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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited ZéroDécès in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoZéroDécès est un poème numérique inspiré du transhuamnisme. Même que le transhumanisme rende tout possible par l’intermédiaire de la technologie, le poète croit que Dieu est toujours le Tout-Puissant.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited ZeroDeath in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoZeroDeath is a digital poem that is conceived from the transhumanism philosophy of defeating death by technology. Though, digital revolution makes everything possible but the poet remains attached to Yahweh
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Truthology in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoTruthology is a digital poem that explains the genuine origin of the truth.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis is Christian digital poem which is written in French and English to present Jesus Christ above Croesus and Zeus.
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Oliver Dietrich deposited Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Anatolia (10th / 9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in archaeological discourse.
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited When Species Meet in the Mishnah in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis short essay considers rabbinic ideas of reproduction, likeness, and species variation in conversation with the work of Joann Sfar and Sunaura Taylor. Part of Ancient Jew Review’s Forum on Animals.
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Directing the Heart: Early Rabbinic Language and the Anatomy of Ritual Space in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoNeis traces an expression of bodily language (kavvanat halev, literally “directing the heart”) from biblical to early rabbinic sources and demonstrates how it oriented people to the affective, physical, and spatial dimensions of prayer. Rejecting a binary that would treat such language as either mental/subjective (and thus metaphorically) or sol…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Like Father, Like Son: Theorizing Transmission in Biblical Literature in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBehind the literary form of testament and expressions memorializing the dead is a concept of how objects, rights, and speech pass from one generation to the next: transmission. This essay examines two interrelated phenomena that give filial succession in the biblical and Ugaritic literature its contours: first, the discourses surrounding…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Like Father, Like Son: Theorizing Transmission in Biblical Literature in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBehind the literary form of testament and expressions memorializing the dead is a concept of how objects, rights, and speech pass from one generation to the next: transmission. This essay examines two interrelated phenomena that give filial succession in the biblical and Ugaritic literature its contours: first, the discourses surrounding…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Like Father, Like Son: Theorizing Transmission in Biblical Literature in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoBehind the literary form of testament and expressions memorializing the dead is a concept of how objects, rights, and speech pass from one generation to the next: transmission. This essay examines two interrelated phenomena that give filial succession in the biblical and Ugaritic literature its contours: first, the discourses surrounding…[Read more]
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited ‘Till Death Do Us Part: The Halachic Prospects of Marriage for Conjoined (Siamese) Twins in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis thought experiment considers whether Siamese (Conjoined) are allowed to marry according to Halacha. It considers various aspects of the Biblical bans on incest and offers a very contemporary discussion about the meaning of personhood. This paper uses medical journals, works on medical history, and various responsa to find a precedent and…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoPreview of Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (SBL Press, 2019) https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=064211C&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL
From SBL Press:
In her book, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature, Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “Joc de Trons” a la universitat, una experiència docent in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoMaría Montes, musicologist expert in Medieval Music, interviewed me on April 6th, 2019 on my experience designing and teaching a course on Medieval Iberian Literature and History using the HBO Show “Game of Thrones” as a thematic axis.
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Gabriel Finkelstein deposited Haeckel and du Bois-Reymond: rival German Darwinists in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoErnst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This essay compares their contributions to popularizing the theory of evolution, drawing special attention to the neglected figure of du Bois-Reymond as a spokesman for a world devoid of natural purpose. It suggests that the historiography of the German…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Reproduction of Species: Humans, Animals and Species Nonconformity in Early Rabbinic Science in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoTracing an early rabbinic approach to the human, this article analyzes how the Tannaim (early Palestinian Jewish sages) of the Mishnah and Tosefta (redacted ca. early 3rd century CE) set the human side by side with other species, and embedded their account within broader considerations of reproduction, zoology and species crossings. The human here…[Read more]
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Philip Harland deposited Familial Dimensions of Group Identity: ‘Brothers’ (ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ) in Associations of the Greek East in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle exploring the use of sibling language in associations beyond Judean or Christian groups.
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Philip Harland deposited Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence: Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA chapter exploring rivalries among groups in ancient Greek cities of Asia Minor.
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Philip Harland deposited Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at Hierapolis in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle exploring Jewish or Judean groups in the context of associations at Hierapolis.
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Pilgrimage Itineraries: Seeing the Past through Rabbinic Eyes in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article makes several claims. It argues that the genre of “pilgrim’s literature” is present in rabbinic sources, and identifies rabbinic pilgrimage itineraries. Secondly, it shows that aside from the expected melancholic post-Temple itinerary, there exist itineraries for Babylon and for biblical conquest that do a very dif…[Read more]
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Philip Harland deposited Banqueting Values in the Associations: Rhetoric and Reality in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle on banqueting within associations.
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