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We are pleased to announce the publication of our first article of 2025! Go check out @wordsfromastone’s latest, "Oh Poor Jephthah: Jephthah, Jephthah's Daughter, and Himpathy," now available on our website.

@EmmaJoySwai, “A Metanarrative of Disability in Jn 5." @grace_emmett & @ryancollman, “St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Cor 12:7b–10."

@grantfgates, “Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, & Ideal Monarchs.” @MKorpman, “Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 & 3 Macc."

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special JIBS issue on Disability and the Bible. https://t.co/WmF1uNBNRf Guest edited by Eleanor Vivian, @isaacsoon2 , and @Tominee, this issue features the following articles:

I consider how the Adam of Good Omens uses naming to define the world around him and in doing so, asserts his humanity over his supernatural origins.”

I position Adam Young as a literary construct who in turn names and shapes other beings out of material from his own mental library. Like his namesake, in Genesis to whom God delegated the naming of the animals,

I examine how Good Omens intersects with the cultural inheritance of the Bible, and specifically with literary and popular cultural engagements with Genesis and Revelation. Approaching the novel primarily via its literary and cinematic intertexts,

Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the character of Adam Young, who is himself named after the first human described in Genesis,

Abstract: “In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality.

🚨✨Now published✨🚨 "Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens" by Clair J. Hutchings-Budd.

embracing a queer future free of the constraints of heteronormative reproductivity. But the parable can also be understood as a conservative cautionary tale that insists on temporal reproductive norms & pathologises deviance from full alignment toward a heteroreproductive future.

and it provokes reflection on the limits that heteronorming structures place on thriving. Read alongside theorists of queer futurity, the parable of the man with two sons affords at least two possible interpretations. It can be understood as a gesture toward a new horizon,

highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending to the story’s reflections on the conditions of flourishing. Understood this way, the parable of the man with two sons reads as a debate over bodies, kinship, and possession of the future,

Abstract: Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable,

Now published: Eric C. Smith's "There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death." Don't miss it!

… which largely embraces working people as foundational supporters of the early Jesus movement. This article examines why and how attitudes toward commercial and artisanal workers changed so that a faith that once welcomed professionals later denied them.

… emphasizing the virtue of their brothers and sisters. Yet this rejection of commercial and artisanal workers runs counter to the attitudes displayed in the New Testament, especially the letters of Paul and Acts of the Apostles, …

… Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt and that its faithful were the lowest members of society. Apologists of the 2nd and 3rdcenturies denied that Christianity welcomed these workers, …

Abstract: Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. …

New Article Day!🤩 Hot off the virtual presses, it's Jane Sancinito's "Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles."