SAH Commons | Simeon Chavel | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/sbchavel/activity/ Activity feed for Simeon Chavel. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 543c14748000021440ac1356c5254d5c Simeon Chavel changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1945649/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:53:41 -0400 0 505f7337124acbd0d55c7dd1e797de8e Simeon Chavel's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1945648/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:51:19 -0400 0 e023ba4673fa77b16804de63059d735f simeon chavel deposited The Polymorphous Pesaḥ: Ritual Between Origins and Reenactment in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625055/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:25:26 -0500 The paper argues that the pesaḥ is a ritual with no origins in the literature we have, from the earliest recoverable fragment, through the first revision that introduces as many problems as it aims to solve, to subsequent extensions in multiple directions, with no arc, no trajectory, no telos, but recurrent hermeneutic expressive engagement.

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