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    4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literature
    (the Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) Henze, Matthias
    Students of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch have long noticed numerous thematic, generic, and linguistic parallels that exist between them. Both texts were written in the late first or possibly the early second century C.E., most likely in the land of Israel. The composition of both works was triggered by the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E., as both texts are, in essence, elaborate responses to the host of challenges posted by the Roman aggression. Both stories are set fictitiously during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C.E. 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch are Jewish apocalypses of the historical type, and both make extensive use of the same set of literary genres, such as prophetic dialogue, prayer, public speech, and the symbolic dream vision. Neither author reveals his identity by instead chooses to write pseudonymously in the voice of a biblical scribe of the exilic and early postexilic period: Ezra, who returned the Torah to Jerusalem, and Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. What drives the momentum forward is a continuous revelatory dialogue between the seer and God, or God's interpreting angel. By the end of each book both seers have undergone a remarkable transformation, from skeptic to consoler, ideal community leader, and latter-day Moses.
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    An Early Muslim Daniel Apocalypse
    (Brill, 2002-01) Cook, David
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    Apocalypse and Identity: Ibn Al-Munadi and Tenth Century Baghdad
    (McGill University, 2011) Cook, David
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    Apostasy from Islam: A Historical Perspective
    (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006) Cook, David
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    Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987)
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) Kripal, Jeffrey J.
    Trauma, Trick, and Transcendence in the Life of a Horror Writer: The Case of Whitley Strieber. This essay treats the theorization of horror in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987). It also pushes us to consider more honestly and forthrightly the question of “real monsters,” that is, the phenomenology of encounters with fantastic presences routinely experienced in the environment. Historical contextualization of Strieber's abduction experiences in the Hudson Valley region and theories of other species from Charles Fort to William James are invoked to radicalize the question further.
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    Boko Haram: A Prognosis
    (2011) Cook, David; James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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    Christian Ritual Magic in the Middle Ages
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Fanger, Claire
    This article gives a brief introduction to the area of medieval ritual magic, outlining the main kinds of texts likely to be understood as belonging to the category – image magic, necromancy, and theurgy or angel magic. Before moving to an overview of the current state of scholarship, it makes note of some watershed works that helped to open up the area of intellectual magic for study. A number of interesting new discoveries, both textual and historical, have been made since the 1990s, and these discoveries have in turn instigated a push toward further exploration and editing of medieval texts and manuscripts of ritual magic, which is turning out to be a more interesting and diverse category than might once have been assumed.
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    Corrections to the Critical Reading of the "Gospel of Thomas"
    (Brill, 2006-05) DeConick, April D.
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    Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
    (Duke University Press, 2023) Pinn, Anthony B.
    Anthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.
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    The "Dialogue of the Savior" and the Mystical Sayings of Jesus
    (Brill, 1996) DeConick, April D.
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    Dialogues: anthropology and theology
    (Wiley, 2022) Havea, Jione; Tomlinson, Matt; Al-Azem, Talal; Rasanayagam, Johan; Juewei, Venerable; Mair, Jonathan; Bongmba, Elias Kifon; Haynes, Naomi; Lamb, Ramdas; Sivakumar, Deeksha; Furani, Khaled; Moosa, Ebrahim
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    For the love and respect of the service: Applied aesthetics and palliative care
    (Scientific Research, 2013) Brennan, Marcia
    In this article, the author discusses her experiences as an artist in residence in the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Emphasis is placed on applied aesthetics in palliative care and their implications for addressing communication, spiritual, and health care issues for military service members. Drawing on six vivid case studies, the author examines the various ways in which end of life narratives can shed valuable light on key issues concerning individualsﾒ life experiences in the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. These cherished images strengthened peopleﾒs spirits at the end of life, and each of the men told their stories with pride.
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    Foucault and Brown: Disciplinary Intersections
    (Copenhagen Business School, 2022) Clements, Niki Kasumi
    From the 1981 “Sexuality and Solitude” to the 1982 “Le combat de la chasteté” to the 1984 History of Sexuality, Volume 2, Michel Foucault’s published works have long recognized the influence of the historian of late antiquity, Peter Brown. With the 2018 publication of Foucault’s draft of Les Aveux de la chair (Confessions of the Flesh) bearing no mention of Brown, the depth of this influence requires further elaboration. Despite Brown not appearing in the “Index of Modern Authors,” Confessions of the Flesh reflects Foucault’s debt to Brown for his readings of Augustine of Hippo and his conceptualizations of sexuality and subjectivity. Analyzing archival evidence alongside biographical narratives helps us better understand Brown’s vital influence as Foucault was shifting his History of Sexuality project, his archival practices, and his genealogy of subjectivity. Appreciating the textual and conceptual engagement between Foucault and Brown thus illuminates not only Confessions of the Flesh as Volume 4 in the History of Sexuality series but also the conceptual and methodological developments of both scholars in their disciplinary intersections.
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    Foucault’s Christianities
    (Oxford University Press, 2021) Clements, Niki Kasumi
    The publication of Michel Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh) thirty-four years after his death highlights and complicates the relevance of Christian texts—notably from the second through fifth centuries—to Foucault’s forms of critical analysis between 1974 and 1984, as his interests migrate from monastic disciplines to pastoral power to governmentality to the care of the self. What begins as suspicion towards confession as a tool of Catholic power anticipating modern psychoanalysis becomes a critical genealogy of subjectivity from western antiquity to modernity. To frame Foucault’s dynamic engagement with forms of Christianity, I establish three stages over his last decade as he moves from diagnosing mechanisms of power to analyzing ethics as care of the self. Tracing Foucault’s textual and critical developments enables better analysis of Confessions of the Flesh and affirms methodological possibilities in the study of religion today.
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    Four Butterflies: End of Life Stories of Transition and Transformation
    (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2012) Brennan, Marcia
    In this article, the author discusses her experiences as an Artist In Residence in the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which end of life images and narratives often unfold in the fragile yet powerful space where conceptions of aesthetics and spirituality intersect with critical issues in the medical humanities. Drawing on four vivid case studies, the author examines the ways in which end of life narratives shed valuable light on conceptions of the subtlety of human embodiment; issues of violation, sorrow, and forgiveness; the mystical dimensions of traditional cultural beliefs; and the capacity for perceiving the natural world as a living symbol of grace. In so doing, she explores how the themes of transition and transformation become invested with meaningful existential and symbolic dimensions in artworks that give voice and presence to some of the most vulnerable, and often invisible, members of our societyﾗpeople at the end of life.
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    The Gospel of Judas: A Parody of Apostolic Christianity
    (T&T Clark, 2008) DeConick, April D.; Foster, Paul
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    The Gospel of Thomas
    (T&T Clark, 2008) DeConick, April D.; Foster, Paul