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Ajouter le résultat dans votre panierrestricted access Blood, War, and Ritual Meals: Transgressive Consumption in 1 Samuel 14:31–35 / Julia Rhyder in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, vol 86/4 (2024)
Titre : restricted access Blood, War, and Ritual Meals: Transgressive Consumption in 1 Samuel 14:31–35 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Julia Rhyder, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 639-658 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : In this article, I explore the curious story of transgressive consumption in 1 Sam 14:31–35 and its significance for scholarly theories about butchery in ancient Israel. After a brief assessment of the literary history of 1 Sam 14:31–35, I review the claim that Saul’s troops at the battle at Michmash slaughtered their animals [inline-graphic 01i], “on” or “toward the ground” and, second, that they ate [inline-graphic 02i], “with” or “over the blood.” Drawing on philological, inner-biblical, and comparative evidence, I argue that the troops appear not to have eaten meat with the blood still in it but rather to have engaged in a ritual meal that involved chthonic forces. This interpretation, in turn, suggests that 1 Sam 14:31–35 was written as a late supplement to the account of Saul’s disastrous battle oath at Michmash, with the aim of advancing the narrative focus on how prohibited consumption, on the one hand, and divination, on the other, contributed to the events that unfolded during the battle. I conclude by cautioning against the use of 1 Sam 14:31–35 to reconstruct generalized norms surrounding butchery in the early history of ancient Israel: this text is not about butchery per se, but rather about the particular problem of using blood to solicit oracular messages from the dead.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 639-658[article] restricted access Blood, War, and Ritual Meals: Transgressive Consumption in 1 Samuel 14:31–35 [texte imprimé] / Julia Rhyder, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 639-658.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 639-658
Résumé : In this article, I explore the curious story of transgressive consumption in 1 Sam 14:31–35 and its significance for scholarly theories about butchery in ancient Israel. After a brief assessment of the literary history of 1 Sam 14:31–35, I review the claim that Saul’s troops at the battle at Michmash slaughtered their animals [inline-graphic 01i], “on” or “toward the ground” and, second, that they ate [inline-graphic 02i], “with” or “over the blood.” Drawing on philological, inner-biblical, and comparative evidence, I argue that the troops appear not to have eaten meat with the blood still in it but rather to have engaged in a ritual meal that involved chthonic forces. This interpretation, in turn, suggests that 1 Sam 14:31–35 was written as a late supplement to the account of Saul’s disastrous battle oath at Michmash, with the aim of advancing the narrative focus on how prohibited consumption, on the one hand, and divination, on the other, contributed to the events that unfolded during the battle. I conclude by cautioning against the use of 1 Sam 14:31–35 to reconstruct generalized norms surrounding butchery in the early history of ancient Israel: this text is not about butchery per se, but rather about the particular problem of using blood to solicit oracular messages from the dead.
Titre : The Shape and Shaping of Isaiah and Psalms as Books in the Zion Tradition Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Andrew T. Abernethy, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 659-680 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : This article identifies parallels between methods and conceptual impulses that informed the shape and shaping of MT Psalms and MT Isaiah as books. For the past fifty years, there has been abundant interest in the macrostructures of the Psalter (MT) and Isaiah, yet inquiry into the shape and shaping of these two books has taken place in isolation from one another. When compared, there is striking overlap between the shapes of MT Psalms and MT Isaiah. In this article, I show similarities between Psalms and Isaiah in terms of both editorial methods (dual introductions; central hinges) and semantic emphases (torah observance; the nations; divine kingship in Zion; worship) that give shape to each book. Consequently, scholarship can move beyond simply acknowledging commonality between individual texts in the Psalter and Isaiah. A remarkable level of similarity between Psalms and Isaiah as books exposes how a common set of theological instincts from the Zion tradition informed how these books took form.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 659-680[article] The Shape and Shaping of Isaiah and Psalms as Books in the Zion Tradition [texte imprimé] / Andrew T. Abernethy, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 659-680.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 659-680
Résumé : This article identifies parallels between methods and conceptual impulses that informed the shape and shaping of MT Psalms and MT Isaiah as books. For the past fifty years, there has been abundant interest in the macrostructures of the Psalter (MT) and Isaiah, yet inquiry into the shape and shaping of these two books has taken place in isolation from one another. When compared, there is striking overlap between the shapes of MT Psalms and MT Isaiah. In this article, I show similarities between Psalms and Isaiah in terms of both editorial methods (dual introductions; central hinges) and semantic emphases (torah observance; the nations; divine kingship in Zion; worship) that give shape to each book. Consequently, scholarship can move beyond simply acknowledging commonality between individual texts in the Psalter and Isaiah. A remarkable level of similarity between Psalms and Isaiah as books exposes how a common set of theological instincts from the Zion tradition informed how these books took form.
