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The Prophetic Body: A 2024 SBL Review Panel
Reed Carlson
Aug 22, 2025
The Prophetic Body: A 2024 SBL Review Panel
Reed Carlson
Aug 22, 2025

SBL Review Panel for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body: Emodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature
Co-Sponsored by the Religious Experience in Antiquity and Senses, Cultures, and Biblical Worlds Program Units of the Society of Biblical Literature
November 23, 2024

Reed Carlson
Aug 22, 2025

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Hidden No More: Women in the Parables of Luke
Sep 25, 2025
Charel Daniël du Toit
Hidden No More: Women in the Parables of Luke
Sep 25, 2025
Charel Daniël du Toit

In this study a sustained, interdisciplinary argument is offered for the presence of women in parables where they are not named or explicitly described.

Sep 25, 2025
Charel Daniël du Toit
Publication Preview | The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World
Sep 16, 2025
Marc Herman
Publication Preview | The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World
Sep 16, 2025
Marc Herman

The understanding that Jews engaged with a full sweep of Islamic sciences was arguably one of the earliest insights of modern Jewish historiography; indeed, medieval Jews were sometimes explicit about turning to non-Jewish sources. But scholarship has traditionally highlighted Jewish engagement with the larger world in fields other than law, such as poetry, theology, and linguistics. Building on the work of others, After Revelation recognizes that medieval Jews and Muslims structured their traditions in similar ways.

Sep 16, 2025
Marc Herman
Awakening Awareness of the Body
Sep 15, 2025
Anathea Portier-Young
Awakening Awareness of the Body
Sep 15, 2025
Anathea Portier-Young

May conversations such as these prompt experiences of embodied connection, even across digital spaces, and help us to recover a bodily awareness so often buried beneath reams of paper. May we be mindful of the care and feeding not only of the prophet (and sometimes the deity), but also of the scholar, the student, the writer, and the reader.

Sep 15, 2025
Anathea Portier-Young
Art as Text:  When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister
Sep 12, 2025
Ally Kateusz
Art as Text: When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister
Sep 12, 2025
Ally Kateusz

The question of how many sisters were portrayed with Jesus at the Raising of Lazarus in early Christian art has not previously been explored, and interestingly, the hypothesis that Martha was added later aligns with the number of sisters portrayed in early art of the Raising of Lazarus.

Sep 12, 2025
Ally Kateusz
Prophetic Mediation and Ritual Practice
Sep 10, 2025
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
Prophetic Mediation and Ritual Practice
Sep 10, 2025
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

Scenting a space with anointing oil and incense, creates a sensory experience of fragrant divine presence, burning a sacrifice on an alter creates the perception of a divine receiver, veiling and obscuring a sanctuary’s adyton creates a perception of an inhabitant etc.

Sep 10, 2025
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
The Decolonial Prophetic Body
Sep 3, 2025
Xenia Chan
The Decolonial Prophetic Body
Sep 3, 2025
Xenia Chan

The task ahead in repairing the violence done by the dualistic mind/body hierarchy—and especially the notion of some bodies and their worth as superior/inferior—is not simply an individual task, but a communal one. Indeed, the notion of text as embodied creates not only new avenues of research but also a deep responsibility to the communities who hold these texts as sacred.

Sep 3, 2025
Xenia Chan
Prophetic Bodies in the Ancient Near East
Sep 2, 2025
Martti Nissinen
Prophetic Bodies in the Ancient Near East
Sep 2, 2025
Martti Nissinen

The prophet mediates or “incarnates” divine emotions, serving as their bodily representative; in other words, the prophetic body becomes the site of the bodily prophecy.

Sep 2, 2025
Martti Nissinen
Whose Body Is It Anyway: A Response to The Prophetic Body
Aug 27, 2025
Corrine Carvalho
Whose Body Is It Anyway: A Response to The Prophetic Body
Aug 27, 2025
Corrine Carvalho

So, if they are characters who may or may not replicate the experiences of a tangible historical person, then do they have a body? Are their imagined or projected bodies actual bodies that can be psychoanalyzed or engaged as if they were human? Is a character’s fictional embodiment part of its function as avatar for the audience?

Aug 27, 2025
Corrine Carvalho
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Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology
Brad Boswell
Aug 10, 2025
Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology
Brad Boswell
Aug 10, 2025

Scully’s book commendably demonstrates the need for renewed and careful attention to a pattern of thought that has been treated poorly, and it does so with sharp analytical clarity.

Brad Boswell
Aug 10, 2025
Review | In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Emily Filler
Mar 13, 2025
Review | In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Emily Filler
Mar 13, 2025

“Ophir insists that he is not simply claiming the modern sovereign as a “secularized political concept,” but something deeper: a deification of the state itself, as the one concept that we cannot think without, just as the biblical writers could not imagine not being ruled by God.”

Emily Filler
Mar 13, 2025
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Ethan Schwartz
Dec 4, 2024
God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
Ethan Schwartz
Dec 4, 2024
Ethan Schwartz
Dec 4, 2024
Seder Mazikin: Law and Magic in Late Antique Jewish Society
Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Oct 31, 2024
Seder Mazikin: Law and Magic in Late Antique Jewish Society
Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Oct 31, 2024

As scholars continue to investigate the bowls from multiple angles – paleographic, onomastic, linguistic, social historical, legal, literary, ritual, visual, gendered, comparative – our understanding of Babylonian Judaism and late antique society will continue to develop. Manekin-Bamberger’s insights about the bowls’ contractual dimensions and the professional scribes who produced them – as well as about the overlap of law and magic on a broader scale – are an essential contribution to this field, and will no doubt shape, methodologically and historically, how future studies approach this corpus and its relationship to other ancient Jewish texts and artifacts and to the long history of magic, law, and religion.

Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Oct 31, 2024
The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture
Tyler Blaine Wilson
Sep 23, 2024
The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture
Tyler Blaine Wilson
Sep 23, 2024
Tyler Blaine Wilson
Sep 23, 2024

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