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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

August 22, 2021

A Perfect Hecatomb of Lipsticks in Every Shade: Using Invocations and Prayers to Imagine Ancient Relationships to the Gods

by Gillian Glass in Articles


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In writing their own prayers and playing with the literary and religious elements of myth and history, the students actively imagine the relevance these divine beings could have had for their worshippers in order to better integrate course content.

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TAGS: pedagogy


August 16, 2021

Teaching the New Testament as an Expanded Universe

by Allen Wilson and Tom de Bruin in Articles


An image of Loki with a fishing net from from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 [Wikimedia].

An image of Loki with a fishing net from from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 [Wikimedia].

An image of Loki with a fishing net from from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 [Wikimedia].

An image of Loki with a fishing net from from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 [Wikimedia].

What can stories about Loki, Norse god and (more recently) Marvel character, teach us about biblical literature?

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TAGS: pedagogy


August 11, 2021

Creativity, Critical Thinking, and the UnEssay in the Biblical Studies Classroom

by Meredith J C Warren in Articles


“The ‘UnEssay’ is a creative assignment that helps students learn long-term project management, critical and reflective thinking, analytical writing ability, and a variety of technical skills.”

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TAGS: pedagogy


August 3, 2021

Travel Brochures

by Catherine Bonesho in Articles


The “Dead Sea Scrolls Brochure” assignment has two parts: the physical brochure and a 2-page reflective explanation of the brochure.

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TAGS: pedagogy


July 28, 2021

Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU Review Panel of Feldman's Story of Sacrifice

by Ancient Jew Review in Articles


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In 2021 NYU hosted a virtual book panel on the newly published The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source by Liane M. Feldman, Assistant Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies.

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TAGS: conference


June 30, 2021

Publication Preview | On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel

by Mika Ahuvia in Articles


“In the course of my research, I have been struck by how much American Jews’ response to the topic of angels in Jewish culture depends on their understanding of Judaism vis-à-vis modern Protestant Christian conceptualizations.”

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TAGS: publications


June 29, 2021

Becoming a Man: The Apostle Paul and Masculinity

by Grace Emmett in Articles


Medallion with Saint Paul (ca. 1100 CE) [MET Collection]

Medallion with Saint Paul (ca. 1100 CE) [MET Collection]

Medallion with Saint Paul (ca. 1100 CE) [MET Collection]

Medallion with Saint Paul (ca. 1100 CE) [MET Collection]

My doctoral thesis intervenes in this discussion by focusing this relatively new analytical gaze on Paul’s self-presentation in his undisputed letters to argue that the apostle evades straightforward classification as either disrupting or conforming to masculine norms.

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TAGS: dissertation


June 17, 2021

Interpreting the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction

by D. Clint Burnett in Articles


Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus, Turkey that serves as an entrance to Ephesus's southern agora and that contains a Latin inscription honoring the Julio-Claudian imperial family: "Mithridates (set up this portion of the monumental gate) for his patrons Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, thrice consul, victorious general, six times holding power of the tribune; Julia; Caesar Augustus; and their children" (IEph 3006; translation and photo by D. Clint Burnett).

Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus, Turkey that serves as an entrance to Ephesus's southern agora and that contains a Latin inscription honoring the Julio-Claudian imperial family: "Mithridates (set up this portion of the monumental gate) for his patrons Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, thrice consul, victorious general, six times holding power of the tribune; Julia; Caesar Augustus; and their children" (IEph 3006; translation and photo by D. Clint Burnett).

Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus, Turkey that serves as an entrance to Ephesus's southern agora and that contains a Latin inscription honoring the Julio-Claudian imperial family: "Mithridates (set up this portion of the monumental gate) for his patrons Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, thrice consul, victorious general, six times holding power of the tribune; Julia; Caesar Augustus; and their children" (IEph 3006; translation and photo by D. Clint Burnett).

Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus, Turkey that serves as an entrance to Ephesus's southern agora and that contains a Latin inscription honoring the Julio-Claudian imperial family: "Mithridates (set up this portion of the monumental gate) for his patrons Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, thrice consul, victorious general, six times holding power of the tribune; Julia; Caesar Augustus; and their children" (IEph 3006; translation and photo by D. Clint Burnett).

My new book, Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction, introduces Greco-Roman inscriptions to a broader audience, interprets them as archaeological artifacts, and then demonstrates the benefit of epigraphs for interpreting the New Testament through five case studies.

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TAGS: publications


June 8, 2021

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

by Sarit Kattan Gribetz in Articles


Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism examines conceptions and organizations of time in rabbinic sources, composed between 200 and 600 CE in Palestine and Babylonia but with lasting influence on subsequent Jewish communities, to the present day.

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TAGS: publications


June 7, 2021

Leviticus as a Mission Statement

by Martha Himmelfarb in Articles


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The point I’m trying to make is that P’s laws of sacrifice are hardly a handbook intended to provide a young priest with everything he needs to know to do his job. Rather, they appear to be outward-facing (if you’ll forgive the jargon), a priestly mission statement (to use another piece of jargon), directed at the people of Israel as a whole.

