Annette Yoshiko Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 1649572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Yoshiko Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette Yoshiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5748-7812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Life in (Much More than) Midrash
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Expanding Patristic perspectives
Why would anyone wish to found a new society dedicated to Patristics in the 1970s? In conventional historiographies of Religious Studies, the late 20th century is typically characterized as an era of “progress” away from Theology, the centering of authoritative corpora, and older concerns with doctrine, men, and elites. Even among specialists in Christian antiquity, this era tends to be associated with the recovery of “lost books,” interest in “h…
Above, Below, Before, and After
The research of Martha Himmelfarb has pushed scholars to re-examine what we thought we knew about the formative histories of Judaism and Christianity. In studies on such topics as apocalypses, pseudepigrapha, and messianism, Himmelfarb opened up new perspectives on Second Temple Judaism and its legacy within its late antique and medieval successor communities. Inspired by the sweeping breadth of her learning and scholarship, this volume explores …
The Rabbinic Retreat from History and the Forgetting of the Second Temple Past
The Rabbinic Retreat from History and the Forgetting of the Second Temple Past
When did Daimones become Demons? Revisiting Septuagintal Data for Ancient Jewish Demonology
Recent research on Jewish demonology has been significantly advanced by evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In light of these advances, this article revisits the use of daimones and related terms in the Greek translations of Jewish scriptures commonly called the Septuagint (LXX). Against the tendency to conflate these LXX data into one intermediate stage in the development of the demonology of the New Testament, it calls for further attention to …
The Ways that Never Parted
Were Judaism and Christianity indeed shaped by a definitive Parting of the Ways? Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam.
Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism
»Jewish-Christianity« is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity …
Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I
This book provides scholars with a comprehensive collection of core references extracted from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature to a plethora of ancient writings associated with the name of the biblical character Enoch (Gen 5:214). It assembles citations of and references to writings attributed to Enoch in non-canonical Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literary sources (ranging in age from roughly the third century bce up through the thirteen…
Categorization, Collection, and the Construction of Continuity
Recent decades have seen an intensive reassessment of older scholarly categories within the discipline of Religious Studies, spurring a turn toward more microhistorical approaches in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity in particular. With an eye to the power and limits of scholarly practices of categorization, this article reflects upon the pairing of “Apocalypticism” and “Mysticism” in modern scholarship on premodern Judaism, focusing …
Christian Origins and Religious Studies
This essay reflects on the relationship between the study of the origins of Christianity and the discipline of Religious Studies in conversation with William Arnal's "What Branches Grow out of this Stony Rubbish? Christian Origins and the Study of Religion," published in Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses in 2010. Extending Arnal's call for specialists in the New Testament and early Christianity to engage Religious Studies, it explores a …
Enoch and the Trajectories of Jewish Cosmology
Inasmuch as new Coptic evidence for 2 Enoch lends confirmation to the priority of the shorter recension and adds plausibility to the theory of its Egyptian provenance, this discovery invites us to shift from the compilation of parallel motifs towards more integrative approaches to contextualizing this enigmatic apocalypse. This essay is an experiment in situating 2 Enoch within the intellectual culture of early Roman Egypt. It explores the possib…
Textuality between Death and Memory
This essay revisits testamentary texts and traditions from the Second Temple period in relation to themes of death, memory, and writing. Rather than debating the classification or morphology of the parabiblical testament, it focuses upon its determinative feature-the framing of texts as the first-person teachings of ancient biblical heroes near death. It traces some precedents for this literary choice, and speculates about the cultural worlds in …
Envisioning Judaism
This volume offers an extensive collection of cutting-edge articles in Jewish studies and related areas that celebrate Peter Schäfer and take their lead from his groundbreaking scholarship. Among the topics addressed are Jewish material culture in the Graeco-Roman world; the evolution of rabbinic literature and thought; the appropriate methods for producing editions of pre-modern texts; gender, embodiment, and the nature of the divine; Jewish rep…
From Sacrifice to the Slaughterhouse
This essay uses a focus on meat and animals to illumine ancient and modern discourses about sacrifice and “civilization.” It suggests that attention to recent research on meat-production and the “sociology of the slaughterhouse” might open new perspectives on the range of ways in which the sanctified ritual slaughter of animals has been understood by its proponents, critics, and theorists—both ancient and modern. It begins by historicizing the ri…
Hindu Hair and Jewish Halakha
