An unsubmitted draft of a chapter from my dissertation that discusses the creation, definition, and study of the concept of religion and why the concept has no analytical value to my dissertation.

Against the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]

I offer an examination of the passage’s function in 1 Clement and potential reception
among the Corinthians. The latter part of this chapter imagines how the
Corinthian recipients of 1 Clement may have understood its brief scene of
violence against women and their purported overcoming of “being weak in
the body.” Building upon schol…[Read more]

Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem wissenschaftlichen Konsens, dass Hermas im
Hirten des Hermas als freigelassener Sklave dargestellt wird. Nach einem Blick auf
biographische Einordnungen des Hermas bei verschiedenen frühchristlichen Autoren
wird auf Theodor Zahn als „Erfinder“ der biographischen Hypothese eingegangen,
dass Hermas ein Freig…[Read more]