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The Influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament
Explore how 1 Enoch likely shaped the language, imagery, and theology of the New Testament, from the Gospels' Son of Man to Revelation's final judgmen...
The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East
Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...
Melammu: Divine Radiance in the Ancient Near East and Biblical Traditions
Explore how Melammu, the awe-inspiring radiance of gods and kings in ancient Mesopotamia, originated in the overwhelming brightness of the sun and sta...
How the Dead Sea Scrolls Anticipate the New Testament
Explore theological and social concepts in the Dead Sea Scrolls that are similar to the theology, language, and practices later described in the New T...
Some Differences Between the Septuagint and Masoretic Traditions
Explore how the two most influential text traditions, the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text, each shaped, expanded, and condensed their inherited text...
Beauty and Divine Favor in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Explore how ancient Near Eastern royal ideology connected physical beauty to divine election and how this influenced the Hebrew Bible. This concept is...
The Divine Council and the Development of Bureaucracy
Explore how the biblical divine council evolved from an informal council of gods into a structured divine administration, and how its evolution follow...
Paul the Rabbi
Explore how Paul's methods of reading scripture, reasoning, arguing, and telling stories anticipate the techniques later expanded and codified in rabb...
The Solar and Lunar Calendar Debate
Explore how communities debated whether the sun or the moon should govern the festival year, from the solar calendar of 1 Enoch and Jubilees through t...
King Josiah at the Center of Israel's History
Explore how Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings use distinct Deuteronomic language and literary structure that converges on Josiah's reform, suggesting...
The World Tree in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions
Explore how the image of a great tree at the center of the world was inherited from Mesopotamian myth into the Hebrew Bible and reshaped by later Jewi...
The Influence of Philo of Alexandria
Explore how the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria read the Torah through Greek philosophy, and how the concepts he developed influe...
From the Tablet of Destinies to the Book of Life
Explore how the Mesopotamian idea of divine tablets that tracked everyone's destiny evolved through the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature,...
Protecting Widows, Orphans, and the Poor
Explore how the social obligation to protect the most vulnerable members of society evolved from ancient Near Eastern culture into the Hebrew Bible, p...
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Be Wary of Minimalism and Maximalism
Avoiding Extremes When Discovering New and Unusual Texts
How Biblical Authors Identified Their Quotations
Citation Formulas in Second Temple Jewish, Christian, and Rabbinic Literature
Intertextuality and Parallelomania
How Methodology Helps Navigate Between Too Many and Too Few
Intertextuality Rewards Imaginative Reading
Why Creative Engagement with Texts Is Not Eisegesis
Intertextuality and Rewritten Scripture
A Controversial Intersection between Copying and Creating
Intertextuality and Scripturalized Narrative
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Reference Library
4 Baruch: Paraleipomena Jeremiou
Allison, Dale C. • De Gruyter • 2019
Auguries of Hegemony: The Sex Omens of Mesopotamia
Guinan, Ann Kessler • Gender & History, Vol. 9, No. 3 • 1997
Cursed Are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts
Kitz, Anne Marie • Penn State University Press • 2021
Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE
Bodi, Daniel • Mohr Siebeck • 2019
"Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of Misogyny and Magic" in Stratton, Kimberly B.and Dayna S. Kalleres (eds.) Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in Antiquity
Reed, Annette Yoshiko • Oxford University Press • 2014
Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges
Baker, Robin • Brill • 2016
"In the Arms of Biblical Women" in Greenspoon, Leonard J. (ed.) In the Arms of Biblical Women
Ginio, Alisa Meyuhas • Gorgias Press • 2014
"Jezebel in Jewish and Christian Tradition" in Tervahauta, Ulla, et al. (eds.) Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
Rasimus, Tuomas • Brill • 2017
Some Unexplored Parallels to 1 Cor 11,11-12 and Gal 3,28: The NT on the Role of Women
Boucher, Madeleine • The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1 • 1969
The Dialogues of Jeremiah: Toward a Phenomenology of Exile
Modine, Mitchel • Gorgias Press • 2014
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
Gafney, Wilda • Westminster John Knox Press • 2017
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Rothschild, Clare K. • Mohr Siebeck • 2010
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Hultin, Jeremy F. • Mohr Siebeck • 2010
Women in Ugarit and Israel: Their Social and Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East
Marsman, Hennie J. • Brill • 2003
Women in the Ancient Near East
Stol, Marten • De Gruyter • 2016
Women in the Bible, Qumran, and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles
Heger, Paul • Brill • 2014
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