Ένα άρθρο βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του LThPh / An article of biblical interest in the current issue of LThPh

Laval Théologique et Philosophique 70:4 (2014)

Agnès Bastit, "L’apologue synoptique du « Fort ligoté » (Mt 12,29 et par.) dans la théologie d’Irénée et la première littérature chrétienne," 291-314

This presentation deals with a microstory — passed down by the Synoptic gospels (Mt 12,29 and par.) and the Gospel of Thomas — about a conflict due to the plundering of the “goods” possessed (unjustly, as the context suggests) by a “strong one”. Our study begins with an analysis of the different textual forms in which this story circulated initially ; there follows an investigation into the various theological readings and uses of that theme in Irenaeus’s work at the end of the 2nd century, and also in the works of some of his contemporaries or later upholders of his theses. As for the general presence of that verse and the history of its interpretation in the ancient Church, research has been fairly exhaustive with regard to the first three centuries, but it remains only indicative for the 4th and 5th centuries (with an opening-up to the medieval West). The propagation of that story in the ancient Church is closely related to its kerygmatic function : a simple, efficacious act sums up the economy of redemption, the rescue of man unjustly kept prisoner by the devil ; thus the story connects the ultimate revitalisation of man to his initial formation and subsequent captivity by recalling the decisive moment of man’s liberation.

Το πρόσφατο τεύχος του HeBAI / The recent issue of HeBAI

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism 3:4 (2014)

• Gary N. Knoppers, "The Theory and Practice of Textual Criticism," 355-362
• Emanuel Tov, "Scribal Practices and Approaches Revisited," 363-374 (abstract)
• Emanuel Tov, "New Editions of the Hebrew Scriptures: A Response," 375-383 
• H.G.M. Williamson, "Comments on New Editions of the Hebrew Scriptures," 384-391 (abstract)
• Ronald Hendel, "The Idea of a Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible: A Genealogy," 392-423 (abstract)
• Armin Lange, "The Question of the So-Called Qumran Orthography, the Severus Scroll, and the Masoretic Text," 424-475 (abstract)
• Robert J.V. Hiebert, "The Rationale for the Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint," 476-490 (abstract)

Ένα νέο βιβλίο για τον Ευσέβιο στο διαδίκτυο / A new book on Eusebius online

Το Center for Hellenic Studies του Πανεπιστημίου του Harvard κυκλοφόρησε ένα νέο συλλογικό τόμο για τον Ευσέβιο και το έργο του, όπου υπάρχουν αρκετές επίσης μελέτες που αφορούν στις βιβλικές σπουδές. Πρόσβαση σε αυτό δίνεται στη σελίδα του Κέντρου, ενώ σε έντυπη μορφή το βιβλίο πωλείται από το Harvard University Press.

Aaron Johnson / Jeremy Schott (eds.), Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations, Harvard University Press 2015

O Αβραάμ στο Ρωμ 4 / Abraham in Romans 4

Themelios 40:1 (2015)

David Shaw, "Romans 4 and the Justification of Abraham in Light of Perspectives New and Newer," 50-62

Το τρέχον τεύχος του ZNT / The current issue of ZNT

Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 17/24 (2014)

• Christian Strecker, "Ritual oder Übung? Ereignis oder Wiederholung? Rettung oder Glück? Gedanken zur frühchristlichen Lebenskunst im Corpus Paulinum"
• Bernhard Lang, "Jesus – ein kynischer Philosoph. Philosophische Lebensweise und griechisches Denken in den Evangelien"
• Judith Perkins, "Verwehrtes Personsein"
• Kristina Dronsch, "Prekäres Wissen. Zeugenschaft als Lebensform im Johannesevangelium"
• Eckart Reinmuth, "Einleitung zur Kontroverse Die frühen Christen: selbstbestimmt oder fremdbestimmt?"
• Theo Kobusch, "Selbstbestimmte Freiheit. Das frühe Christentum im Kontext der antiken Philosophie"
• Manuel Vogel, "Fremdbestimmte Freiheit. Einige vorwiegend paulinische Paraphrasen"
• Thomas Popp, "»damit ihr seinen Fußspuren nachfolgt« (1 Petr 2,21). Christus als Leitbild der Lebenskunst im 1. Petrusbrief"

