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Meredith Warren deposited Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEditorial preface
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual function. Generally, this may be because we have some kind of impression that a group of old…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited The Mother of Rufus and Paul in Romans 16 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Rufus’s mother features in Paul’s concluding list of church leaders such as Phoebe in Romans 16. Paul calls her his own mother. I argue that Rufus’s mother’s inclusion indicates higher status and influence within the Pauline house-churches, building on Elmer’s notion of corporate Pauline authorship.
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited Muted and Hidden Monsters in Revelation 12 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
The Woman clothed with the Sun makes a brief appearance in Revelation 12; however, her influence upon the imaginations of artists and interpreters is substantive. She is unnamed and yet multiple identities are ascribed to her including individual women (Eve, Mary), corporate institutions (Israel, the church), and ancient goddesses. In this…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited Moses Married a Black Woman: Modern American Receptions of the Cushite Wife of Moses on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Americans overwhelmingly assume that Moses married a Black woman. Using sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article highlights interpretations of Moses’s marriage to the Cushite woman in Numbers 12. Utilising cultural-critical reception history—that biblical interpretation is culturally conditioned—readers in the United State…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited Forgetting the Forgetter: The Cupbearer in the Joseph Saga (Genesis 40–41) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Typically, the cupbearer in Genesis 40–41 is interpreted only as a member of Joseph’s supporting cast. However, closely reading this minor character suggests more options for interpreting both him and other anonymous courtiers found throughout the Hebrew Bible. The cupbearer’s actions (and inactions) raise ethical and psychological questions about…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited The Social Dynamics Surrounding Yahwistic Women’s Supposed Ritual Deviance in Ezekiel 13:17–23 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
This article suggests that in Ezekiel 13:17–23 we have an example of the ritual activities of Yahwistic women being undermined. However, rather than opening the hermeneutical crux of attempting to understand what it is the women are doing or how their ritual activity is functioning, I will focus squarely on the broader social dynamics in the t…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited “Call Me By Your Name”: Critical Fabulation and the Woman of Judges 19 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Is anonymity a form of violence? The woman of Judges 19 endured gang-rape and dismemberment, and neither the Bible nor its ancient exegetes gave her a name. This article surveys the modern writers and scholars who chose new names for her, examining how their choices of names reflected their broader goals for retelling her story. From there, I turn…[Read more]
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies deposited Editorial, Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
Editorial preface
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Meredith Warren deposited Response to Standhartinger, “Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism” on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Response to Angela Standhartinger, Female Officiants
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Meredith Warren deposited Sensing the Unknowable: Sensing Revelation, Relationship, and Response in Psalm 139 in the group
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPsalms write and express revelation, relationship, and response on and through the body; corporeal vocabulary, awareness of embodiment and somatic metaphors abound. This rhetoric draws people in through reference to common experience and uses somatic language to express thoughts and emotions which often escape conceptualisation, such as confusion,…[Read more]
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