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Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 1d

LGBTQ+ interpretation has grown considerably over the past twenty years, though many biblical texts have yet to be read with queer interpretive lenses. Find out more in LGBTQ+ Biblical Interpretation by Lynn R. Huber buff.ly/WSFgxVa

LGBTQ+ Biblical Interpretation
Lynn R. Huber

While many biblical interpreters engaged in LGBTQ+ interpretation identify as such, there are also interpreters who do not identify as LGBTQ+ who are committed to this type of interpretation, which includes uncovering the roles biblical texts play in shaping LGBTQ+ experiences in today’s world and finding ways these texts can be meaningful and even affirming for those within LGBTQ+ communities.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 2d

Who is a settler? How can being a non-Indigenous person on colonized land affect biblical interpretation? Read Aware-Settler Hermeneutics by Matthew Robert Anderson to discover new ways to interpret biblical stories. buff.ly/IREaN1W

Aware-Settler Hermeneutics
Matthew Robert Anderson

Reading the Bible with an aware-settler hermeneutic means learning to situate one’s interpretations in the context of settler identity and learning from the new understandings that arise as a result.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 3d

What Is Reception History? What can it reveal about the the connections between earlier interpretations of biblical texts and later readings? Read What Is Reception History? by Brennan Breed to find out more about the many ways the Bible can be read. buff.ly/tozzrUE

What Is Reception History?
Brennan Breed

Reception history explores all the different ways that people have received, appropriated, and used biblical texts throughout history.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 4d

What does the term womanist mean? What does a womanist perspective contribute to biblical studies? Read Womanist Biblical Interpretation by Vanessa Lovelace to find out more about the many ways the Bible can be read. buff.ly/KHx4veL

Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Vanessa Lovelace

The term womanist was first popularized by the widely acclaimed 1983 publication In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, a compilation of nonfiction essays by author and activist Alice Walker.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 5d

How many scholars believe that Q existed as a source for Matthew and Luke? Read Mark Goodacre's answer. buff.ly/lBibDHB

Q Source
Mark Goodacre

There have always been detractors, including some who dispute both tenets of the two-source theory, Markan priority, and Q.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 8d

Source criticism is a scholarly method for detecting written sources behind the biblical text. Read What Is Source Criticism? by Steven L. McKenzie buff.ly/RqrUW73

What Is Source Criticism?
Steven L. McKenzie

Source criticism entails three steps: determining the separate elements that make up a text, reconstructing the sources, and dating them.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 9d

The New Testament dress codes in 1 Timothy 2:9–10 and 1 Peter 3:1–6 use clothing regulations as a tool to shape women’s behaviors, dispositions, and self-understandings. Read more in Dress Codes in the New Testament by Kelsi Morrison-Atkins. buff.ly/V1wWagV

Dress Codes in the New Testament
Kelsi MorrisoN-Atkins

Texts that seek to regulate women’s dress and behavior are prescriptive rather than descriptive: they work to shape how women should dress and do not necessarily describe their actual clothing practices.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 10d

Read more about Nazareth in the Bible Odyssey article by James Riley Strange. buff.ly/RKd4txu

Nazareth
James Riley Strange

In the canonical gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, “Nazareth” is named only in connection with Jesus: it is his hometown and “of Nazareth” is often appended to his name (Matt 2:23; Mark 1:24; John 1:45; 19:19; Acts 2:22; 3:6).

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 11d

Rebekah is a central and influential matriarch in the saga of Israel’s ancestors. Read more about her in the article by Jan Jaynes Quesada buff.ly/b1rw8bX

Rebekah
Jan Jaynes Quesada

Rebekah emerges as a vivid figure—a young virgin who is kind, beautiful, heroically hospitable, brave, and beloved. She is the literal answer to the prayers of Abraham’s servant, who asked for a divine sign to identify a bride for Isaac (vv. 12–14).

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 12d

In the popular imagination, Patmos is often envisaged as a harsh and lonely place of imprisonment; however, archaeological and inscriptional evidence tells a different story. Read more about Patmos is the article by Ian Boxall. buff.ly/gzCb6S6

Patmos
Ian Boxall

Patmos is an island in the eastern Aegean. Hardly mentioned in classical literature—there are passing references in Thucydides, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder—it is famous for its association with Revelation’s author, John.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· 15d

Check out Bread in Ancient Israel by Tim Frank. Find about about more about daily life in the ancient world at Bible Odyssey. buff.ly/7Z10bZy

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Bread in Ancient Israel
Tim Frank

In many areas around the ancient Mediterranean, bread, wine, and olive oil formed the basis of the diet. Similarly, in ancient Israel, more than half of the food intake consisted of bread and other grain-based food.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 29

Midrash is both a body of literature and a type of rabbinic biblical interpretation. Read Midrash by Rachel S. Mikva. buff.ly/h6UML4Z

