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The Zooarchaeology of Israelite Religion: Methods and Practice [PDF]
Religions, 2019 This essay aims to provide a methodological framework for the application of zooarchaeology to the study of Israelite religion for the purpose of providing an overview of this growing subfield for the non-specialist and for inviting further conversation ...
Jonathan S. Greer
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The Lemba - ‘angel-stars’, ngoma lungundu and ancestors [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 Hendel (2004) states that “the remembered past is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance.
Prof Magdel le Roux
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A Metallurgical Perspective on the Birth of Ancient Israel
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 The re-emergence of the copper industry in the Arabah valley between the twelfth and ninth centuries BCE stimulated wealth and economic development across the whole Southern Levant.
Nissim Amzallag
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Archaeology of Ancient Israelite Religion(s): An Introduction
Religions, 2020 Israelite religion has always fascinated scholars [...]
Avraham Faust
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On Deserted Landscapes and Divine Iconography: Iconographic Perspectives on the Origins of YHWH
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 In light of three important trends and developments within recent research—first, the interpretation, the dating and the literary growth of the second commandment (Exod 20:4 ‖ Deut 5:8); second, the reevaluation of ancient Israel’s origins; and, third ...
Katharina Pyschny
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The Material Turn in the Study of Israelite Religions: Spaces, Things, and the Body
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2019 This study discusses how a material religions approach might be applied to the study of Israelite religions. After providing a discussion of recent theory on space and the body in the study of religion, we give several suggestions for how these ideas ...
Alice Mandell, Jeremy Smoak
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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]
, 2012 An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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Moses: Freud's ultimate project
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016 Moses and Monotheism was the last work of Sigmund Freud, known as the founder of psychoanalysis. It is not a study of psychoanalytical issues, but mainly a study of the biblical figure Moses, albeit with psychoanalytical applications.
Risto Olavi Nurmela
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When and from Where did YHWH Emerge? Some Reflections on Early Yahwism in Israel and Judah
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 The paper addresses two crucial questions of the history of Israelite religion. Did YHWH emerge in the southern steppe and when did YHWH become the God of Judah?
Christian Frevel
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The Problem of Magic and Monotheism in the Book of Leviticus
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2008 The article deals with some of the theses advanced in Mary Douglas’s later works (In the Wilderness, Leviticus as Literature, and Jacob’s Tears), and in particular with her claim that magic and divination were outlawed in the priestly conceptions of the ...
Rüdiger Schmitt
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