Parque de Delfim Guimaraes AMADORA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98940408). 29 September 2018. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain…[Read more]

Quinta das Ameias, Areeiro, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98286048). Ruins. (Quinta das Ameias, aka Casal Vistoso, aka Antigo Solar da Boa Vista). 7 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and…[Read more]

Igreja do Antigo Convento de Arroios LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474004). Current Ukrainian Church in Lisbon. 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of…[Read more]

Ermida de Sao Marcos, CACEM & SAO MARCOS, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). (Chapel / Church). Ermida de São Marcos, Cacém e São Marcos, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at…[Read more]

Campo dos Martires da Patria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). Palacete no Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). 20 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the re…[Read more]

Antiga Fabrica de Gas da Matinha LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90334721). Conjunto de estruturas industriais na área da antiga Fábrica de Gás da Matinha (gasómetro). 8 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and comm…[Read more]

Palácio da Flor da Murta LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q10343989). 29 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively w…[Read more]

Liceu Passos Manuel LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q10317952). 29 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively with…[Read more]

Atrium Saldanha LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q757743). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively with…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 28-30 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462938). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 26 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462943). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual function. Generally, this may be because we have some kind of impression that a group of old…[Read more]

Rufus’s mother features in Paul’s concluding list of church leaders such as Phoebe in Romans 16. Paul calls her his own mother. I argue that Rufus’s mother’s inclusion indicates higher status and influence within the Pauline house-churches, building on Elmer’s notion of corporate Pauline authorship.

The Woman clothed with the Sun makes a brief appearance in Revelation 12; however, her influence upon the imaginations of artists and interpreters is substantive. She is unnamed and yet multiple identities are ascribed to her including individual women (Eve, Mary), corporate institutions (Israel, the church), and ancient goddesses. In this…[Read more]

Americans overwhelmingly assume that Moses married a Black woman. Using sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article highlights interpretations of Moses’s marriage to the Cushite woman in Numbers 12. Utilising cultural-critical reception history—that biblical interpretation is culturally conditioned—readers in the United State…[Read more]

Typically, the cupbearer in Genesis 40–41 is interpreted only as a member of Joseph’s supporting cast. However, closely reading this minor character suggests more options for interpreting both him and other anonymous courtiers found throughout the Hebrew Bible. The cupbearer’s actions (and inactions) raise ethical and psychological questions about…[Read more]

This article suggests that in Ezekiel 13:17–23 we have an example of the ritual activities of Yahwistic women being undermined. However, rather than opening the hermeneutical crux of attempting to understand what it is the women are doing or how their ritual activity is functioning, I will focus squarely on the broader social dynamics in the t…[Read more]

Is anonymity a form of violence? The woman of Judges 19 endured gang-rape and dismemberment, and neither the Bible nor its ancient exegetes gave her a name. This article surveys the modern writers and scholars who chose new names for her, examining how their choices of names reflected their broader goals for retelling her story. From there, I turn…[Read more]

Editorial preface

This essay attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social, and cultural identities, and the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28; 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 and 10:17; 1 Peter 2:9–11; and Revelation 21:24–26 – it is argued that t…[Read more]