SAH Commons | Aubrey Buster | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/abuster/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Aubrey Buster is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -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]

]]> 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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]

]]> 0 1fce205aa747a80572963fa1f046c1b4 Vincenzo Belmonte deposited You Are Gods: At the Origins of Christianity in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870462/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:15 -0500 The book deals with the wide background and context of early Christianity. Particularly, it highlights the rise of Jewish national identity and the influence of the Essene Yahad, seeing the New Testament in the light of cultural conditioning and regarding as central the divinization doctrine. in the last section it delves into doubt, faith, and mysticism.

]]> 0 af24f083fbf8337964bf2234ac8c7e1d Vincenzo Belmonte deposited The Expulsion Curse in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870456/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:49 -0500 A fresh attempt to explain the suicide of Judas and the death of Ananias and Sapphira as imagined consequences of an allegedly deadly excommunication.

]]> 0 0287e37cb56b185bcc384a7639a89492 Matthew Korpman deposited "Source Criticism: Teaching the Documentary Hypothesis," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 3.3 (2019): 30-31. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870291/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:01:15 -0500 A summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.

]]> 0 30f90346ffc18a03b8939eae242c1291 Matthew Korpman deposited "Was Noadiah A ‘Trustworthy’ Prophet? The Demise of Prophecy in Second Temple Judaism," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 135.1 (2023): 52-70. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870285/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:50 -0500 According to popular scholarly consensus, the role of the classical prophets ceased following the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. This paper will attempt to propose an explanation of 1 Maccabees’ comments about the cessation of prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination of the dynamics involved in the Hebrew B…[Read more]

]]> 0 07c9517ca17ade983fc280a1454a15f3 Matthew Korpman deposited “Can Anything Good Come from Sodom? A Feminist and Narrative Critique of Lot’s Daughters in Gen. 19:30-38,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.3 (2019): 334-342. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870280/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:18 -0500 For centuries, the story of Lot’s daughters in Genesis is one which has both abhorred and intrigued countless readers. Utilizing the hermeneutical lenses of Narrative and Feminist Criticism, this paper draws attention to overlooked details in the narrative. The story is also contrasted with that of the Levite’s Concubine in Judges 19. The res…[Read more]

]]> 0 e034a71a674e0fc825ae327269c5f278 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868548/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:52 -0500 Revista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo.

]]> 0 fb4193aba0368a47d77bd97b58409461 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Interview: Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868236/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:01:23 -0500 Four intense pages (Revista RELACIONES, Montevideo) in which an atheist materialist speaks in depth about Christianity, religion and the anthropological phenomenon of the sacred.

Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO.
A propósito del largo itinerario temporal de «la genealogía, la antropología y la his…[Read more]

]]> 0 0283fea0c6f43ff83ba95b55a39edf86 Collin Cornell deposited Israel’s priority in Old Testament missiology in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868228/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:01:01 -0500 The present article challenges Walter C. Kaiser, Jr’s influential proposal for evangelical Old Testament missiology. Out of concern to avoid an understanding of “Israel as God’s favored or pet nation,” Kaiser argues that God’s promise to Abraham in Gen 12:3 is for the sake of all nations, and as such, “the first Great Commission mandate of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a7b3b54bccd2f2eee115e116e9b1617 Joey McCollum deposited Bayesian Textual Criticism since Hort: A Synthesis and Demonstration in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865698/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:09 -0500 In his introduction to The New Testament in the Original Greek, F. J. A. Hort laid out a taxonomy of evidence for text-critical judgments that is still followed today. In addition to the external evidence pertaining to the textual affinities, dates, and provenances of manuscripts, versions, and patristic quotations, he divided the internal…[Read more]

]]> 0 51acb8cf6518068ca94adfd18bd3d7fb Julia Rhyder deposited Sonja Ammann, Katharina Pyschny, and Julia Rhyder, eds. Authorship and the Hebrew Bible. FAT 158. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861719/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:47 -0400 Does “authorship” still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the “death of the author,” so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d77095cdfacc1a9df12203f70dd428f Julia Rhyder deposited Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26. FAT 134. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861716/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]

]]> 0 2916c6b99c1b1ef51401cbb790b754c0 Julia Rhyder deposited “Hellenizing Hanukkah: The Commemoration of Military Victory in the Books of the Maccabees.” Pages 92–109 in Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by S. Ammann, H. Bezold, S. Germany, and J. Rhyder. CHANE 135. Leuven: Brill in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861161/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:01:08 -0400 Early Jewish writings are replete with narratives of warfare and collective violence. Yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to how these accounts of violence affected the way Jews structured their festal calendar. This essay examines the festivals described in 1 and 2 Maccabees that serve to commemorate the most impressive m…[Read more]

]]> 0 03c8ea34bd5f5b709939832ec939e125 Julia Rhyder deposited Sonja Ammann, Helge Bezold, Stephen Germany, and Julia Rhyder, eds. Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean. CHANE 135. Leuven: Brill, 2023. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861158/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:45 -0400 This Open Access volume reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “va…[Read more]

]]> 0 90662343258bf26c5583bd49e684ad63 Julia Rhyder deposited “The Commemoration of War in Early Jewish Festivals." Bible Odyssey. 2021. https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/passages/related-articles/commemoration-of-war-in-early-jewish-festivals in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859595/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:00:38 -0400 The emergence of Judaism and Samaritanism in antiquity is closely linked to the process by which the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) became defined as the Torah of Moses.

]]> 0 2d7c762d275ab6079d24fb3b4bedc5a0 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 Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856291/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:12:16 -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 c7fe61d63dc91ffcd94c82af4d695576 Julia Rhyder deposited "The Reception of Ritual Laws in the Early Second Temple Period: The Evidence of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.” Pp. 255–79 in Text and Ritual in the Pentateuch. Edited by C. Nihan and J. Rhyder. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2021. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854164/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:16:44 -0400 This essay examines three cases in which pentateuchal ritual law is employed in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles: the Sukkôt celebration in Neh 8:13–18, Hezekiah’s Passover in 2 Chr 30, and Josiah’s Passover, in 2 Chr 35:1–19. These case studies reveal that the scribes responsible for Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles considered the ritual texts of the P…[Read more]

]]> 0 6431551911bbbc36675653c3f668be32 Julia Rhyder deposited “The Tent of Meeting as Monumental Space: The Construction of the Priestly Sanctuary in Exodus 25–31, 35–40.” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 10, no. 3 (2021): 301–13. in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852925/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:24:27 -0400 This article explores how the priestly wilderness shrine functions as a monumental space in the sanctuary construction account of Exod 25–31, 35–40. It draws on spatial theory and studies of monumental architecture to identify five features of the tent of meeting that infuse it with monumentality: first, its significance in negotiating the pat…[Read more]

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