John Anthony Dunne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Anthony Dunne |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunne |
| SIGNATURE | DUNNE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bethel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3815-7743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tate Paulette. In the Land of Ninkasi
Introducing Mesopotamia as “the world’s first great beer culture” (p. xiv) is a massive undertaking requiring facility in several areas of specialization. Information derived from archaeological sites, cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets, organic residue, and vessels and utensils spanning thousands of years need to be synthesized. Tate Paulette’s book, In the Land of Ninkasi, does just that, but in a colloquial register full of anecdotes and wry, e…
Eating Death
This essay argues that the meaning of the title “Death Eater” in the Harry Potter series is illuminated by ancient personifications of Death as a monster that eats insatiably. Examples include Death, Sheol, and Hades from biblical literature and Christian tradition, the Egyptian goddess Ammit in The Book of the Dead, and the Ugaritic god Mot within The Baal Cycle. After this background is addressed, it is utilized to assess possible meanings for …
The Souring of the Ways
This essay traces one particular way that the passion tradition of mixed/sour wine offered to Jesus developed in extracanonical gospels, broader New Testament Apocrypha, Tatian’s Diatessaron, and other early Christian writings. Notably, the divergent details of these offerings in the passion narratives of the four canonical gospels were often simplified out of a growing awareness of an allusion to Ps 69:22 (68:22 LXX) with its reference to gall a…
“The Monstrous in our Techno-Social World”
Christoph Heilig. The Apostle and the Empire
The latest contribution to the debate about counter-imperial rhetoric in Paul’s letters is Christoph Heilig’s The Apostle and the Empire: Paul’s Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome, which invites readers to see that Paul’s engagement with Roman ideology is not a simple binary proposition, summarizes and updates his first monograph, Hidden Criticism? (Mohr Siebeck, 2015). After a foreword from John M. G. Barclay, Heilig offers an inspiring pre…
Harry Potter and the Aims of Transhumanism
Harry Potter can be read as a critique of transhumanist aims of achieving immortality or radical superlongevity. The salience of transhumanism for Harry Potter is seen through the way that magic functions as an analogue to technology, and through the centrality of death throughout the series. Transhumanists pursue radical superlongevity by three pathways: bioengineering, cyborg engineering, and mind uploading. Each of these pathways, when applied…
Persecution and Participation in Galatians
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes that his Gentile audience should not illegitimately appropriate Jewish customs, especially circumcision. As a way to understand why Paul deems circumcision in this context to be so egregious, being a matter of apostasy rather than simply an adiaphoron, John Anthony Dunne argues that the themes of suffering and persecution point to the coercive nature of the conflict in Galatia. What is at stake for Paul…
Reactions to Empire
The authors of this volume explore various instances of theo-political visions of authoritative texts in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, and Early Christianity, and as such offer a broader perspective on the topos »sacred texts in their context.« Instead of a narrow exploration of the »political intent« of a singular text or group of texts, the volume contains the treatment of a wide range of texts, out of different corpora, with their discre…
Frank J. Matera, God’s Saving Grace
Harry Potter and the Aims of Transhumanism
Harry Potter can be read as a critique of transhumanist aims of achieving immortality or radical superlongevity. The salience of transhumanism for Harry Potter is seen through the way that magic functions as an analogue to technology, and through the centrality of death throughout the series. Transhumanists pursue radical superlongevity by three pathways: bioengineering, cyborg engineering, and mind uploading. Each of these pathways, when applied…
Frank J. Matera, God’s Saving Grace
Reactions to Empire
The authors of this volume explore various instances of theo-political visions of authoritative texts in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, and Early Christianity, and as such offer a broader perspective on the topos »sacred texts in their context.« Instead of a narrow exploration of the »political intent« of a singular text or group of texts, the volume contains the treatment of a wide range of texts, out of different corpora, with their discre…
Persecution and Participation in Galatians
In his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes that his Gentile audience should not illegitimately appropriate Jewish customs, especially circumcision. As a way to understand why Paul deems circumcision in this context to be so egregious, being a matter of apostasy rather than simply an adiaphoron, John Anthony Dunne argues that the themes of suffering and persecution point to the coercive nature of the conflict in Galatia. What is at stake for Paul…
Harry Potter and the Aims of Transhumanism
Harry Potter can be read as a critique of transhumanist aims of achieving immortality or radical superlongevity. The salience of transhumanism for Harry Potter is seen through the way that magic functions as an analogue to technology, and through the centrality of death throughout the series. Transhumanists pursue radical superlongevity by three pathways: bioengineering, cyborg engineering, and mind uploading. Each of these pathways, when applied…
“The Monstrous in our Techno-Social World”
Christoph Heilig. The Apostle and the Empire
The latest contribution to the debate about counter-imperial rhetoric in Paul’s letters is Christoph Heilig’s The Apostle and the Empire: Paul’s Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome, which invites readers to see that Paul’s engagement with Roman ideology is not a simple binary proposition, summarizes and updates his first monograph, Hidden Criticism? (Mohr Siebeck, 2015). After a foreword from John M. G. Barclay, Heilig offers an inspiring pre…
The Souring of the Ways
This essay traces one particular way that the passion tradition of mixed/sour wine offered to Jesus developed in extracanonical gospels, broader New Testament Apocrypha, Tatian’s Diatessaron, and other early Christian writings. Notably, the divergent details of these offerings in the passion narratives of the four canonical gospels were often simplified out of a growing awareness of an allusion to Ps 69:22 (68:22 LXX) with its reference to gall a…
Tate Paulette. In the Land of Ninkasi
Introducing Mesopotamia as “the world’s first great beer culture” (p. xiv) is a massive undertaking requiring facility in several areas of specialization. Information derived from archaeological sites, cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets, organic residue, and vessels and utensils spanning thousands of years need to be synthesized. Tate Paulette’s book, In the Land of Ninkasi, does just that, but in a colloquial register full of anecdotes and wry, e…
Eating Death
This essay argues that the meaning of the title “Death Eater” in the Harry Potter series is illuminated by ancient personifications of Death as a monster that eats insatiably. Examples include Death, Sheol, and Hades from biblical literature and Christian tradition, the Egyptian goddess Ammit in The Book of the Dead, and the Ugaritic god Mot within The Baal Cycle. After this background is addressed, it is utilized to assess possible meanings for …
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Empire (2 works)