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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoReview of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. In Rosetta 20 (2017).
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals in the Metropolitan Museum. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoStudy of inscribed Kassite cylinder seals held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Through the Guts of a Beggar: Power, Authority, and the King in Old Babylonian Proverbs. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoStudy of Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs that speak on authority and how those same proverbs may subtly (or not quite so subtly) rebuke the king and established institutions of power.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Shifting Alignments: the Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoA study of the nature of the udug and lama figures as seen in Mesopotamian (primarily Old Babylonian) incantations, as well as an overview of the nature of demons in Mesopotamia.
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Pigs and Plaques: Considering Rm. 714 in Light of Comparative Artistic and Textual Sources in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoRm. 714, a first millennium B.C.E. tablet in the collections of the British Museum, is remarkable for the fine carving of a striding pig in high relief on its obverse. Purchased by Hormuzd Rassam in Baghdad in 1877, it lacks archaeological context and must be considered in light of other textual and artistic references to pigs, the closest…[Read more]
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis article serves as introduction to a special double issue of the journal, comprised of seven articles that center on the theme of space and place in the ancient world. The essays examine the ways in which borders, frontiers, and the lands beyond them were created, defined, and maintained in the ancient world. They consider such themes within…[Read more]
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Christian Frevel deposited Von streunenden Katzen und plündernden Soldaten. Eine Spurensuche zur Herkunft des Wortes in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoin: Sebastian Grätz, Axel Graupner, Jörf Lanckau, Ein Freund des Wortes. Festschrift Udo Rüterswörden, Göttingen 2019, 100-109.
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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
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament 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 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
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament 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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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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Caitlin Chaves Yates deposited Tell Mozan’s Outer City in the Third Millennium BCE in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years agoDuring the third millennium B.C.E., Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, expanded to include an extensive outer city. A variety of investigations in the outer city reveal a complex urban environment: a mix of planned and unplanned activity with the environment and large municipal works acting as constraining factors on more localized activity.
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Henry Colburn deposited Gemelli Careri’s Description of Persepolis in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThis article examines the description of Persepolis, one of the capital cities of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE), by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) in his illustrated travelogue Giro del mondo (1699–1700). Gemelli Careri’s extensive description of the site—some twenty pages of text accompanied by two plates en…[Read more]
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Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited The Two Brothers: A Re-evaluation of Their Kinship in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThe relationship between the ‘Two Brothers’ Nakhtankh and Khnumnakht has been heavily debated since the discovery of their mummies in 1907. Re-examining the coffin inscriptions of these two individuals reveals that Nakhtankh and Khnumnakht were likely uncle and nephew.
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Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited On the validity of sexing data from early excavations: examples from Qau in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years agoA brief technical re-examination of a paper by George Mann on the Qau skeletons in the Duckworth collection is undertaken. Taking into account the original data and technical aspects of skeletal sexing, it is shown that old data on skeletal sexing may not always be as unreliable as previously thought. Factors that may introduce errors into this…[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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Lloyd Graham deposited “Then a star fell:” Folk-memory of a celestial impact event in the ancient Egyptian Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor? in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe motif in the centre of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (ca. 2000-1900 BCE) concerns a star that fell to earth and caused the extinction of a population of giant serpents on an enchanted island, whose location is traditionally ascribed to the Red Sea. These creatures could apparently breathe fire, but they themselves…[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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Ian Wilson deposited The Emperor and His Clothing: David Robed and Unrobed before the Ark and Michal in the group
Ancient Near East 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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