Elisa Uusimäki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1423084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Uusimäki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Uusimäki |
| SIGNATURE | UUSIMÄKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9940-8262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intersecting Identities
This article foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and related approaches to our understanding of early Judaism. The first section discusses the rise of scholarly approaches that bring questions of the social world to the forefront of historical inquiry, and how the Dead Sea Scrolls have been integrated into the study of the Second Temple Jewish society. The second section introduces intersectionality and argues for the analytical benef…
Early Jewish Perspectives on Travel(ling) Texts and Transformation
This introductory article explores the rise of travel as an area of research within the field of biblical studies. It first discusses some major trends in the study of travel in the ancient Jewish tradition, including travel as a literary motif in biblical narrative and the evidence for travel in the context of early Judaism. While the significance of travel as a topic of research has been established in biblical studies, more work remains to be …
The Spirit within Me
This book of many merits is the product of decades of thoughtful and careful research conducted by one of the leading scholars of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism.In chapter 1, Newsom outlines the book's purpose, which is not to provide "a comprehensive study of cultural models of selfhood in ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism" but to focus on two areas of self-representation, i.e., (especially moral) agency and "the development of cultural f…
Aufsätze/Articles. Memories of Mixed Marriage
This article explores memories of royal intermarriage in the Hebrew Bible and beyond. I demonstrate that the sources either promote or downplay women’s mobility depending on how the story functions for the subaltern group remembering it. I first investigate the book of Esther in which the protagonist becomes a queen and gains a position of power that enables agency, albeit subaltern, and the exercise of influence on imperial male elites. I then c…
Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods
Although the fear of Yhwh has been presented as an intrinsic feature of the ancient Israelite religion, the fear of God(s) is not limited to the people of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, and similar ideas of fearing deities occur in various texts produced by neighbouring cultures in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. This article investigates the prosocial role of this virtue in situations of human mobility and intercultural contact in the light of t…
Travel and the Making of a Pseudepigraphical Hero in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature
Open access – no commercial reuse
Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature
While some early Jewish texts highlight opportunities enabled by travel, others reflect related concerns, suggesting that an encounter with the unknown moves people not only physically but also emotionally. This article addresses the latter phenomenon by investigating the blend of travel and anxiety in a selection of passages from Jubilees, Tobit, Aramaic Levi Document, and Philo of Alexandria. Drawing on affect theory, it argues that travel-rela…
Good Life, Brave Death, and Earned Immortality
This article examines early Jewish ideas of virtue that are usually ignored in presentations of the history of virtue discourse. We analyze the use of the Greek term ἀρετή in the Apocrypha of the Septuagint; all the occurrences of the term are in texts that were originally composed in Greek. We argue that the discussion on virtues – ideal human qualities and ways of living – in the Apocrypha has three thematic foci: (1) training, (2) courage, and…
Introduction
This brief article introduces the theme of this issue as well as the contents of the individual contributions it contains. The issue brings together the topic of travel and movement in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and the Mediterranean as a category of research. Furthermore, it highlights a range of visual matters with a focus on visionary experiences and the motif of seeing. More specifically, the studies included in the issue concentrate o…
Mapping ideal ways of living
This article analyses virtue and vice lists in ancient Hebrew literature, specifically focusing on those found in 1QS and 4Q286. It is argued that these texts from Qumran offer distinctive evidence for extended lists of virtues and vices. Apart from illustrating ideals of the yaḥad movement, the sources invite us to consider what counted as ethical to ancient Jews and whether the texts indicate any attempt to organize ethical concerns. The author…
In Search of Virtue
This article analyses the intersection between the transmission of biblical tradition and the display of exemplarity in the Testament of Qahat (4Q542). How are virtues—i.e., qualities regarded as good and thus desirable—discussed in this Aramaic text found at Qumran? It is argued that the author embeds his priestly perspective in an expansion of biblical narrative and posits seven items of immaterial inheritance as virtues to be pursued and perfo…
The Rise of the Sage in Greek and Jewish Antiquity
This article explores the emergence of the sage as an exemplar in Greek and Jewish antiquity. Greek philosophical writings and Jewish literary accounts are analysed, the latter including texts written in both Hebrew and Greek. The Greek and Jewish sources are compared in order to highlight (dis)similarities between them. It will be argued that the conception of the sage as an idealized figure and object of emulation originates from the classical …
Managing the Ancestral Way of Life in the Roman Diaspora
Portrayals of figures of the Israelite narrative are used in 4 Maccabees 1:1-3:18 to discuss the philosophical nature of Judaism. To illustrate the intellectual cultural milieu of the composition, we analyse the notion of (a) ancient philosophy as a way of life and (b) commentary as an intellectual exercise which are part of the author’s lifestyle. He introduces skills of life management into the lives of past figures to promote his notion of vir…
Introduction
This brief article introduces the theme of this issue as well as the contents of the individual contributions it contains. The issue brings together the topic of travel and movement in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and the Mediterranean as a category of research. Furthermore, it highlights a range of visual matters with a focus on visionary experiences and the motif of seeing. More specifically, the studies included in the issue concentrate o…
The Rise of the Sage in Greek and Jewish Antiquity
