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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more] -
Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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Yonatan Miller's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yonatan Miller's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Defilement of Dina: Uncontrolled Passions, Textual Violence, and the Search for Moral Foundations on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
The story of Dinah’s violation in Genesis 34 has elicited radically different evaluations among exegetes. The present article attributes these divergent readings to the existence of distinct voices or moral positions in the text, particularly in relation to the issue of intermarriage. Beginning with a synchronic literary and ideological analysis o…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
This article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more] -
Yitzhaq Feder deposited Contagion and Cognition: Bodily Experience and the Conceptualization of Pollution (ṭum’ah) in the Hebrew Bible on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
In this study, I apply embodiment theory as a framework for reconstructing the origins of the Israelite notion of pollution (ṭum’ah). Despite the fact that the Hebrew Bible describes a diverse array of sources of pollution – including bodily conditions, moral offenses and foreign cult practices, most modern studies attempt to find a single organ…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Sarah Shectman deposited The Social Status of Priestly and Levite Women in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of pentateuchal laws pertaining to women either born or married into priestly and levitical families in ancient Israel.
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Sarah Shectman deposited The Social Status of Priestly and Levite Women in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAn analysis of pentateuchal laws pertaining to women either born or married into priestly and levitical families in ancient Israel.
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Francis Borchardt deposited The Battle of Emmaus and 1 Maccabees’ Creative Use of Martial Law in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoForty thousand infantry prepared for battle slowly march south toward Judea from the Seleucid capital in Antioch. They are joined by seven thousand cavalry with a single command: destroy Judea. Upon reaching the land they make camp at Emmaus and wait for a rather small band of Judean rebels to respond. Such is the opening scene of the battle of…[Read more]
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Francis Borchardt deposited The Battle of Emmaus and 1 Maccabees’ Creative Use of Martial Law in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoForty thousand infantry prepared for battle slowly march south toward Judea from the Seleucid capital in Antioch. They are joined by seven thousand cavalry with a single command: destroy Judea. Upon reaching the land they make camp at Emmaus and wait for a rather small band of Judean rebels to respond. Such is the opening scene of the battle of…[Read more]
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Francis Borchardt deposited What Can 2Macc 2:13-15 Tell Us about the Biblical Canon? in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMany scholars have used two verses from an epistle appended to the main body of 2 Maccabees to suggest a canon, proto-canon, or body of scripture is present already during the Hasmonean era and even before. We question such conclusions by investigating the background and contents of the epistle, using both historical-critical and rhetorical…[Read more]
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Francis Borchardt deposited What Can 2Macc 2:13-15 Tell Us about the Biblical Canon? in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMany scholars have used two verses from an epistle appended to the main body of 2 Maccabees to suggest a canon, proto-canon, or body of scripture is present already during the Hasmonean era and even before. We question such conclusions by investigating the background and contents of the epistle, using both historical-critical and rhetorical…[Read more]
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Francis Borchardt deposited What Can 2Macc 2:13-15 Tell Us about the Biblical Canon? in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoMany scholars have used two verses from an epistle appended to the main body of 2 Maccabees to suggest a canon, proto-canon, or body of scripture is present already during the Hasmonean era and even before. We question such conclusions by investigating the background and contents of the epistle, using both historical-critical and rhetorical…[Read more]
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