https://mla.hcommons.org/members/maklelan/activity/ Activity feed for Daniel McClellan. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 87296b8331836af3654550e8db2a2bd3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858700/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:18:24 -0400 An unsubmitted draft of a chapter from my dissertation that discusses the creation, definition, and study of the concept of religion and why the concept has no analytical value to my dissertation.

]]> 0 b308bbe0ba4d21a104464e2482374cc7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840708/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:55:35 -0400 This paper argues that the practice of description is frequently understood as definition, which is too often precisely prescription. It contends that reduction to necessary and sufficient features is alien to the natural development and use of conceptual categories like religion, and so an alternative approach to description is recommended.

]]> 0 4d0029d4e0d8921b1c18f29044a0f3fe https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821299/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:31:26 -0500 This thesis has two primary goals: (1) to analyze the countours and extent of the generic category of deity in the Hebrew Bible, and (2) propose a semantic base for the term. It begins with a description of the fields associated with cognitive theory, and particularly cognitive linguistics. Chapter 2 examines the cognitive origins of notions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad74f121038ffa1365240ca3094502ae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819701/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:38:40 -0400 This paper examines the conceptualization of mercy, justice, and the law in the prophetic literature’s deployment of the “prophetic critique” and in its deployment by Jesus in the Gospels.

]]> 0 aeaf07adfb29e65495c172dd64839c8c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819700/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:35:58 -0400 0 821324e24a3d904c2b917484c536e001 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761128/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 16:13:12 -0500 This paper demonstrates that the phrase “after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23) was in wide circulation in the early nineteenth century, including in the context of discussions about grace, and was always used to mean “despite all we can do.”

]]> 0 762eb943e5cded51c7e4791571988036 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730563/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:41:47 -0500 This chapter interrogates the conceptualization and creation of divine bodies in the Hebrew Bible through the lens of the cognitive science of religion.

]]> 0 c65602cc8dd0356047d30d75a6c681dd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692389/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:29:45 -0400 The publication of Thomas A. Wayment’s The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints is a significant event that occasions not only a close examination of his work but also a discussion of how it fits into the complex relationship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long shared with Bible translation.

]]> 0 82fd2fdffa8cabf640152ffb36b815d7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692388/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:29:42 -0400 Psalm 82 has long resisted a consensus regarding its genre. While some scholars have noted that the psalm’s language overlaps with that of the complaint genre, several features of the psalm appear to complicate that reading. As a result, the framework of the divine council is frequently given interpretive priority, which has resulted in a v…[Read more]

]]> 0 560aaa26a59bed105cbf25c60276c608 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691805/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:20:31 -0400 The publication of Thomas A. Wayment’s The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints is a significant event that occasions not only a close examination of his work but also a discussion of how it fits into the complex relationship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long shared with Bible translation.

]]> 0 f3f87ecfa2130664b7b7340bd3a28963 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691800/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:40:04 -0400 Psalm 82 has long resisted a consensus regarding its genre. While some scholars have noted that the psalm’s language overlaps with that of the complaint genre, several features of the psalm appear to complicate that reading. As a result, the framework of the divine council is frequently given interpretive priority, which has resulted in a v…[Read more]

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