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My musings on the New Testament, Early Christianity, Religion, Literature, and Other Phenomena and Ephemera.

Friday, January 8, 2016

Quirky Christology: The Son's Non-Anthropomorphic Preincarnate Christophanies

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I wanted to continue to think about some of the stranger aspects of ancient Christian Christology, especially as it pertains to the Son...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Quirky Christology: Theophilus of Antioch and the Logos' Preincarnate Peformance

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For my current project, which focuses on how early Christians understood Moses' visions, I have been delving much into Second and Third...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

So...I guess I should post more often

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I just noticed that I had a total of 12 blog posts for all of 2015 - the number that James McGrath posts per hour.  I hereby resolve to at l...
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My Spring 2016 Courses at Illinois College

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If anyone in the Jacksonville, IL, area stumbles upon this and is interested, here are my courses for the Spring 2016 semester: RE 112: I...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Speaking Altar

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So, another quirk in Revelation occurs in 16:7, when the seven angels are pouring out bowls of divine wrath upon the earth and sea.  In the ...

Revelation 14:10 and Heavenly Torture

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I have been working on one of the SBL presentations on spatiotemporality in Hebrews, Revelation, and 4 Ezra.  I ran into a passage, which pr...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Pope's Address to Congress

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Here is Pope Francis I's address to a joint session of Congress.  It is not a transcript, but a pre-circulated copy.  So, there might b...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Gladiators, Funerals, and Roman Schadenfreude

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Yesterday I was teaching on Gladiators in my Religion and Sports class.  I had two good questions that generated a lot of discussion in both...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Place, Movement, and Community: A Critical Reading of Hebrews 11

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At the International Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Buenos Aires last month, I gave a paper entitled, "Place, Movement, and ...

Camino, Hebrews, and Mysticism

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It has been a long while since I have posted anything, and now, as the semester is about to start, seems the worst time to start posting thi...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Greece: Democracy and Identity from the Classical to the Modern Era

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I am pleased to announce that Paul Fuller, from the Sociology Department at Illinois College, and I will be leading a travel course (called ...

Religion Classes at Illinois College (Fall 2015)

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Since one of our faculty members - Caryn Riswold - is on sabbatical next year, we will only have six courses per semester offered next year ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Place, Movement, and Community (ISBL in Buenos Aires)

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I will be traveling to my first International SBL this summer in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  It will also be my first time in South America.  ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

DeConick Returns

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I don't know if anyone noticed - well, James McGrath notices everything - but April Deconick has been active on her blog again after a s...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Jesus as Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer in Hebrews

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I thought after last night's post that I would go ahead and post the abstract from my own paper at the Midwest SBL, which generated more...

Midwest SBL

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I am currently attending and presenting at the Midwestern Region of the SBL.  I have never attended a regional meeting before.  It is nice, ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Origen on the Ark's Animals' Poop

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I have been reading some Origen lately, currently his Homilies on Genesis .  In his second homily, which is about Noah, he works through all...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

God is Not Male according to Arnobius

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Reading through Christian works from the 2nd to 4th century can often be mind-numbingly boring, but every so often, one comes across a gem. ...
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Jared Calaway
I have a Ph.D. in Religion from Columbia University. I am a visiting assistant professor at Illinois College. I have also taught at the University of Mississippi, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Columbia University. My research focuses on the New Testament and emergent Christian interactions with ancient Judaism in their Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern environments.
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