SAH Commons | Sean Burrus | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/spburrus/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Sean Burrus is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 6dd9f7e0cd23e509badd9d367e3ec287 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898297/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:42 -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 98882d783562cfefc1c2c50432067434 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898294/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -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 27f8a574c6c7dcbf0291158b025e5b29 Stephe Harrop deposited Greek Tragedy in the Drama Studio: Lecoq, Agonism, and the Politics of Choral Pedagogy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890994/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

]]> 0 27f8a574c6c7dcbf0291158b025e5b29 Stephe Harrop deposited Greek Tragedy in the Drama Studio: Lecoq, Agonism, and the Politics of Choral Pedagogy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890993/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f1143779709ca076552f06cc8a7da8d James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-greece-rome/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-2/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:01 -0400 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c4fb303c4d92dbd8f52ca9e68a5460f James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887767/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:43 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[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 1fbd0124e8b56f051384020b58abc447 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Sappho’s Rose-Fingered Moon and Traditional Referentiality in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886477/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:07:38 -0400 This article reassesses Sappho’s description of the moon as βροδοδάκτυλος, “rose-fingered” (fr. 96.8 Voigt)—an epithet that is usually restricted to Dawn in archaic poetry. This apparent incongruity has prompted much perplexity among scholars, with various attempts to explain the adjective’s significance, or even to emend the epithet away. Here, I…[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 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 06012a6c4ca70cd6833bd0feb05dad01 Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884596/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:32 -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 ccab6a10b4f96af9231d0d7a3c74dcec Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884594/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:28 -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 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 06b05e363277c0f35bee47cd74c11199 Henning Ohst deposited Beschreibung von Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., Handschriftendatenbank der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (2023) in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879871/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:00:10 -0400 Manuscript description of Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., containing texts of Priscianus, Boethius, Horace, Ambrose and Sidonius Apollinaris

]]> 0 3b1f6d30aa3745b8802751266bc38394 Adam Parker deposited Teething Problems: Pierced tooth amulets and sensing pain in the Roman archaeological record in the group Roman archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877898/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ffa8ef5cf7332da062ca378c02488eb Adam Parker deposited Teething Problems: Pierced tooth amulets and sensing pain in the Roman archaeological record in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877895/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c6544a609ca0ca74f4fb4d9a268bcc9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El mundo cananeo antiguo. Ritos y sacrificios humanos en el antiguo Israel. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876312/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:11 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, en la época herodiana los judíos habían civilizado sus antiguos ritos y costumbres a través de la gran influencia recibida, primero de los babilonios y persas y, luego, de la cultura del helenismo; pero han llegado hasta nosotros sólidos testimonios que no permiten ocultar el carácter sangriento de sus más antiguas (y no tan…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd6853a6a4850646472b02f8ebab72e3 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El árbol cósmico: árbol sagrado y árbol del mundo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876308/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, las primeras culturas agrícolas desarrollaron una visión cósmica del mundo, dentro de la cual el significado del mito, expresado en el ritual, se habría convertido en la base de las elucubraciones «espirituales» y «religiosas» posteriores. Se trataba del misterio central que explicaba la renovación periódica del mundo a tr…[Read more]

]]> 0 881a07fbc9671c68595044f9d5c7b0cc Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Arboles sagrados del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876045/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:16 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la cultura del antiguo Israel tampoco escapó a los insoslayables orígenes neolíticos protagonizados por la diosa de la vegetación y por el árbol en el entorno de las primeras culturas agrícolas. El prototipo bíblico del árbol se encontraba en el Edén (el Dilmun mesopotámico y el jardín o paraíso persa: «pairi-daeza…[Read more]

]]> 0 ceb1251b536ab60e0197563fa63d979f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876042/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 079754e7ce69afefd508a414b836dce9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Zoroastro, profeta de Ahura Mazda. En la antesala del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876038/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la turbación de los padres de la Iglesia de los siglos segundo y tercero no pudo dar respuesta coherente a las sorprendentes semejanzas que encontraron entre la religión de Mitra y el cuerpo de sus doctrinas, todavía heterogéneas y en proceso de formación. No dudamos de que la posición adoptada por Justino, que luego se conver…[Read more]

]]> 0 83f8fc79b38de8db0569ea4f149656de Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Una Perspectiva Radical y crítica de los Orígenes del Cristianismo. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876034/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:59 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb603b88f9ef69399bf58dd4eec1a50 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El Rey Sagrado del Ritual Neolítico, el Siervo Sufriente de Isaías y el Dios Tammuz. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876030/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:52 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 d45182d0af93494ebe2ac45324979dd9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro): Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876016/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:31 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 86a67095bc6c87b9f00f28e4f401ac75 Matthew Korpman deposited "Is it False Testimony? Studying Luke 16:1-13 as the Rehabilitation of a Rejected Parable," Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 18 (2022): 144-167. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870495/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:28 -0500 Our earliest Christian sources suggest that it was common for Christian communities in the first and second century to disregard or ignore statements by Jesus that were perceived to be problematic, even at times claiming they originated with their enemies. This paper turns attention to this early Christian phenomenon of rejecting Jesus’ sayings, e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c04836ff699e6c79ff7fab5c3a46904f Matthew Korpman deposited "Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It," Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870490/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:03:10 -0500 An article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fd37c096f75b47fb3045948bf7f2a1 Matthew Korpman deposited "When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22," Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870482/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:38 -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 ed0f08a0f7e6dafffe6dfccf48cbe5d2 Matthew Korpman deposited "What is “the Middle”? Theological Diversity in Valentinian Christianity," Academia Letters (2021): 1-5. in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870478/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:21 -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 4181fb3eb80be28c795fe19045b41e1e 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 Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870473/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:03 -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 0b592d5e9d9179403651f66555f2c664 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 Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870451/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:05 -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 8a85421662d4b41e3d845e5918f32aa1 Matthew Korpman deposited "Source Criticism: Teaching the Documentary Hypothesis," Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 3.3 (2019): 30-31. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870289/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:56 -0500 A summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.