Titre : Blow the Horn in Gibeah: Hosea 5:8–10 and Hezekiah’s Northern Ambitions Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Heath Dewrell, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 681-699 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Hosea 5:8–10 describes a Judahite campaign north into Benjaminite territory. Traditionally, this campaign has been situated in the middle of the eighth century during the conflict commonly known as the Syro-Ephraimite War. This historical context is problematic for several reasons, not least of which is that there is no evidence whatsoever for Judahite aggression during this conflict. Rather, Judah is depicted as helpless in the face of the Israelite-Aramean alliance, merely hoping to survive. On the other hand, the final decades of the eighth century, during the reign of Hezekiah of Judah and after the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians, fit the circumstances described in Hos 5:8–10 remarkably well. This was a period during which both textual and archaeological evidence indicate that Judah expanded northward into Benjaminite territory. Hosea 5:8–10, then, would represent a fascinating glimpse into a Benjaminite view of Hezekiah’s northward expansion. It should come as no surprise that the B
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 681-699[article] Blow the Horn in Gibeah: Hosea 5:8–10 and Hezekiah’s Northern Ambitions [texte imprimé] / Heath Dewrell, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 681-699.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 681-699
Résumé : Hosea 5:8–10 describes a Judahite campaign north into Benjaminite territory. Traditionally, this campaign has been situated in the middle of the eighth century during the conflict commonly known as the Syro-Ephraimite War. This historical context is problematic for several reasons, not least of which is that there is no evidence whatsoever for Judahite aggression during this conflict. Rather, Judah is depicted as helpless in the face of the Israelite-Aramean alliance, merely hoping to survive. On the other hand, the final decades of the eighth century, during the reign of Hezekiah of Judah and after the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians, fit the circumstances described in Hos 5:8–10 remarkably well. This was a period during which both textual and archaeological evidence indicate that Judah expanded northward into Benjaminite territory. Hosea 5:8–10, then, would represent a fascinating glimpse into a Benjaminite view of Hezekiah’s northward expansion. It should come as no surprise that the B
Titre : Holy, Wholly, Holey: Ecclesiastes 4:17–5:6 in Text and Tradition Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Davis Hankins, Auteur ; Brennan W. Breed, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 700-721 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : This interpretation of Eccl 4:17–5:6 (Eng. 5:1–7) challenges a common scholarly conclusion––that Qoheleth emphasizes divine transcendence. Qoheleth’s articulation of divine transcendence may initially seem clear: “God is in the heavens and you are on the earth” (5:1). But this statement appears within a tightly structured passage that focuses squarely on human attempts to relate to God and various problems that beset such attempts. We offer a novel formal analysis of this pericope, demonstrating that it describes the religious consequences of the distance that separates what people say from what they do. This distance between human words and human deeds underlies Qoheleth’s counsel against certain rituals and religious practices, as well as his commendation at the end of the passage to “fear God,” and thus may be understood as the distance between earth and heaven that Qoheleth asserts in 5:1. In this passage’s reception history, we find three distinct interpretative trajectories, which we indicate with the three homonyms in the title. Some interpretations affirm God’s heavenly, holy transcendence, whereas others, perhaps surprisingly, view this text as affirming God’s immanence on earth. A third interpretation considers instead the limits and fractures of human life on earth as manifestations of the heavenly divine. While most interpretations of this passage align with the first or second readings, we argue that the third trajectory aligns most closely with Qoheleth’s teachings.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 700-721[article] Holy, Wholly, Holey: Ecclesiastes 4:17–5:6 in Text and Tradition [texte imprimé] / Davis Hankins, Auteur ; Brennan W. Breed, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 700-721.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 700-721
