SAH Commons | Denys McDonald | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/dmcdonald/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Denys McDonald is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -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 eb2d7ea85f92e0f39228023d69703f45 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post The Psychological Impact of Ostracism and the Silent Treatment and their Application to the Psalms in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/12/05/the-psychological-impact-of-ostracism-and-the-silent-treatment-and-their-application-to-the-psalms/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:50:15 -0500 Robert Revington, Hannah Fonseca Becar & Merrill G. Greene

revingrc@mcmaster.ca; channah.fq@gmail.com; greenem@kingswood.edu 

Reading the Psalms from a psychological perspective is not a new phenomenon.[1] […]

]]> 83ce17ce8aa13af60f9abbbe1ae0359e Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/06/03/writing-to-paul-using-interactive-fiction-to-explore-early-christian-worlds/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:32:00 -0400 Sarah F. Porter[a]

porters@gonzaga.edu

It’s 50 CE. You’re Chloe, a resident of ancient Corinth. You receive a letter from a panicked messenger, but can you read it? [Roll for literacy.]

So begins an […]

]]> 13e50d8b2563e442eb63907e2d6d2678 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah’s Daughter, and Himpathy in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2025/03/12/oh-poor-jephthah-jephthah-jephthahs-daughter-and-himpathy/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:59:59 -0400 Sara Stone

Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk

Judges 11 tells us the story of Jephthah and his daughter, his only child, whom he must sacrifice in order to keep his vow to God. The narrative is written in a way […]

]]> e0b8d6c38310a413a164f8bfbf0dc130 Meredith Warren deposited St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902584/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:30 -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 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 c7e44d184a0d918c14e354c0d0e7463a Meredith Warren deposited A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902581/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:23 -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 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 d18ea8c8c347cb330f270197c72c24c3 Meredith Warren deposited Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902578/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:16 -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 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 e45fc1330c6a3f526582c89a94bc0548 Meredith Warren deposited Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902575/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -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 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 2503221fa7c2e1995d638bb335ac97f0 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/st-paul-of-the-thorns-a-note-on-disability-visual-criticism-and-2-corinthians-127b-10/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:12:41 -0400 Grace Emmett and Ryan D. Collman

grace.emmett@outlook.com; ryan.collman@gmail.com

The purpose of this note is to offer initial remarks about how one might read St Paul of the Thorns (Elizabeth Tooth, oi […]

]]> 48b9a21a4bd2636fada6ea0844c1fec5 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/a-metanarrative-of-disability-in-john-5/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:07:57 -0400 Emma Swai

emjswai@gmail.com

Critical disability readings of impaired mobility are relatively rare within the forum of biblical studies. As a result, there is a danger of recurrent tropes being […]

]]> a5ec516cbc6d48528dfa4372fa5d42ce Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/epilepsy-as-punishment-from-god-a-disability-reading-of-2-and-3-maccabees/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:05:11 -0400 Matthew J. Korpman 

mkorpman@lasierra.edu

Disability is still a new and slowly growing part of the critical approaches that encompass modern biblical studies. In that respect, there has yet to be a d […]

]]> 36c4e61b7f9cb585d166564f1aa411ec Tom de Bruin edited the blog post Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/24/davidic-kings-with-disability-illness-disability-and-ideal-monarchs/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:02:13 -0400 Grant F. Gates[1]

grant.gates@cst.edu

This paper builds upon the interdisciplinary approach of reading the Hebrew Bible with the support of disability studies that has been introduced in both biblical […]

]]> cc6a3c5dd7d8a5fedd84d5de3a13b310 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901081/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:36 -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 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 18eb6f84c46031be49d561b0c284ee9a Meredith Warren edited the blog post Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/10/07/naming-as-human-agency-in-terry-pratchett-and-neil-gaimans-good-omens/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:17:41 -0400 Clair J. Hutchings-Budd

cjhutchings-budd1@sheffield.ac.uk

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he […]

]]> 3de084e7a858d2bd793601f7ab9e8ca1 Matthew R. Anderson deposited Walls, Paths, Gardens, and a Gravediggers' Pub in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900702/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:37 -0400 Matthew R. Anderson’s walking explorations through North Dublin help him reflect on colonisation, decolonisation, and Land in both Ireland and North America.

]]> 0 3f411d6fc96dd722f8f0eaf5fe068a0a Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899808/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:44 -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 232756cd8cd5219aa6f1653c4823a510 Tom de Bruin edited the blog post There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/09/25/there-was-a-man-who-had-two-sons-a-parable-of-futurity-reproductivity-utopia-and-social-death/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:09:07 -0400 Eric C. Smith

ecsmith@iliff.edu

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. The […]

]]> c1f29c051e6eadd84214de70c9e862de Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898296/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:39 -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 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 11986564e3d5d1a1a3c26cd7e0ca7f0c Meredith Warren edited the blog post Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/requiring-apologia-merchants-and-artisans-in-acts-of-the-apostles/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:25:27 -0400 Jane Sancinito

Jane_Sancinito@uml.edu

The fragmentation of early criticism of Christianity poses a challenge to both theological and historical analyses of the early Christian movement and its place in […]

]]> d3c18c588b3d9ca9d629c37ef1d9a2a5 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891074/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -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 e51c16c5afff1e3ea5b4b862183b47de Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891073/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:23 -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 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 aa532f68f32cd946c16e34d627e496e0 Meredith Warren edited the blog post Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/07/05/queer-futures-and-phallic-humour-in-the-book-of-esther/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:49:57 -0400 Esther Brownsmith

ebrown8@udayton.edu

I begin this article by presenting a joke, taken from the book of Esther, chapter 1, verse 7.

Question: “How abundant was the wine at King Ahasuerus’s dri […]

]]> 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 a15b41f64fb00eb100cfc05ec4ebcd4d Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884603/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:28 -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 77365beb3b28ed8fe129764464af723e Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884599/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:16 -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 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 b945a9421c60a4c9b1af1af7f7fa219d Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884593/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:24 -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 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 47e8d9bc22106c08695b1e2337fd8d32 Tom de Bruin edited the post What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/what-exactly-did-mary-conceive-in-her-womb/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:32:06 -0400 Michael Pope

Mike_Pope@byu.edu

In a strictly qualitive sense, we can fairly say that Luke, more than any other New Testament author or text, is concerned with women’s fertility and the functions of t […]

]]> 937b596a5a487d73650e254114a5ce24 Tom de Bruin edited the post The Greek Hat:2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/the-greek-hat2-maccabees-412-as-a-euphemism-for-reverse-circumcision/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:27:35 -0400 Sara Parks

sparks@stfx.ca

Biblical Hebrew is known for its creative avoidance of mentioning intimate body parts.[1] Did such euphemisms continue in Greek-speaking Judaism? Michael Peppard has argued for […]

]]> c1597be63a49ffa989d01ceac61f791e Tom de Bruin edited the post Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies https://jibs.hcommons.org/2024/04/22/bearing-a-jewish-weight-a-new-interpretation-of-a-greek-comedic-papyrus-about-athletics-cpj-3-519/ Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:20:15 -0400 Michael Peppard

mpeppard@fordham.edu

This short article attempts to solve a puzzle that I have been pondering for almost twenty years, since I first wrote a letter to Dr. Günter Poethke at the […]

]]> 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 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]

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