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M. Dillon deposited Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Social scientist of religion Peter Homans has demonstrated that symbolic loss, cultural memory, and modernization are tightly intertwined. As a consequence of modernization, Western culture has lost a shared relationship to the symbols of its Christian past, leading to religious mourning. This article demonstrates that the category gnosticism…[Read more]
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M. Dillon deposited Gnosticism Theorized: Major Trends and Approaches to the Study of Gnosticism on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Overview of the major trends and approaches to the study of ‘Gnosticism’ after the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices.
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M. Dillon deposited The Afterlives of the Archons: Gnostic Literalism and Embodied Paranoia in Twenty-First Century Conspiracy Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
This article analyzes the reception of the ancient Gnostic archons, or rulers, in contemporary conspiracy theories. In the classical Gnostic myth these nefarious beings rule the cosmos, mold primordial matter into a prison for Adam and Eve, and blind the Elect to their divine nature. These archons send cataclysms to earth and serve as celestial…[Read more]
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Matthew J. Dillon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
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Matthew J. Dillon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Early Christianity, Theory, and Me on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
Paper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania to the graduate students in religious studies on May 6, 2016
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
Paper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Ex-Jews and Early Christians: Conversion and the Allure of the Other on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World”: The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological,…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
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