Die Chefredaktion von AABNER beschreibt die Schwachen und Probleme des traditionellen ‚Double-Bli... more Die Chefredaktion von AABNER beschreibt die Schwachen und Probleme des traditionellen ‚Double-Blind-Peer-Review‘ und bietet eine innovative Losung: den von uns weiterentwickelten ‚Forum-Peer-Review‘.
Wir als Grundungsmitglieder und Chefredaktion erlautern unsere Beweggrunde und Ziele sowie die re... more Wir als Grundungsmitglieder und Chefredaktion erlautern unsere Beweggrunde und Ziele sowie die redaktionellen Prinzipien der neu gegrundeten, auf ‚Forum-Peer-Review‘ basierenden Open-Access Zeitschrift AABNER.
This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse an... more This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and elaborates on them. It reflects on how this reception affects our understanding of the four horsemen and of apocalyptic literature broadly.
This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse an... more This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and elaborates on them. It reflects on how this reception affects our understanding of the four horsemen and of apocalyptic literature broadly.
Die Chefredaktion von AABNER beschreibt die Schwachen und Probleme des traditionellen ‚Double-Bli... more Die Chefredaktion von AABNER beschreibt die Schwachen und Probleme des traditionellen ‚Double-Blind-Peer-Review‘ und bietet eine innovative Losung: den von uns weiterentwickelten ‚Forum-Peer-Review‘.
Wir als Grundungsmitglieder und Chefredaktion erlautern unsere Beweggrunde und Ziele sowie die re... more Wir als Grundungsmitglieder und Chefredaktion erlautern unsere Beweggrunde und Ziele sowie die redaktionellen Prinzipien der neu gegrundeten, auf ‚Forum-Peer-Review‘ basierenden Open-Access Zeitschrift AABNER.
This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse an... more This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and elaborates on them. It reflects on how this reception affects our understanding of the four horsemen and of apocalyptic literature broadly.
This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse an... more This paper explores how the series Darksiders appropriates the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and elaborates on them. It reflects on how this reception affects our understanding of the four horsemen and of apocalyptic literature broadly.
Creating a New Sex: Women Bodies in Conversion
Building on earlier work (particularly A. C. Wire... more Creating a New Sex: Women Bodies in Conversion
Building on earlier work (particularly A. C. Wire’s work on women in Corinth) and using methodological tools borrowed both from an intersectional approach and from the thought of Judith Butler, I am showing that Paul’s discussion about the veiling of women (1 Cor 11) is not only a theological dispute. It is rather the discursive traces of a conflict in a community that struggles about which norms one should follow to produce various bodies, and to materialize sex and gender.
The way women wear their hair in Corinth challenges Paul’s authority and the organization of a community centered around men. When the women in Corinth repeatedly call the patriarchal norms in question, they are in fact creating a new sex. If, as Butler claims, the body is constructed through a ritualized repetition of norms, the challenging of these norms, the practices of deviant bodily behaviors, modifies the conception one would have of women’s bodies. For the Greco-Roman world, women’s bodies were only women’s bodies if they were at the disposition of the males surrounding them. If, upon their conversion, these bodies become visible and loud bodies, in prophesying publicly for example, they no longer fit the traditional description of women. They are a liminal category that the ancient world cannot grasp: neither male, nor female. In Paul’s case, the norms for sex are too tightly drawn to allow for an embodying of this in-between gender, that would perform some of the prerogatives of the male sex while biologically being female. For Paul, these women who are not materializing their sex in the proper manner need to be put back in the correct category. In his world, this happens by veiling and silencing them.
A paper given at a conference on pseudepigraphy. Taking 1 Cor 9:19-23 as a starting point, I disc... more A paper given at a conference on pseudepigraphy. Taking 1 Cor 9:19-23 as a starting point, I discuss deutero-paulinism in dialogue with Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms.
Cette contribution revient sur les liens entre approches dites marginales (féministes, queer, pos... more Cette contribution revient sur les liens entre approches dites marginales (féministes, queer, postcoloniale, etc.) et approches traditionnelles, marquées par les développements de l'exégèse historico-critique. Elle montre comment les approches théoriques et critiques reprennent à leur compte l'héritage de Rudolf Bultmann, en insistant sur l'interdisciplinarité et le dialogue avec la philosophie contemporaine. À partir d'un exemple (l'onction de Jésus par une pécheresse en Luc 7, 36-50), elle propose de voir comment approches historiques et approches théoriques peuvent mieux éclairer et comprendre les textes bibliques. Elle conclut par une invitation à inclure les approches critiques et théoriques dans les méthodes traditionnelles non pas seulement pour des raisons éthiques mais aussi pour permettre une meilleure exégèse des textes bibliques. Abstract :This article analyses the relationship between so-called marginalized approaches (feminist, queer, postcolonial, etc.) and traditional approaches, which develop the insights of historico-critical exegesis. It shows how critical and theoretical approaches inscribe themselves in Rudolf Bultmann's heritage, as they insist on interdisciplinarity and dialogue with contemporary philosophy. With an example (Jesus' unction by a sinful woman in Luke 7, 36-50), it indicates how historical and theoretical approaches together can better illuminate and understand biblical texts. It concludes with an invitation to include critical and theoretical approaches in traditional methods not just for ethical reasons, but mostly to allow better exegesis of biblical texts.
Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research, 2021
Explains the background, reasons and goals for launching the new journal Advances in Ancient, Bib... more Explains the background, reasons and goals for launching the new journal Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research.
Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research, 2021
Describes AABNER system of peer review--Forum Review--that is a more transparent alternative to d... more Describes AABNER system of peer review--Forum Review--that is a more transparent alternative to double-blind peer review.
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Building on earlier work (particularly A. C. Wire’s work on women in Corinth) and using methodological tools borrowed both from an intersectional approach and from the thought of Judith Butler, I am showing that Paul’s discussion about the veiling of women (1 Cor 11) is not only a theological dispute. It is rather the discursive traces of a conflict in a community that struggles about which norms one should follow to produce various bodies, and to materialize sex and gender.
The way women wear their hair in Corinth challenges Paul’s authority and the organization of a community centered around men. When the women in Corinth repeatedly call the patriarchal norms in question, they are in fact creating a new sex. If, as Butler claims, the body is constructed through a ritualized repetition of norms, the challenging of these norms, the practices of deviant bodily behaviors, modifies the conception one would have of women’s bodies. For the Greco-Roman world, women’s bodies were only women’s bodies if they were at the disposition of the males surrounding them. If, upon their conversion, these bodies become visible and loud bodies, in prophesying publicly for example, they no longer fit the traditional description of women. They are a liminal category that the ancient world cannot grasp: neither male, nor female. In Paul’s case, the norms for sex are too tightly drawn to allow for an embodying of this in-between gender, that would perform some of the prerogatives of the male sex while biologically being female. For Paul, these women who are not materializing their sex in the proper manner need to be put back in the correct category. In his world, this happens by veiling and silencing them.
Abstract :This article analyses the relationship between so-called marginalized approaches (feminist, queer, postcolonial, etc.) and traditional approaches, which develop the insights of historico-critical exegesis. It shows how critical and theoretical approaches inscribe themselves in Rudolf Bultmann's heritage, as they insist on interdisciplinarity and dialogue with contemporary philosophy. With an example (Jesus' unction by a sinful woman in Luke 7, 36-50), it indicates how historical and theoretical approaches together can better illuminate and understand biblical texts. It concludes with an invitation to include critical and theoretical approaches in traditional methods not just for ethical reasons, but mostly to allow better exegesis of biblical texts.