Résumé : This interpretation of Eccl 4:17–5:6 (Eng. 5:1–7) challenges a common scholarly conclusion––that Qoheleth emphasizes divine transcendence. Qoheleth’s articulation of divine transcendence may initially seem clear: “God is in the heavens and you are on the earth” (5:1). But this statement appears within a tightly structured passage that focuses squarely on human attempts to relate to God and various problems that beset such attempts. We offer a novel formal analysis of this pericope, demonstrating that it describes the religious consequences of the distance that separates what people say from what they do. This distance between human words and human deeds underlies Qoheleth’s counsel against certain rituals and religious practices, as well as his commendation at the end of the passage to “fear God,” and thus may be understood as the distance between earth and heaven that Qoheleth asserts in 5:1. In this passage’s reception history, we find three distinct interpretative trajectories, which we indicate with the three homonyms in the title. Some interpretations affirm God’s heavenly, holy transcendence, whereas others, perhaps surprisingly, view this text as affirming God’s immanence on earth. A third interpretation considers instead the limits and fractures of human life on earth as manifestations of the heavenly divine. While most interpretations of this passage align with the first or second readings, we argue that the third trajectory aligns most closely with Qoheleth’s teachings.
Titre : Prophetic Authority and Scribal Anxiety in the Late Second Temple Period Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Nati, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 722-745 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Both the Book of Daniel and the pesher to Habakkuk from Qumran show, in different ways, a sense of scribal anxiety. This anxiety stems from the fact that the scribes who authored these works in the late Second Temple period had to contend with the instability of language, a feature of texts that for them cut two ways. On the one hand, it allowed them to transform the traditions of their past in new ways that made these traditions present; on the other, it opened up the possibility that these transformations would be superseded in the future. That this possibility of erasure is inherent in interpretation, the very thing that undergirds the scribal enterprise, created for these authors a sense of anxiety around their craft.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 722-745[article] Prophetic Authority and Scribal Anxiety in the Late Second Temple Period [texte imprimé] / James Nati, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 722-745.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 722-745
Résumé : Both the Book of Daniel and the pesher to Habakkuk from Qumran show, in different ways, a sense of scribal anxiety. This anxiety stems from the fact that the scribes who authored these works in the late Second Temple period had to contend with the instability of language, a feature of texts that for them cut two ways. On the one hand, it allowed them to transform the traditions of their past in new ways that made these traditions present; on the other, it opened up the possibility that these transformations would be superseded in the future. That this possibility of erasure is inherent in interpretation, the very thing that undergirds the scribal enterprise, created for these authors a sense of anxiety around their craft.
