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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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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
Towards Divine Embodiment and Biblical Animism: A Review and Suggestion for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body
Aug 25, 2025
Frances Flannery
Towards Divine Embodiment and Biblical Animism: A Review and Suggestion for Anathea Portier-Young’s The Prophetic Body
Aug 25, 2025
Frances Flannery

I wish to engage in an enthusiastic nudge for Portier-Young to continue to explore in subsequent volumes a theme that I consider to be one of most original insights of the book. This is the claim that the divine is sometimes represented in biblical prophetic as embodied, whether a parallel fashion with the prophetic body, or as a reciprocal intertwining with the dynamically transforming prophetic body (esp. Portier-Young 2024, 57-58).

Aug 25, 2025
Frances Flannery
The Prophetic Body: A 2024 SBL Review Panel
Aug 22, 2025
Reed Carlson
The Prophetic Body: A 2024 SBL Review Panel
Aug 22, 2025
Reed Carlson

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

Aug 22, 2025
Reed Carlson
The Case for Retraction of Academic Authentications of Forged Fragments
May 29, 2025
Jonathan Klawans
The Case for Retraction of Academic Authentications of Forged Fragments
May 29, 2025
Jonathan Klawans

This position paper issues a call for editors and publishers with oversight over peer-reviewed publications of inauthentic post-2002 Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments to embark on the processes that would consider (and likely result in) retraction. By common consent, findings in the publications identified in this essay are unreliable at best; many present material subsequently deemed falsified. Retraction is the proper and justified measure to take regarding these publications in order to correct the academic record and alert any and all potential readers to the untrustworthy nature of their content.

May 29, 2025
Jonathan Klawans
Divine Names and Numinous Power: Onomastic Tools to Help and Harm
May 21, 2025
Joseph L. Kimmel
Divine Names and Numinous Power: Onomastic Tools to Help and Harm
May 21, 2025
Joseph L. Kimmel

Power in the Name contributes to this growing body of work unbeholden to the myopic strictures of materialism and (more broadly) scientism by comparatively analyzing examples of humans changing their environment (e.g., healing or hurting others) by invoking powerful divine names.

May 21, 2025
Joseph L. Kimmel
Review | The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land
May 18, 2025
Sarah Shectman
Review | The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land
May 18, 2025
Sarah Shectman

Ultimately, Feldman is doing two things in this book: she is making a source-critical argument about the Pentateuch, and she is translating P. These are two separate, and significant, tasks. They’re interrelated, but not the same thing.

May 18, 2025
Sarah Shectman
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
May 14, 2025
Joseph Foltz
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
May 14, 2025
Joseph Foltz

Paula Fredriksen begins Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years with a question: considering the variety of gods and local deities present in both the ancient Mediterranean and the Roman Empire, how did one singular god end up dominating the focus of the late Roman Empire?

May 14, 2025
Joseph Foltz
Introducing the Text Lab: Helping Students Engage with Ancient Sources
May 8, 2025
Alexander Chantziantoniou and Isaac Soon
Introducing the Text Lab: Helping Students Engage with Ancient Sources
May 8, 2025
Alexander Chantziantoniou and Isaac Soon

This article introduces a classroom activity called a Text Lab, which helps students engage critically with ancient texts while familiarizing them with the tools and scholarship necessary to analyze these sources.

May 8, 2025
Alexander Chantziantoniou and Isaac Soon
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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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