Elephantine Trespasses

What is it about?

History of religions examines artefacts of religion, including sacred texts, critically and descriptively; theology leverages sacred texts to make constructive recommendations about god-talk and ethics. It is thus interesting when historians trespass, disciplinarily, by making theological arguments. This article identifies two instances of such trespassing in recent religion-historical research on the Persian-period site of Elephantine.

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