Micah’s Mother (Judg. 17:1– 4) and a Curse from Carthage (KAI 89): Canaanite Precedents for Greek and Latin Curses against Thieves?

Faraone, Christopher A.; Garnand, Brien K.; López-Ruiz, Carolina

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“…Previously, these artifacts were primarily studied for their inscriptions and pictograms and for the cultural information they contained about Roman daily life and religious practices (Audollent, 1967;Faraone et al, 2005;Gager, 1992;Jordan, 1988). Although curse tablets, and magic in general, were taboo or even illegal (Rives, 2003), curse tablets seem to have been quite popular in Carthage and throughout the Empire.…”

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Local mining or lead importation in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis? Lead isotope analysis of curse tablets from Roman Carthage, Tunisia

Skaggs

Norman

Garrison

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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Local mining or lead importation in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis? Lead isotope analysis of curse tablets from Roman Carthage, Tunisia

Skaggs

Norman

Garrison

et al. 2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…It is interesting to note that there are other examples from Yahwistic sources related to curses regarding stolen items. An interesting biblical parallel (already suggested by Faraone et al 2005) of a story taking place in the north (Mt. Ephraim), where the item was consecrated to the deity Yhw(h), is the story of Micha's mother in Judg.…”

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Justice at the House of Yhw(h): An Early Yahwistic Defixio in Furem

Barnea

2023

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What was the nature of ritual in ancient Yahwism? Although biblical sources provide some information about various types of cultic activity, we have thus far lacked any extra-biblical ritual texts from Yahwistic circles prior to Greco–Roman times. This article presents such a text—one that has been hiding in plain sight for almost a century on a small ostracon found on the island of Elephantine. It has variously been interpreted as dealing with instructions regarding a tunic left at the “house of Yhw”—the temple to Yhw(h) that flourished on the island from the middle of the sixth to the end of the fourth century BCE. While there is little debate regarding the epigraphic reading of this text, it has hitherto failed to be correctly interpreted. I present an entirely new reading of this important document, revealing it to be written in poetic form and to match the characteristics of a “prayer for justice” curse ritual. It is, in fact, the oldest known example of this genre; its only known specimen in Aramaic, its unique witness in a Yahwistic context, and the sole record of any ritual performance at a temple to Yhw(h). Significantly, it is administered by a priestess.

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“…Even if fraudulent, they 'were something the Danite clans, in order to lay claim to new land in Laish, would feel the need to possess' (p. 36). Faraone, Garnand and López-Ruiz (2005) also focus on Micah's mother, in particular on the curse she utters, its similarities with a Punic curse from Carthage, and their similarities with Greek and Latin curses against thieves. They postulate, 'it should be clear that the parallels between the Canaanite and Greco-Roman curses are compelling, and the evidence of titulature points to Canaanite influence, even if future evidence or argument should compel us to abandon the relative chronologies of the texts presented here' (p. 186).…”

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Judges in Recent Research

Murphy

2017

Currents in Biblical Research

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The book of Judges continues to inspire research and interpretation, from an ongoing focus on traditional research methods such as historical criticism and redaction criticism, to newer approaches like cultural criticism and postcolonial readings. This article surveys recent research on the book of Judges since 2003 by separating the discussion into two sections: the first section traces current research on the overall book of Judges as well as specific characters and/or passages, while the second section notes two growing areas of research; namely, reception history and gender studies.

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Micah’s Mother (Judg. 17:1– 4) and a Curse from Carthage (KAI 89): Canaanite Precedents for Greek and Latin Curses against Thieves?

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Local mining or lead importation in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis? Lead isotope analysis of curse tablets from Roman Carthage, Tunisia

Local mining or lead importation in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis? Lead isotope analysis of curse tablets from Roman Carthage, Tunisia

Justice at the House of Yhw(h): An Early Yahwistic Defixio in Furem

Judges in Recent Research

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