John Marshall
,@jwilliammarshall
2
Following
3
Followers
-
Ian Wilson deposited Review of ‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology, ed. Lester L. Grabbe in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of said book.
-
Ian Wilson deposited Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Culture in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoKingship has been a political mainstay in human history, even when peoples have lacked monarchic rulers. This essay examines the book of Samuel as a source for the cultural history of ancient Judah, focusing on the question of how Samuel’s representations of monarchy would function for its readers in the early Second Temple era. In this era, w…[Read more]
-
Ian Wilson deposited Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Eze…[Read more]
-
Pamela Barmash deposited Blood Feud and State Control: Differing Legal Institutions for the Remedy of Homicide During the Second and First Millennia B.C.E. in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSince the discovery of the Laws of Hammurapi in December 1901–January 1902,1
the dependence of biblical law upon Mesopotamian law has been hotly debated. Among
the most contentious issues is the abjudication of homicide, and the discussion has focused
on particular odd cases in biblical law, such as an ox that gored or assault on a p…[Read more] -
Pamela Barmash deposited Ancient Near Eastern Law in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAncient Near Eastern Law. The oldest documented law comes from the ancient Near East. The earliest legal texts come from about 2600 B.C.E., a few hundred years after the invention of writing, and they predate by millennia the documentation for law from the other early civilizations of China and India.
-
Pamela Barmash deposited Amnesty and Reform Texts in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAmnesty and Reform Texts. Edicts of amnesty and reform decreed by a king intervened in economy and society, invalidating loans, pledges and sales, cancelling debts, and issuing behavioral instructions to government officials. They were dated to a specific time at which their provisions would come into effect.
-
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
-
I am struck by the event of dissolution (in Spencer’s articulation). I wonder how one might think of narrative dissipating into narrativity. Not so much all stories being chapters of a single story as all stories as potential building blocks for other stories. The challenge for me is actually observing a narrative degenerate. The glue is quick…[Read more]
-
Yes, I agree, François, one story does lead into another one…. And sometimes, what is the central story for us, with its point and everything, becomes just a building block for someone else’s story. Makes me think of what Rochester says in a poem, “Dead, we become the lumber of the world”.
-
Very tickled to discover that Rochester’s translation of Seneca continues thus:
Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
And to that mass of matter shall be swept
Where things destroy’d with things unborn are kept.-
Yes, quite impressive! I also recommend the Johnny Depp film on Rochester, ‘The Libertine’.
-
-
-
-
-
Matthew Thiessen deposited Did Jesus Start a New Religion? in the group
New Testament on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoDid Jesus Start a New Religion? No.
- Load More
