Martyrdom of Perpetua, Felicity, Revocatus, Saturninus, and Secundulus from the Menologion of Basil II.
Martyrdom of Perpetua, Felicity, Revocatus, Saturninus, and Secundulus from the Menologion of Basil II.
Dr. Elizabeth Castelli reflects on a culture of violence.
Read MoreNiobe at Hierapolis
Niobe at Hierapolis
Dr. Laura Nasrallah reflects on the binary between representation and real in her reading of Bia in Antiquity.
Read MorePharaoh'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.
Read MoreZen 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 MoreDr. Shelly Matthews describes the development of the section, as well as the impact it has had upon her work on Stephen's martyrdom.
Read MoreAJR is happy to host the Violence and Representations of Violence SBL section’s 10 Year Retrospective.
Read MoreRichard Newton discusses incorporating realia into the college classroom.
Read MorePaul 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 MoreIf 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 MoreJohn 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 MoreJohn Gager's Who Made Early Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul makes the case for Paul's commitment to Judaism.
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreQumran
"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 MoreBinding 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."
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreYonatan Miller presents priestly violence as “proto-martyrdom” and illustrate how this paradigm prefigures the highly stylized discursive functions of its better-known successor.
Read MoreHappy One Year Ancient Jew Review Anniversary! The editors address their most asked question: "What is Ancient Judaism?"
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