Robyn Whitaker
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Janelle Peters deposited Gendered Activity and Jesus’s Saying Not to Worry on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The flowers’ activity in the saying of Jesus about anxiety indicates an interest in cloth production across the socio-economic spectrum. I demonstrate that wool-working is a central feature of the multiform tradition of this saying and that spinning in particular was associated with women. I further note that the activity of gazing at flowers w…[Read more]
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Janelle Peters's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
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Sean Winter deposited Friendship Traditions in the New Testament: An Overview in the group
New Testament on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis article describes the main contours of Greco-Roman and Jewish friendship trad- itions, and considers some of the ways that these traditions were adopted and adapted in New Testament texts. The survey suggests that early Christian writers drew on friendship traditions as a way of articulating certain important values relating to the need to…[Read more]
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Sean Winter deposited Friendship Traditions in the New Testament: An Overview in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis article describes the main contours of Greco-Roman and Jewish friendship trad- itions, and considers some of the ways that these traditions were adopted and adapted in New Testament texts. The survey suggests that early Christian writers drew on friendship traditions as a way of articulating certain important values relating to the need to…[Read more]
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Sean Winter deposited Friendship Traditions in the New Testament: An Overview on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
This article describes the main contours of Greco-Roman and Jewish friendship trad- itions, and considers some of the ways that these traditions were adopted and adapted in New Testament texts. The survey suggests that early Christian writers drew on friendship traditions as a way of articulating certain important values relating to the need to…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited God and the Sea in Job 38 in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoJob 38:8-11 plays an important role in the first divine speech at the end of Job. This article makes a text-critical and literary argument that the stanza primarily emphasizes God’s powerful control over the Sea, in continuity with the preceding poetic unit whose theme is God’s singular power and Job’s incommensurability. However, vv 8-11 also…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited God and the Sea in Job 38 in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoJob 38:8-11 plays an important role in the first divine speech at the end of Job. This article makes a text-critical and literary argument that the stanza primarily emphasizes God’s powerful control over the Sea, in continuity with the preceding poetic unit whose theme is God’s singular power and Job’s incommensurability. However, vv 8-11 also…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited What happened to Kemosh? in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoWhat happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron deities of Iron Age Levantine kingdoms and shared various similarities of profile. As such, c…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Holy Mutability: Religionsgeschichte and Theological Ontology in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe Christian community characteristically confesses the constancy of God. But historians of religion know by contrast that the deity Yhwh evolved over time. How might scholars who belong to both these camps negotiate the disconnect? This essay seeks an answer by staging a moment of complementarity between Religionsgeschichte and OT theology.…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine , written by Gard Granerød in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Gard Granerød’s title, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period.
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Collin Cornell's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Job 38:8-11 plays an important role in the first divine speech at the end of Job. This article makes a text-critical and literary argument that the stanza primarily emphasizes God’s powerful control over the Sea, in continuity with the preceding poetic unit whose theme is God’s singular power and Job’s incommensurability. However, vv 8-11 also…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Collin Cornell deposited Kemosh, YHWH’s Counterpart and “Abomination” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
An online article comparing the Mesha Inscription and its deity Kemosh with the Hebrew Bible and Yhwh.
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What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron deities of Iron Age Levantine kingdoms and shared various similarities of profile. As such, c…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Holy Mutability: Religionsgeschichte and Theological Ontology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
The Christian community characteristically confesses the constancy of God. But historians of religion know by contrast that the deity Yhwh evolved over time. How might scholars who belong to both these camps negotiate the disconnect? This essay seeks an answer by staging a moment of complementarity between Religionsgeschichte and OT theology.…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh…[Read more]
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Collin Cornell deposited Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine , written by Gard Granerød on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
A review of Gard Granerød’s title, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period.
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Collin Cornell deposited Götter, Tempel und Kult der Judäo–Aramäer von Elephantine: archäologische und schriftliche Zeugnisse aus dem perserzeit-lichen Ägypten on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
A review of Angela Rohrmoser’s book, Götter, Tempel und Kult der Judäo–Aramäer.
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