Tales of High Priests and Taxes

Honigman, Sylvie

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“…Let me offer just one suggestion for how this might work out, for which I am indebted to the provocation of Sylvie Honigman's striking reading of history in the light of the socio-political rhetoric of 1 and 2 Maccabees in her Tales of High Priests and Taxes. 29 Part of Honigman's overall thesis is that 1 and 2 Maccabees are both books informed by a standard ancient narrative pattern concerning temple foundation, or as is most pertinent to our case, refoundation, 30 and as she notes one of the main focal points of Daniel 11's account of Antiochus does of course concern the desecration of the temple altar. 31 There is a great deal of debate at the moment about the congruity or otherwise of the Maccabees accounts with what we know in general of Seleucid foreign policy -the jury is not so much out as fully divided.…”

Section: Locating the Theological Script: Ascriptive Readings Of Danimentioning

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“…25-8); and then his turning his attention to Jerusalem (vv. [29][30][31][32][33][34][35]; by which time we have arrived at the Jewish revolt of 167-164 BCE). Verses 36-9 offer a damning character portrait of him, before 11:40-5 describe in grandiose terms a series of military movements and encounters that will see him meet his death, unaided and alone, encamped between the sea and the holy mountain (i.e.…”

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“…The account of the build-up to Antiochus' death in 1 Maccabees (6:8-13) emphasises his dying far from home, in retribution for his desecrating the temple and ordering a massacre in Jerusalem. 33 Butand this is surely a significant detail -Daniel 11 envisages Antiochus dying 'between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain' (11:45), i.e. in the land: it is a different (ascriptive) symbolic construction of what his death represents.…”

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The eclipse of Daniel's narrative: The limits of historical knowledge in the theological reading of Daniel

Briggs¹

2017

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Setting the Scene: Theological Interpretation of Scripture TodayThe early twenty-first century has seen the tide of theological interpretation rush back in. Those who had become habituated to picking their way through the pebbles on Dover Beach, lamenting the receding roar of the theological voice in the barren lands of exegetical minutiae, were rudely awakened by the unexpected crashing upon the shore of 'the theological interpretation of scripture'. Crowded conference rooms and repristinated publishing schedules attested to this new yet old phenomenon, and the much-touted rapprochement between academic biblical studies and serious theological enquiry suddenly found itself not short of programmatic manifestos and aspirational declarations of intent.Like any incoming tide, this one brings with it signs of life along with evidence of failed projects of the past: the debris of interpretative schemes that rested on dogmatic foreclosure, rather than a proper theological confidence. Among our interpretative forebears, the ghosts of Christians past do not line up neatly all on one side or the other of a map of fruitful exegetical endeavour. Blanket appeals for and against -'the Church's deposit of faith must rule interpretation!'/'the text must be allowed to speak against the tradition!' -may work as slogans, but do not reflect the overlapping commitments and inter-weaving practices that could characterise good 2 theological interpretation of scripture in God's economy today. Such allencompassing perspectives gain what little leverage they have only by operating at some distance from the detailed work of reading specific texts with theological and imaginative energy.The initial enthusiasm of and for theological interpretation, not to mention various cautious and puzzled voices in response, might now be settling into something calmer and more long-term, where the serious work to be done involves careful theological attention to specific texts. It will take time to determine whether the tide is on its way back out, or can really help to re-draw the map.The present article attempts to explore one small corner of the map: the extent to which theological concerns in the reading of scripture may recalibrate the nature of our interest in history, or historical reconstruction. Such considerations, when pursued on a conceptual level, often devolve into fruitless generalisations about 'historical criticism' and whether it was 'a Good Thing' or not, a la 1066 and AllThat. There were many aspects to (va...

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“…Similarly, in the context of blockchain communities, DAOs are on the one hand a set of organizational tools that can be used by communities in order to more effectively organize, raise funds, and distribute resources across networks (Catlow, 2019). And on the other, for many DAO enthusiasts, automated network governance enables "hyper scalability" (Kreutler, 2020): large numbers of people who do not know and thus cannot trust each other modeled as rational agents coalescing around a shared mission to govern shared resources without a centralized authority (Honigman, 2019;Field, 2020).…”

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The Dissensus Protocol: Governing Differences in Online Peer Communities

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2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralized decision-making at scale. This article introduces the concept of “dissensus” from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities. Dissensus describes the emergence of incompatible differences. Among peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain stands out as a set of ideas that explicitly seek to resolve dissensus through consensus protocols. In this article, we propose dissensus as a “protocol” for foregrounding the often sidelined yet productive aspects of incompatible differences. The concept highlights that there might not always be consensus about a consensus algorithm, and that indeed, dissensus is the precondition for new possibilities and perspectives to emerge. We discuss the concept in relation to the histories of governance ideas in blockchain, namely, a “materialist,” “design,” and “emergent” approach. We then describe moments of dissensus in practice through two cases of online communities, Genesis DAO and Ouishare, discussing their different ways of recognizing and navigating dissensus. Finally, we give a critical overview of consensus algorithms, voting, staking, and forking as the mechanisms that make out blockchain governance ideologies. In conclusion, we argue that dissensus can serve as a useful concept for pointing attention to governance as it is conducted in practice, as historically and culturally specific practices, rather than as a problem to be solved through supposedly universal mechanisms.

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Class and Power in Roman Palestine

Keddie¹

2019

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The eclipse of Daniel's narrative: The limits of historical knowledge in the theological reading of Daniel

The eclipse of Daniel's narrative: The limits of historical knowledge in the theological reading of Daniel

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Class and Power in Roman Palestine

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