The Mouse of the Mysteries
This article presents an imaginative exercise in which a fictional author from the year 4025 details results from excavations of archaeological sites dating to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Based on analyses of small domestic finds, as well as the discovery of a monumental complex utiliz...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publié: |
2024
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| Dans: |
Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Année: 2024, Volume: 22, Numéro: 3, Pages: 219-236 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Humour
/ Mickey Mouse
/ Science biblique
/ Jesus Christus
/ Historicité
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AD Sociologie des religions KAB Christianisme primitif KAJ Époque contemporaine TB Antiquité ZB Sociologie ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Archaeology
B Pedagogy B Theory B Pilgrimage B Iconography B Satire B Mysteries B Historical Jesus B Anthropomorphism |
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| Résumé: | This article presents an imaginative exercise in which a fictional author from the year 4025 details results from excavations of archaeological sites dating to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Based on analyses of small domestic finds, as well as the discovery of a monumental complex utilizing similar imagery, the author concludes that people must have worshipped an anthropomorphic mouse god – the Historical Mouse – in the Mechano-Digital Age, keeping devotional votives in their homes and traveling at least once a year to a primary space of worship centered around the experience of various ritual mysteries. This article calls upon students to perform a self-evaluation about their own assumptions and approaches to the ancient world as they witness a hypothetical historian make outrageous, yet plausible, errors in the course of trying to describe an ‘ancient’ religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10038 |
