The AJR review forum of Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. With responses from Cynthia Baker, Yair Furstenberg, Christine Hayes, and Cavan Concannon.
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Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi open the AJR review forum of their book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile.
Read MoreBook Note | The Origins of Midrash
Week in Review (2/8/19)
Ca. early fourth-century painting of a woman | Catacomb of Calixtus, Rome | Image Source
Ca. early fourth-century painting of a woman | Catacomb of Calixtus, Rome | Image Source
This Week: Hypatia, translational twists and turns, Job and reparations, the problem with “Judeo-Christian,” JQR behind-the-scenes, Cairo Genizah – and more!
Read MoreAffect and Early Christian Identity
Papers from the 2018 Society of Biblical Literature’s review panel on Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreJob, White Privilege, and the Case for Reparations
The Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Nevertheless, I characterize the book as more protean. It resists reductive readings, always offering a counter-text to any interpretation (including the one in this essay.)
Read MoreBook Note | Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher
Detailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Detailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Watts ends the volume with a chapter on such modern representations of Hypatia, which move already suggests his aim: to bracket the legend long enough to catch sight of the life that inspired it.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight | Magical Practices and Discourses of Magic in Early Christian Traditions: Jesus, Peter, and Paul
Christ healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
Christ healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
I argue one must take into account not only what magic is said to be, but also what magicians do. There is a reason, after all, that these practices are the ones against which Apuleius was compelled to mount his defense.
Read MoreRethinking Early Christian Identity: A Response
Maia Kotrosits responds to the review forum on Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreWeek in Review (1/25/19)
Catacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
Catacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
This Week: Continuing forum on early Christian identity, restoring Tutankhamen’s tomb, digital archaeology, Cairo Genizot, catacombs – and more!
Read MoreRethinking “Early Christian Art”
Jonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Jonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Eric Smith responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read More"What Has Affect Theory to do with Acts?": Testing Methodological Boundaries In Acts Scholarship
Teresa Calpino responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreWeek in Review (1/18/19)
Wax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
Wax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
This Week: New forum complicating early Christian identity with Maia Kotrosits, forgery, Roman-era Egyptian tombs, museum ethics – and more!
Read MoreThe Codex of Feeling: Affect Theory and Ancient Texts
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Image provided free through Unsplash
Donovan Schaefer responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
Read MoreEngaging with Intersectionality and 1st-2nd c. "Judaism"
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Image provided free through Unsplash @chuttersnap.
Shayna Sheinfeld responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
Read MoreWeek in Review (1/11/19)
Illustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
Illustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
This Week: Book notes and Byzantium, Coptic magic, Ishtar’s netherworld descent, open access all over the place, Armenia! - the year begins!
Read MoreAntiquity on Display: The Armenia! Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Four Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
Four Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
This exhibition aims to showcase Armenia as an artistic civilization in its own right rather than a postscript to the more prominent and the better-known achievements of Byzantium or Near Eastern cultures.
Read MoreBook Note | The New Testament in Byzantium
Beginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
Beginning of Luke’s Gospel from the 11th c. (Wikimedia Commons)
This volume, replete with color images and detailed charts, is both a resource and an invitation for further research. The range of expertise offered by the volume’s contributors testifies to the interdisciplinarity that animates Byzantine Studies.
Read MoreYear in Review: Top Ten Articles of 2018
Mosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
Mosaic from a series on the months of the year (early 3rd century CE). Image courtesy of Ad Meskins via Wikimedia Commons.
A list of our most popular articles from 2018.
Read MoreWeek in Review (12/21/18)
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Cuneiform synonym list clay tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal | Neo-Assyrian (934-608BCE), currently on display in the British Museum | Image Source
Cuneiform synonym list clay tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal | Neo-Assyrian (934-608BCE), currently on display in the British Museum | Image Source
This Week: Primeval Roman kings, inconsistent Torah, Egyptian royal tombs, clay tablets, excavation reports, plus, oh, Atlantis – and more!
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