Collections
Setting my goals
This page is a work in progress. It is not linked on the header of the site. But it is linked on the home page and in the footer — as they say in airports:
“Pardon our appearance during construction”
The current “Collections” page (the one you are viewing now) materializes where I would like my writing on Biblical Bodies to go. I hope one day that my digital writing can be published in the form conveyed here — under the following “monograph” headings.
Biblical Bodies
Body projects and critical issues
Corpora of Afflictions
Medical discourses in the Hebrew Bible from comparative & theoretical perspectives
Anatomy of the Self
A cultural poetics of body parts in the Hebrew Bible
Winds in the Body
Prophetic and sapiential bodies among airs, winds, spirits, and breath — medical readings of embodied rȗaḥ
Previously published essays about biblical bodies
I recently prepared the critical study notes for the Book of Job in the Westminster Study Bible (available Spring, 2024)
“The Fertility of Bones: Towards a Corporeal Philology of Reproduction” HeBai 8 (2019): 431–447.
“The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome” Dead Sea Discoveries 28 (2021): 396-422.
“Rȗaḥ Embodied: Job’s Internal Disease from the Perspective of Mesopotamian Medicine” in Annette Weissenrieder (ed.), Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies, and Performances, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, p. 323–336.
“Conceptualizing Spirit: Supernatural Meteorology and Personal Distress in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East” in Joel Baden, Hindy Najman et Eibert Tigchelaar (eds.), Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy, JSJSup 175, Leiden, Brill, p. 826–844.
“The Critical Potential of Spirits: Hebrew Philology, the Poetics of Relation, and Unfamiliar Selves” Ancient Jew Review April 19, 2023. [www.ancientjewreview.com]
Image Credit(s)
Niobe Xandó, O desfile II (1975). Collage on paper.
Installation view of Ilana Savdie: Radical Contractions (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 14–October 19, 2023). From left to right: Anquilosis, 2023; Baths of Synovia, 2023; Helminth, 2023. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. [On anquilosis, Ilana Savdie’s website]
Andreas Vesalius, illustration from his De humani corporis fabrica. 16th century
The other two photographs were made available from Squarespace.