MLA Commons | Thorwald C. Franke | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/cicero/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Thorwald C. Franke is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:47:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c5dfdfd35ca50224c1519db8a218c6e0 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The False Appearance of the Sophist Himself in the First Six Definitions of Plato’s Sophist in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900000/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:05:55 -0400 The key to how the definitions in Sophist fit together is the seventh definition, the maker of false appearances. The first six definitions are a false appearance of the sophist himself, as a businessman who sells an art of disputation to rich young men. Because this is a deception, to unmask him we need to supplement the brief descriptions in…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2606deccabc47fe7fbdea68ad60b830 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Carta a Jorge Liberati: ¿Orígenes de lo sagrado o lo sagrado de los orígenes? (Y respuesta de J. Liberati) in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895894/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:38 -0400 Eliseo Ferrer plantea en esta carta pública un carácter «sagrado» de los orígenes antropológicos de las distintas culturas; y ello desde posiciones materialistas que nada tienen que ver con el creacionismo divino de la teología ni con el de las creencias religiosas. Ferrer ofrece como puntos de referencia los trabajos de Walter Burkert y de Gustav…[Read more]

]]> 0 4361d20f492c824371b981dbc3599c9b Eliseo Ferrer deposited Reseña el libro SACRIFICIOS HUMANOS, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Por Jorge Liberati). in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881064/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:01:52 -0400 Esta amplia reseña ha aparecido en:
Revista RELACIONES. Montevideo (Uruguay). Nº 478 – Marzo de 2024. Páginas 24 y 25.
Según Jorge Liberati (autor de la reseña), la obra se consagra como construcción del todo original, materialista en el sentido de un materialismo no visiblemente histórico ni estrictamente dialéctico. Una visión independ…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfbdf2e09e25a4d85dd696c75bacd61d Eliseo Ferrer deposited Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificios Humanos, Canibalismo y Sexualidad Ritual en el Mundo Antiguo» (Eliseo Ferrer). in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878566/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 03:00:13 -0500 El libro aborda de las bases materiales de la creación del mundo y de lo sagrado. Un Mundo que el autor define como algo «en permanente construcción, a cargo de Sujetos Operatorios que encontraron el primer «sentido» en su relación con los animales y en la regularidad de los movimientos cósmicos».

Como afirma Eliseo Ferrer, lejos de todo se…[Read more]

]]> 0 4557a5cacf091a8f8e1003d7eebf66e6 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / La India antigua y el origen de la gnosis, de la religión y de la filosofía. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876315/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:20 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la tradición hinduista ni presenta una conformación monolítica ni tampoco una unidad y uniformidad histórica. Hemos de subrayar que se trata de una construcción cultural erigida en torno a varias abstracciones (unidad, totalidad, orden, ilusión, reencarnación-transmigración, liberación y unión con Dios, etc.) que conformaro…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5976d0e10355126468ca61e7896f316 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El mundo cananeo antiguo. Ritos y sacrificios humanos en el antiguo Israel. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876311/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:00:10 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, en la época herodiana los judíos habían civilizado sus antiguos ritos y costumbres a través de la gran influencia recibida, primero de los babilonios y persas y, luego, de la cultura del helenismo; pero han llegado hasta nosotros sólidos testimonios que no permiten ocultar el carácter sangriento de sus más antiguas (y no tan…[Read more]

]]> 0 ceb1251b536ab60e0197563fa63d979f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876041/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 079754e7ce69afefd508a414b836dce9 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Zoroastro, profeta de Ahura Mazda. En la antesala del judaísmo y el cristianismo. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876037/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:07 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la turbación de los padres de la Iglesia de los siglos segundo y tercero no pudo dar respuesta coherente a las sorprendentes semejanzas que encontraron entre la religión de Mitra y el cuerpo de sus doctrinas, todavía heterogéneas y en proceso de formación. No dudamos de que la posición adoptada por Justino, que luego se conver…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca82ad2b419dd8ebb9f06b151f61715a Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Una Perspectiva Radical y crítica de los Orígenes del Cristianismo. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876033/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:58 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb603b88f9ef69399bf58dd4eec1a50 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El Rey Sagrado del Ritual Neolítico, el Siervo Sufriente de Isaías y el Dios Tammuz. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876029/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:52 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 730ec4c821dbcce561da7ea99d39ead6 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Elogios de la prensa libertaria española a Eliseo Ferrer por su libro «Sacrificio y Drama del Rey Sagrado». (Crítica de Jacinto Ceacero). in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876027/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500 En 2021 y 2022, el mundo académico pronunció favorablemente, de forma muy mayoritaria, sobre el libro de Eliseo Ferrer SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. Pues solo de forma residual aparecieron algunas críticas de escaso fundamento y nulo valor intelectual provenientes de sectores recalcitrantes y extremos: evangélicos fundamentalistas y cat…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbc7fc42c578b9bfa6c1533e1f8acf98 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Entrevista): Una teoría crítica y radical sobre los orígenes del cristianismo. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876024/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:47 -0500 ENTREVISTA a Eliseo Ferrer, autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado».
En esta entrevista, que la periodista Sofía G. Orlowsky realiza a Eliseo Ferrer, el autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado (Genealogía, antropología e historia del mito de Cristo)» resume a fondo y de manera clara el espíritu de la obra: el surgimiento del mito de…[Read more]

