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It Means What It MeansEpisode 78: Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence with Reed CarlsonReed Carlson discusses his Journal of Biblical Literature article “Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy.” He delves into the social dynamics of jealousy and how they relate to intimate partner violence (IPV). The discussion highlights the importance of understanding these themes within the broader framework of community and relationships in the Hebrew Bible. Carlson also emphasizes the need for local action against IPV. Other resources mentioned or recommended in this episode include classicist (and friend of the show) Anthony Ellis, Jealousy in Context, Ingrid Lily, Annette Yoshiko Reed, The Idea of Possession, Unfamiliar Selves:Poss...2025-06-181h 07It Means What It MeansEpisode 78: Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence with Reed CarlsonReed Carlson discusses his Journal of Biblical Literature article “Spirit Possession and Intimate Partner Violence in the Law of Jealousy.” He delves into the social dynamics of jealousy and how they relate to intimate partner violence (IPV). The discussion highlights the importance of understanding these themes within the broader framework of community and relationships in the Hebrew Bible. Carlson also emphasizes the need for local action against IPV. Other resources mentioned or recommended in this episode include classicist (and friend of the show) Anthony Ellis, Jealousy in Context, Ingrid Lily, Annette Yoshiko Reed, The Idea of Possession, Unfamiliar Selves:Poss...2025-06-181h 07
The Bible Lore PodcastEpisode 11: The Gods of IsraelBefore we get to the end of Ahab and Jezebel, let's finally introduce Yahweh, the god of Israel, and compare him to Ba'al and El, his predecessors. RIP Ka - check out his album Descendants of Cain. Bibliography: Coogan, Smith, et al - ‘The Oxford Companion to the Bible’; Theodore J. Lewis - ‘The Origin and Character of God’; John Barton - ‘A History of the Bible’; Daniel McClellan - ‘YHWH's Divine Images’; Annette Yoshiko Reed - ‘Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism’; Francesca Stavrakopoul...2025-03-2459 min
Harvard Divinity SchoolEmpire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its ErasuresWhen is peace not peace? When does pluralism only seem like pluralism from the perspective of the people in power?
Christianity famously took form during the Pax Romana—an era of celebrated stability in the Roman empire—even as its message about the dawn of the messianic age and the coming of the kingdom of God resonated among those who saw the same age, instead, as a time of political oppression, cosmic upheaval, and eschatological unraveling. Likewise, to the degree that the Roman empire can be characterized by terms like ethnic “diversity” and religious “tolerance,” it was in a manner marked by ma...2025-03-1158 min
Women Who Went BeforeGhostwriting the Daughters of MenWe explore ancient Jewish fan fiction, why makeup made the angels fall, and the ever-present problem of ghostwriting with Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed in Season 1 Episode 2, "Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men: Whose Writing Is it Anyway?" You've heard of the human fall story in Genesis 3, but what about the angelic fall stories in Genesis 6, 1 Enoch, and the Testament of Reuben? How did the Third Sibylline Oracle try to one-up Homer? Does the male gaze operate the same way in ancient texts as in our modern world? And is the misogyny we find in ancient texts always misogyny...2022-09-1350 min
Brown Bag ReligionMF CASR Annual Lecture with Annette Yoshiko Reed, 28 October 2021Archives and anthologies are commonly viewed as technologies of preservation, protecting the memory of the past from the dangers of forgetting--and perhaps nowhere more so than with scriptures. Drawing upon theoretical and historiographical insights on the archive, this lecture looks instead to what is forgotten and relegated to forgetting in the process of archivalization. To do so, it looks especially to what the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has revealed about the power of biblical canons in shaping and constraining the memory of the biblical past. What might we see, instead, when we focus on their amnesia-inducing effects...2022-08-031h 09
New Testament Review44. Annette Yoshiko Reed, "Euangelion: Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth"What is the relationship between the gospel and the gospels? A discussion of Annette Yoshiko Reed's "Euangelion Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses" with Jeremiah Coogan.2021-11-0229 min
Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the DevilSeason 2, Episode 1: Justin MartyrBack in action with Season 2, Klaus and Travis discuss the mysterious and often acerbic Justin Martyr, the 2nd century philosopher and Christian apologist, whose understanding of devils and demons fits in with a larger project of differentiating Christians from Romans and Jews. What could go wrong?Sources discussed:Justin Martyr's writings: https://archive.org/details/writingsofjustin00justuoftAnnette Yoshiko Reed, "The Trickery of Fallen Angels and the Demonic Mimesis of the Divine" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/169408/summaryJennifer...2021-03-011h 02
New Books in LanguageCynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press.
In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new...2018-03-071h 09
Rutgers University Press PodcastCynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press.In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new...2018-03-071h 09