SAH Commons | Ekaitz Ruiz de Vergara Olmos | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/ekaitzruizdevergara/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Ekaitz Ruiz de Vergara Olmos is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:22:23 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -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 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -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 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6bb4fbf1ba2941fac5b3a11718d4b4 Stanislav Panin deposited Translating Esotericism: Russian in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890335/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:12:48 -0400 An overview of the history of Russian terminology related to esotericism. This article is a part of the special issue of the journal Correspondences dedicated to the ways in which people speak about esotericism in different cultures.

]]> 0 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c333dd781cbe761022db5efcbd5a804 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884704/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:20 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 3474cbbee99a08e387664cb812fa6be4 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884701/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:01 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a64cf1b098885a0e59fe1cd482a18c Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884664/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:29 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffeecaa9217ccb20b46dd5ed687dc129 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884659/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:01 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6dd03a065b811919ebb76112db5a27e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Die indische Diaspora in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884655/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:41 -0400 Als Diasporen werden gemeinhin Bevölkerungsgruppen bezeichnet, die auf eine Geschichte freiwilliger oder erzwungener Migration zurückblicken können. Dennoch ist das Vorhanden- sein der bloßen Tatsache einer Migration von A nach B nicht ausreichend für die Existenz einer Diaspora. Hinzukommen muss nämlich das Bewusstsein eines tatsächlichen oder e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c756cef34fb7c4f80ae049376e1fb2c3 Meredith Warren deposited What Exactly Did Mary “Conceive” in Her Womb? in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884604/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:23:32 -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 f12abad6f48e0a0fc82ac22c4de3673c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882939/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:03:09 -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 1ca9676e7ea022f493bb82624f2237c0 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited A qualitative study on how traditional Yeshiva education prepares students for law school in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882935/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:02:50 -0400 This qualitative study explores the potential ways that a traditional Yeshiva education (TYE) helps prepare students for entering and succeeding in law school. The researcher interviewed five rabbi-law professors for their take on this phenomenon and compared the results of those findings with the scholarly literature on the topic to date. Much of…[Read more]

]]> 0 400e9380f9c113e3d9623bbf3d1e6e3d Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881081/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:24 -0400 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d436c311aa084704e4e09e79d6209765 Michael Miller deposited Black Hebrew Israelites in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879672/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The Element shows how different factions and trends…[Read more]

]]> 0 8217e094f70df2f12069b2139668f0ce Thomas Bolin deposited Eternal Delight and Deliciousness: The Book of Jonah After Ten Years in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879325/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:01:34 -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 5906c0397eff53ab714b72f7740c503a 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 Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878175/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -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 413a1f4f7ab87b5e4c6d4b64979bd33d Pramod Ranjan deposited पूर्वोत्तर के आदिवासी और आरएसएस in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876991/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:27 -0500 कारबीअनलांग असम के अन्य भागों से सांस्कृतिक रूप से काफी भिन्न है। कारबी, दिमाशा बोडो, कुकी, थाई आयटन, गारो आदि यहां रहने वाली जनजातियां हैं, जो मंगोलियन नस्ल की हैं। भाषाई रूप से यह तिब्बती-बर्मी भाषा परिवार का इलाका है,जिसमें अरुणाचल प्रदेश, नागलैंड से लेकर मिजोरम तक का इलाका आता है।

यहां की देशज जातियों में से कुछ क…[Read more]

]]> 0 925594aaf0938b6380414c1677177b37 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874092/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:38 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 ccdb005da692f951d3fb30afc5b644c9 Ekaitz Ruiz de Vergara Olmos started the topic Call for Chapters: "Furor Poeticus": Divine Inspiration in Modern Literature in the discussion Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-furor-poeticus-divine-inspiration-in-modern-literature/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:11:09 -0500 Call for Book Chapters: “Furor Poeticus”: Divine Inspiration in Modern Literature and Poetics
Furor poeticus is a modern name for an ancient idea. In his extant fragments, Democritus claims that the poet writes by divine inspiration (fr. 17) and that Homer’s greatness is due to his godlike nature (fr. 21). But the great systematiser of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2aa9f2ca839021e15ff11d712a9bdf5 Michael Miller deposited Bishop Allan Wilson Cook (Rabbi Haling Hank Lenht), Queen Malinda Morris, and the Independent Church of God: A Missing Piece in the History of Hebrew Israelite Black Judaism in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870764/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:00:15 -0500 This article examines two figures from the early twentieth century
beginnings of the Hebrew Israelite movement. Malinda Morris
was a central, though forgotten, figure in William Crowdy’s
Church of God and Saints of Christ but her creation of an
independent Church upon Crowdy’s death has not so far been
discussed. The strongest body of evi…[Read more]