This article explores the emergence of the sage as an exemplar in Greek and Jewish antiquity. Greek philosophical writings and Jewish literary accounts are analysed, the latter including texts written in both Hebrew and Greek. The Greek and Jewish sources are compared in order to highlight (dis)similarities between them. It will be argued that the conception of the sage as an idealized figure and object of emulation originates from the classical …
Managing the Ancestral Way of Life in the Roman Diaspora
Portrayals of figures of the Israelite narrative are used in 4 Maccabees 1:1-3:18 to discuss the philosophical nature of Judaism. To illustrate the intellectual cultural milieu of the composition, we analyse the notion of (a) ancient philosophy as a way of life and (b) commentary as an intellectual exercise which are part of the author’s lifestyle. He introduces skills of life management into the lives of past figures to promote his notion of vir…
Managing the Ancestral Way of Life in the Roman Diaspora
Portrayals of figures of the Israelite narrative are used in 4 Maccabees 1:1-3:18 to discuss the philosophical nature of Judaism. To illustrate the intellectual cultural milieu of the composition, we analyse the notion of (a) ancient philosophy as a way of life and (b) commentary as an intellectual exercise which are part of the author’s lifestyle. He introduces skills of life management into the lives of past figures to promote his notion of vir…
The Rise of the Sage in Greek and Jewish Antiquity
This article explores the emergence of the sage as an exemplar in Greek and Jewish antiquity. Greek philosophical writings and Jewish literary accounts are analysed, the latter including texts written in both Hebrew and Greek. The Greek and Jewish sources are compared in order to highlight (dis)similarities between them. It will be argued that the conception of the sage as an idealized figure and object of emulation originates from the classical …
Mapping ideal ways of living
This article analyses virtue and vice lists in ancient Hebrew literature, specifically focusing on those found in 1QS and 4Q286. It is argued that these texts from Qumran offer distinctive evidence for extended lists of virtues and vices. Apart from illustrating ideals of the yaḥad movement, the sources invite us to consider what counted as ethical to ancient Jews and whether the texts indicate any attempt to organize ethical concerns. The author…
In Search of Virtue
This article analyses the intersection between the transmission of biblical tradition and the display of exemplarity in the Testament of Qahat (4Q542). How are virtues—i.e., qualities regarded as good and thus desirable—discussed in this Aramaic text found at Qumran? It is argued that the author embeds his priestly perspective in an expansion of biblical narrative and posits seven items of immaterial inheritance as virtues to be pursued and perfo…
Introduction
This brief article introduces the theme of this issue as well as the contents of the individual contributions it contains. The issue brings together the topic of travel and movement in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and the Mediterranean as a category of research. Furthermore, it highlights a range of visual matters with a focus on visionary experiences and the motif of seeing. More specifically, the studies included in the issue concentrate o…
Good Life, Brave Death, and Earned Immortality
This article examines early Jewish ideas of virtue that are usually ignored in presentations of the history of virtue discourse. We analyze the use of the Greek term ἀρετή in the Apocrypha of the Septuagint; all the occurrences of the term are in texts that were originally composed in Greek. We argue that the discussion on virtues – ideal human qualities and ways of living – in the Apocrypha has three thematic foci: (1) training, (2) courage, and…
Travel and the Making of a Pseudepigraphical Hero in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature
Open access – no commercial reuse
Travel and Anxiety in Early Jewish Literature
While some early Jewish texts highlight opportunities enabled by travel, others reflect related concerns, suggesting that an encounter with the unknown moves people not only physically but also emotionally. This article addresses the latter phenomenon by investigating the blend of travel and anxiety in a selection of passages from Jubilees, Tobit, Aramaic Levi Document, and Philo of Alexandria. Drawing on affect theory, it argues that travel-rela…
Early Jewish Perspectives on Travel(ling) Texts and Transformation
This introductory article explores the rise of travel as an area of research within the field of biblical studies. It first discusses some major trends in the study of travel in the ancient Jewish tradition, including travel as a literary motif in biblical narrative and the evidence for travel in the context of early Judaism. While the significance of travel as a topic of research has been established in biblical studies, more work remains to be …
The Spirit within Me
This book of many merits is the product of decades of thoughtful and careful research conducted by one of the leading scholars of Hebrew Bible and early Judaism.In chapter 1, Newsom outlines the book's purpose, which is not to provide "a comprehensive study of cultural models of selfhood in ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism" but to focus on two areas of self-representation, i.e., (especially moral) agency and "the development of cultural f…
Aufsätze/Articles. Memories of Mixed Marriage
This article explores memories of royal intermarriage in the Hebrew Bible and beyond. I demonstrate that the sources either promote or downplay women’s mobility depending on how the story functions for the subaltern group remembering it. I first investigate the book of Esther in which the protagonist becomes a queen and gains a position of power that enables agency, albeit subaltern, and the exercise of influence on imperial male elites. I then c…
Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods
Although the fear of Yhwh has been presented as an intrinsic feature of the ancient Israelite religion, the fear of God(s) is not limited to the people of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, and similar ideas of fearing deities occur in various texts produced by neighbouring cultures in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. This article investigates the prosocial role of this virtue in situations of human mobility and intercultural contact in the light of t…
Intersecting Identities
This article foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and related approaches to our understanding of early Judaism. The first section discusses the rise of scholarly approaches that bring questions of the social world to the forefront of historical inquiry, and how the Dead Sea Scrolls have been integrated into the study of the Second Temple Jewish society. The second section introduces intersectionality and argues for the analytical benef…
Art (10 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (10 works) · History (10 works) · Judaism (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)