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ALT Article entitled Animals and demons: Nonhuman beings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Abstract reads: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In this text virtuous humans are protected from nonhuman animals and this protection is a sign of a person's virtue. Furthermore, nonhuman animals plot against human ones and attempt to gain mastery over them, using the same terms as would be used for other nonhuman, demonic forces possessing humans. This article suggests that in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, these types of nonhuman opponents are not neatly distinguished, and that these categories bleed into one another. This suggests that a less strong distinction in the classification and discussion of animals and spirits is beneficial for early Christian text
ALT BNTS 2025 poster, which contains the same information as the tweet.
ALT The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.
ALT BNTS 2025 poster, which contains the same information as the tweet.
ALT BNTS 2025 poster, which contains the same information as the tweet.
ALT My title slide to kick off the discussion - spooky trees with my name and the text ‘Feminist Afterlives: A Haunting’
ALT BIBLE CRITICAL THEORY AND RECEPTION SEMINAR The University of Manchester 10th June 2025 University Place, 6.208 and Zoom Welcome and Lunch Clair Hutchings-Budd Big Beard in the Sky: A preliminary exploration of Pratchett's Discworld novels as an ethical project. Jo Carruthers Is the Bible a dangerous book? Tom de Bruin Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique of Contemporary Interpreters' Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Coffee Break Taylor Weaver Christ-types and Paul-types: Is there a Paul-type? James Crossley Robin Hood's Bible Plans for next year Close Dinner at Bundobust (Oxford Road) bctrsem@gmail.com
ALT Article entitled Animals and demons: Nonhuman beings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Abstract reads: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, usually included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, contains descriptions of nonhuman animals in eight of its twelve testaments. This article is the first to examine these descriptions of nonhumans. In this text virtuous humans are protected from nonhuman animals and this protection is a sign of a person's virtue. Furthermore, nonhuman animals plot against human ones and attempt to gain mastery over them, using the same terms as would be used for other nonhuman, demonic forces possessing humans. This article suggests that in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, these types of nonhuman opponents are not neatly distinguished, and that these categories bleed into one another. This suggests that a less strong distinction in the classification and discussion of animals and spirits is beneficial for early Christian text
ALT Acknowledgements I would like to thank the members of the STCC Biblical Studies Seminar at Radboud University for their invaluable feedback on an earlier version of this paper. I presented a draft version of this paper at the Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative section of the SBL meetings in San Diego. I want to thank the chairs Eric Vanden Eykel and R. Gillian Glass for accepting this paper and the other panelists and attendees for extremely useful insights and comments that substantially improved it. And finally, thanks to the two peer reviewers at JSP for their enlightening reviews.
