Fraade’s balanced and succinct style of commentary is… a product of and testament to the author’s meticulous use of the comparative method and will surely contribute to conversations between scholars of Scrolls and specialists in cognate fields.
Read MoreMaterials That Make Difference
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, accompanied by La Fornarina, preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia (Exhibited 1820) Tate Collection.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, accompanied by La Fornarina, preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia (Exhibited 1820) Tate Collection.
The case of the Jewish catacombs exemplifies how scholars of the ancient world have long worked with undertheorized ideas about religious identities, religious communities, and the relationship between material culture and lived religion, among other things.
Read MoreThe Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
Canaletto, Rome: Ruins of the Forum, Looking towards the Capitol (1742) Windsor Castle Collection [Wikimedia].
Canaletto, Rome: Ruins of the Forum, Looking towards the Capitol (1742) Windsor Castle Collection [Wikimedia].
Denzey Lewis poses the provocative question: how did Rome become holy? The answer, as we see by the end of this book, lies mainly in the logic behind the compilation of the sources rather than in the sources per se.
Read MoreRereading Reading Renunciation
Brice Marden, Untitled from Five Plates (1973) The Art Institute of Chicago.
Brice Marden, Untitled from Five Plates (1973) The Art Institute of Chicago.
What did she want us to see and know differently? How did she want to shape us?
Read MoreHell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell (modeled 1880-1917 and cast by Alexis Rudier 1926-1928) Philadelphia Museum of Art - Rodin Museum.
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell (modeled 1880-1917 and cast by Alexis Rudier 1926-1928) Philadelphia Museum of Art - Rodin Museum.
Building upon scholarship that sees juridical contexts at the heart of these conceptions of punishment and just desserts, Henning pushes such conclusions further by asking what other assumptions, namely concerning bodies and gender, are brought into our scholarly interpretations of Hell and the afterlife.
Read MoreDivine Accounting: Theo-Economics in Early Christianity
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Parable of the Rich Fool (1627) Berlin, Gemäldegalerie [Wikimedia].
Literary Theory and the New Testament
François Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell (1876) The National Gallery, London.
François Bonvin, Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell (1876) The National Gallery, London.
Throughout Literary Theory and the New Testament, Dinkler builds a persuasive case for the contributions literary theory continues to make to the field of New Testament studies.
Read MoreThe Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture
A stamp featuring Thomas the Apostle issued by the Postal Department of India in 1964 [Wikimedia].
Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
The authors explore in detail the roles women played, attending to commonalities and particularities of “Jew and Gentile” women. From the very beginning, the authors take great care to guide those who will teach from this textbook, and they are explicit about the book’s scope and limitations. Readers will find not only a useful primer for studying gender within ancient texts, but also, a detailed account of the various ways in which readers and students themselves interpret these texts.
Read MoreThe Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism
“In this innovative and deeply engaging study, Newsom sparks new ways of thinking about models of moral agency in biblical and early Jewish literature and paves the way for a broader application of the analysis that considers Jewish literature composed in Greek or the literature of other cultures.”
Read MoreThe Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Image of Roman ruins in Rome by Lorenzoclick [Flickr].
The Narrative Shape of Emotion in the Preaching of John Chrysostom
Paul Cézanne, The Magdalen (or Sorrow)/La Douleur (ca. 1868-1869) Musée d'Orsay [Wikimedia].
Memory in a Time of Prose
By focusing on known dynamics of memory and archaeological evidence, Pioske brings together sometimes-disparate methodological considerations to make a persuasive case for how one might engage in a historically and theoretically responsible way with the knowledge claims made in early Hebrew texts.
Read MoreEusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History
Canaletto, Rome: The Arch of Constantine (1742) Royal Collection [Wikimedia].
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
[H]is project does bring to the fore the question of what these terms—as classificatory labels—might have meant to the ancient authors who used them, and, perhaps more within our control, what they mean for scholars today. If our evidence seems to resist our current attempts at classification, perhaps we need to rethink how we are classifying.
Read MoreSacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome
View of the interior of Santa Costanza in Rome (Wikimedia © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
View of the interior of Santa Costanza in Rome (Wikimedia © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
Noga-Banai structures her study around repeated journeys between Jerusalem and Rome from the first through fifth centuries, tracing a period from subtle to increasingly assured visual appropriation of memories and tropes, culminating in a self-assured and assertive Rome confident in its identity as the perceived historical center of the Christian movement.
Read MoreCharity in Rabbinic Judaism
“In sum, Gray is a careful and intuitive reader and teacher of rabbinic text creating cogent and compelling arguments which support her conclusions about the interplay and shift in rabbinic values and theology on charity.”
Read MoreThe Body and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Ascetical Theology
Edvard Munch, Desire (1907) Munch Museum [Wikimedia].
Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East
Image of Jacob of Serugh [Orthodowiki Image].
Image of Jacob of Serugh [Orthodowiki Image].
Preaching Christology in the Roman Near East makes a significant contribution to both Syriac studies and late ancient studies.
Read MoreBook Note | Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
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In fact, binitarianism is even found in a number of late antique rabbinic texts as well, ultimately signaling that binitarian ideas did not necessarily serve as a form of proto-trinitarianism, remaining a part of Jewish thought even after the founding of Christianity.
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