]]> 0 be2e5ea5c5013333d560e00d1acc6e72 Michael Miller deposited Layers of Liminality and Marginality in the African Hebrew Israelite Community in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870763/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:00:04 -0500 Using the theoretical frames of liminality and marginality I discuss the African Hebrew Israelites’ journey from American underclass, to stateless wanderers, to Israeli citizens.

]]> 0 72220ac351917e8fdcdb1fa60f222c86 Matthew Korpman deposited “Preaching A Black Christ: Doing Black Theology with Ellen White.” Pages 95-108 in A House on Fire: How Adventist Faith Responds to Race and Racism. Edited by Nathan Brown and Maury Jackson. Signs Publishing, 2022. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870504/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:04:10 -0500 This chapter explores the contribution of the Seventh-day Adventist theologian/preacher Ellen White to Black Theology by comparing her early 19th century work to the later writings of James Cone. An argument is put forward that White intuited many of the insights that Cone would later formulate, demonstrating both that White can be a valuable…[Read more]

]]> 0 cafbbc27b67cc1dc292cda3edf0bc756 Matthew Korpman deposited "William Foy and the Apocrypha: Demonstrating Ellen White’s Early Belief in the Authority of 2 Esdras," Spectrum 51.2 (2023): 12-17. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870503/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:04:02 -0500 An analysis of William Foy’s visions are compared with Ellen White’s, noting that the two shared the same vision. Both visions are ultimately traced to the apocryphal work of 2 Esdras, popular among Millerites, allowing us to analyze how both Foy and White utilized the Apocrypha in their visionary renditions. Furthermore, this analysis sheds light…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e84f1a4f931471d3728b27794b00d81 Matthew Korpman deposited "Satan’s Flying Machines: Ellen White and Airplanes," Adventist Today 31.1 (2023): 21-25. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870502/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:55 -0500 The White Estate early on was aware of a report by some Adventists that claimed, as eyewitnesses, that Ellen White had (during a camp-meeting during May 1-10 of 1908) declared that: “Any one killed from an aeroplane would be lost.” Although considered apocryphal by the Estate when first heard, it turns out that this statement is likely not fic…[Read more]

]]> 0 1dba7850e3a34e75aabf3ba44fee8ae1 Matthew Korpman deposited "Re-Evaluating Ellen White's Misunderstood Idea of the Shaking," Adventist Today 31.2 (2023): 27-29. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870501/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:48 -0500 Within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a common conception is that Ellen White, one of the denomination’s three founders and a 19th-century female theologian, warned of a singular time in the future when a theological “shaking” would occur. However, by comparing all possible references to the word “shaking” (as well as associated ideas) in…[Read more]

]]> 0 0150f260a2ed64ee408960d014a9dd21 Matthew Korpman deposited "Teaching the Gospel to Law Students," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 6.1 (2022): 8-10. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870500/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:40 -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 ce28e10e2bd6deccfd8b346f2795079e Matthew Korpman deposited "Endorsing the Septuagint: Ellen White and Her Later Views of the Apocrypha," Academia Letters (2022): 1-7. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870494/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:21 -0500 In this short article, the later views of Ellen White toward the Apocrypha are explored, building on previous studies that have demonstrated her continued utilization of apocryphal works past 1850. It is argued that by examining her views on inspiration and a reference she makes to the Septuagint, a plausible understanding of her views about the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f52076ae69494743a93f215afbac027 Matthew Korpman deposited "More Than An Afterthought: Adventists Addressing Climate Change," Adventist Today 30.1 (2022): 21-23. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870487/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:52 -0500 A survey of Adventist church statements regarding church policy in the North American Division and World Church regarding Climate Change. It will be argued that unlike other policies the Adventist church supports, its statements on Climate Change lack the typical biblical support common for other initiatives and indicates a lack of spiritual…[Read more]

