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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 12d

Read the essay “Any Excuse for a Party: Zeus and Hermes and Human-Divine Interactions in Asia Minor and Acts 14:8–20” by Alan H. Cadwallader in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 12d

Read the essay “The Augustan Triumphal Arch and Sebasteion at Pisidian Antioch: Imperial Propaganda, the Res gestae divi Augusti, and the Epistle to the Galatians” by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“The attraction of the imperial cult cut across the social and economic divide. A fusion of indigenous and Roman gods occurred, whose blessings were mediated by the grace of the Roman ruler as pontifex maximus (high priest), in conjunction with his local imperial priests.” —James R. Harrison

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 13d

Read the essay “Roman Provincial Coinage and the Epistle to the Galatians” by Michael P. Theophilos in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“Our exploration of ancient coinage and biblical studies has significant points of connection regarding the Galatian milieu, significantly enhancing our reading of Paul’s epistle.” —Michael P. Theophilos

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 13d

Read the essay “Endangered Benefaction in Galatians” by David Wyman in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“Supply-chain disruptions and price increases to basic food supplies such as grain could put a population at risk....People of means often took it on themselves in such difficult circumstances to ensure the population had access to a sufficient food supply.—David Wyman

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 16d

Check out the essay “Benefaction in Galatia: A Proposed Solution to the Galatian Problem” by Wesley Redgen in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“While few first-century inscriptions have survived, enough exist to conclude that by the time Paul wrote to the Galatian churches the Greco-Roman benefaction system was firmly in place in both the north and the south of the province.” —Wesley Redgen

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 16d

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 19d

Check out the essay “ὠδίνω in Greek Epigraphy and Galatians 4:19” by D. Clint Burnett in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“Metaphoric birth pangs are not used exclusively with apocalyptic conventions in the Jewish Scriptures. Often the Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible and those Jews who composed documents that became part of the church’s Greek Old Testament employed them as a metaphor for a life threatening, painful crisis” —D. Clint Burnett

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 20d

Read “‘No Longer Male and Female’ in Galatians 3:28 and Anatolian Indigenous Androgyny” by Susan M. (Elli) Elliott in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“What if we envision the communities not as passive recipients
of Paul’s message but as active participants in a creative process that
seeks to address their complex context of Roman domination and Indigenous
cultural resistance?” —Susan M. (Elli) Elliott†

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 20d

Check out the essay “Did Paul Write for Asterix? The Extent of Celtic Ethnicity in Galatia and the Audience of Galatians” by Peter Oakes in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“If Paul had elite hearers from north Galatia, they were in a group that did sometimes make public expressions of Galatian identity. However, even under a north Galatian scenario for the letter, it is unlikely that the audience would have been among the high elite.“
—Peter Oakes

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 22d

Check out the essay "The Cities of North and South Galatia in Epigraphic and Archaeological Perspective" by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“The shrewd and innovative use, by Paul and other New Testament writers such as the author of Luke-Acts, of the deeply familiar reservoir of concepts and images associated with Greco-Roman civic munificence, while expounding the tenets of the new faith, had certainly not failed to make its mark.”
—Arjan Zuiderhoek

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 24d

Check out the essay "The Cities of North and South Galatia in Epigraphic and Archaeological Perspective" by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

“At Iconium, curses from Zeus were also invoked on those who were tempted to interfere with tombs. The apostle’s invocation of a curse in a Galatian context was therefore a risky rhetorical move and subject to misunderstanding”
—James R. Harrison

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 26d

Read "Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway’s Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–11" by Phillip Munoa in #JBL144.2. Your SBL membership gives you access to JBL issues when you log into the SBL site tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"Reading Phil 2:6–11 in the broad literary context of Jewish angel-of-the-Lord traditions makes Holloway’s argument for the passage’s angelic background more complete, compelling, and decisively Jewish in origin." Phillip Munoa, "Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway’s Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–11"

