Collin Cornell
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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David Congdon deposited The Nature of the Church in Theological Interpretation: Culture, Volk, and Mission on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
In a 2012 article on Bultmann and Augustine, R. W. L. Moberly argued that the church should be understood as a “plausibility structure” for faith and thus a presupposition for the interpretation of Scripture. My response to him in 2014 addressed misinterpretations of Bultmann but did not speak to the central issue of the church as a pre…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Defilement of Dina: Uncontrolled Passions, Textual Violence, and the Search for Moral Foundations on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
The story of Dinah’s violation in Genesis 34 has elicited radically different evaluations among exegetes. The present article attributes these divergent readings to the existence of distinct voices or moral positions in the text, particularly in relation to the issue of intermarriage. Beginning with a synchronic literary and ideological analysis o…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more] -
Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
In this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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Joel Thomas Chopp's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Mark McEntire deposited A More Coherent J in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe central argument for source division of the Pentateuch is that the present form of the literature is incoherent. The first place most readers notice the incoherence, and where biblical scholarship began giving it attention a few centuries ago, is in the Primevel Story in Genesis 1-11. Among those who accept some form of the Documentary…[Read more]
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Mark McEntire deposited A More Coherent J in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe central argument for source division of the Pentateuch is that the present form of the literature is incoherent. The first place most readers notice the incoherence, and where biblical scholarship began giving it attention a few centuries ago, is in the Primevel Story in Genesis 1-11. Among those who accept some form of the Documentary…[Read more]
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Mark McEntire deposited A More Coherent J in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe central argument for source division of the Pentateuch is that the present form of the literature is incoherent. The first place most readers notice the incoherence, and where biblical scholarship began giving it attention a few centuries ago, is in the Primevel Story in Genesis 1-11. Among those who accept some form of the Documentary…[Read more]
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Mark McEntire deposited A More Coherent J in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe central argument for source division of the Pentateuch is that the present form of the literature is incoherent. The first place most readers notice the incoherence, and where biblical scholarship began giving it attention a few centuries ago, is in the Primevel Story in Genesis 1-11. Among those who accept some form of the Documentary…[Read more]
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John Meade's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Brian Doak's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Mark McEntire deposited The Killing of Prophets: The Development of a Useful Assumption in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn Matt 23:31 and Luke 11:47 Jesus accuses his Jewish opponents of killing prophets. The gospel texts provide no basis for this charge, other than the conflict that Jesus seems to be facing at the moment. Even the one prophetic figure whose death has affected Jesus, John the Baptist, was not killed in Jerusalem, but was executed, according to the…[Read more]
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Mark McEntire deposited The Killing of Prophets: The Development of a Useful Assumption in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn Matt 23:31 and Luke 11:47 Jesus accuses his Jewish opponents of killing prophets. The gospel texts provide no basis for this charge, other than the conflict that Jesus seems to be facing at the moment. Even the one prophetic figure whose death has affected Jesus, John the Baptist, was not killed in Jerusalem, but was executed, according to the…[Read more]
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