Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld is Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg University (Minneapolis, MN, USA). She received her Ph.D. in Ancient Judaism from McGill University. Her research emphasizes the vast diversity of Judaism in the ancient world. In addition to publishing articles covering biblical and non-canonical texts in their ancient contexts, Sheinfeld works on their reception in popular culture and has coedited Theology and Westworld (2020) and Good Omens and the Bible (2024). Sheinfeld also publishes extensively on gender and ancient Judaism, including coediting Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity (2024) and Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020). Sheinfeld also co-wrote Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (2022), which won the 2023 Frank W. Beare award from the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies and Honorable Mention for the 2024 British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies book prize.
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July 6, 2024
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Jephthah is compelled by a vow to sacrifice his daughter. Why is YHWH silent? Biblical Antiquities, ca. 1st century C.E., expands the story, giving Jephthah’s daughter a name and agency, and presenting her sacrifice as God’s punishment of Jephthah.
Jephthah is compelled by a vow to sacrifice his daughter. Why is YHWH silent? Biblical Antiquities, ca. 1st century C.E., expands the story, giving Jephthah’s daughter a name and agency, and presenting her sacrifice as God’s punishment of Jephthah.
Genesis Rabbah surprisingly portrays Lot’s daughters and their choices in a decidedly positive light, while exacerbating Lot’s culpability.
Genesis Rabbah surprisingly portrays Lot’s daughters and their choices in a decidedly positive light, while exacerbating Lot’s culpability.
An ancient Yelamdeinu Rabbeinu homily connects the covenantal nature of the prohibition to write down the Oral Law, and recite the Written Torah orally, to a novel reading of Gen 18:17-19: God’s choice of Abraham and his descendants to be exclusive participants in God’s own mystery cult.
An ancient Yelamdeinu Rabbeinu homily connects the covenantal nature of the prohibition to write down the Oral Law, and recite the Written Torah orally, to a novel reading of Gen 18:17-19: God’s choice of Abraham and his descendants to be exclusive participants in God’s own mystery cult.
Jesus is famously associated with the holiday of Passover. However, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus makes his debut and final visit at the temple on Sukkot, while the Book of Revelation uses Sukkot imagery to describe Jesus’ future appearance on earth. These repurposings of Sukkot and its rituals highlight Sukkot’s eschatological significance for Jews in Second Temple times (Zechariah 14).
Jesus is famously associated with the holiday of Passover. However, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus makes his debut and final visit at the temple on Sukkot, while the Book of Revelation uses Sukkot imagery to describe Jesus’ future appearance on earth. These repurposings of Sukkot and its rituals highlight Sukkot’s eschatological significance for Jews in Second Temple times (Zechariah 14).
