Author Archives: sethlsanders

This workshop describes a gap in scholarship on ancient Mediterranean literature, and demonstrates a way to address it via a digital humanities project that is at once a research tool and an interactive work of public scholarship. The gap results from the fact, well-known among scholars but still startling to much of the public, thatContinue reading “Ancient Mediterranean Digital Initiative Workshop, March 19 2024”

Breaking and Rethinking the Boundaries Between Biblical and Nonbiblical Literature This forum attempts to chart a powerful but unnamed phenomenon equally at home in biblical and non-biblical Jewish literature. Already evident in the Deuteronomic literature of the exilic period, scholars like Najman, Levinson and Zahn have demonstrated that this phenomenon stands equally behind texts likeContinue reading “Pilot Forum: Revelation Before the Bible”

1. Inclusivity: Our first principle is inclusion of all scholars interested in advancing the study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern literatures and their cultural worlds from the invention of writing through late antiquity regardless of their ethnicity/race, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, and economic status. This is first for basic moral and human reasons, but also intellectual ones.Continue reading “Principles”