Amarna Letter EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh on the topic of murder | Cuneiform on clay, C14; currently held in the Louvre | Image Source
Amarna Letter EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh on the topic of murder | Cuneiform on clay, C14; currently held in the Louvre | Image Source
This Week: Animality, panbabylonianism, Nero’s Domus Aurea, palimpsests, cultural heritage, genizah online – and more!
Read MoreSection of Jan Brueghel's "The Temptation in the Garden of Eden," ca. 1600 (Wikimedia Commons)
Section of Jan Brueghel's "The Temptation in the Garden of Eden," ca. 1600 (Wikimedia Commons)
Scholars of animal studies unanimously reject anthropological exceptionalism. Much of the conversation in the field has turned on how to reject it and why we ought to do so. In the wake of this literature, I find myself all the more intrigued by the textual ecology of late antique Christianity, since these texts play an outsized role in shaping the shared topography of humanness and animality that we find ourselves inhabiting.
Read MoreThe apostles at Pentecost, from a thirteenth-century Peshitta | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, MS 195 Bl., f.123v | Image Source
The apostles at Pentecost, from a thirteenth-century Peshitta | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, MS 195 Bl., f.123v | Image Source
This Week: Codex Bezae as plunder, Syriac cultural heritage, Tiburtine Sibyl, digital archaeology, the Seleucid invention of time – and more!
Read MoreThese essays were part of a panel at the Society of Biblical Literature 2018 Annual Meeting titled, “Textual Objects and Material Philology,” inspired in part by the publication of Snapshots of Evolving Traditions (eds. Lied and Lundhaug).
Read MoreImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Liv Ingeborg Lied’s Contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology forum.
Read MoreSoldiers plundering a village, by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot
Soldiers plundering a village, by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot
Jennifer Wright Knust’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreMagic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
Magic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
This Week: The Song of Miriam, Dual Syriac/Uyghur prayerbooks, Syriac symposiums, Arshama’s Aramaic, the Doctrina Jacobi – and more!
Read MoreAdam Bremer-McCollum’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreThe Ten Commandments, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Ten Commandments, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Hanna Tervanotko’s contribution to the Textual Objects forum.
Read MoreRoman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
Roman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
This Week: Tura papyri, engraved gemstones, epigraphy resources, Byzantium, circumcision and gender – and more!
Read MoreThe German National Library, courtesy of theeuropeanlibrary.org
The German National Library, courtesy of theeuropeanlibrary.org
Blossom Stefaniw’s contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology Panel from SBL 2018.
Read MoreJanet Spittler’s contribution to the Textual Objects and Material Philology Panel from SBL 2018.
Read MoreMonika Amsler. “Effective Combinations of Words and Things: The Babylonian Talmud Gittin 67b-70b and the Literary Standards of Late Antiquity,” PhD Dissertation, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.
Read MoreSheldon Steen reviews Jennifer Otto’s Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings: “The epithets he is given betray at once the utility and liability of Philo for Christian discourses of identity because of how he is depicted as never fully one of “us” nor one of “them.”"
Read MoreEarly Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
Early Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
This Week: Jewish and Christian figural art, Jewish mothers, endangered archives, Bible versus Classics, Byzantine Balkans – and much more!
Read MoreDr. Catherine Hezser introduces her book Bild und Kontext: Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike: “I examine exemplary biblical, mythological, and symbolic images in the context of Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman literary sources to determine their possible uses and meanings within the multi-cultural realms of late antique society. I argue that the images were carefully chosen to engage in an ongoing visual discourse within the public sphere.”
Read MoreSari Fein reviews the edited volume, Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination: “What other images of mothers exist in the Jewish cultural imagination? And, what do those images reveal about wider ideas of gender and family in Jewish culture?”
Read MoreDetail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
Detail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
This Week: Imperialism and Christian knowledge, beeswax, bioarchaeology, biblical papyri, the Madaba Map – and more!
Read MoreMy book is about reading as world-building, because reading with a grammarian in antiquity meant reading in a pool of fragmentation, displacement, and homogenization to re-arrange time and re-align filiation.
Read MoreTrajan's Column, Rome (Wikimedia Commons)
Trajan's Column, Rome (Wikimedia Commons)
In Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism, Drew Billings places Emperor Trajan and the triumphal Column erected to honor his reign into conversation with the New Testament’s Acts of the Apostles.
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