Harvard Theological Review articles from April 1998

Harvard Theological Review archives from April 1998

"Where is Sarah your wife?": cultural poetics of gender and nationhood in the Hebrew Bible.
April 1, 1998... William Robertson Smith wrote in 1885 that the biblical convention whereby a man is said to "go in" to his bride(1) represents a linguistic trace of once widespread "beena marriage," in which men joined the natal households of the women who...

The liturgical argument in Apollinarius: help and hindrance on the way to orthodoxy. (Apollinarus of Laodicea, 4th-century theologian)
April 1, 1998... In the essay "Creed or Chaos?" written in the midst of the turmoil of World War II, British mystery novelist Dorothy L. Sayers defended the relevance of the creeds produced during the doctrinal debates of the fourth and fifth centuries to...

Ritual murder and the subjectivity of Christ: a choice in medieval Christianity. (treatment of medieval Jews by Christians)
April 1, 1998... This is a study of the emotional context of certain medieval anti-Jewish legends. It examines how the stories redefined the composition of society, the relation of this to popular devotion, and the paradox between a religious intention and...

Divorce in Papyrus Se'elim 13 once again: a reply to Tal Ilan. (response to Tal Ilan, Harvard Theological Review, vol. 89, p. 195, 1996)
April 1, 1998... Tal Ilan, in her recent "Notes and Observations On a Newly Published Divorce Bill from the Judaean Desert,"(1) attempts to turn the "old view of Jewish divorce on its head."(2) She suggest that, "Perhaps in ancient Jewish practice women...

The provocative approach once again: a response to Adiel Schremer. (response to article by Adiel Schremer in this issue, p. 193)
April 1, 1998... The response of Schremer to my suggested reading of Papyrus Se'elim 13 is very learned indeed. The reader is immediately crowded with details--linguistic and legal--that indicate that the writer is a serious scholar and knows what he is...

Sculpting God: an exchange (1). (response to John N. Jones, Harvard Theological Review, vol. 89, p. 355, 1996)
April 1, 1998... In a recent issue of the Harvard Theological Review, John N. Jones argues that one must radically reinterpret the status of negative theology in pseudo-Dionysius. Unlike previous interpretations of pseudo-Dionysius, his article claims that...

Sculpting God: an exchange (2). (response to Aimee Light in this issue, p. 205)
April 1, 1998... My original essay was an attempt to draw distinctions among certain kinds of negative language and to show that, with these distinctions in place, it becomes unnecessary to say that Dionysius negates all language, including his negations....