[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 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -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 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 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[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 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 -0400 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 "Salt of the Earth" (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. "Salt of the…[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 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffeecaa9217ccb20b46dd5ed687dc129 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884659/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:01 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6dd03a065b811919ebb76112db5a27e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Die indische Diaspora in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884655/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:41 -0400 Als Diasporen werden gemeinhin Bevölkerungsgruppen bezeichnet, die auf eine Geschichte freiwilliger oder erzwungener Migration zurückblicken können. Dennoch ist das Vorhanden- sein der bloßen Tatsache einer Migration von A nach B nicht ausreichend für die Existenz einer Diaspora. Hinzukommen muss nämlich das Bewusstsein eines tatsächlichen oder e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c756cef34fb7c4f80ae049376e1fb2c3 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884604/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:32 -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 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 f12abad6f48e0a0fc82ac22c4de3673c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882939/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:09 -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 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 1ca9676e7ea022f493bb82624f2237c0 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited A qualitative study on how traditional Yeshiva education prepares students for law school in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882935/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:02:50 -0400 This qualitative study explores the potential ways that a traditional Yeshiva education (TYE) helps prepare students for entering and succeeding in law school. The researcher interviewed five rabbi-law professors for their take on this phenomenon and compared the results of those findings with the scholarly literature on the topic to date. Much of…[Read more]

]]> 0 400e9380f9c113e3d9623bbf3d1e6e3d Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881081/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:24 -0400 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d436c311aa084704e4e09e79d6209765 Michael Miller deposited Black Hebrew Israelites in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879672/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The Element shows how different factions and trends…[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 8217e094f70df2f12069b2139668f0ce Thomas Bolin deposited Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879325/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:34 -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 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 5906c0397eff53ab714b72f7740c503a 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 Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878175/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -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 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]

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