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 27d

Abraham and the Jerusalem Collection: Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters by Richard Last is available in #JBL144.2. Use your SBL username and password to access it free online. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"Despite difficulties in framing Paul’s Abrahamic myth and the Jerusalem collection individually, these elements become intelligible when studied together and placed in the context of Hellenic kinship diplomacy." Abraham and the Jerusalem Collection: Kinship Diplomacy in Paul’s Letters by Richard Last

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 28d

Your SBL membership gives you online access to #JBL144.2. Use your username and password to view Crucifixion as Parodic Parousia: Eschatological Foreshadowing and the Death of Jesus in Mark by Tucker S. Ferda tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"The death of Jesus has been narrated in such a way as to foreshadow the return of the Son of Man. For Mark, then, the cross not only makes a claim about the eschatological 'already' but brings to mind the 'not yet' that was expected to happen soon: Jesus’s glorious return." Crucifixion as Parodic Parousia: Eschatological Foreshadowing and the Death of Jesus in Mark by Tucker S. Ferda

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · 29d

The נתינים in Tannaitic Literature: The Puzzle and a Proposed Solution by Yedidah Koren is in #JBL144.2. Access the article online using your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"In this article, I propose that the term assumed a new meaning in Tannaitic literature as a Hebraized form of the Greek word νόθοι." Yedidah Koren, The נתינים in Tannaitic Literature: The Puzzle and a Proposed Solution

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 8

Read Drinking as Slaughter in Obadiah 16 by Anthony R. Petterson in #JBL144.2. Use your SBL username and password to access JBL issues. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"I utilize the tools of conceptual metaphor theory to propose that understanding the metaphor of drinking as the slaughter of warfare coheres better with the broader rhetorical context of the book of Obadiah." Anthony R. Petterson, Drinking as Slaughter in Obadiah 16

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 7

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"Scout’s story feels similar to discussions about dissociation by both trauma theorists and mental health practitioners as well as among biblical scholars, specifically regarding Ezek 24:15–27." Alexiana Fry

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

Access all the articles in #JBL144.2 using your SBL username and password buff.ly/M9s5iXg

"The identification of woven composition presents new possibilities for an integrated understanding of the literary context of specific laws." Paul Hocking and Moshe Kline, The Covenant Code: A New Way of Reading the Writing

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Your SBL username and password gives you access to all the articles in #JBL144.2. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"Replacements and insertions in the poem were carried out strategically to introduce Judahite ideological fixtures while simultaneously preserving the structure of the original Israelite poem and some of the north’s traditions." Timothy Hogue, From Zaphon to Zion: The Redaction of Psalm 20

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Use your SBL username and password to access all the articles in #JBL144.2. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"The task of exegesis is no more, but also no less, than to bring to the fore the ideas propagated by the authors of the biblical writings." Read Challenging Emotion: Is Divine “Regret” (נחם) an Anthropopathism After All? by Tobias Schmitz.

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Labors of Idrimi is available in open access. Download your copy. tinyurl.com/yyvfbm66

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Purchase your copy from SBL Press cart.sbl-site.org/books/066705P

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 2

Praise for Isaac of Antioch: Homilies on Moral and Monastic Reform by Adam H. Becker. “Becker’s creative English translation of Isaac’s Syriac texts is sensitive to the movement of the narrative—literal, but flowing. He utilizes nuanced and colorful terms and idioms to depict and convey the urgent tone of these mēmrē”—Robert A. Kitchen, CBQ

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The methodology in my investigation combines narratological analysis with an investigation of historical and cultural/collective memory."—Philip R. Davies . The ebook of Is Samuel among the Deuteronomists is $5 with code AIL25 until 31 Aug. tinyurl.com/3dfh6hxc

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Aug 31

“A more apt translation of כהן is probably ‘diviner’ or ‘oracle-giver’ than ‘priest.’—Diana Edelman. The ebook of Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History is $5 today with code AIL25. tinyurl.com/bd83weej

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