]]> 0 d182238e3640b55793f35fb388df9f5d Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Interview): A radical and critical theory of the origins of Christianity. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876021/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:43 -0500 According Eliseo Ferrer, «The Messiah-Christ is an ancient and archaic myth reformulated by the sects of apocalyptic messianism and transformed by Gnosticism and the Church of the second century». Ferrer talks about the myths of primitive Christianity in an interview conducted on the occasion of the presentation of his book SACRIFICE AND DRAMA O…[Read more]

]]> 0 69eb295d95ed7a930e5492ddc284dc0a Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro): Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876015/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:30 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, el Mesías-Cristo fue un mito ancestral y arcaico reformulado por las sectas del mesianismo apocalíptico judío y transformado por el gnosticismo y por la Iglesia del siglo segundo. Es decir, un cristianismo judeo-helenístico sin historia evangélica ni «punto cero». Eliseo Ferrer propone en Sacrificio y drama del rey sagrado…[Read more]

]]> 0 965d4b6bf65a01fce3cc797ad8b8b50c Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Libro) / Sacrificios Humanos, Canibalismo y Sexualidad Ritual en el Mundo Antiguo. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874102/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:01:33 -0500 Bases materiales de la creación del mundo y de lo sagrado: Un Mundo en permanente construcción, a cargo de Sujetos Operatorios que encontraron el primer «sentido» en su relación con los animales y en la regularidad de los movimientos cósmicos. /

Eliseo Ferrer incluye los contenidos de esta obra dentro del contexto que estableció el tránsi…[Read more]

]]> 0 617a6c5fdd7bb627a222b07223a3fa5d Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario (corregido). in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873734/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 03:03:39 -0500 Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ec4d71e018ab3d60553fa451789d67 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868545/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:48 -0500 Revista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo.

]]> 0 d3749bf6138a8e5d4b85f7d5b87ed8c0 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Interview: Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868234/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:01:20 -0500 Four intense pages (Revista RELACIONES, Montevideo) in which an atheist materialist speaks in depth about Christianity, religion and the anthropological phenomenon of the sacred.

Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO.
A propósito del largo itinerario temporal de «la genealogía, la antropología y la his…[Read more]

]]> 0 67733472d8ee3ac1cfeba8138f932a8f Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto». La revelación mística de un cristianismo alejandrino desnudo de fabulaciones y leyendas. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842285/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:23:58 -0400 (Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more]

]]> 0 032837f0e83a0dc84029877d42909dd4 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited Plato’s Account of Eleaticism: A New Interpretation of Parmenides in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837734/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:23:39 -0400 I propose a new interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides. I avoid the assumption of Developmentalism, that Plato is criticising his own ‘middle’ theory of forms. Instead, I read the dialogue as Plato’s serious presentation of the Eleatic position. He shows that Eleatics’s counterintuitive thesis follows from the fundamental assumption of qualitati…[Read more]

]]> 0 581d7c9dd6511a5e96eafe81b3b217e4 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Una visión diferente de los orígenes cristianos. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836493/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:59 -0500 Preámbulo del libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Se añade índice y bibliografía).
Vaya por delante que ésta no es una obra de consenso académico; y tampoco una obra guiada por la fe religiosa, ni por los presupuestos decimonónicos del ateísmo antirreligioso y anticristiano. Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la hu…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d1890356c139bec68a55dedcf294514 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Isvara Krishna: «El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo». in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836488/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:52 -0500 Toda la tesis de R. Panikkar estuvo dirigida, dada su tradición intelectual multicultural y multirreligiosa, a «un encuentro sincero» entre el cristianismo y el hinduismo; y quizá por eso subtituló este libro («El Cristo desconocido del hinduismo») con el ambicioso reclamo: «Para una cristofanía ecuménica». No obstante, y para no engañar a…[Read more]

]]> 0 021018392b8d968d33a69c897e032424 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Radical criticism of fraudulent and sterile research on the origins of Christianity. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836484/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:44 -0500 Dodecalogue of errors and nonsense / I believe that the secular influence of the theology and dogmatics of the Church (inherited, to a large extent, by the Lutheran reformers), as well as the ideology generated over eighteen centuries on the substratum of the New Testament, have led and They continue to lead in the XXI century to great errors of…[Read more]

