Knowledge Commons | Yitzhaq Feder | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/yfeder/activity/ Activity feed for Yitzhaq Feder. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:54:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4d396037c63f0dd10ac47b588447cf9a Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572150/ Tue, 30 May 2017 01:00:40 -0400 This paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.

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]]> 0 6ba5c3deb57eaa8d834b724afbef3829 Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571944/ Mon, 29 May 2017 07:06:30 -0400 This paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.

]]> 0 0f5c20b011ed083b7f6d6bb72b5ab5e4 Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Defilement of Dina: Uncontrolled Passions, Textual Violence, and the Search for Moral Foundations
 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569606/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:01:36 -0400 The story of Dinah’s violation in Genesis 34 has elicited radically different evaluations among exegetes. The present article attributes these divergent readings to the existence of distinct voices or moral positions in the text, particularly in relation to the issue of intermarriage. Beginning with a synchronic literary and ideological analysis o…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c1f56b4271544ed602011192e386ef5 Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569605/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:01:35 -0400 This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]

]]> 0 f73042f1970b59ff3d860aa19a717319 Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569604/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:01:18 -0400 This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]

]]> 0 52ea70a89a57de51134216ec899c8b9f Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569603/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:00:59 -0400 This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more]

]]> 0 79ec1a320ce0a997b1fdd08cea2f0e5a Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569602/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:00:59 -0400 In this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]

]]> 0 917f5be5c021d657133162edb6bd39de Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569601/ Sat, 06 May 2017 01:00:41 -0400 In this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0afa58865cd9303c8b5148967d4e0c3 Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Defilement of Dina: Uncontrolled Passions, Textual Violence, and the Search for Moral Foundations
 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569441/ Fri, 05 May 2017 08:33:30 -0400 The story of Dinah’s violation in Genesis 34 has elicited radically different evaluations among exegetes. The present article attributes these divergent readings to the existence of distinct voices or moral positions in the text, particularly in relation to the issue of intermarriage. Beginning with a synchronic literary and ideological analysis o…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4fe4dc54984cd0ac8713d234d108c1b Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569440/ Fri, 05 May 2017 08:27:05 -0400 This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5b68f4d0e62b16d1e3b39d0d9cf07b1 Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569439/ Fri, 05 May 2017 08:19:45 -0400 0 9124d542353b45ed69633ef981891c73 Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569438/ Fri, 05 May 2017 08:17:33 -0400 This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more]

]]> 0 7690d3812cdf3feb42f9d940e0f1c19c Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569437/ Fri, 05 May 2017 08:10:51 -0400 In this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]

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