Esther Brownsmith
Biographic Data
| ID | 2202907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Brownsmith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Brownsmith |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNSMITH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0798-3727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“She Laughs at the Future” (Prov. 31
LEE EDELMAN AND THE QUEER STUDY OF RELIGION. Edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 280. Hardback, $160.00. BAD EDUCATION: WHY QUEER THEORY TEACHES US NOTHING. By Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $28.95. SEX, OR THE UNBEARABLE. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Paperback, $24.95. NO FUTURE: QUEE…
Commanding the Queen
The gendered lines between direct and indirect agency blur in the book of Esther, in line with its ‘topsy-turvy’ carnivalesque attitude. Queen Esther acts with direct agency (the power to command her fellow Jews, then accusing Haman of treachery), while her cousin Mordecai gains power indirectly (through his relationship with Esther and through the knowledge he gains from listening to eunuchs) and is threatened with death when he attempts to exer…
Metaphors Realized in Narrative
An insight of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is that metaphor is more than a mere literary device; it influences readers through cognitive connections. Yet biblical metaphors have most often been studied in poetic, theological contexts and within linguistic rhetorical devices like "YHWH is my shepherd." In contrast, some of the most ideologically powerful metaphors are those that shape the Hebrew Bible's prose stories. These metaphors reify cul…
Books known only by title
This special issue of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha aims to introduce the concept of “books known only by title” as a fruitful new focus of research in the larger field of first-millennium Jewish and Christian literatures. Books known only by title are named literary objects known only through the medium of other writings, surviving neither as extant documents nor as excerpts or quotations of any substantial length. Still, these…
A jubilee of fifty books known only by title
This article ends the special issue that aims to introduce the conception of “books known only by title” as a fruitful new focus of research. In this article, we include an annotated assortment of books known only by title. This collection of fifty such books is not exhaustive, but it may serve as an inspiration and a springboard for future researchers by demonstrating the breadth and rich diversity of this phenomenon. To aid such research, we ha…
Mind the Gap
Biblical philology conventionally assumes the objectivity of the interpreter in recovering a single, stable meaning of its object of interpretation (the biblical text). This aim is imperiled by unexamined assumptions of this interpretive framework. The long tradition of male-dominated philology and theologically oriented scholarship obscures (gendered) dimensions in the study of language and its patterns in biblical texts. The following essay for…
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Mind the Gap
Biblical philology conventionally assumes the objectivity of the interpreter in recovering a single, stable meaning of its object of interpretation (the biblical text). This aim is imperiled by unexamined assumptions of this interpretive framework. The long tradition of male-dominated philology and theologically oriented scholarship obscures (gendered) dimensions in the study of language and its patterns in biblical texts. The following essay for…
Books known only by title
This special issue of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha aims to introduce the concept of “books known only by title” as a fruitful new focus of research in the larger field of first-millennium Jewish and Christian literatures. Books known only by title are named literary objects known only through the medium of other writings, surviving neither as extant documents nor as excerpts or quotations of any substantial length. Still, these…
A jubilee of fifty books known only by title
This article ends the special issue that aims to introduce the conception of “books known only by title” as a fruitful new focus of research. In this article, we include an annotated assortment of books known only by title. This collection of fifty such books is not exhaustive, but it may serve as an inspiration and a springboard for future researchers by demonstrating the breadth and rich diversity of this phenomenon. To aid such research, we ha…
Commanding the Queen
The gendered lines between direct and indirect agency blur in the book of Esther, in line with its ‘topsy-turvy’ carnivalesque attitude. Queen Esther acts with direct agency (the power to command her fellow Jews, then accusing Haman of treachery), while her cousin Mordecai gains power indirectly (through his relationship with Esther and through the knowledge he gains from listening to eunuchs) and is threatened with death when he attempts to exer…
Metaphors Realized in Narrative
An insight of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is that metaphor is more than a mere literary device; it influences readers through cognitive connections. Yet biblical metaphors have most often been studied in poetic, theological contexts and within linguistic rhetorical devices like "YHWH is my shepherd." In contrast, some of the most ideologically powerful metaphors are those that shape the Hebrew Bible's prose stories. These metaphors reify cul…
“She Laughs at the Future” (Prov. 31
LEE EDELMAN AND THE QUEER STUDY OF RELIGION. Edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 280. Hardback, $160.00. BAD EDUCATION: WHY QUEER THEORY TEACHES US NOTHING. By Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $28.95. SEX, OR THE UNBEARABLE. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Paperback, $24.95. NO FUTURE: QUEE…
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