New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom about Desert Ascetics of Egypt.
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Today, we have a dissertation spotlight from Dr. Rotem Avneri Meir. https://buff.ly/4elZPct
Was imperial rule indeed so antithetical to local agency, or was it in fact a facilitating factor in the formation and consolidation of local elite identities? Did the Hasmoneans and their supporters…
Tyler Blaine Wilson reviews Robyn Faith Walsh's The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture https://buff.ly/4ezmGRc
Robyn Faith Walsh, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the early…
New podcast! Mike Motia talks to Philip Freeman about his new book Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Yale UP, 2023).
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Today, Amit Gvaryahu reviews Mira Balberg's _Fractured Tablets._
Mira Balberg, however, points to the shifting attitudes towards forgetfulness and forgetting as a pivotal moment in the history of the rabbinic movement, and in Fractured Tablets she offers a fresh…
Today on AJR, we conclude our forum on the new volume of essays, Parabiblica Coptica, with a response from the editor, Ivan Miroshnikov #coptic#apocrypha @mohr_religion
I wish to cordially thank Dr. Samuel Cook and Dr. Jacob Lollar for their reflections on and critique of the Parabiblica Coptica volume. They both have raised several important points, but in what…
Our forum on the new volume of essays edited by Ivan Miroshnikov, Parabiblica Coptica, continues with a response from Jacob Lollar #coptic#apocrypha@mohrsiebeck.bsky.social@jalollar.bsky.social
The essays in this volume thus provide a brief sample of what it undoubtedly a virtual goldmine for comparative literary and historical inquiry.
This week we feature a forum on the new volume of essays, Parabiblica Coptica, edited by Ivan Miroshnikov. Today we begin with a response from Samuel Cook: https://buff.ly/3AN3b9x#coptic#apocrypha
AJR is thrilled to feature the responses of Dr. Samuel Cook and Dr. Jacob Lollar along with the response of Dr. Miroshnikov in this three-part series.
New Podcast! This time featuring Laura Nasrallah's book Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice.
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Today, Doren Snoek reviews Aubrey Buster's _Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism._ https://buff.ly/3WSLU63
The volume shines when it considers the interplay between materiality and close readings of literature. But the question stands for our field as it grapples with memory studies: what, indeed, is the…