Image: The Tribes of Israel gathered around Miriam’s miraculous well, from the wall of the synagogue at Dura-Europos, ca. 240 CE, paint on plaster. Courtesy the Yale University Art Gallery.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 28

Bread was an important staple in ancient Israel. Read Bread in Ancient Israel by Tim Frank. buff.ly/btfuaZP

Image: Cypriot figurines making flour, terracotta, ca. 600–480 BCE. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 27

Dylan Johnson discusses the garden of Eden with Biblical Time Machine. Listen here: buff.ly/0fGzUQT

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 26

Approaching recent depictions of Satan can help modern interpreters better understand how ancient readers interpreted him. Read more in Satan in Film by Brady Alan Beard buff.ly/f6N7f7l

David Alfaro Siqueiros, The Devil in Church (detail), 1947, enamel on panel, 218 x 156 cm. Courtesy the Museo de Arte Moderno.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 25

"Jews rebelled against Rome multiple times between 66 and 135 CE, each time with disastrous consequences." Read more in The Jewish Revolts Against Rome by Guy MacLean Rogers. buff.ly/RbvcyX1

Image: The South Frieze Panel of the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum, showing Roman soldiers carrying away spoils from the Jerusalem temple, ca. 81 CE. Photo courtesy of the author.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 22

In antiquity, midwives played a vital role in supporting women during childbirth. Read Midwives in Antiquity by Jennie Ebeling. buff.ly/45ckHjs

Image: Pharaoh and the Midwives, from the Golden Haggadah, ca. 1320 CE, on vellum. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 21

The so-called James Ossuary is an example of the challenges of identifying authentic artifacts from antiquity. Read The James Ossuary by Jonathan L. Reed. buff.ly/MkvnrQi

Image: The James Ossuary on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2005. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 20

The Negev is a large desert in southern Israel that plays a recurring role in the Bible and preserves a long, often overlooked human history. Read more in The Negev Maciej Wacławik . buff.ly/deNUV0H

Image: Jakob Steinhardt, Rocks in Negev (detail), 1960, color woodcut, 260 x 315 mm. Courtesy The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· May 19

Rhoda is an example of an enslaved woman in Acts where questions of gender and status intersect. Read more in Rhoda by Christy Cobb buff.ly/4xHI9kj

Image: Female slaves serving a woman of Sidi Grib, mosaic, fourth century CE. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 9

"The biblical story of the plagues of Egypt (Exod 6-12) recounts how the Israelites, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron, were able to escape Egyptian bondage.." Read The Plagues of Egypt by John Huddlestun buff.ly/qnVmYOM

The Fifth Plague of Egypt by Joseph Mallord William Turner.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 8

"The temple was a pilgrimage site for Jews throughout the Roman world, some of whom traveled there to celebrate the festivals of Passover (Pesach), Weeks (Shavuot), and Booths (Sukkot)." Read Jerusalem in the New Testament Period by Mark A. Chancey www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/jer...

Holyland Hotel model of Jerusalem during the time of Herod. Israel Museum.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 7

"Deut 16 describes three pilgrimage festivals: Pesach and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Deut 16:1-8); Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks (Deut 16:9-12); and Sukkot or the Feast of Booths (Deut 16:13-17)." Read Festivals in the Hebrew Bible by Laura Quick buff.ly/93WFBjL

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 6

"Passover festivals, along with other important Samaritan holidays, continue to be celebrated by many Samaritans, some of whom still live in a village near the top of Mount Gerizim." Read Mount Gerizim by Tim Wardle buff.ly/9jptGJc

Remnants of the Church of Mary Theotokos on Mount Gerizim (detail), photographed by Daniel Ventura, 2007. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 5

Listen to Dale Allison on the Biblical Time Machine Podcast episode Easter: A Closer Look at the Resurrection buff.ly/uKm5Nl1

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 5

"According to Josephus, 256,500 lambs were sacrificed to accommodate more than 2.7 million people at the Passover celebration of 66 CE." Read The Second Temple by Lawrence H. Schiffman buff.ly/CJyERXR

James Tissot, "Reconstruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod".

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 4

What Day was Jesus Crucified? Listen to the Biblical Time Machine Podcast with hosts Helen Bond and Dave Roos buff.ly/l74AQSv

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 4

Listen to the Biblical Time Machine interview with Carol Meyers, Passover: Did the Exodus Really Happen? buff.ly/T64Nr1s

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 3

"It was an obvious choice for Pilate to use crucifixion on Jesus, since he was a noncitizen, of low social standing, and charged with sedition." Read Crucifixion in the Roman World by John Granger Cook buff.ly/SsYBX72

Salvador Dalí, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (detail), 1954, oil on canvas, 193 x 124 cm. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Bible Odyssey@bibleodyssey· Apr 3

"Ecclesiastes is traditionally read on Sukkot, Ruth on Shavuot, and the Song of Songs on Passover." Check out "Reading the Bible in Jewish Liturgy" by Daniel Picus buff.ly/GsV8aiy