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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Book review of Filip Ivanovic, Symbol and Icon, from JECS 2012 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA book review of _Symbol and Icon: Dionysius the Areopagite and the Iconoclastic Crisis_ (Wipf & Stock, 2010), which extensively catalogs the severe lack of proper attribution of other scholars’ work in the book.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Book review of Filip Ivanovic, Symbol and Icon, from JECS 2012 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
A book review of _Symbol and Icon: Dionysius the Areopagite and the Iconoclastic Crisis_ (Wipf & Stock, 2010), which extensively catalogs the severe lack of proper attribution of other scholars’ work in the book.
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
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Alana Vincent deposited The Work of Creation: Image, Idolatry, and Jewish Discourse in Theology and the Arts on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
The Second Commandment, prohibiting both the worship and manufacture of graven images, is often employed as a mechanism for explaining a perceived absence of Jewish participation in the visual arts, in spite of a well recorded history of Jewish participation in the manufacture of graven images which are typically classed as craft objects. This…[Read more]
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Alana Vincent deposited The Necessity of a Jewish Systematic Theology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Taking into account current disputes about the nature of theology and religious studies, both inside and outside of the academy, this article argues that the academic discipline of theology would benefit greatly by expanding its religious remit beyond the traditional field of Christian systematic theology to include constructive-critical insider…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Eric Meyer deposited On Making Fleshly Difference: Humanity and Animality in Gregory of Nyssa on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
This essay explores the theological stakes of differentiating humanity from animality in Gregory of Nyssa’s treatise De hominis opificio. Gregory’s conviction that the imago dei names an essential affinity to the angelic in human beings corresponds to his need to categorically differentiate humanity from animality. Yet, human affinity to God and…[Read more]
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
This paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Alana Vincent's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
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Alana Vincent's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Jacob Erickson deposited Irreverent Theology: On the Queer Ecology of Creation in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDrawing on the creativity of the nascent field of “queer ecology,” I argue for a kind of irreverent ecocriticism (Nicole Seymour) and a constructive theological posture of irreverence towards the twin metaphysical concepts of “God” and “Nature.” I do so by engaging the work of feminist philosopher of science, Karen Barad. Barad’s writing is ke…[Read more]
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Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Jacob Erickson deposited Irreverent Theology: On the Queer Ecology of Creation on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
Drawing on the creativity of the nascent field of “queer ecology,” I argue for a kind of irreverent ecocriticism (Nicole Seymour) and a constructive theological posture of irreverence towards the twin metaphysical concepts of “God” and “Nature.” I do so by engaging the work of feminist philosopher of science, Karen Barad. Barad’s writing is ke…[Read more]
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Josef Barla's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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