Ένα νέο βιβλίο για την Επιστολή Αριστέα / A new book on the Letter of Aristeas

Από τις εκδόσεις Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht κυκλοφόρησε το βιβλίο της Ekaterina Matusova σχετικά με την Επιστολή Αριστέα. Η συγγραφέας ασχολείται με τη δομή της αφήγησης και προσφέρει μία νέα ερμηνεία του:

Ekaterina Matusova, The Meaning of the Letter of Aristeas: In light of biblical interpretation and grammatical tradition, and with reference to its historical context (FRLANT 260), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015

172 σελίδες

ISBN 978-3-525-54043-5

79,99 €

Περιγραφή εκδοτικού οίκου / Publisher's description

Ekaterin Matusova offers a new approach to the old problems of interpretation of the “Letter of Aristeas”.

Chapter 1 deals with the question of the structure of the narrative. Matusova argues that at the time of Aristeas compositions of the kind of the Reworked Pentateuch, or Rewritten Bible were circulating in Egypt in parallel with the LXX and were a source of interpretations of the Hebrew text different from the LXX and of specific combinations of subjects popular in Second Temple Judaism. In particular, Matusova further argues that the leading principle of the composition of the Letter is that of the Reworked Deuteronomy, where subjects referring to the idea of following the Law among the gentiles were grouped together. The analysis is based on a broad circle of Jewish sources, including Philo of Alexandria and documents from the Qumran library. The principle of the composition discovered in this part of the study is referred to as the Jewish paradigm.

Chapter 2 offers a new interpretation of the frame story in the narrative, i.e. of the story of the translation in the strict sense. Matusova shows that two paradigms are skilfully combined in this split story: the Jewish one, based on the Bible, and the Greek one, which involves Greek grammatical theory. She further argues that the story, when read in terms of Greek grammar, turns out to be a consistent story not of the translation, but of the correction of the LXX, which is important for our understanding of the early history of the translation. The analysis involves extensive excurses into Greek grammatical theory, including a discussion of Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax and other Hellenistic grammarians.

In Chapter 3 Matusova tries to find the reason for the combination of these two paradigms, namely the Jewish biblical paradigm and the Greek grammatical ones, and to interpret their interconnected meaning, by placing it in the broad historical context of the Ptolemaic state

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Apocrypha / The current issue of Apocrypha

Apocrypha 25 (2014)

• Jean-Daniel Kaestli / Willy Rordorf, "La fin de la vie de Thècle dans les manuscrits des Actes de Paul et Thècle. Édition des textes additionnels"
• Zvi Ron, "The Habakkuk Section in ‘Bel and the Snake’: The Rabbinic Perspective"
• Stephen Pelle, "A Quotation from the Questions of Bartholomew in an early Medieval Latin Sermon" 
• Magdalena Diaz Araujo, "Some Remarks on the Merkabah’s Vision in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve"
• Jean-Daniel Dubois, "La figure d’Adam dans les Extraits du gnostique valentinien Théodote"
• Sever Voicu, "Gematria e acrostico di Adamo: nuovi testimoni"
• Frédéric Amsler, "Qui a dit qu’Adam avait péché? Adam et Ève dans les Homélies pseudo-clémentines"
• Cecilia Antonelli, "Étude critique　: Antonio　Orbe, Introduction à la théologie des iie et iiie　siècles"

Ancient World Digital Library

Μία εξαιρετική πρωτοβουλία του Institute for the Study of the Ancient World του Πανεπιστημίου της Νέας Υόρκης είναι η ψηφιακή βιβλιοθήκη του, η οποία παρέχει πρόσβαση σε ένα συνεχώς αυξανόμενο αριθμό βιβλίων, σχετικά με την Αρχαία Εγγύς Ανατολή, Αρχαίο Ιουδαϊσμό και Αρχέγονο Χριστιανισμό. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι ερευνητές μπορούν να διαβάσουν τα ψηφιοποιημένα βιβλία online: 

Ancient World Digital Library

Βιβλογνωσία της Καινής Διαθήκης / Bible study of the NT

Από τις εκδόσεις Πεδίο κυκλοφόρησε ένα νέο βιβλίο σχετικό με τη "Βιβλογνωσία" της Καινής Διαθήκης. Πρόκειται για τον κλάδο των βιβλικών σπουδών που παρέχει βασικές πληροφορίες για τα βιβλία της Καινής Διαθήκης (σύντομες εισαγωγικές πληροφορίες, περιεχόμενο και δομή του κειμένου). Το παρόν βιβλίο είναι η μετάφραση από το γερμανικό του βιβλίου του Klaus-Michael Bull κι εκπονήθηκε από τον αναπληρωτή καθηγητή της ΚΔ στο Πανεπιστήμιο των Αθηνών Χρήστο Καρακόλη. Εγκαινιάζει μία νέα σειρά επιστημονικών εγχειριδίων υπό τον τίτλο "Βιβλική Επιστήμη", που σκοπό έχει να προσφέρει στο ευρύ αναγνωστικό κοινό βασικά εργαλεία πρόσβασης, όπως τονίζεται στον πρόλογο του βιβλίου. 

