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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Yonatan Miller deposited Phinehas’ Priestly Zeal and the Violence of Contested Identities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
Critics of biblical violence particularly scrutinize the case of Phinehas, the priestly zealot who publicly skewered an Israelite man and his Midianite consort in Numbers 25. Such studies are preoccupied with God’s approbation of this extra-judicial killing, and how later Jewish readers, from Philo through the rabbis, grappled with divine approval…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World”: The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological,…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World”: The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
The 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological,…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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Yonatan Miller's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months ago
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Yonatan Miller deposited Sabbath-Temple-Eden: Purity Rituals at the Intersection of Sacred Time and Space on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months ago
Despite repeated biblical mentions of the sanctity of the Sabbath and numerous imperatives to keep the day holy, there is little in rabbinic writings on the Sabbath reflecting these facets of the day’s observance. In contrast, Jewish writers from the Second Temple period and mem- bers of the Samaritan-Israelites actively sanctified the Sabbath b…[Read more]
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Jordan Rosenblum's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
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Jordan Rosenblum's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAn exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
An exploration of the paradoxical celebrity of ascetic renunciants in early Christianity, using the example of Simeon Stylites, the pillar saint.
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Interspecies and Cross-species Generation: in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis article treats late ancient rabbinic texts (ca. 1st-early 3rd cents. CE), reading them as biology, and following their ideas about the limits and possibilities of reproductive and species variation. I read sources from the tractates of Niddah, Kil’ayim, and Bekhorot, in the Mishnah and Toseta, as expressions of a science of generation, or a b…[Read more]
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