Niobe at Hierapolis
Dr. Laura Nasrallah reflects on the binary between representation and real in her reading of Bia in Antiquity.
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Niobe at Hierapolis
Religious Violence in a Post-9/11 World
Pharaoh's army engulfed in the Red Sea
Pharaoh's army engulfed in the Red Sea
Dr. Shira Lander reflects on the history of the Violence and Representations of Violence Section and the significance of 9/11.
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Zen Chapel, San Marco, 13th C. “Martyrdom of St. Mark”
Zen Chapel, San Marco, 13th C. “Martyrdom of St. Mark”
Dr. David Frankfurter suggests we show greater attention to the phenomenology of religious violence.
Read MoreThe Genealogy of an SBL Section
Dr. Shelly Matthews describes the development of the section, as well as the impact it has had upon her work on Stephen's martyrdom.
Read MoreViolence and Representations of Violence Section at 10: Retrospect and Prospect
AJR is happy to host the Violence and Representations of Violence SBL section’s 10 Year Retrospective.
Read MoreTalmudic Stories, Then and Now: A Retrospective by Jeffrey Rubenstein
Realia and the Teacher’s Toolbox in the Postmodern New Testament Classroom
Richard Newton discusses incorporating realia into the college classroom.
Read MoreCanons, Communities, and Christian Origins: A Response to the AJR Canon Forum
Paul preaching to Jews in Damascus
Paul preaching to Jews in Damascus
Dr. Rollens responds to Canon: An AJR Forum with a New Testament perspective.
Read MoreUsing Word Clouds as Informal Assessment in Religion Courses
If used at both the beginning and the end of a module, word clouds can provide an informal assessment technique, gauging the progress of what students learn throughout the course of the module.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight: John Penniman
John Penniman's dissertation argues that "for ancient Jews and Christians, nourishment symbolized a transformative process, a transfer of essential qualities and characteristics that could mold the one being fed into the likeness of the one doing the feeding.
Read MoreOn the Eighth Day of Christmas…
The Circumcision by Vincenzo Catena
The Circumcision by Vincenzo Catena
And the eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, and he was called by the name Jesus, which he was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. - Luke 2:21
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Qumran
Canon: Process, Not Product?
Imagining Scriptures Before the Canon
"David with harp" 6th cent Gaza Synagogue
"David with harp" 6th cent Gaza Synagogue
This week in Canon: An AJR Forum Eva Mroczek imagines the fluidity of sacred writing.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Emergence of the Jewish Canon
Binding of Isaac panel from the synagogue mosaic at Beth Alpha.
Binding of Isaac panel from the synagogue mosaic at Beth Alpha.
This week in Canon: An AJR Forum Timothy Lim discusses his theory of the "majority canon."
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When did the Bible become the Bible? This forum is interested not just in challenging former conceptions about the Bible, but in highlighting some of the interesting variations and configurations of scripture that existed in the Second Temple period.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight: Yonatan Miller
Yonatan Miller presents priestly violence as “proto-martyrdom” and illustrate how this paradigm prefigures the highly stylized discursive functions of its better-known successor.
Read MoreWhat is Ancient Judaism? | Anniversary Post
Happy One Year Ancient Jew Review Anniversary! The editors address their most asked question: "What is Ancient Judaism?"
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight: Courtney Wilson VanVeller
St. Paul, St. Chrysostom, and St. Basil. Carlo Crivelli, 1493.
St. Paul, St. Chrysostom, and St. Basil. Carlo Crivelli, 1493.
In “Paul’s Therapy of the Soul: A New Approach to John Chrysostom and Anti-Judaism,” I argue that Chrysostom appropriates Paul’s Jewishness in order to amplify his own fourth century characterization of Jews as diseased and of Paul as an exemplar of non-Jewish Christian orthodoxy.
Read MoreDissertation Spotlight: Sara Ronis
Though scholars have largely overlooked demons as a source of information about rabbinic law, cross-cultural interaction, and theology, this dissertation has asked how the inclusion of rabbinic demonology enriches our picture of rabbinic discourse and thought in Late Antique Sasanian Babylonia.
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