SAH Commons | Danel Kahn | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/danelka/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Danel Kahn is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:59:35 -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 2afc7652fde015649876c89fc6efc0a4 Joseph Justiss started the topic Psalm 22:17 "like a lion" or something else? in the forum Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible https://hcommons.org/groups/textual-criticism-of-the-hebrew-bible/forum/topic/psalm-2217-like-a-lion-or-something-else/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:42:48 -0500 This article examines the notorious crux of Psalm 22:17 in the “like a lion” phrase and offers a new solution informed by literary and text-critical phenomena.

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/sblpress/tc/article/doi/10.15699/tc.30.2025.03/404799/The-Crux-of-Psalm-22-17-At-the-Crossroads-of

Your points of criticism would be most welcome.

]]> 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 46fd0954e37595df8fd6d145bd49803d Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902156/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:01:07 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[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 6c47e0d584c2d16c639062397d6ef0e1 Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900713/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:01:15 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[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 265a4bfcd5c9d6f2eaa77a6f6de0442c Justin Walsh deposited Archaeology in space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station. Report 1: Squares 03 and 05 in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896907/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE). The experiment aimed to: (1) develop a new understanding of how humans adapt to life in an environmental context for which we are not…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2606deccabc47fe7fbdea68ad60b830 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Carta a Jorge Liberati: ¿Orígenes de lo sagrado o lo sagrado de los orígenes? (Y respuesta de J. Liberati) in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895894/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:38 -0400 Eliseo Ferrer plantea en esta carta pública un carácter «sagrado» de los orígenes antropológicos de las distintas culturas; y ello desde posiciones materialistas que nada tienen que ver con el creacionismo divino de la teología ni con el de las creencias religiosas. Ferrer ofrece como puntos de referencia los trabajos de Walter Burkert y de Gustav…[Read more]

]]> 0 c50b4331cc6bc9004d1ebb9f7696d1a5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895887/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895886/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895882/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e44d51780b62d0af606152f25f6eb38 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895880/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[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 8c31a9b9c17044a418d2ab7f8c8a55a8 Shawn Graham deposited Digital Identities: Memes and Engagements with Human Remains on Instagram in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890210/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:07:04 -0400 Memes related to archaeological materials abound on social media. In this chapter, we present a case study looking at memes collected from accounts on Instagram that evince an interested in human skeletal remains. We present a framework for understanding memes as ‘partial stories’ which in aggregate enables us to say something about the aud…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a94d50dedeeee064d4c9d0f345c2cf0 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889911/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 051f6a5f48dfdee7015e3e1a3fb13d23 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889910/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed4f16743bd7fb46df8bcbb96e65a138 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Bang or whimper? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889850/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:31 -0400 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 65d954f0e372ebabc0878b1a8446edc7 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Bang or whimper? in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889849/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:30 -0400 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 ba1ff800d008d5bcdf581f2f13f88270 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Reading the thirteenth century BC in Greece: Crisis, decline, or business as usual? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889847/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 42abc991f45688e084d8a30d01ea1afc Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Reading the thirteenth century BC in Greece: Crisis, decline, or business as usual? in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889846/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:57 -0400 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde97abcd3e43ed2170a418e7b07a482 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited I Will Follow You into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889844/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:23 -0400 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 d887640b8784484d9c566b5f524b72c8 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited I Will Follow You into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889843/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:22 -0400 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8b8a8dec2c53eff77f97ae3b56067b8 Bryan Lowe deposited Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women’s Religiosity in Ancient Japan in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888407/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:01 -0400 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e0ab441f67307a8e9e6ecd77c1bd03 Paul Reilly deposited The Nessglyph Uncovered in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887443/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Aimed at young (at heart) people, this comic-strip format book introduces the discovery, and associated challenges of interpretation, of a petroglyph found, disturbed, in the entrance passage way of Middle Iron Age hillfort, at Nesscliffe in Shropshire, UK.  The Nesscliffe petroglyph (‘Nessglyph’) is made using two types of engraving technologies…[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 ac50be2b004e6b0026767bd6ed101a70 Jonathan Valk deposited Who are the Arameans? A Selective Re-examination of the Cuneiform Evidence for the Earliest Arameans in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885670/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:47 -0400 This study challenges the 19th-century nationalist assumptions that have informed modern views of Aramean peoplehood in the first half of the first millennium BCE. I revisit the cuneiform sources, which offer the bulk of the existing evidence on the earliest Arameans, and demonstrate that they conceive of Arameans not as a single coherent people,…[Read more]

]]> 0 510c2adc6a4aa36f74ee0c1786ab2804 Jonathan Valk deposited Reflections on the Dynamics of Cuneiform Knowledge Production in the Ancient Near East in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885668/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:09 -0400 Very brief overview of the parameters of demand and supply for cuneiform knowledge production.

]]> 0 d977a3d6d07d2d3fcb8f69b05c1e8783 David Olmsted deposited Druid-Akkadian Dictionary - 2024: Druid-Akkadian to English and English to Druid-Akkadian in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885231/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:03 -0400 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[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 ae5d9210eb18c3954219e83f7c08b27c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882940/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:17 -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 d680daa68fb8a4dcbb062575eaed7196 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882938/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:08 -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 565d48dda9e7026715837cb91c2a390b Rainer Schreg deposited Noch nie dagewesen? Hochwasser und Starkregen im Juli 2021 und im Juli 1342 in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882215/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:05 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein’s flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 fc6595b136b6270c04ffb4d9e4f89535 Rainer Schreg deposited Viereckschanze und Siedlung bei Gingen. Neue Ergebnisse zur Latènezeit im Filstal in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882211/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:29 -0400 This paper reviews Latène material found near Gingen where aerial photographs show a “Viereckschanze”. Obviously there has been a very extended settlement area surrounding the Viereckschanze. Finds mainly consist of coarse ware, but include also the fragment of a fibula. The site is integrated in a regional perspective presenting a map of Latè…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b988699ebe416332b05ea491920a0df Rainer Schreg deposited Das späthallstattzeitliche Frauengrab von Bar-tenbach – Zur Einordnung eines alten Fundes in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882204/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:21 -0400 A Woman’s Grave of late Hallstatt period at Bartenbach
Discovered in the 1930s the Bartenbach grave represents a woman’s burial of Halstatt D1 period as indicated by bronze belt plate and an earring. According to current state of research the burial belongs to a concentration of Hallstatt finds southwest of mount Hohenstaufen, which was a hilltop…[Read more]

]]> 0 2df3dded593ac319aa7a6a6942b12716 Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Near Eastern Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881300/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2df3dded593ac319aa7a6a6942b12716 Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881299/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f0c3fff395824afaca4abe4bc4c74f Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881298/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:36 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 32abf9fc3265ecb163eb5c27664acc55 Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881297/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:14 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4361d20f492c824371b981dbc3599c9b Eliseo Ferrer deposited Reseña el libro SACRIFICIOS HUMANOS, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Por Jorge Liberati). in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881064/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:01:52 -0400 Esta amplia reseña ha aparecido en:
Revista RELACIONES. Montevideo (Uruguay). Nº 478 – Marzo de 2024. Páginas 24 y 25.
Según Jorge Liberati (autor de la reseña), la obra se consagra como construcción del todo original, materialista en el sentido de un materialismo no visiblemente histórico ni estrictamente dialéctico. Una visión independ…[Read more]

]]> 0 77a7b25a120a33694e01081a4bf633e5 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880194/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:17 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[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]

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