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Phillip Long is, as always, looking for volunteers to compile a monthly Biblical Studies Carnival. If you would like to host a carnival, please contact Phil on Twitter (@Plong42) or via email (plong42@gmail.com).
Compiling a carnival is really fun. I had forgotten how much fun it is. As the month progresses, themes emerge. There are surprises. Who knows what it will be in advance?
Thanks for tips via James McGrath @ReligionProf on Twitter, and Jim Davila on PaleoJudaica.com and the many scholars writing for TheTorah.com.
"The solution, then, is rupture with the in-between time and rescue of the long lost past, despite the human folly that has nearly destroyed everything in between." [spelling corrected]
Images - AI? - via Jennifer Guo |
Hebrew Bible
מכלל לאו אתה שומע הן: Out of a “no” you hear a “yes.”? Idan Dershowitz on Leviticus 18. Martti Nissinen adds further suggestions for interpretive context as does Julia Rhyder.
Theodore Lewis on Piercing the name as attempted deicide.
The Hebrew language detective explores halva'ah and livui and the potential meanings of the name of Levi.
[Addendum] I should have included this record of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. Don Moffat's question of learning in context is: What is the Genre of the Book of Genesis. The lecture is from New Zealand, May 23/24 2024.
Guy Darshan explores the post-destruction editing of the text of Kings.
Daniel Vainstub writes "Jeremiah excoriates the Judahites for sacrificing babies to Baʿal at the Tophet, in a valley near Jerusalem." Read all about child sacrifice here -- from Canaan to Carthage.Exodus 2:28 -- a "statute that is not good"? |
James Tabor's word of the month is not. Not is here, Not is there, Not is nearly everywhere.
A linocut project by Gabriel Oakes on Amos 8. Note also the eggsegesis here. |
Ian Paul takes apart the liturgical use of Psalms 95 and 100 among other canticles. "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." (G.K. Chesterton)
Drew Longacre is calling for volunteer transcribers for the Psalms.
A long shadow Selwyn College Chapel. Photo Thomas Allen. |
Was there really a man named Job?
Did he live in a land called
Uz?
Was he perfectly righteous with a perfectly blessed life?
Did he in one day lose everything but his troublesome, unnamed
wife?
Job 1:1 -- mimicking the music of Genesis 1:1 |
Bob MacDonald offers an introduction to the music of Lamentations 1:1 to display the theory of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's decoding of the te'amim. A little history of her own experience is linked here. His hope is that her work will cast a long shadow.
Met Gala meets Biblical Studies |
Andrew Perriman is not convinced by the argument of Jacob Mortenson and Matthew Novenson that Romans 2 is addressed to a gentile.
Images via Jennifer Guo |
Marg Mowczko: Submission & the Saviour in Ephesians 5 on Paul's paradoxical use of hypotassō.
Marg Mowczko on Lois and Eunice, Timothy's mother and grandmother.
Brian Small introduces a new commentary on Hebrews by Amy Peeler and posts Hebrews Highlights for April and May 2024
Books and Reviews
Jacob J. Prahlow reviews Rebecca Idestrom's Show me Your Glory.
Via Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica-
- a brief review of Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew by Jonathan Thambyrajah.
- Also: Kazen & Roitto, Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World.
- And a report on Mark Lester's book: Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition "the Deuteronomic composition adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a story that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past".
- And among others, Smith, Luke was not a Christian. Joshua Paul Smith challenges the long-held assumption that Luke and Acts were written by a gentile. Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 218.
Ayrton posts on Candida Moss's Os escritores fantasmas de Deus. Also on Stefano Salemi's A Linguistic-Theological Exegesis of Ezekiel as Môphēt.
AWOL posts on an open access book on the Apocalypse of Peter.
Clint Burnett reviews Adela Yarbro Collins. Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity.
Phillip Long reviews James D. Nogalski, The Book of Micah (NICOT). "Nogalski begins his forty-three-page introduction by observing that Micah originated in the eighth century B.C. but reflects editorial activity after 586 BC to clarify the blame for the destruction of Jerusalem."
Other
Nicola Denzey Lewis asks if the Gospel of Thomas is gnostic. Michael Kok has more questions about Secret Mark. James Tabor posts a lecture by Michael Stone on Armenian Apocryphal Texts. Oliver Parkes reviews Xavier Lafontaine, Hellénisme et prophétie. Les Oracles sibyllins juifs et chrétiens.
Brent Niedergall posts on the benefits of studying Ostraca. Marg Mowczko on Cerula and Bitalia in Catacomb Art.
Jim Davila points us to the Hebrew Bible and its ruins -- how ruins have been viewed through history. Brent Nongbri reports on the length of papyrus sheets and dating of codices. James McGrath points out The borderscape project, "a multidisciplinary endeavor that investigates how the rise of the Egyptian state at the end of the 4th millennium BCE impacted and transformed the socio-spatial landscape of the First Nile Cataract region."
Peter Head asks if we should trust textual reconstructions. Ross McKenzie posts slides and a video on Science and Christianity - can we trust both?
Matt Page is starting a series on Noah films.
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