Collin Cornell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5813616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Collin Cornell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Collin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornell |
| SIGNATURE | CORNELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4804-3849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Response to Craig Ott’s review
In this short response article, the author of God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission (Baker Academic, 2025) replies to Craig Ott’s review essay
And Finally
A Mouthy Psalm: The Poetics of MT Psalm 50/ LXX Psalm 49
The present article observes that Psalm 50 foregrounds mouth activities of speaking and eating. More than that, logics of proximity and possession drive the psalm’s rhetoric, and the mouth is the center of both. Speech closes a spatial gap, and the mouth is the arterial. God is up high, and his speech moves downward to humans; rightful human speech moves upward to God. But animals are already proximate to God on the heights, so the divine mouth i…
Israel’s priority in Old Testament missiology
The present article challenges Walter C. Kaiser, Jr’s influential proposal for evangelical Old Testament missiology. Out of concern to avoid an understanding of “Israel as God’s favored or pet nation,” Kaiser argues that God’s promise to Abraham in Gen 12:3 is for the sake of all nations, and as such, “the first Great Commission mandate of the Bible.” In its three exegetical sections, the article seeks to overturn Kaiser’s Gentile-centric interpr…
Place-Based New Testament Instruction
This article gives an account of one introductory New Testament class taught in the fall of 2019; although answering to the historical interests commonplace to biblical studies instruction, it also experimented with a place-based pedagogy for spiritual growth. The article provides intellectual backgrounds, especially drawing from Willie James Jennings’s work, describes the class in terms of its course objectives and guiding epigrams, and details …
The Life of God in the Hebrew Bible
This article re-engages the question of God's life in the Hebrew Bible. Much prior scholarship assumes a basic difference between the ways that God and creatures live. By contrast, this article begins from a working hypothesis of homology: that in the Hebrew Bible, there are qualities shared between the life of YHWH and the life of other beings, including the life of gods, humans, and animals; and it ventures that exploring these commonalities yi…
The Question of God’s Perfection
Is God perfect? The recent volume entitled The Question of God’s Perfection stages a conversation on that topic between mostly Jewish philosophers, theologians, and scholars of rabbinic literature. Although it is neither a work of biblical theology nor a contribution to the theological interpretation of scripture, The Question of God’s Perfection yields stimulating results for these other, intersecting projects. After briefly describing the volum…
Major Review: Who Needs the Old Testament? Its Enduring Appeal and Why the New Atheists Don’t Get It by Katharine Dell
Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine, written by Karel van der Toorn
A review of Karel van der Toorn's Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine (Anchor Bible Reference Library). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp xi, 270. Hardcover: $65. ISBN: 9780300243512
A Sharp Break: Childs, Wellhausen, and Theo-referentiality
Julius Wellhausen proposed a “sharp break” between ancient Israelite religion and early Judaism: for him, the eighth-century prophets were the “spiritual destroyers of old Israel” and the forerunners of early Judaism. The biblical theologian Brevard Childs rejected Wellhausen’s reconstruction and insisted instead that “very strong theological continuity” characterized the development of Israelite religion from its outset. Numerous contemporary th…
Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament by Melissa Florer-Bixler
The Forgotten Female Figurines of Elephantine
In spite of renewed scholarly interest in the religion of Judeans living on the island of Elephantine during the Persian period, only one recent study has addressed the religious significance of the fired clay female figurines discovered there. The present article seeks to place these objects back on the research agenda. After summarizing the history of research, it also makes a new appraisal of the role of these objects in the religious life of …
Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine, written by Gard Granerød
A review of Gard Granerød's title, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period
Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb
A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of tad A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary
Why Rumania Failed and Transylvania and Danubian Peace
Journal Article Why Rumania Failed and Transylvania and Danubian Peace Get access Why Rumania Failed. By Pavel Pavel. With a Preface by Wickham Steed. 1944. (London: Alliance Press. 71⁄2′′× 5′′. 283 pp. 8s. 6d.)Transylvania and Danubian Peace. By Pavel Pavel. With a Preface by R. W. Seton-Watson and two contributions by Professor Slobodan Jovanovitch, Former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, and Hubert Ripka, Czechoslovak Minister of State. 1943. (Lo…
Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb
A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of tad A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary
Why Rumania Failed and Transylvania and Danubian Peace
Journal Article Why Rumania Failed and Transylvania and Danubian Peace Get access Why Rumania Failed. By Pavel Pavel. With a Preface by Wickham Steed. 1944. (London: Alliance Press. 71⁄2′′× 5′′. 283 pp. 8s. 6d.)Transylvania and Danubian Peace. By Pavel Pavel. With a Preface by R. W. Seton-Watson and two contributions by Professor Slobodan Jovanovitch, Former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, and Hubert Ripka, Czechoslovak Minister of State. 1943. (Lo…
Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb
A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of tad A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary
Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period: Studies in the Religion and Society of the Judaean Community at Elephantine, written by Gard Granerød
A review of Gard Granerød's title, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period
The Forgotten Female Figurines of Elephantine
In spite of renewed scholarly interest in the religion of Judeans living on the island of Elephantine during the Persian period, only one recent study has addressed the religious significance of the fired clay female figurines discovered there. The present article seeks to place these objects back on the research agenda. After summarizing the history of research, it also makes a new appraisal of the role of these objects in the religious life of …
A Sharp Break: Childs, Wellhausen, and Theo-referentiality
Julius Wellhausen proposed a “sharp break” between ancient Israelite religion and early Judaism: for him, the eighth-century prophets were the “spiritual destroyers of old Israel” and the forerunners of early Judaism. The biblical theologian Brevard Childs rejected Wellhausen’s reconstruction and insisted instead that “very strong theological continuity” characterized the development of Israelite religion from its outset. Numerous contemporary th…
Fire by Night: Finding God in the Pages of the Old Testament by Melissa Florer-Bixler
Major Review: Who Needs the Old Testament? Its Enduring Appeal and Why the New Atheists Don’t Get It by Katharine Dell
Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine, written by Karel van der Toorn
A review of Karel van der Toorn's Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine (Anchor Bible Reference Library). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp xi, 270. Hardcover: $65. ISBN: 9780300243512
The Life of God in the Hebrew Bible
This article re-engages the question of God's life in the Hebrew Bible. Much prior scholarship assumes a basic difference between the ways that God and creatures live. By contrast, this article begins from a working hypothesis of homology: that in the Hebrew Bible, there are qualities shared between the life of YHWH and the life of other beings, including the life of gods, humans, and animals; and it ventures that exploring these commonalities yi…
The Question of God’s Perfection
Is God perfect? The recent volume entitled The Question of God’s Perfection stages a conversation on that topic between mostly Jewish philosophers, theologians, and scholars of rabbinic literature. Although it is neither a work of biblical theology nor a contribution to the theological interpretation of scripture, The Question of God’s Perfection yields stimulating results for these other, intersecting projects. After briefly describing the volum…
Israel’s priority in Old Testament missiology
The present article challenges Walter C. Kaiser, Jr’s influential proposal for evangelical Old Testament missiology. Out of concern to avoid an understanding of “Israel as God’s favored or pet nation,” Kaiser argues that God’s promise to Abraham in Gen 12:3 is for the sake of all nations, and as such, “the first Great Commission mandate of the Bible.” In its three exegetical sections, the article seeks to overturn Kaiser’s Gentile-centric interpr…
Place-Based New Testament Instruction
This article gives an account of one introductory New Testament class taught in the fall of 2019; although answering to the historical interests commonplace to biblical studies instruction, it also experimented with a place-based pedagogy for spiritual growth. The article provides intellectual backgrounds, especially drawing from Willie James Jennings’s work, describes the class in terms of its course objectives and guiding epigrams, and details …
A Mouthy Psalm: The Poetics of MT Psalm 50/ LXX Psalm 49
The present article observes that Psalm 50 foregrounds mouth activities of speaking and eating. More than that, logics of proximity and possession drive the psalm’s rhetoric, and the mouth is the center of both. Speech closes a spatial gap, and the mouth is the arterial. God is up high, and his speech moves downward to humans; rightful human speech moves upward to God. But animals are already proximate to God on the heights, so the divine mouth i…
Response to Craig Ott’s review
In this short response article, the author of God Draws Near: Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission (Baker Academic, 2025) replies to Craig Ott’s review essay
And Finally
Philosophy (12 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (11 works) · Theology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)