]]> 0 39c10739bec0b0766e3e0e8f9bda8fa1 Matthew Korpman deposited "Was Noadiah A ‘Trustworthy’ Prophet? The Demise of Prophecy in Second Temple Judaism," Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 135.1 (2023): 52-70. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870284/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:48 -0500 According to popular scholarly consensus, the role of the classical prophets ceased following the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. This paper will attempt to propose an explanation of 1 Maccabees’ comments about the cessation of prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination of the dynamics involved in the Hebrew B…[Read more]

]]> 0 b01407511f2b1295dcbd36ae34a41928 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 Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870279/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:16 -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]

]]> 0 747db96ae9f6b00aace7546889130d9e Elodie Paillard deposited Les ludi Graeci chez Cicéron in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868901/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:04 -0500 This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief s…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ec4d71e018ab3d60553fa451789d67 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868546/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:48 -0500 Revista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo.

]]> 0 ebaa7d87750ebd09ad419273b3bdf9b7 Mark Beumer deposited From Mithras to Jesus. Ritual Dynamics of Christmas in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867645/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:00:44 -0500 At Christmas, Christians celebrate that Jesus was born on December 25 as the son of God andthe Virgin Mary. But this event is not unique. In this article, I show that the birth of Jesus hasseveral non-Christian predecessors, whereby various elements of the ritual dynamics have beenChristianized and implemented into the figure we know today as Jesus Christ.

]]> 0 d6f8be6018bf326eeb7e7f16338f8bcd Mark Beumer deposited From Mithras to Jesus. Ritual Dynamics of Christmas in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867642/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:00:11 -0500 At Christmas, Christians celebrate that Jesus was born on December 25 as the son of God andthe Virgin Mary. But this event is not unique. In this article, I show that the birth of Jesus hasseveral non-Christian predecessors, whereby various elements of the ritual dynamics have beenChristianized and implemented into the figure we know today as Jesus Christ.

]]> 0 92d5f907c6425144d7523141629183c6 Rafael Neis deposited In Comics: When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865519/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:00:32 -0500 In comics: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity. A blog post commissioned by UC Press Blog about the book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species.

Link: htt…[Read more]

]]> 0 be492bc40d05fe4489194aaef5e4d6a7 Elodie Paillard deposited 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862389/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 Elodie Paillard, ‘Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances’, in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022

]]> 0 89bf0b8f938302a1b223f04e9e4fc7c3 Elodie Paillard deposited The Stage and the City in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862211/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 This book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d0879cf3d56c0114926125110403a6d Julia Rhyder deposited Sonja Ammann, Katharina Pyschny, and Julia Rhyder, eds. Authorship and the Hebrew Bible. FAT 158. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861717/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:29 -0400 Does “authorship” still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the “death of the author,” so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

]]> 0 450293e4c79f29a4f6bc244c92af6d53 Julia Rhyder deposited Centralizing the Cult: The Holiness Legislation in Leviticus 17–26. FAT 134. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861714/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bc9c2a7af65dcee2ad6c53be02ed911 Julia Rhyder deposited “Hellenizing Hanukkah: The Commemoration of Military Victory in the Books of the Maccabees.” Pages 92–109 in Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by S. Ammann, H. Bezold, S. Germany, and J. Rhyder. CHANE 135. Leuven: Brill in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861159/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:51 -0400 Early Jewish writings are replete with narratives of warfare and collective violence. Yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to how these accounts of violence affected the way Jews structured their festal calendar. This essay examines the festivals described in 1 and 2 Maccabees that serve to commemorate the most impressive m…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1b7454b533b9a35ade4a63e66ba8d76 Julia Rhyder deposited Sonja Ammann, Helge Bezold, Stephen Germany, and Julia Rhyder, eds. Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean. CHANE 135. Leuven: Brill, 2023. in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861156/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:26 -0400 This Open Access volume reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “va…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6ee4794da2811506ab3a73a731df70a Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859627/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:03:23 -0400 This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 d39695f8dcbb29cc76438bf88e7f071f Julia Rhyder deposited “The Commemoration of War in Early Jewish Festivals." Bible Odyssey. 2021. https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/passages/related-articles/commemoration-of-war-in-early-jewish-festivals in the group Ancient Jew Review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859593/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:00:16 -0400 The emergence of Judaism and Samaritanism in antiquity is closely linked to the process by which the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) became defined as the Torah of Moses.

]]> 0 9a8cab8f5cebfd90a10d5ba92097fd9b Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 76.3, 2023/WS 135, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 148–151 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857782/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:06:30 -0400 More detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).

]]> 0 1055884aa8235678afa77e7ce88695b6 Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Some Aspects of Decorations on Early Christian Lamps from the Central Balkans, in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855374/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:53 -0400 This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

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