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TAGS: hebrew bible


June 1, 2021

Dissertation Spotlight | Religious Identity and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee

by Joseph Scales in Articles


Ritual immersion pool in a domestic context at Magdala: Photo Credit - Joseph Scales

Ritual immersion pool in a domestic context at Magdala: Photo Credit - Joseph Scales

Ritual immersion pool in a domestic context at Magdala: Photo Credit - Joseph Scales

Ritual immersion pool in a domestic context at Magdala: Photo Credit - Joseph Scales

This thesis answers the following two questions: how did ancient Jews create meaningful spaces of religious activity in ancient Galilee, and how did those spaces in turn influence the constitution of ancient Judaism?

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TAGS: archaeology, dissertation


May 25, 2021

When Moses Goes to Ikea: the Introduction of Systematic Sacrifice

by Andrew McGowan in Articles


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Dr. Andrew McGowan responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.”

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May 23, 2021

Legal Discourse as World-Building

by Hindy Najman in Articles


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Dr. Hindy Najman responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.

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May 19, 2021

Procedure as Imaginative Art

by Mira Balberg in Articles


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Dr. Mira Balberg responds on “Priestly Narratives: a 2021 NYU review panel and book launch for Liane Feldman’s Story of Sacrifice.

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May 4, 2021

Dissertation Spotlight | Domestic Labor and Marital Obligations in the Ancient Jewish Household

by Pratima Gopalakrishnan in Articles


Terracotta Lekythos by the Amasis Painter depicting women spinning and weaving. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Terracotta Lekythos by the Amasis Painter depicting women spinning and weaving. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Terracotta Lekythos by the Amasis Painter depicting women spinning and weaving. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Terracotta Lekythos by the Amasis Painter depicting women spinning and weaving. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

How does a household function? Who owes what to whom, and how did people conceive of their relationships to one another? How did the realities of work in an agricultural society shape these relationships?

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TAGS: Talmud, dissertation


April 28, 2021

More New Testament Apocrypha Series

by Ancient Jew Review in Articles


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Ancient Jew Review is pleased to host a series of articles on the second volume of the series New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (ed. Tony Burke; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020; vol. 1 ed. Tony Burke and Brent Landau; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016).

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TAGS: forum


April 28, 2021

Rethinking Conventional Genre Categories: How the Acts of Christ and Peter in Rome Breaks the Mold.

by Julia Snyder in Articles


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Many modern collections of Christian apocrypha group texts under headings such as “gospels,” “acts,” “epistles,” and “apocalypses.” But do these conventional genre categories help or hurt?

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TAGS: essays


April 26, 2021

The Exhortation of Peter: Interpreting Peter with Late Ancient Monastic Communities

by James E. Walters in Articles


Demons look out from Hades in this detail from the frescoes of the Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella in Florence by Andrea di Bonaiuto (1365–1368). [Full image courtesy of Wikimedia].

Demons look out from Hades in this detail from the frescoes of the Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella in Florence by Andrea di Bonaiuto (1365–1368). [Full image courtesy of Wikimedia].

Demons look out from Hades in this detail from the frescoes of the Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella in Florence by Andrea di Bonaiuto (1365–1368). [Full image courtesy of Wikimedia].

Demons look out from Hades in this detail from the frescoes of the Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella in Florence by Andrea di Bonaiuto (1365–1368). [Full image courtesy of Wikimedia].

Apocryphal narratives and traditions about the apostle Peter abounded among early Christian communities.

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TAGS: essays


April 21, 2021

Another Tale of Thomas: The Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin

by Jonathan D. Holste in Articles


Thomas carries around his flayed skin in this illumination from London, British Library, Or. 685 (18th cent.), a collection of apocryphal acts in Ethiopic.

Thomas carries around his flayed skin in this illumination from London, British Library, Or. 685 (18th cent.), a collection of apocryphal acts in Ethiopic.

Thomas carries around his flayed skin in this illumination from London, British Library, Or. 685 (18th cent.), a collection of apocryphal acts in Ethiopic.

Thomas carries around his flayed skin in this illumination from London, British Library, Or. 685 (18th cent.), a collection of apocryphal acts in Ethiopic.

When it comes to narratives about the apostle Thomas, however, the well-known Acts of Thomas is far from the only game in town, so to speak. In our contribution to MNTA 2, Janet Spittler and I had the opportunity to translate for the first time into English the Greek text of another apocryphal narrative about Thomas: the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin.

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April 18, 2021

“Bringing the West Back East, or How to Make Sure the Magdalene Belongs to Byzantium: The Life of Mary Magdalene”

by Christine Luckritz Marquis in Articles


Untitled painting by the Master of the Magdalen (ca. 1280–1285), Gallerica dell'Accademia, Florence, featuring canonical and noncanonical episodes from the life of Mary Magdalene. [Wikimedia]

Untitled painting by the Master of the Magdalen (ca. 1280–1285), Gallerica dell'Accademia, Florence, featuring canonical and noncanonical episodes from the life of Mary Magdalene. [Wikimedia]

Untitled painting by the Master of the Magdalen (ca. 1280–1285), Gallerica dell'Accademia, Florence, featuring canonical and noncanonical episodes from the life of Mary Magdalene. [Wikimedia]

Untitled painting by the Master of the Magdalen (ca. 1280–1285), Gallerica dell'Accademia, Florence, featuring canonical and noncanonical episodes from the life of Mary Magdalene. [Wikimedia]

The mingling of competing versions of the Magdalene’s life also tells us about how emerging veneration for her competed with and complemented cults of the Virgin Mary.

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TAGS: essays


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