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Small amulets, large inscriptions on walls, and papyrus recipes reveal aesthetic experimentation with vowels and symbols and so-called nonsense language.” This is a context in which to understand discussion within the New Testament, particularly 1 Corinthians, of “speaking in tongues.” This talk will consider the limits of language in antiquity, using contemporary poetry on the violence of colonial language and recent study of speaking in tongues as an experiment at the limits of language.
The Areopagus, a rocky outcropping in Roman Athens, is a particularly potent site to think about justice
The lecture: Dress, Adornment and Coloniality of Gender and Desire in New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia is presented by Dr. Uroš Matić.
Justice or Righteousness? Discussing δικαιοσύνη in the light of ancient inscriptions