Papers by Anthony Lipscomb
Journal of Ancient Judaism, 2021
The modern conception of the self as bifurcated between inner and outer realms has and continues ... more The modern conception of the self as bifurcated between inner and outer realms has and continues to hold sway as an unchecked presumption in biblical interpretation. The past decade of biblical scholarship, however, has seen a burgeoning effort to problematize this imposition with regard to emotion and interiority. The present study joins this conversation by challenging the presumption of “shame” as an emotional and interior category in the Hebrew Bible, a challenge that has already been initiated but is ripe for further probing. Informed by a practice theory of emotion and embodied cognition, and focusing on the metaphor Shame is Clothing, which appears in Job, Ezekiel, and Psalms, this study proposes material and enactive readings of “shame” wherein so-called shame roots as bwš, klm, and ḥpr center on bodily diminishment and practices of defeat as a matter of relational dynamics and power disparities.
Ugarit-Forschungen, 2021
The parallelism bbt//bqrb.hkl ("in the house // inside the palace") is a conventional formulation... more The parallelism bbt//bqrb.hkl ("in the house // inside the palace") is a conventional formulation observed across the corpus of Ugaritic poetic narrative, but curiously the episode of the construction of Baal's palace in KTU 1.4 forgoes this convention in favour of bbt//bhkl, where the ballast preposition bqrb is reduced to b. The unconventional formulation can be appreciated as a poetic innovation that, in coordination with the seven-day literary device, helps to foreground a climactic narrative moment in the Baal Cycle.
Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2019
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Papers by Anthony Lipscomb