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James M. Harland deposited Imagining the Saxons in Late Antique Gaul in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years agoPublished in Sächsische Leute und Länder Benennung und Lokalisierung von Gruppenidentitäten im ersten Jahrtausend, and a considerably expanded version of a paper delivered at the Internationales Sachsensymposion in Leipzig, 2015.
The article considers the literary representation of Saxons in the works of the late antique authors Sidonius Ap…[Read more]
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Matthew Suriano deposited No Rest for the Dead – The Reversal of Death in Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEzekiel 37 is based upon Judean mortuary culture, and the revivification of bones is a reversal of death. Rather than a resurrection event, Ezekiel’s metaphor of Israel as a mass of dry bones is based upon the burial customs that occurred inside the family tomb.
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Alison Joseph deposited Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoKing Manasseh of Judah is blamed for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile, a heavy mantle to carry. But as a character, Manasseh is boring—he looks like the other ordinary bad kings, even described as a “cardboard cutout,” that Kings has little literary use for. Wouldn’t we expect a more colorful villain? Is there anything in the…[Read more]
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Alison Joseph deposited ‘Is Dinah Raped?’ Isn’t the Right Question: Genesis 34 and Feminist Historiography in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoMany of the feminist readings of the Dinah story in Genesis 34 in recent years have focused on the question of whether Dinah is raped. The interpretations that perhaps Dinah was not “raped” span the spectrum from a teenage love affair between Dinah and Shechem, to a case of statutory rape, to a marriage by abduction. Guilty of exploring this que…[Read more]
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Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Patrologia Graeca – Versiones Arabicae in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis is an enhanced compilation of relevant entries from Clavis Patrum Graecorum which was compiled by me (GS) for the “Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations” volume up to Nov. 2015. It is an embryonic version of what was later substantially enlarged and published as “A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related T…[Read more]
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Philip J. Lowe deposited The Premise and Paraenesis: Rhetorical Studies and the Connection of the Christ Hymn with the Corresponding Paraenesis of Colossians in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMuch has been written on the epistle to the Colossians. Much less has been written on Colossians and rhetoric. Even less has been written on the connection of praise and paraenesis found in the epistle. If the book of Colossians can be understood as epideictic rhetoric, then a connection between its paraenesis and the encomium to Christ…[Read more]
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Ian Wilson deposited The Emperor and His Clothing: David Robed and Unrobed before the Ark and Michal in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines the issue of David’s (lack of) clothing in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 15. It asks: what potential meanings would be at play for ancient readers of these texts? Drawing on research into social memory and “forgetting,” it argues that Judean readers would partially warrant Michal’s distaste for David’s dressing-down, while still…[Read more]
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Philip J. Lowe deposited A Qualm About Q in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe Q hypothesis has long dominated the study of the Synoptics. It is often heralded as the key to Synoptic interpretation, yet it is simultaneously challenged at nearly every juncture. Regarding parable study, the Q hypothesis offers much by way of identifying redaction, but the impact of identifiable redaction is often overvalued. Those choosing…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Las “Coplas a un impotente” atribuidas a don Juan Manuel y su posible contexto histórico y político (1506) in the group
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoEn la más reciente edición y estudio de la Carajicomedia, su editor llama la atención sobre un aspecto determinado de esta obra, y por extensión, a todas las sátiras a mitad de camino entre lo burlesco y lo erótico: se establece la necesidad de explorar «more fully the political complexity of the period; the reasons that its authors may have h…[Read more]
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David Skelton deposited Angels among us? The Watchers myth and angelology in Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis and the Ethiopic tradition in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis study examines the euhemeristic interpretation of Genesis 6:1–4 as it appears in Ephrem
of Nisibis’ Commentary on Genesis and its influence on Syriac and Ethiopic commentary
traditions. I suggest that Ephrem’s attempt to mitigate the angelic interpretation of Genesis
6 ironically mirrors his own angelology. The distinctive components he ad…[Read more] -
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, 3 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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Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
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Peter Martens deposited Response to Mark Edwards in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMy essay highlights differences between how Edwards and I approach ancient sources and the scholarship on them. My response also provides a dossier of a dozen or so passages where Origen portrays paradise as a divine or incorporeal place, distinct from this earth, and as a residence for pre-existent rational creatures. Edwards denies such a portrait.
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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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Collin Cornell deposited The Forgotten Female Figurines of Elephantine in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn spite of renewed scholarly interest in the religion of Judeans living on the island of Elephantine during the Persian period, only one recent study has addressed the religious significance of the fired clay female figurines discovered there. The present article seeks to place these objects back on the research agenda. After summarizing the…[Read more]
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded) in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoD. Kruisheer, ‘A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded)’, in B. ter Haar Romeny (ed.), Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden 18; Leiden: Brill, 2008), 265–293.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded) in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoD. Kruisheer, ‘A Bibliographical Clavis to the Works of Jacob of Edessa (revised and expanded)’, in B. ter Haar Romeny (ed.), Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden 18; Leiden: Brill, 2008), 265–293.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72 in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72’, in R. Lavenant (ed.), Symposium Syriacum VII (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1998), 599–605.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Ephrem, Jacob of Edessa, and the Monk Severus. An Analysis of Ms. Vat. Syr. 103, ff. 1–72’, in R. Lavenant (ed.), Symposium Syriacum VII (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1998), 599–605.
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Dirk Kruisheer deposited Reconstructing Jacob of Edessa’s Scholia in the group
Syriac Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoD. Kruisheer, ‘Reconstructing Jacob of Edessa’s Scholia’, in J. Frishman and L. Van Rompay (eds.), The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. A Collection of Essays (Traditio Exegetica Graeca 5; Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 187–196.
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