Journal ArticleJournal of Ancient Judaism · January 1, 2024
The essay analyzes the edicts of Antiochus III concerning Jerusalem (Ant. 12.138-46) within two contextual horizons: Ant. 12 and Jerusalem after the Fifth Syrian War. A dichotomous understanding of resistance and collaboration is inadequate to explain the ...
Full textCite
Book · 2024
Drawing insights from disciplines ranging from neurobiology to cultural studies, the author examines stories of prophetic commissioning, bodily transformation, asceticism and ecstasy, mobility and immobility, affect and emotion, revealing ... ...
Cite
Journal ArticleJournal of Biblical Literature · January 1, 2024
The discursive labeling of Miriam as prophet constructs her drumming, dancing, and singing as prophetic acts; her actions simultaneously reshape the prophetic role as participatory, creative, and relational. A theoretical frame drawn from dance studies and ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleInterpretation (United Kingdom) · April 1, 2020
Monster theory illuminates the construction of imperial and national identities in the portrayals of monstrous and human bodies in three early Jewish texts; Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees. Book of Watchers expresses anxiety about Judean/Jewish i ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleJournal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha · June 1, 2019
In recent decades, a lively debate on the Hebrew and Greek versions of Esther story has developed, focusing on their text-historical and theological relationship. The discussion is enriched further by taking into account the Old Latin Esther, fully edited ...
Full textCite
Book · August 10, 2018
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. ...
Cite
Journal ArticleInterpretation (United Kingdom) · April 1, 2017
This essay demonstrates that the book of Daniel is not a fixed but fluid text, a collection of traditions that developed over centuries and locations. The three major extant ancient versions of Daniel, represented by the Hebrew/Aramaic Masoretic Text and t ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleSojourners Magazine · 2011
The program of terror culminated with an edict issued in 167 B.C.E. The edict revoked Judean civic freedom, banned ancestral religion, and mandated in its place new religious practices and civic rituals that reordered space, time, and human life. [...] it ...
Link to itemCite
Journal ArticleVETUS TESTAMENTUM · 2010
Sociolinguistics provides a theoretical framework for viewing the bilingualism of the book of Daniel as a deliberate rhetorical strategy. The author(s) of Daniel began their discourse in Hebrew, switched to Aramaic, and concluded in Hebrew to move its audi ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleCommonweal · 2008
The opening chapters of the book of Exodus remind us of the close connection between fear and death, while suggesting that the choice for life cannot be the burden of one person - it is a mandate to the whole community. Mine was the experience of an Englis ...
Link to itemCite
Journal ArticleBiblical Theology Bulletin · 2005
In his First Letter to the Corinthians, Paul's message is one of unity. The key to understanding Paul's metaphor of the cymbal in 1 Corinthians 13:1 lies in knowing that within the biblical tradition, the cymbal was never played alone, but always accompani ...
Full textLink to itemCite
Journal ArticleJournal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha · January 1, 2005
In the ancient Jewish romance of Joseph and Aseneth, the Egyptian maiden Aseneth eats from a life-giving honeycomb. In partaking of the honeycomb, she is transformed into Joseph's eternal bride and a City of Refuge. This essay explores the significance of ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleAnglican Theological Review · 2003
Portier-Young reviews "Peoples of an Almighty God: Competing Religions in the Ancient World" by Jonathan Goldstein. ...
Link to itemCite
