The question of how many sisters were portrayed with Jesus at the Raising of Lazarus in early Christian art has not previously been explored, and interestingly, the hypothesis that Martha was added later aligns with the number of sisters portrayed in early art of the Raising of Lazarus.
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Scenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
Scenes from the life of Jesus depicted on a fragment of an early Christian sarcophagus (4th century CE) Narbo Via Museum [Wikimedia].
In this article, I want to contextualize the term polupragmosunē as it is used in the works of other writers in the Roman imperial period (particularly Plutarch, Apuleius, Lucian, and Tertullian) and demonstrate how polupragmosunē is a key component of Diognetus’s anti-Jewish rhetoric and construction of uniquely Christian knowledge.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight | Representing the Destruction of Jerusalem: Literary Artistry and the Shaping of Memory in 2 Kings 25, Lamentations, and Ezekiel
Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, miniature by Jean Fouquet, courtesy of Wikimedia
Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, miniature by Jean Fouquet, courtesy of Wikimedia
“I contend, however, that the impetus to reconstruct a historical account of ‘what really happened’ has significantly undertheorized the differing ways in which biblical texts both recount and shape the very idea of destruction of Jerusalem.”
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