Author Archives: BRANE Collective

A BRANE Collective Panel convened by Jenna Stover-KempThursday, Oct. 8 ◆ 10 am PDT REGISTER HERE We who study ancient Mediterranean texts tend to be concerned with successfully transmitting the past: from scribes copying to performers memorizing, we highlight the preservation of what has come before. Even our departures from the preservation model still emphasize directContinue reading “Literary Creativity and Forgetting”

The Challenges to Forming Feminist Lineages in the Academy a two-part conversation with Mika Ahuvia Tuesday, September 15th, 1pm PSTandMonday October 12, 1pm PSTPLEASE REGISTER HERE Events will be live captioned by a professional CART provider. Join Mika Ahuvia, scholar of late antique Judaism, as she launches her new project identifying and documenting the challengesContinue reading ““Can Feminism be Institutionalized?””

A Forum Organized Around New Work by Molly M. Zahn Part 1 of a 2-part series curated by James Nati: Ancient Hebrew Literature Beyond “The Bible” For Second Temple Jewish readers and writers, there was no “Bible;” instead what we find in the literature from this period is a broad spectrum of sacred texts fromContinue reading “Towards a New Map of Second Temple Literature: Revelation, Rewriting, and Genre Before the Bible”

new projects: Reading Eglon’s FatnessJackie Wyse-Rhodes writes about portrayals of the natural world in Second Temple Jewish literature. Her other interests include apocalypticism, moral imagination as it relates to embodiment, and the reception history of the book of Numbers, particularly its depictions of women. Narrative Empathy and the History of David’s RiseJulian Chike is aContinue reading “Workshop: Ethical Reading and the Hebrew Bible”

Launch: Listening Session, Friday, July 3, 2020, 12pm EST Choosing whom and how to cite is a complex issue not limited to any single event, issue, or disgraced scholar. It pertains to how we operate as part of a scholarly community, how we produce scholarship and re-inscribe structures of power, and what it means toContinue reading “The Ethics of Citation and Interpretation: A Series”

The BRANE Collective is horrified about today’s news that Jan Joosten has been convicted for possession of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. We are angry, first of all, on behalf of the victims, and acknowledge the work of the French agencies who exposed this crime.  We affirm that institutional affiliation, aContinue reading “Today’s news”

Call for Participants This pilot event invites scholars of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism to think about what constrains us in our scholarship – what obstacles stand in the way of the flourishing of our intellectual work – and what might be possible when we find ways out of these constraints. What gatekeeping practices limitContinue reading “Pilot Event: Opening the Field”