This pair of essays reflects upon the unexpected encounter of Hindu and Jewish perspectives in the wake of the prohibition of wigs with human hair from India for use by Jewish women by prominent Haredi (''ultra-orthodox'') legal authorities in May 2004. The rulings sparked distress among Haredi communities in New York, London, and Jerusalem; some women took to the streets to burn their wigs, attracting international media attention. Yet questions…
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
The Construction and Subversion of Patriarchal Perfection
In dialogue with recent research on the Roman discourse of exemplarity, this article explores representations of Abraham in selected sources from the first and early second centuries C.E. In the first part of the article, references to the patriarch in the writings of Philo and Josephus are considered in light of the transformation of Greek ideas about exempla by Roman authors like Polybius, Livy, and Valerius Maximus. In the second part, the inv…
Beyond the Land of Nod
Effects of video game play on snacking behavior
Effects of green tea on cognition, perceived workload, mood, and endurance
Things Revealed
Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines
Was there science in ancient Judaism? Historical and cross-cultural reflections on "religion" and "science
This article considers the place of scientific inquiry in ancient Judaism with a focus on astronomy and cosmology. It explores how ancient Jews used biblical interpretation to situate "scientific" knowledge in relation to "religious" concerns. In the Second Temple period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.) biblical interpretation is often used to integrate insights from Mesopotamian and Greek scientific traditions. In classical rabbinic Judaism (70-600 C.E.) as…
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preocupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for …
From Sacrifice to the Slaughterhouse
This essay uses a focus on meat and animals to illumine ancient and modern discourses about sacrifice and “civilization.” It suggests that attention to recent research on meat-production and the “sociology of the slaughterhouse” might open new perspectives on the range of ways in which the sanctified ritual slaughter of animals has been understood by its proponents, critics, and theorists—both ancient and modern. It begins by historicizing the ri…
Abraham as Chaldean Scientist and Father of the Jews
This article analyzes Josephus' approach to Abraham and astronomy/astrology in Ant. 1.154-168. This retelling of Genesis 12 describes Abraham as inferring the one-ness of God from the irregularity of the stars, thereby implying his rejection of "the Chaldean science" for Jewish monotheism. Soon after, however, Josephus posits that the patriarch transmitted astronomy/astrology to Egypt, appealing to the positive connotations of this art for apolog…
Christian Origins and Religious Studies
This essay reflects on the relationship between the study of the origins of Christianity and the discipline of Religious Studies in conversation with William Arnal's "What Branches Grow out of this Stony Rubbish? Christian Origins and the Study of Religion," published in Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses in 2010. Extending Arnal's call for specialists in the New Testament and early Christianity to engage Religious Studies, it explores a …
The Construction and Subversion of Patriarchal Perfection
In dialogue with recent research on the Roman discourse of exemplarity, this article explores representations of Abraham in selected sources from the first and early second centuries C.E. In the first part of the article, references to the patriarch in the writings of Philo and Josephus are considered in light of the transformation of Greek ideas about exempla by Roman authors like Polybius, Livy, and Valerius Maximus. In the second part, the inv…
Eyaγγeλion
Irenee de Lyon a joue un role considerable dans l'etablissement du canon des evangiles, notamment en pointant la necessite mystique du chiffre 4, permettant d'accorder un statut special aux evangiles de Jean, Luc, Matthieu et Marc, l'evangile tetramorphe. L'A. etudie dans l'Adversus haereses les differents usages du terme evangelion pour eclairer la facon dont Irenee envisageait l'Evangile, unite dotee de quatre aspects, face a la multiplicite de…
Hindu Hair and Jewish Halakha
This pair of essays reflects upon the unexpected encounter of Hindu and Jewish perspectives in the wake of the prohibition of wigs with human hair from India for use by Jewish women by prominent Haredi (''ultra-orthodox'') legal authorities in May 2004. The rulings sparked distress among Haredi communities in New York, London, and Jerusalem; some women took to the streets to burn their wigs, attracting international media attention. Yet questions…
Beyond the Land of Nod
Effects of video game play on snacking behavior
Eyaγγeλion
Irenee de Lyon a joue un role considerable dans l'etablissement du canon des evangiles, notamment en pointant la necessite mystique du chiffre 4, permettant d'accorder un statut special aux evangiles de Jean, Luc, Matthieu et Marc, l'evangile tetramorphe. L'A. etudie dans l'Adversus haereses les differents usages du terme evangelion pour eclairer la facon dont Irenee envisageait l'Evangile, unite dotee de quatre aspects, face a la multiplicite de…
The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees
This volume examines the unusual interest in women characters displayed in the Book of Jubilees, an interpretive reworking of the biblical narratives of Genesis through Exodus 12, written in the second century BCE. Demonstrating a pattern in the characterizations, the study shows how a matrilineal standard of ethnic purity and elevation of the biblical matriarchs function as key aspects in a polemic against the acceptance of foreigners into the c…
The Textual Identity, Literary History, and Social Setting of 1 Enoch
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preocupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for …
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Abraham as Chaldean Scientist and Father of the Jews
