“Moses receiving the law” in the Basilica of San Vitale is a church in Ravenna, Italy,
“Moses receiving the law” in the Basilica of San Vitale is a church in Ravenna, Italy,
Christine Hayes responds to Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile in the AJR review forum.
Read MoreIsaac, Jacob, and Esau at Cathedral of Monreale, Italy via Wiki Commons.
Isaac, Jacob, and Esau at Cathedral of Monreale, Italy via Wiki Commons.
Yair Furstenberg responds to Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile in the AJR review forum.
Read MorePortrait of Ezra, from folio 5r of The Codex Amiatinus. © Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Portrait of Ezra, from folio 5r of The Codex Amiatinus. © Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Cynthia Baker responds to Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile in the AJR review forum.
Read MoreThe AJR review forum of Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. With responses from Cynthia Baker, Yair Furstenberg, Christine Hayes, and Cavan Concannon.
Read MoreAdi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi open the AJR review forum of their book, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile.
Read MoreCa. early fourth-century painting of a woman | Catacomb of Calixtus, Rome | Image Source
Ca. early fourth-century painting of a woman | Catacomb of Calixtus, Rome | Image Source
This Week: Hypatia, translational twists and turns, Job and reparations, the problem with “Judeo-Christian,” JQR behind-the-scenes, Cairo Genizah – and more!
Read MorePapers from the 2018 Society of Biblical Literature’s review panel on Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreThe Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Figure of Job - Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Nevertheless, I characterize the book as more protean. It resists reductive readings, always offering a counter-text to any interpretation (including the one in this essay.)
Read MoreDetailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Detailed from Raphael’s “School of Athens” (Wikimedia Commons)
Watts ends the volume with a chapter on such modern representations of Hypatia, which move already suggests his aim: to bracket the legend long enough to catch sight of the life that inspired it.
Read MoreChrist healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
Christ healing the leper (Wikimedia Commons)
I argue one must take into account not only what magic is said to be, but also what magicians do. There is a reason, after all, that these practices are the ones against which Apuleius was compelled to mount his defense.
Read MoreMaia Kotrosits responds to the review forum on Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreCatacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
Catacomb painting, possibly of Eucharist bread | Catacomb of San Callisto, third century | Image source
This Week: Continuing forum on early Christian identity, restoring Tutankhamen’s tomb, digital archaeology, Cairo Genizot, catacombs – and more!
Read MoreJonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Jonah being thrown into the Sea. Catacomb of Saint Peter and Saint Marcellino, Rome, Italy, via wikicommons.
Eric Smith responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreTeresa Calpino responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).
Read MoreWax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
Wax encaustic funerary painting on wood | Second-century Roman Egypt, in the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe) | Image Source
This Week: New forum complicating early Christian identity with Maia Kotrosits, forgery, Roman-era Egyptian tombs, museum ethics – and more!
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Image provided free through Unsplash
Donovan Schaefer responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
Read MoreImage provided free through Unsplash @chuttersnap.
Image provided free through Unsplash @chuttersnap.
Shayna Sheinfeld responds to Maia Kotrosits’s Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015) at the 2018 SBL review panel.
Read MoreIllustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
Illustration of St. Luke in an Armenian Gospel manuscript | WMS Armenian MS no.1, dated to 1495 | Image Source
This Week: Book notes and Byzantium, Coptic magic, Ishtar’s netherworld descent, open access all over the place, Armenia! - the year begins!
Read MoreFour Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
Four Gospels in Armenian (1434/5 CE) - MET Collection
This exhibition aims to showcase Armenia as an artistic civilization in its own right rather than a postscript to the more prominent and the better-known achievements of Byzantium or Near Eastern cultures.
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