]]> 0 40515e65e029d516b35322c26bfeee90 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El significado del Mito en las culturas primitivas, como paradigma de realidad y explicación del cosmos. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836482/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:28:39 -0500 Las filosofías racionalistas y la teología de la Iglesia ocultaron a lo largo de dos mil años el verdadero significado de los mitos y de la mitología antigua, para reducir su significado a aquello que, presentado como verdad aparente en un discurso, resultaba ser falso en realidad. En este sentido, un mito vendría determinado por la narr…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f74456b73e2d5e726d8f22a5e14a8f4 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Ateísmo y materialismo metodológico. Contra las críticas del catolicismo dogmático universitario. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835664/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:23:42 -0500 Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fba2f23de2abbde1a0deb7d75402443 Heather Rosmarin started the topic Free virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World: “Who Has the Power?"... in the discussion Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-historiography/forum/topic/free-virtual-conference-opening-the-ancient-world-who-has-the-power/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:22:17 -0400 Hi Everyone – Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) is hosting a free virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World: “Who Has the Power? Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World” from August 14 – August 15, 2022. In addition to presentations, there will be several sessions / workshops focused on independent scholars. Learn more here: <…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e213b4ce7c037450a2c80c84f3e59a0 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Deficiencies of the Presocratic Material Elements and the Dream Theory in Theaetetus in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785193/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:23:39 -0400 The Dream Theory in Theaetetus is Plato’s generalised account of Presocratic elements. Evidence for this given from Laws, Phaedo, Timaeus, and through a comparison with Aristotle’s account.

]]> 0 f4517bfde9d241ac0e6bfec8d1dd1a1e D. Gregory MacIsaac started the topic Ancient Philosophy Events Calendar in the discussion Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-philosophy/forum/topic/ancient-philosophy-events-calendar/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:06:46 -0400 A calendar of Ancient Philosophy Events: https://endoxa.blog/ancient-philosophy-calendar/

A calendar of Calls for Papers: https://endoxa.blog/cfps-calendar/

]]> 0 f915821d7a77f66c13dacc9a43fecb4f D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited On Proclus as a Platonic Exegete in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775526/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:23:48 -0400 A response to John Finamore, “The Divided Line and the Cave in Proclus’ Republic Commentary.”

]]> 0 ba1806172a3eb7a7bf9362aa104ca33e Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764048/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:23:39 -0500 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites. After clearly elucidating Maimonides’ stance on the topic, this essay examines his view from different angles with various possible precedents in earlier rabbinic literature for such an under…[Read more]

]]> 0 838fec3d224d52d8924818849f285cb9 Thorwald C. Franke deposited The Dark Side of Atlantis Scepticism in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755354/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:25:44 -0400 In our days, the interpretation of Plato’s Atlantis story as an invention of Plato is prevailing in academic scholarship. Atlantis scepticism is the choice of the bright side of life, so to say. Closely connected to the good feeling of being on the bright side is the depiction of Atlantis belief as dark and dangerous. Atlantis believers are c…[Read more]

]]> 0 218ca6591be1b4c485726d1954d8790e Chris A. Kramer deposited A Wise Person Proportions their Beliefs With Humor in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743513/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:28:57 -0400 What has proportion to do with humor or irony? And what do either of these have to do with being human? Jokes, laughter, and funniness connote excess, exaggeration, incongruity, dissonance, etc., the opposite of proportion–balance, symmetry, Aristotle’s golden mean. Yet, The Philosopher maintains, the wit has found the ideal moderate position b…[Read more]

]]> 0 a559284ab4fa53a3f56a758039720e44 Andrew Radde-Gallwitz deposited The Cappadocians (Draft for Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology) in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740635/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:23:38 -0400 [This draft is for the Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology.] This chapter identifies an apophatic theology common to the three Cappadocian Fathers—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The central theme of their apophatic theology is the incomprehensibility of God. God, they argue, is known under multiple concepts and n…[Read more]

]]> 0 dec52bd48daf993c9a2a8769c91aee2a D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Role of the Digression on the Man of the Law Courts and the Philosopher (172b-177c) in the Argument of Theaetetus in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726474/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:31:49 -0500 Interpretations of the Theaetetus digression fail to see how it functions in Plato’s argument because they have taken its praise of the philosopher at face value. But this is not the philosopher from Republic. His otherworldliness reflects both Theodorus’ mathematical understanding of philosophy as the study of ‘divine’ objects and the judgeme…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f85c2c4d3b52da22c6aabc13ac30655 Carol Atack deposited Politeia and the Past in Xenophon and Isocrates in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721796/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:26:55 -0500 Both Xenophon and Isocrates use the past to analyse and comment on political problems of the present, and to provide authority for political programmes of the present and for the future, through connecting them to revered past figures and mythologies. For both, idealised versions of historical Greek communities provide a counterpoint to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4461f472595079ccb816d314beb0105d Mateus Corrêa deposited Remote city of Atlantis in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686901/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:04 -0400 This work is a translation of my article “A cidade Remota de Atlântida” to English. It’s my first work about this city and its location.