]]> 0 31ec3867d8779497c6185996a15b33c4 Matthew Korpman deposited "When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22," Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870486/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:45 -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 5b5af0f237d56e0eb3d2a180344769b8 Matthew Korpman deposited "What is “the Middle”? Theological Diversity in Valentinian Christianity," Academia Letters (2021): 1-5. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870480/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:25 -0500 This short-form article explores the various presentations of “the Middle” within Valentinian authored documents (the Gospel of Truth and Gospel of Philip) and sources which report about the Valentinians (Irenaeus and his report about Ptolemy’s theology). It suggests underscores the deep distinctions each view has and suggests that these may be…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2b1540d5c74334670480253a6314ff5 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 Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870476/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:10 -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 445af0bb11c7c112b53b530968d10006 Matthew Korpman deposited "Fighting the Divine: Relational Theology as Confrontational." Pages 37-42 in Partnering with God: Exploring Collaboration in Open and Relational Theology. Edited by Thomas Jay Oord, B. Rambob, F. Stedman, and Tim Reddish. Grasmere, ID: SacraSage, 2021. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870470/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:46 -0500 This essay seeks to introduce briefly the background and idea of what can be called a confrontational approach to theology. It will begin by outlining the biblical background of this often-ignored portrait and then will proceed to outline how this theological approach can breathe new life into various approaches toward God.

]]> 0 189350960e1df6d7e4badbe5f3beb775 Matthew Korpman deposited "Doubt Everything." Pages 57-69 in Before You Lose Your Mind: Deconstructing Bad Theology in the Church. Edited by Keith Giles. Orange, CA: Quoir, 2021. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870467/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:29 -0500 In this chapter, a biblical overview of the topic of doubt is provided, focused on the Gospel accounts. A theological argument is made for the necessity and contribution of doubt toward the process of faith.

]]> 0 66f376d60629ae0c3bd5dba9ac4d9f9b Vincenzo Belmonte deposited You Are Gods: At the Origins of Christianity in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870466/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:21 -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 28312118cc76cbd52fea6dd44eecb248 Matthew Korpman deposited Saying No to God: A Radical Approach to Reading the Bible Faithfully. Quoir, 2019. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870460/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:01:03 -0500 Although bumper stickers abound that propose otherwise, the Bible itself reveals that just because “God says it,” does not, in fact, mean “that settles it.” On the contrary, a close reading of Scripture reveals that God does not want us to blindly obey him, but rather, invites us to “lock hands” with him and fight. The purpose of this book is to…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f74b303a7ce285e48f5fc4ff46d4034 Vincenzo Belmonte deposited The Expulsion Curse in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870459/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:55 -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 ed0a2f969acf7cd70002683537343d95 Matthew Korpman deposited "Dan Shall Judge: The Danites and Iron Age Israel’s Connection with the Denyen Sea People," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.3 (2020): 490-499. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870455/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:38 -0500 The Tribe of Dan has always appeared to biblical scholars and archaeologists as something of an enigma. For decades, certain scholars, beginning with Yigael Yadin, have proposed a connection between the Denyen/Danaoi Sea People and the Danites of Ancient Israel, arguing that the former became the latter and were adopted into Israel at a later date…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cf6c6aa8f30ade14ae42c1285b67836 Matthew Korpman deposited "Antiochus Epiphanes in 1919: Ellen White, Daniel, and the Books of the Maccabees," Adventist Today 28.2 (2020): 30-33. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870295/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:01:35 -0500 An article exploring original research on the Seventh-day Adventist 1919 Bible Conference and how it sheds light on both perceptions of Ellen White and her own views. It presents evidence that Mrs. White may have believed in a dual fulfillment model of prophecy, based on her belief that the Apocrypha (and the books of Maccabees) were scripture, as…[Read more]

]]> 0 a689fd88ca6d1951a08e35579388d2fc Matthew Korpman deposited "Adventism's Hidden Book: A Brief History of the Apocrypha," Spectrum 46:1 (2018): 56-65. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870294/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:01:28 -0500 A brief overview of Adventism’s relationship with the Apocrypha, spanning from the year 1842 until 1918. It updates the conclusions of the last previous study conducted by Ron Graybill and utilizes previously undiscovered documents and even writings by Ellen White to propose that Adventism’s entanglement with the Apocryphal corpus is far reaching…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6306b1e79a2200ad1ee3c5ad8b4b019 Matthew Korpman deposited "Source Criticism: Teaching the Documentary Hypothesis," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 3.3 (2019): 30-31. in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870293/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:01:20 -0500 A summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.

]]> 0 9c3c645411df97affde1d6a92b536716 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 Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870283/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:39 -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]

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