SAH Commons | Alison Joseph | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/alj101/activity/ Activity feed for Alison Joseph. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:44:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fbf232a48a114aed5e922ac1eb5ba45c Alison Joseph deposited Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676465/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:51 -0500 King Manasseh of Judah is blamed for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile, a heavy mantle to carry. But as a character, Manasseh is boring—he looks like the other ordinary bad kings, even described as a “cardboard cutout,” that Kings has little literary use for. Wouldn’t we expect a more colorful villain? Is there anything in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4053b4a06222169bec90024e12cea14 Alison Joseph deposited Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676464/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:48 -0500 King Manasseh of Judah is blamed for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile, a heavy mantle to carry. But as a character, Manasseh is boring—he looks like the other ordinary bad kings, even described as a “cardboard cutout,” that Kings has little literary use for. Wouldn’t we expect a more colorful villain? Is there anything in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4053b4a06222169bec90024e12cea14 Alison Joseph deposited Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 in the group Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation https://sah.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676463/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:48 -0500 King Manasseh of Judah is blamed for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile, a heavy mantle to carry. But as a character, Manasseh is boring—he looks like the other ordinary bad kings, even described as a “cardboard cutout,” that Kings has little literary use for. Wouldn’t we expect a more colorful villain? Is there anything in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f77b964cfc97b9c86fc2791ff980d930 Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676462/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:48 -0500 Many of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]

]]> 0 69331991de029a34c491049cac4a2777 Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676461/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:39 -0500 Many of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]

]]> 0 22ac53563f30f29fc9b2d8241da19713 Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676460/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:37 -0500 Many of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6a4ee6ec7a28be276d9a528b374dcf0 Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography in the group Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation https://sah.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676459/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:26:36 -0500 Many of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e6b7b4762953b2f6f62917ad63009ce Alison Joseph deposited Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676417/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:27:54 -0500 King Manasseh of Judah is blamed for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile, a heavy mantle to carry. But as a character, Manasseh is boring—he looks like the other ordinary bad kings, even described as a “cardboard cutout,” that Kings has little literary use for. Wouldn’t we expect a more colorful villain? Is there anything in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 624323834fb8bbbda18db69cc32db887 Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676416/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:20:37 -0500 Many of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdfefcc03f8ba7b5397f98baaa8832f5 Alison Joseph's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676414/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:08:44 -0500 0 c4901c0592a20b4498320ea11f4112f6 Alison Joseph's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590709/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:58:02 -0500 0 e1ee3cb7291bc1ce1d76689e1aac6c4f Alison Joseph deposited The Frankenstein of Biblical Studies? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581540/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:11:38 -0400 Advances in archaeology and carbon-dating contribute to our understanding of the biblical text’s
historical context, of daily life in ancient Israel, and of the provenance of inscriptions. All of this
information (seemingly) makes us better readers of the text with greater understanding of the text’s
context, but does it? Have we become com…[Read more]

]]> 0 4799fa5f4b837c1d1836181da33d1a1f Alison Joseph's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581538/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:00:15 -0400 0 95cb943600860c85814bbd1b0b1ffade Alison Joseph deposited Understanding Genesis 34:2: ‘Innâ https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571327/ Tue, 23 May 2017 00:48:29 -0400 Feminist scholars have debated what happens to Dinah in Genesis 34:2. Was she raped? These short notes explore a contextual understanding of the meaning of ‘innâ, in this verse and other occurrences.

]]> 0 837075edc0234a68ca9e1d44484ddadd Alison Joseph deposited Who Is like David? Was David like David?: Good Kings in the Book of Kings https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571324/ Tue, 23 May 2017 00:43:04 -0400 Of the more than forty monarchs who rule the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, only three are said to be like David, the paradigm of the good king. What qualifies one to be “like David”? Would David, as portrayed in Samuel, stack up to these criteria? This paper is a study of the accolades given to only a handful of the kings: those who do what is ple…[Read more]

]]> 0 13f357d944d0a6649e21177a919a4fff Alison Joseph's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569501/ Fri, 05 May 2017 15:45:22 -0400 0 05a64959e652181326ef0f0b879ad173 Alison Joseph changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569076/ Wed, 03 May 2017 18:51:52 -0400 0 b9d325b4104ad7daad62afb074381602 Alison Joseph's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569072/ Wed, 03 May 2017 18:50:31 -0400 0