This work uses Plato’s current geographical knowledge and original writings to search for the location of the remote city of Atlantis

]]> 0 e705df8f5410a2a99bb60638daa66b53 Mateus Corrêa deposited A cidade remota de Atlântida in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686820/ Sun, 10 May 2020 16:26:16 -0400 The portuguese version of the article “The remote city of Atlantis”.
Este trabalho utiliza do conhecimento geográfico atual e os escritos originais de Platão para apurar a possível localização da cidade remota de Atlântida

]]> 0 a54b6247c74644cce0e43c921fc713e1 Amelia Dowler deposited The Interaction of Aksumite and Roman Gold Coins in South Arabia in the 6th Century CE in the group Ancient Numismatics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680622/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:25:39 -0400 The article examines hoards of mixed Aksumite and Roman gold coins found in Yemen with particular examination of wear patterns, scratch marks, and circulation.

]]> 0 4fef4c2559b370cacb266fcad6dba9a3 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625763/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:26:00 -0500 This article discusses the identity of the Daniel character mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel.

]]> 0 9613f35a4a68b3bea0b98b311938d652 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited More on the Seven Nations: Girgashite Flight and the Canaanite Nation in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625758/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:25:27 -0500 A discussion of the different lists of Canaanite nations.

]]> 0 76cf39d1d1dc021f0b20334f3efb3bc1 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625754/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:25:23 -0500 A discussion of the different lists of Canaanite nations.

]]> 0 18dc678a6a9389e1937da80e6f6bc77e Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620368/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:29:27 -0400 This article discusses the reason behind Jeroboam, king of Israel, instituting a holiday in the eighth month of calendar. We suggest an approach that looks at this holiday as misplaced from the seventh month by means of an additional unauthorized leap-month.

]]> 0 35e815b9e492fce69821bb3145c3cab6 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Antiquarianism as Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano’s Method,” History & Theory 53(2): 212-233. in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607159/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:12:28 -0400 This essay uses Arnaldo Momigliano’s genealogy of antiquarianism and historiography to propose a new method for engaging the past. The Italian historian Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) traced antiquarianism from its advent in ancient Greece and later growth in Rome to its early modern efflorescence, its usurpation by history, and its transformation…[Read more]

]]> 0 13d8d5ec0e89187903d02783c087eee4 Simeon Chavel deposited Compositry and Creativity in 2 Samuel 21:1–14 in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606223/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:16:20 -0400 Analysis of the story of David and the Gibeonites, argues that two different stories have been spliced together.

]]> 0 53699b24c954544ca0d8e7f46f99b5e1 Simeon Chavel deposited "Oracular Novellae" and Biblical Historiography: Through the Lens of Law and Narrative in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604068/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:44:23 -0400 Theoretical discussion of law and narrative and their interaction in biblical historiography.

]]> 0 6b8bd3561b55f1e95cdce2e5552b1526 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Gehazi and the Miracle Staff of Elisha in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593753/ Fri, 29 Dec 2017 05:38:18 -0500 This article discusses various rabbinic approaches to the story of Elisha and Gehazi (recorded in the Book of Kings), in which the former sends the latter with his staff to resurrect the Shunammite woman’s dead child. Gehazi proves unsuccessful in that endeavor and Elisha himself ultimates revives the dead child.

]]> 0 e5191096d4c9228613d8e9b6081c847d Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592863/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:38:29 -0500 This paper discusses an apparent contradiction in the Bible regarding east of the Jordan River, that lies between the rivers Arnon and Jabbok. In Numbers 21 it seems that this land belonged to the Moabites, while in Judges 11 (during an exchange between the Jewish judge Jephtah and the Ammonite king) it seems that this land belonged to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd5f1814d37e77c127a0d3e9feebe007 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Was Ezra a High Priest? in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591308/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:38:21 -0500 This article traces the notion in rabbinic writings that Ezra–a leader of the Jewish people in the early Second Temple period–also functioned as a High Priest (Kohen Gadol).

]]> 0 a24aa641b05cac91b353d4db6eaf4fe9 Victoria Leonard deposited Review: Hypatia. The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher, by Edward J. Watts in the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1588603/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:40:18 -0500 Review of Edward J. Watts, Hypatia. The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

]]> 0 673127d9c37455f875c21c08bf894cdb Alan J. Ross created the group Ancient Historiography https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1587885/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:06:32 -0500 0