Ronsard and Biblical Tradition

Christian Iconography and Biblical Interpretation

Since the Bible is regarded as the most important source of Christian iconography and iconography in return is the visual interpretation of the Bible, the relationship between Christian iconography and biblical interpretation is noteworthy. In some cases this relationship is such that the visual representation is actively involved in the interpretation of the biblical text and is...

Biblical and Talmudic medicine

first with the poetic view of mind, with examples from Homer and the tragedians, second with the philosopher's, i.e. largely Plato's, and finally with the medical, i.e. the early Hippocratic texts. All three approaches are combined in a discussion of hysteria, in which he also stresses the social and sexual prohibitions of Athenian women and the ambivalent, yet often effective, distancing of th...

Ecofeminism and Biblical Interpretation

Biblical Paradox and Coinductive Reasoning

The study of paradox has been one of the most neglected areas in contemporary biblical scholarship. One of the landmark examples is the Liar’s Paradox (Titus 1:12) with circular reasoning, along with the name of God (Exodus 3:14) and the identity of Jesus (John 14:10). Yet biblical paradox is one of the most ignored areas in biblical study for the latter half of the 20th century. The study of p...

Biblical Principles for Compensation