Elena Dugan
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Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).
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Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).
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Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
This is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).
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Seth Sanders deposited What if There Aren’t Any Empirical Models for Pentateuchal Criticism? on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Maybe there aren’t any!
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Chance Bonar's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
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Catherine Bonesho's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
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For centuries, the legal rate of interest in the Roman Empire was “one- hundredth”: 1 percent of the principal of the loan was added to it each month. Although Christian leaders and writers in the Greek and Latin west did not approve of this practice, Syriac-speaking Christian communities in the eastern Roman Empire incorporated the rate of “on…[Read more]
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This paper examines a foundational tradition of Second Temple scholarship: that the figure of Enoch was inspired by the mythical Babylonian diviner-king Enmeduranki because both revealers were the seventh of ten figures before the flood. It finds that no preserved pre-Chris- tian texts present Enmeduranki this way, and no evidence that anybody in…[Read more]
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE, written by Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Haim Perlmutter on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
A review of Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70–250 CE, written by Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Haim Perlmutter
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Asking for Trouble: Two Reading Traditions of פללים (Exodus 21:22) in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
The Biblical Hebrew word פללים is rare and cryptic. Various readings have been פללים offered for it in its long reception history. Ancient readers of Scripture read in Exod 21:22 in two distinct ways. Some read it as “judges,” whereas others associated פללים with requests, pleas, petitions, and prayers. This latter under- standing of the wo…[Read more]
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Matt Chalmers's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. in the group
New Testament on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoReview of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoReview of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIt is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIt is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
It is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoBenjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group
New Testament on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoBenjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]
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