Thesiss

Images of God, positive and negative, create an ongoing tension in the biblical text. This tension is due to the paradoxical character of God as seen in Exod 34:6-7. The cognitive dissonance created by the juxtaposition of positive and negative images of the divine is unsettling…

Papyrus British Museum 10808, whose redaction dates to the Second Century AD, comprises a tripartite spell against sickness and is of Ptolemaic provenance as textual and thematic parallels show. Though written in Greek script (with some Demotic characters), the language of the p…