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Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication, edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant.

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Call it Science: Biblical Studies, Science Fiction, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In the virtual world elaborated in Marvel’s movies (the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or MCU), “science” is creatively, strategically confused with “magic” and/or “religion.” Key supernatural/magical elements of the franchise’s comic-book source material ...
Aaron Ricker   +1 more
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Sounds of war: Historical, chronological and literary implications of military vocabulary in exodus 15, judges 5 and 1 Samuel 17 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The trend in linguistic studies in the mid-to-late 20th century has been towards establishing dates of composition for an archaic layer of Biblical Hebrew attested in the Massoretic Text.
Nikkel, Paul N
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The Fantasy of ‘the Bible’ in the Museum of the Bible and Academic Biblical Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
“The Bible” does not exist as material reality, and yet as a cultural icon “the Bible” animates institutions and enterprises devoted to it. This article assesses the short history of scholarship on one such institution, the controversial Museum of the ...
Jill Hicks-Keeton   +1 more
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The Value of Egyptian Aramaic for Biblical Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Biblical Aramaic accounts for a small fraction within the two-testament Christian Bible. Studying it would seem therefore to present a modest value for biblical studies, and Egyptian Aramaic, a nonbiblical counterpart from the same historical era, even ...
Collin Cornell
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Activism in the Queer Biblical Studies Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article serves as an injunction for queer biblical studies to be reclaimed and mobilised as activist practice. First, I discuss the application and activist potential of queer theory – in and beyond the academy.
Chris Greenough   +1 more
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Armies of Misfits: Mobility Disabilities and Activism in the Biblical Studies Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article argues for the disabled body as a site of resistance and for the biblical studies classroom as one venue to mobile towards world-changing activism.
Darla Schumm   +2 more
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Jesus and the Poor: Western Biblical Scholarship, Structural Violence, and Postcolonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This work offers a postcolonial critique of Western Jesus scholarship, focused specifically on discussions about Jesus and ‘the poor’ in British and North American scholarship.
Sandford, Michael J
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Reconsidering the Nehushtan as a Magical Healing Device within the Geographical, Cultural, and Magico-Religious Context of the Ancient Near East

open access: yesReligions, 2023
According to Numbers 21:4–9, the Nehushtan was a copper/bronze snake effigy that functioned as a ‘magical’ healing tool to cure the early Israelites from venomous snakebites they incurred during their desert wanderings. What is unclear from the narrative
Gillian Williams, Mariette Harcombe
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Hezekiah and the Assyrian tribute

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2013
The immensity of Hezekiah s tribute payment to the Assyrian monarch, Sennacherib (2 Ki 18:14) has elicited limited reflection by scholars. Agriculture, generally believed to have formed the basis of the Judaean economy, could not alone have financed ...
Gail A. R�thlin, Magdel le Roux
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