One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television’s rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this “traditional” culture was…[Read more]

An unsubmitted draft of a chapter from my dissertation that discusses the creation, definition, and study of the concept of religion and why the concept has no analytical value to my dissertation.

Thijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119

Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.

I offer an examination of the passage’s function in 1 Clement and potential reception
among the Corinthians. The latter part of this chapter imagines how the
Corinthian recipients of 1 Clement may have understood its brief scene of
violence against women and their purported overcoming of “being weak in
the body.” Building upon schol…[Read more]

Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem wissenschaftlichen Konsens, dass Hermas im
Hirten des Hermas als freigelassener Sklave dargestellt wird. Nach einem Blick auf
biographische Einordnungen des Hermas bei verschiedenen frühchristlichen Autoren
wird auf Theodor Zahn als „Erfinder“ der biographischen Hypothese eingegangen,
dass Hermas ein Freig…[Read more]