Dougga Banquet mosaic | Third-century Roman, from Dougga/Thugga in Tunisia | Image Source
Dougga Banquet mosaic | Third-century Roman, from Dougga/Thugga in Tunisia | Image Source
This Week: Enslaved leadership in early Christianity, ancient literature as media matrix, hyperphilology, pedagogy, eschatological gentiles – and more!
Read MoreMaster of Affligem, Joseph and Asenath (ca. 1500), Color on oak panel.
Master of Affligem, Joseph and Asenath (ca. 1500), Color on oak panel.
My research contributes to a growing body of scholarship that takes as axiomatic the claim that understanding the media context of antiquity is an essential task for interpretation. It also opens further avenues for considering how narratives were composed and received in Second Temple Judaism, as well as the relationship between composition and reception.
Read MoreKatherine Shaner’s book is a careful and rigorous examination of the extent of enslaved leadership in antiquity as well as the prevalence of scholarly erasure of that leadership.
Read MoreMonumental menorah mosaic, probably from a synagogue | Third-century, Plovdiv/Philippopolis, in the Plovdic Regional Archaeological Museum | Image editor’s own
Monumental menorah mosaic, probably from a synagogue | Third-century, Plovdiv/Philippopolis, in the Plovdic Regional Archaeological Museum | Image editor’s own
This Week: Ancient Jewish graffiti, Animals and empire, medieval Enoch, Mesopotamian childhood, holy excrement – and more!
Read MoreRoman mosaic floor from Villalaure France of a wild beast hunt from the 3rd c. CE. Photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Mary Harrsch and available on Wikimedia Commons
Roman mosaic floor from Villalaure France of a wild beast hunt from the 3rd c. CE. Photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Mary Harrsch and available on Wikimedia Commons
In my book, Apocalyptic Ecology, I utilize venationes as part of the Roman world against which John of Patmos reacted in writing the New Testament book of Revelation.
Read MoreJillian Stinchcomb reviews Karen Stern’s Writing on the Wall: “Stern’s work synthesizes archaeological and material histories across the Mediterranean, bringing together discussions of the lived realities of a Jews from socio-economic perspectives that are under-represented in rabbinic and other (elite) literary Jewish texts.”
Read MoreAmarna 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.”"
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