Blake Jurgens
Florida State University, Religion, Graduate Student
- Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, 1 Enoch, Diasporic Judaism, Biblical and ANE sapiential literature, and 26 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Odes of Solomon, Johannine Literature, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Bible, Greco-Roman World, Qumran, Rabbinic Literature, History of Religions, Early Christianity, Enoch literature, Book of Jubilees, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Demonology in early Christianity, Demonology, Ritual, Ancient magic, Magic and Divination in the Ancient World, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Aramaic, Monasticism, and Ancient astrologyedit
- Chief Editor at Great Lakes Academic Editing
https://www.glaediting.com/
Email: bjurgens@glaediting.comedit
This study examines how the sexualization of the demonic in the Testament of Solomon echoes several features and traits of Egyptian monasticism and tentatively explores what such similarities may (or may not) tell us about the provenance... more
This study examines how the sexualization of the demonic in the Testament of Solomon echoes several features and traits of Egyptian monasticism and tentatively explores what such similarities may (or may not) tell us about the provenance of the Testament. This study also offers a synopsis of the relationship between sexual temptation and the demonic in early Jewish and Christian literature.
For a copy, feel free to send me a message or email (blake.alan.jurgens@gmail.com)
For a copy, feel free to send me a message or email (blake.alan.jurgens@gmail.com)
Research Interests:
A synopsis of the figure of Solomon in early Jewish and Christian tradition from the Hebrew Bible into late antiquity.
For a copy, feel free to message me or send me an email (blake.alan.jurgens@gmail.com)
For a copy, feel free to message me or send me an email (blake.alan.jurgens@gmail.com)
Research Interests:
The Abram in Egypt episode in the Genesis Apocryphon has been the subject of several studies which have focused upon its status as an example of "rewritten scripture" and its reclamation of the character of Abram from Genesis 12:10-20.... more
The Abram in Egypt episode in the Genesis Apocryphon has been the subject of several studies which have focused upon its status as an example of "rewritten scripture" and its reclamation of the character of Abram from Genesis 12:10-20. This article attempts to assess not only the redemption of Abram's character in the Genesis Apocryphon, but also the reconfiguration of the entire Abram in Egypt episode through the use of several literary techniques and tropes common to ancient Jewish fictional literature. This study argues that by remaking the entire episode of Abram's sojourn in Egypt, the author of the Apocryphon not only transforms Abram into a Jewish hero in the midst of a foreign empire, but also creates a more attractive and meaningful narrative appealing to the literary predilections and tastes of a Hellenistic Jewish audience.
Research Interests:
The observed midrashic qualities of Jude 5-19 have led many scholars to claim that the author of the epistle is engaging Scripture in ways common to early Jewish exegesis. Some have even gone so far as to claim that, because of its... more
The observed midrashic qualities of Jude 5-19 have led many scholars to claim that the author of the epistle is engaging Scripture in ways common to early Jewish exegesis. Some have even gone so far as to claim that, because of its extensive similarities to the Qumran pesharim in both form and hermeneutic perspective, this portion of Jude is actually an example of pesher exegesis akin to texts such as the Habakkuk Pesher. Because a number of new studies have been published on both Jude and the pesharim in the past two decades, it is appropriate to offer a new assessment concerning the validity of this claim. In this study I will analyze pesher as a genre in order to ascertain which features are necessary and sufficient components of pesher exegesis and then address whether Jude 5-19 possesses these essential characteristics and therefore should be referred to as an example of pesher exegesis.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Review of Biblical Literature 3/1/2018
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Geared toward undergraduate and lower-level divinity school students, this lesson plan prepared for the Oxford Biblical Studies Online Website offers an accessible overview of the book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah as well as... more
Geared toward undergraduate and lower-level divinity school students, this lesson plan prepared for the Oxford Biblical Studies Online Website offers an accessible overview of the book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah as well as several exercises and assignments that engage some of the major features of these texts.
[ https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0013.xml ]
[ https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0013.xml ]
Research Interests:
This paper, presented at NAPS 2018, explores how 4th-6th century Christians used demonic discourses to renegotiate the public bathhouse and prescribe new modes of interacting with this integral, albeit ambivalent, social and cultural... more
This paper, presented at NAPS 2018, explores how 4th-6th century Christians used demonic discourses to renegotiate the public bathhouse and prescribe new modes of interacting with this integral, albeit ambivalent, social and cultural space. Through analysis of three particular texts (The Acts of John Prochorus, Gregory of Tours' Acts of Andrew, Gregory of Nyssa's Life and Panegyric of Gregory Thaumaturgus ), this study argues that, unlike earlier Christian writers (e.g., Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian) who predominately understood the baths in rather pessimistic and suspicious terms, these later works treat the public baths as legitimate social spaces which simply need to be exorcised of their demonic inhabitants. In this manner, these demonic discourses should be read as part of the larger trend of Christianization of the Roman Empire and its architecture in antiquity.
For a copy, feel free to message me or email me at bjurgens@fsu.edu
For a copy, feel free to message me or email me at bjurgens@fsu.edu
Research Interests:
For a copy, feel free to send me a message.