Klaus-Michael Bull, Βιβλογνωσία της Καινής Διαθήκης, μτφρ. Χ. Καρακόλης (Βιβλική Επιστήμη 1), Πεδίο, Αθήνα 2015

28 ευρώ

Διεθνές Συνέδριο: Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult / International Conf.: Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult

Sacra privata. From pagan religiosity to early Christian domestic cult

21-21 Μαΐου 2015

Πανεπιστήμιο της Βιέννης

The three-day international conference brings together scholars from different scientific fields comprising New Testament Studies, Christian Archaeology, Ancient History of Religion and Church History. By analyzing archaeological and literary sources the lectures will discuss the phenomenon of domestic religion from various perspectives reaching from the Egyptian, Hellenistic and Roman time to early Christianity.

Πρόγραμμα / Programme

Thursday, 21 May 2015

14.00–14.15:     Opening Session

14.15–15.00:     Edward Adams | King's College, London

Sacra privata and early Christian meeting places

15.00–15.30:     Coffee Break

15.30–16.15:     Christoph Auffarth | University of Bremen

Nach dem Opfer. Transformation von Religion in der Spätantike: Religion in der Familie

16.15–17.00:     Andreas Bendlin | University of Toronto

Religious Agency in the Household: The Praxeology of Domestic Cult in Roman Italy

17.00–17.45:     Verena Fugger | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Norbert Zimmermann | German Archaeological Institute Rome

Archaeological evidences and new questions concerning early Christian domestic cult

18.30–20.45:     Reception and guided tour through the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the KHM (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

      Registration required!

Friday, 22 May 2015

9.00–9.45:        John Bodel | Brown University, Providence

Household religion and religions of the house: The spiritual lives of Roman slaves

9.45–10.30:       David Frankfurter | University of Boston

The Spaces of Domestic Religion in Late Antique Egypt

10.30–11.00:     Coffee Break

11.00–11.45:     Marco Frenschkowski | University of Leipzig

Persönliche und innerfamiliäre religiöse Praxis in apokryphen Apostelakten

11.45–12.30:     Sible De Blaauw | University Nijmegen

The Early History of the Roman Titular Churches: Archaeological Traces, Memories and Myths

12.30–14.00:     Lunch Break

14.00–14.45:     Katharina Greschat | University of Bochum

Oratorium nostrum. Gregory of Tours and his Construction of a Christian lararium

14.45–15.30:     Caroline Johnson-Hodge | College of the Holy Cross, Worcester

Through the Back Door: Christianity as Household Cult

15.30–16.00:     Coffee Break

16.00–16.45:     Ulrich Volp | University of Mainz

Domestic Religion and Family Duties: Insights from the Fathers and Cultural Anthropology

Saturday, 23 May 2015

9.00–9.45:         Andrew McGowan | Yale University, New Haven

Carcer autem pulcher: Christian ritual, gender, and space

9.45–10.30:       Andreas Müller | University of Kiel  

                        Der Kult in der Zelle. Häusliche Religiosität im spätantiken Mönchtum

10.30–11.00:     Coffee Break

11.00–11.45:     Andreas Pülz | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Schobert | Austrian Academy of Sciences

Architectural decoration with Christian Symbols in late antique/early Byzantine houses

11.45–12.30:     Judith Lieu | Cambridge University

Household and Family in Diaspora Judaism

12.30–14.00:     Lunch Break

14.00–14.45:     Margaret Y. MacDonald | St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish

Re-envisioning Ekklesia Space: Evidence of the Flexible use of Household Space for Religious Instruction and Practice in the Pastoral Epistles

14.45–15.30:     Günther Schörner | University of Vienna

Location of domestic rituals in the Roman Empire: an interprovincial comparison

15.30–15.45:     Closing Session

Abstracts