The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts Edited by Joan E.Taylor. Library of Second Temple Studies, 85. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014. Pp. xiii + 267; plates. Cloth, $126. Paper, $38.95.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collection of eleven essays originated as part of a collaborative symposium at King's College London. It features the work of many emerging scholars, and the numerous fresh and innovative treatments of the primary texts reflect this. The volume is interdisciplinary, resulting in a wide range of multifaceted perspectives on issues pertaining to the body in relation to religious ideology in early Judean and Christian texts. The authors respectively utilize several different methods and theories in their work, ranging from literary and historical approaches from ritual theory to sexual and gender studies. The primary sources addressed are themselves also diverse, including both canonical and apocryphal texts, the works of Josephus, and early rabbinic writing. What unites the work as a cogent whole are the new insights into the interplay between culture and religion when texts that address the body—theorized, literary, or actual—is given the scholarly attention it warrants. The variety of the contributions will ensure that this is a volume that will appeal to many, and it is highly recommended to scholars interested in the significance of the body for religious thought and praxis in the ancient Mediterranean.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".