The Opening of the Seals in Biblical Studies

Klein Cardoso, Silas (22 November 2021). The Opening of the Seals in Biblical Studies (Unpublished). In: SBL Annual Meeting / Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology. San Antonio, TX. 2021.

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The “discovery” of, or rather awakening for local figurative art, particularly for locally made and/or used seals in Late Bronze and Iron Age Palestine/Israel, since the 1970s represented a turning point within Biblical Studies. Besides contributing to new critical incursions to age-old issues of the field, such as the representability of deities, among whom Yahweh, and material-religious practices, it allowed a more focused visual “third of comparison.” In the wake of broader cultural turns, this resulted in chronological and regional differentiation of symbolic systems and visual regimes and nuanced historical incursions to both biblical and religious history. The paper evaluates the uses of ancient seals in biblical exegesis from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, focusing on “Iconographic Exegesis,” a perspective that uses ancient Near Eastern visual artifacts for illuminating biblical concepts, texts, and history.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Institute of Old Testament Studies - Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Testament Studies > Literature and Theology of the Old Testament 01 Faculty of Theology > Other Institutions > Office of the Dean, Faculty of Theology
UniBE Contributor:	Klein Cardoso, Silas
Subjects:	200 Religion 200 Religion > 220 The Bible 900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
Funders:	[4] Swiss National Science Foundation
Projects:	[UNSPECIFIED] SNFS Sinergia Project: Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant – A multi-faceted prism for studying entangled histories in an interdisciplinary perspective (CRSII5_186426)
Language:	English
Submitter:	Silas Klein Cardoso
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2022 08:46
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:26
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173948