Judith Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms
The authors of this volume elucidate the remarkable role played by religion in the shaping and reshaping of narrative forms in antiquity and late antiquity in a variety of ways. This is particularly evident in ancient Jewish and Christian narrative, which is in the focus of most of the contributions, but also in some »pagan« novels such as that of Heliodorus, which is dealt with as well in the third part of the volume, both in an illuminating com…
The Sick Self
The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to earl…
Early Christian and Judicial Bodies
The rhetoric of the maternal book-body in the passion of Perpetua
This chapter discusses the Passion of Perpetua, along with the Christian discourse providing its context, offered an opening that, if it had been pursued, would have gone far to assuage the violence that many maintain is the real universal, the recurring traumatic kernel, at the center of every historical society. Through its representation of martyrs two of them women: Perpetua, a lactating mother, and Felicitas, pregnant and giving birth in pri…
Fictive Scheintod and Christian Resurrection
In his chapter titled 'Resurrection' in Fiction as History, Glen Bowersock examines examples of 'apparent death' (Scheintod) in Graeco-Roman narrative fictions. He concludes his analysis by questioning 'whether the extraordinary growth in fictional writing, and its characteristic and concomitant fascination with resurrection' might be 'some kind of reflection of the remarkable stories that were coming out of Palestine in the middle of the first c…
Animal Voices
This article suggests that the presence of talking animals in the Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, Thomas and Phillip, examples of Christian prose fiction, shows a Christian intervention in a wider cultural discussion taking place in the period about human self-understandings and identity. The hierarchical thinking of ancient culture consigned many humans to animal status. Two second-century narratives, Apuleius' Metamorphoses and the Greek Onos, …
The Angel of History
Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
The Status of the Mastitubari
This kinesthetic piece evokes and provokes the reader into a visceral experience. This provocation is used to transfer the internal emotional reactions of women of color as they continue to face a world that does not recognize or value their worth as leaders
The “Self” as Sufferer
The early Roman Empire provides little evidence for the personal religious feelings of its inhabitants; only a few texts reflect what we would call individual testimony of personal religious experience. The works of second-century authors which in fact display such religious feelings often offend modern sensibilities. Commentators have described Aelius Aristides' Orationes sacrae , the letters of Ignatius of Antioch, and the Meditations of Marcus…
Recognition and recall of odours: The effects of suppressing visual and verbal encoding processes
This study examines the effects on olfactory recognition and recall of the suppression of visual and verbal encoding processes. Subjects were allocated to one of four experimental conditions (no suppression, visual suppression, verbal suppression, and visual‐plus‐verbal suppression), presented with 15 target odours, and then tested for free recall or recognition of these odours, both within 10 minutes of presentation and one week later. Recall an…
Recognition and recall of odours: The effects of suppressing visual and verbal encoding processes
This study examines the effects on olfactory recognition and recall of the suppression of visual and verbal encoding processes. Subjects were allocated to one of four experimental conditions (no suppression, visual suppression, verbal suppression, and visual‐plus‐verbal suppression), presented with 15 target odours, and then tested for free recall or recognition of these odours, both within 10 minutes of presentation and one week later. Recall an…
The “Self” as Sufferer
The early Roman Empire provides little evidence for the personal religious feelings of its inhabitants; only a few texts reflect what we would call individual testimony of personal religious experience. The works of second-century authors which in fact display such religious feelings often offend modern sensibilities. Commentators have described Aelius Aristides' Orationes sacrae , the letters of Ignatius of Antioch, and the Meditations of Marcus…
The Status of the Mastitubari
This kinesthetic piece evokes and provokes the reader into a visceral experience. This provocation is used to transfer the internal emotional reactions of women of color as they continue to face a world that does not recognize or value their worth as leaders
Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
The Angel of History
Animal Voices
This article suggests that the presence of talking animals in the Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, Thomas and Phillip, examples of Christian prose fiction, shows a Christian intervention in a wider cultural discussion taking place in the period about human self-understandings and identity. The hierarchical thinking of ancient culture consigned many humans to animal status. Two second-century narratives, Apuleius' Metamorphoses and the Greek Onos, …
Fictive Scheintod and Christian Resurrection
In his chapter titled 'Resurrection' in Fiction as History, Glen Bowersock examines examples of 'apparent death' (Scheintod) in Graeco-Roman narrative fictions. He concludes his analysis by questioning 'whether the extraordinary growth in fictional writing, and its characteristic and concomitant fascination with resurrection' might be 'some kind of reflection of the remarkable stories that were coming out of Palestine in the middle of the first c…
The rhetoric of the maternal book-body in the passion of Perpetua
This chapter discusses the Passion of Perpetua, along with the Christian discourse providing its context, offered an opening that, if it had been pursued, would have gone far to assuage the violence that many maintain is the real universal, the recurring traumatic kernel, at the center of every historical society. Through its representation of martyrs two of them women: Perpetua, a lactating mother, and Felicitas, pregnant and giving birth in pri…
Early Christian and Judicial Bodies
The Sick Self
The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to earl…
Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms
The authors of this volume elucidate the remarkable role played by religion in the shaping and reshaping of narrative forms in antiquity and late antiquity in a variety of ways. This is particularly evident in ancient Jewish and Christian narrative, which is in the focus of most of the contributions, but also in some »pagan« novels such as that of Heliodorus, which is dealt with as well in the third part of the volume, both in an illuminating com…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works)