Titre : Misattributions in the Downstream Marcan Literature: A Forty-Year Perspective Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : M. V. Dougherty, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 746-779 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : This article begins by tracing the reception history of an influential 1984 article in Marcan studies by a long-standing member of the Catholic Biblical Association. Published four decades ago, Augustine Stock’s article “Chiastic Awareness and Education in Antiquity” has enjoyed a high number of positive citations in the downstream literature in the decades that followed its publication, and the upward trend line for commending citations continues to the present. The analysis offered here is an exercise in post-publication peer review. The main argument is that the acclaim directed at Stock’s article has been misallocated. Nearly every positive reference to Stock’s 1984 study in the downstream literature should have been directed instead to the books and articles by a host of authors whose works were excerpted verbatim and near verbatim, without credit, to constitute the bulk of Stock’s celebrated article. The implication of this study is clear: there are strong reasons to think that the discipline of biblical studies has a largely undiagnosed misattribution problem. Stock’s 1984 article is not a unique case to Marcan studies or to the larger field of biblical studies. An examination of two further publications exemplifies the scale of the problem. I conclude by proposing a way forward.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 746-779[article] Misattributions in the Downstream Marcan Literature: A Forty-Year Perspective [texte imprimé] / M. V. Dougherty, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 746-779.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 746-779
Résumé : This article begins by tracing the reception history of an influential 1984 article in Marcan studies by a long-standing member of the Catholic Biblical Association. Published four decades ago, Augustine Stock’s article “Chiastic Awareness and Education in Antiquity” has enjoyed a high number of positive citations in the downstream literature in the decades that followed its publication, and the upward trend line for commending citations continues to the present. The analysis offered here is an exercise in post-publication peer review. The main argument is that the acclaim directed at Stock’s article has been misallocated. Nearly every positive reference to Stock’s 1984 study in the downstream literature should have been directed instead to the books and articles by a host of authors whose works were excerpted verbatim and near verbatim, without credit, to constitute the bulk of Stock’s celebrated article. The implication of this study is clear: there are strong reasons to think that the discipline of biblical studies has a largely undiagnosed misattribution problem. Stock’s 1984 article is not a unique case to Marcan studies or to the larger field of biblical studies. An examination of two further publications exemplifies the scale of the problem. I conclude by proposing a way forward.
Titre : Participation in Christ: Reasoning (Romans 15:5) and the Form of the Body (Philippians 3:21) Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Justin Hagerman, Auteur Année de publication : 2025 Article en page(s) : pp. 780-800 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : The topic of participation in Christ has remained a distinctive area in Pauline scholarship throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Scholars have raised a pressing critique, however, that “participation” has become a vague concept such that its use for exegesis of Paul is limited. This recent critique resembles E. P. Sanders’s earlier concern in the late 1970s that scholars appear to lack a category of “reality” that corresponds to Paul’s experience of participating in Christ. In light of this problem, I argue that the interpretive category of participation can be expanded further without losing its coherence. To develop this argument, I first chart a history of scholarship by focusing on participatory motifs that scholars have recently identified. Then, in the following sections, I analyze two motifs that have not been sufficiently integrated into this research on participation: (1) reasoning in accordance with Christ in Rom 15:5; (2) the form of the body conformed to Christ’s glorified body in Phil 3:21. Finally, I discuss the conceptual linkage between these two Pauline passages. In conclusion, these two motifs will allow scholarship to move toward more nuanced perspectives on how Paul envisions participation in Christ.
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 780-800[article] Participation in Christ: Reasoning (Romans 15:5) and the Form of the Body (Philippians 3:21) [texte imprimé] / Justin Hagerman, Auteur . - 2025 . - pp. 780-800.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly > vol 86/4 (2024) . - pp. 780-800
Résumé : The topic of participation in Christ has remained a distinctive area in Pauline scholarship throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Scholars have raised a pressing critique, however, that “participation” has become a vague concept such that its use for exegesis of Paul is limited. This recent critique resembles E. P. Sanders’s earlier concern in the late 1970s that scholars appear to lack a category of “reality” that corresponds to Paul’s experience of participating in Christ. In light of this problem, I argue that the interpretive category of participation can be expanded further without losing its coherence. To develop this argument, I first chart a history of scholarship by focusing on participatory motifs that scholars have recently identified. Then, in the following sections, I analyze two motifs that have not been sufficiently integrated into this research on participation: (1) reasoning in accordance with Christ in Rom 15:5; (2) the form of the body conformed to Christ’s glorified body in Phil 3:21. Finally, I discuss the conceptual linkage between these two Pauline passages. In conclusion, these two motifs will allow scholarship to move toward more nuanced perspectives on how Paul envisions participation in Christ.
