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Liv Ingeborg Lied’s Contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology forum.
Read MoreTextual Scholarship, Ethics, and Someone Else's Manuscripts
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The Plunders of Codex Bezae
Soldiers plundering a village, by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot
Soldiers plundering a village, by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot
Jennifer Wright Knust’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreWeek in Review (5/17/19)
Magic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
Magic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
This Week: The Song of Miriam, Dual Syriac/Uyghur prayerbooks, Syriac symposiums, Arshama’s Aramaic, the Doctrina Jacobi – and more!
Read MoreTwo languages, two scripts, three combinations: A (personal?) prayer-book in Syriac and Old Uyghur from Turfan (U 338)
Adam Bremer-McCollum’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreContinue to Sing, Miriam! The Song of Miriam in 4Q365
The Ten Commandments, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Ten Commandments, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Hanna Tervanotko’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreWeek in Review (10/5/19)
Roman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
Roman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
This Week: Tura papyri, engraved gemstones, epigraphy resources, Byzantium, circumcision and gender – and more!
Read MoreA Material History of the Tura Papyri
The German National Library, courtesy of theeuropeanlibrary.org
The German National Library, courtesy of theeuropeanlibrary.org
Blossom Stefaniw’s contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology Panel from SBL 2018.
Read MoreIs Vienna hist. gr. 63, fol. 51v-55v a “fragment”?
Janet Spittler’s contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology Panel from SBL 2018.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight | Monika Amsler
Monika Amsler. “Effective Combinations of Words and Things: The Babylonian Talmud Gittin 67b-70b and the Literary Standards of Late Antiquity,” PhD Dissertation, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.
Read MorePhilo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings
Sheldon Steen reviews Jennifer Otto’s Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings: “The epithets he is given betray at once the utility and liability of Philo for Christian discourses of identity because of how he is depicted as never fully one of “us” nor one of “them.”"
Read MoreWeek in Review (4/19/19)
Early Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
Early Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
This Week: Jewish and Christian figural art, Jewish mothers, endangered archives, Bible versus Classics, Byzantine Balkans – and much more!
Read MoreArt as a Medium of Religious Dialogue and Competition in Late Antiquity
Dr. Catherine Hezser introduces her book Bild und Kontext: Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike: “I examine exemplary biblical, mythological, and symbolic images in the context of Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman literary sources to determine their possible uses and meanings within the multi-cultural realms of late antique society. I argue that the images were carefully chosen to engage in an ongoing visual discourse within the public sphere.”
Read MoreBook Note | Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination,
Sari Fein reviews the edited volume, Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination: “What other images of mothers exist in the Jewish cultural imagination? And, what do those images reveal about wider ideas of gender and family in Jewish culture?”
Read MoreWeek In Review (4/12/19)
Detail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
Detail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
This Week: Imperialism and Christian knowledge, beeswax, bioarchaeology, biblical papyri, the Madaba Map – and more!
Read MorePublication | Christian Reading: language, ethics and the order of things
My book is about reading as world-building, because reading with a grammarian in antiquity meant reading in a pool of fragmentation, displacement, and homogenization to re-arrange time and re-align filiation.
Read MoreBook Note | Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism
Trajan's Column, Rome (Wikimedia Commons)
Trajan's Column, Rome (Wikimedia Commons)
In Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism, Drew Billings places Emperor Trajan and the triumphal Column erected to honor his reign into conversation with the New Testament’s Acts of the Apostles.
Read MoreWeek in Review (4/5/19)
Encaustic wall painting from Sòlunto, Sicily | Currently held in the Museo archaeologico regionale di Palermo (Italy) | Image Source
Encaustic wall painting from Sòlunto, Sicily | Currently held in the Museo archaeologico regionale di Palermo (Italy) | Image Source
This Week: Bible beyond “Old Testament,” midrash, Sogdians online, pigment in antiquity, amethyst-mining inscriptions – and more!
Read More“We solved racism!” and other miscalculations in the biblical studies classroom
“One plus one plus one cannot equal one. Neither does the Old Testament equal the Tanakh. They are not one.”
Read MoreBook Note | Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality.
Yoni Nadiv reviews Katharina Keim’s Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality: “In the absence of a critical edition, Keim argues that the literary descriptive project she undertakes is not only possible absent a critical edition but is a prerequisite for preparing one.”
Read MoreWeek in Review (3/29/19)
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Mosaic medallion of a chained lion and Dionysius | From Pompeii, currently held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum | Image Source
Mosaic medallion of a chained lion and Dionysius | From Pompeii, currently held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum | Image Source
This Week: Unexpected animals, Latin Christian exegesis, fingerprinting and bioarchaeology, multispectral Torah, Jews in Iraq – and more!
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