The “Dead Sea Scrolls Brochure” assignment has two parts: the physical brochure and a 2-page reflective explanation of the brochure.
Read MoreBook Note | Time in the Babylonian Talmud
Kaye suggests that time as imagined in the BT is best represented by Wassily Kandinsky’s painting, Several Circles (1926). According to Kaye, the painting’s circles of various sizes and colors represent various moments; these moments, as circles, interact both temporally and spatially and are spread across the canvas non-linearly.
Read MoreForeign Holidays and Festivals as Representative of Identity in Rabbinic Literature: a Dissertation Spotlight
Thomas Couture, Romans during the Decadence (1847). Image is under public domain.
Thomas Couture, Romans during the Decadence (1847). Image is under public domain.
Catherine Bonesho writes about the polemics of rabbinic legislation on holidays: “I find that the law sets Judaism and Christianity in competition with one another and, in the process, the law authorizes the imperial version of Christianity while asserting the nefarious qualities of Jews and Judaism.”
Read MoreBook Note | Religious Deviance in the Roman World
"Jörg Rüpke, Vice-director for Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt, argues that an analysis of Roman conceptions of religious deviance such as the celebration of Bacchanalia can illuminate normative Roman religion and aid in identifying individual religious behavior in the Roman world."
Read MoreBook Note | Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity
California drought, 4th year via Bluesbby via Flickr CC 2.0.