Religious Studies

While past scholarship has emphasized graphic imagery, Matthew Michael engages in the soundscape of the book of Revelation. Blending biblical studies with sound theory, he shows the strategic use of sound, noise, and weeping scenes in challenging Rome's power and the re-imagination of a new world.

Samuel L. Voo examines certain types of allusions called »composite allusions« in the Fourth Gospel and compares these to similar phenomena in other ancient Jewish literature. The author employs methods from three different sub-fields: literary criticism, ancient Jewish exegesis, and ancient media criticism.

Mathias Sånglöf compares occurrences of the Spirit of God in Pauline and Johannine texts on a lexical, grammatical, and conceptual level and asks the following questions: What are the common traits associated with the Spirit? What is the unique profile of each corpus? Can one corpus help us understand the other better?

What we know as the Holy Land is not merely the biblical land. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how it - perhaps even more than through biblical texts - was created by extracanonical traditions of texts, rituals, and material culture.