Informed speculation about the Psalms as ancient media technology for managing ghosts

A reflection from California on academic and personal motivations for my research and writing.

My notes on Édourad Glissant’s theory of poetics

Inspired by artist, Madjeen Isaac’s painting, “In the Palm of Our Hands,” (bottom) a list of quotes

Windstorms, Gendered Bodies, and Language Games in Job’s Dialogues with God

The poetics of affliction in the Poem of the Righteous Sufferer allow us to gaze on the body as a layered object of medical knowledge.

Engaging Francesca Stavrakopoulou’s God, An Anatomy (Knopf, 2022)

Understanding bodies through the lens of ancient practitioners’ medical knowledge, and then focusing in on how medical scribes organized and read textualized bodies. The Mesopotamian exorcist is on center stage.

We need a method that better attunes the modern, critical imagination to the possibilities in ancient bi-lingual poetics.

As health terminology, Hebrew nefeš falls within the domain of scribal medical and physiognomic knowledge. How can Akkadian napištu shed light on Hebrew nep̄eš?

Why the scribe(s) of Job wanted to dissolve the sapiential body

BIblical narrative and the the American character

Digital scholarship as a creative, critical praxis

A very simple (growing) list of approaches and theories of the body

Soft clay & grassy muck by rivers — when the medium and message is materiality

From guardian of the forest to a symbol on jewelry pendants, Humbaba’s face twists as wildly as a belly’s intestines