This article analyzes Josephus' approach to Abraham and astronomy/astrology in Ant. 1.154-168. This retelling of Genesis 12 describes Abraham as inferring the one-ness of God from the irregularity of the stars, thereby implying his rejection of "the Chaldean science" for Jewish monotheism. Soon after, however, Josephus posits that the patriarch transmitted astronomy/astrology to Egypt, appealing to the positive connotations of this art for apolog…
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Effects of video game play on snacking behavior
Effects of green tea on cognition, perceived workload, mood, and endurance
Things Revealed
Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines
Was there science in ancient Judaism? Historical and cross-cultural reflections on "religion" and "science
This article considers the place of scientific inquiry in ancient Judaism with a focus on astronomy and cosmology. It explores how ancient Jews used biblical interpretation to situate "scientific" knowledge in relation to "religious" concerns. In the Second Temple period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.) biblical interpretation is often used to integrate insights from Mesopotamian and Greek scientific traditions. In classical rabbinic Judaism (70-600 C.E.) as…
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
The Construction and Subversion of Patriarchal Perfection
In dialogue with recent research on the Roman discourse of exemplarity, this article explores representations of Abraham in selected sources from the first and early second centuries C.E. In the first part of the article, references to the patriarch in the writings of Philo and Josephus are considered in light of the transformation of Greek ideas about exempla by Roman authors like Polybius, Livy, and Valerius Maximus. In the second part, the inv…
Beyond the Land of Nod
Hindu Hair and Jewish Halakha
This pair of essays reflects upon the unexpected encounter of Hindu and Jewish perspectives in the wake of the prohibition of wigs with human hair from India for use by Jewish women by prominent Haredi (''ultra-orthodox'') legal authorities in May 2004. The rulings sparked distress among Haredi communities in New York, London, and Jerusalem; some women took to the streets to burn their wigs, attracting international media attention. Yet questions…
Envisioning Judaism
This volume offers an extensive collection of cutting-edge articles in Jewish studies and related areas that celebrate Peter Schäfer and take their lead from his groundbreaking scholarship. Among the topics addressed are Jewish material culture in the Graeco-Roman world; the evolution of rabbinic literature and thought; the appropriate methods for producing editions of pre-modern texts; gender, embodiment, and the nature of the divine; Jewish rep…
From Sacrifice to the Slaughterhouse
This essay uses a focus on meat and animals to illumine ancient and modern discourses about sacrifice and “civilization.” It suggests that attention to recent research on meat-production and the “sociology of the slaughterhouse” might open new perspectives on the range of ways in which the sanctified ritual slaughter of animals has been understood by its proponents, critics, and theorists—both ancient and modern. It begins by historicizing the ri…
Enoch and the Trajectories of Jewish Cosmology
Inasmuch as new Coptic evidence for 2 Enoch lends confirmation to the priority of the shorter recension and adds plausibility to the theory of its Egyptian provenance, this discovery invites us to shift from the compilation of parallel motifs towards more integrative approaches to contextualizing this enigmatic apocalypse. This essay is an experiment in situating 2 Enoch within the intellectual culture of early Roman Egypt. It explores the possib…
Textuality between Death and Memory
This essay revisits testamentary texts and traditions from the Second Temple period in relation to themes of death, memory, and writing. Rather than debating the classification or morphology of the parabiblical testament, it focuses upon its determinative feature-the framing of texts as the first-person teachings of ancient biblical heroes near death. It traces some precedents for this literary choice, and speculates about the cultural worlds in …
Christian Origins and Religious Studies
This essay reflects on the relationship between the study of the origins of Christianity and the discipline of Religious Studies in conversation with William Arnal's "What Branches Grow out of this Stony Rubbish? Christian Origins and the Study of Religion," published in Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses in 2010. Extending Arnal's call for specialists in the New Testament and early Christianity to engage Religious Studies, it explores a …
Categorization, Collection, and the Construction of Continuity
Recent decades have seen an intensive reassessment of older scholarly categories within the discipline of Religious Studies, spurring a turn toward more microhistorical approaches in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity in particular. With an eye to the power and limits of scholarly practices of categorization, this article reflects upon the pairing of “Apocalypticism” and “Mysticism” in modern scholarship on premodern Judaism, focusing …
Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism
»Jewish-Christianity« is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity …
Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I
This book provides scholars with a comprehensive collection of core references extracted from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literature to a plethora of ancient writings associated with the name of the biblical character Enoch (Gen 5:214). It assembles citations of and references to writings attributed to Enoch in non-canonical Jewish, Christian, and Muslim literary sources (ranging in age from roughly the third century bce up through the thirteen…
The Ways that Never Parted
Were Judaism and Christianity indeed shaped by a definitive Parting of the Ways? Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam.
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