Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 22:2 (2015)

• Joseph Yellin, "A Commentary on Two Scientific Studies of the ruma (רומא) Jar from Qumran," 147-161 (abstract)
• Shem Miller, "The Oral-Written Textuality of Stichographic Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls," 162-188 (abstract)
• C. L. Seow, "Text Critical Notes on 4QJoba," 189-201 (abstract)
• Eshbal Ratzon, "Methodological Issues concerning the Astronomy of Qumran," 202-209 (abstract)

H ιστορία της πρόσληψης: ορισμός και προοπτικές / History of reception: definition and prospects

Στη σελίδα The Bible and Interpretation ο William John Lyons δημοσιεύει ένα ενδιαφέρον κείμενο σχετικά με τον ορισμό και το μέλλον της ιστορίας της πρόσληψης. Να σημειωθεί ότι η ιστορία της πρόσληψης αποτελεί έναν εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέροντα κλάδο της ιστορίας της ερμηνείας του βιβλικού κειμένου, το μεθοδολογικό όμως πλαίσιο και η εφαρμογή της έχει προκαλέσει ποικίλες συζητήσεις μεταξύ των ερευνητών (παραπέμπω εδώ στα δύο κείμενα που δημοσιεύθηκαν στα προηγούμενα χρόνια στο περιοδικό Relegere, του James Crossley, "An Immodest Proposal for Biblical Studies" [2012] και του L. Hurtado, "On Diversity, Competence, and Coherence in New Testament Studies: A Modest Response to Crossley's 'Immodest' Proposal" [2012]): 

"Some Thoughts on Defining Reception History and the Future of Biblical Studies"

CFP: Growing up Motherless in Antiquity

Growing up Motherless in Antiquity: A Conference on Mother Absence in the Ancient Mediterranean

Organizers:

Prof. Dr. Sabine R. Huebner, Universität Basel, Switzerland
Dr. David M. Ratzan, New York University

Location: Basel, Switzerland


Date: 26 – 28 May 2016

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: October 15, 2015

The last forty years have witnessed a vast reclamation project in ancient history, as scholars have worked to recover the lives of historically muted groups, particularly those of women and children. The result is an impressive body of work collecting the traces ancient women and children have left behind, as well as a sophisticated epistemology of the biases, gaps, and silences in the historical record. From this perspective, the absence of ancient mothers has represented an ineluctable reality and a methodological hurdle, but rarely a subject of study in its own right. Yet the evidence suggests that mother absence was not merely a secondary artifact of bias or artistic and historiographical conventions; it was also a primary condition of antiquity, one whose root causes, social articulations, and psychological effects have never been fully described or explored, even as it had a profound effect on ancient family life and the experience of childhood.

In approaching the causes, forms, and effects of ancient mother absence we now stand to benefit not only from the last four decades of research into the ancient and pre-modern family (including a growing bibliography on ancient mothers, e.g., the recent collection of Petersen and Salzman-Mitchell (eds.), Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome [Univ. Texas Press, 2012]), but also from recent research into contemporary mother absence. The root cause of ancient mother absence, of course, was death, with the result that a significant proportion of ancient children grew up without their biological mothers. In the contemporary West, by contrast, mother absence is increasingly the product of the number of working and career mothers (now two-thirds to three-quarters of all mothers in Germany, Switzerland, France, and the U.S.), a social revolution that is rapidly transforming the practices, economics, ideals, and politics of mothering. Cameron Macdonald’s Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering (Berkeley 2011), for example, investigates the ways in which mother-work has been commoditized, outsourced, and negotiated between mothers and “shadow mothers” over the last two decades. Macdonald’s account of the economics, class tensions, and strategic postures shaping the relationships between contemporary mothers and a quasi-professionalized class of surrogates is a thought-provoking read for anyone acquainted with the various “shadow mothers” of antiquity. This and similar research suggests that ancient historians should attempt to see the phenomenon of ancient mother absence as a continuum, ranging from its obvious manifestation in the total absence caused by maternal death, to the partial absences of various forms of maternal separation brought about by economic necessity, divorce, slavery, social conventions, and perhaps even choice on occasion. It also provides us with a potential framework to understand the ways in which different parties or groups cognized and responded to maternal absence, from the children who grew up without their mothers to varying degrees, to those who stepped in, were employed, or commanded to mother them, a patchwork cast of stepmothers, family members, wet nurses, and domestic slaves—and perhaps we may even extend this analysis to the absent mothers themselves, to the extent that we can recover or reconstruct their experiences.

We invite scholars to reconsider the absence of ancient mothers in terms of ancient mother absence (cf. Huebner & Ratzan (eds.), Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity [Cambridge, 2009]) and seek papers on any aspect of ancient mother absence in the ancient Mediterranean, from any period, subfield, or methodological approach, including (but not limited to) the following themes:

·      The demography and sociology of ancient mother absence, including forms of mother absence not occasioned by death

·      The relationship of the cultural ideals of “good” and “bad” mothers to the realities of mother absence, and the cultural construction and deconstruction of mothers, including reflections and refractions of mother absence in various rejections of motherhood (e.g., cults of virginity or chastity, medical theories minimizing maternal contribution to conception, myths of male pregnancy and birth, etc.)

·      The anthropology, economics, ideology, status, and micropolitics of ancient mother-work and those who performed it (mothers, shadow mothers, stepmothers, etc.) and the effects or outcomes on children

·      The psychology, emotional life, identities, and strategies of absent mothers, the children who lived apart from or survived them, and those who filled the persistent familial gap (mothers, shadow mothers, stepmothers, etc.)

·      Visual or poetic representations of or engagements with mother absence and the discourse of mother absence in epitaphs, eulogies, personal correspondence, religion, cult, forensic rhetoric, politics, law, or medicine

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words (exclusive of title and biographical note), describing a 20-minute paper to be delivered in English. Please include the full title of your paper and a brief biographical note on your academic affiliation and previous research. Qualified junior researchers and recent PhD graduates are encouraged to apply. The deadline for full consideration is Oct. 15, 2015.

Please submit your abstract by email to: david.ratzan@nyu.edu or sabine.huebner@unibas.ch.

Η πύλη της Gath / The Gate of Gath

Σύμφωνα με δημοσιεύματα στο διαδίκτυο η ομάδα αρχαιολόγων του Πανεπιστημίου Bar-Ilan, της οποίας επικεφαλής είναι ο καθ. Aren Maeir έφερε στο φως την κύρια πύλη της πόλης Gath, πατρίδας του Γολιάθ και μίας από τις μεγαλύτερες πόλεις της Παλαιστίνης κατά τους 10ο-9ο αι. π.Χ. Το μέγεθος της πύλης, για την οποία γίνεται λόγος και στην Βίβλο (Α΄ Σαμ 21), φανερώνει επίσης το μέγεθος και τη σπουδαιότητα της πόλης. Ας σημειωθεί ότι η αρχαιολογική ομάδα, η οποία εργάζεται στην τοποθεσία εδώ και 20 χρόνια, έφερε στο φως κι άλλα σημαντικά ευρήματα, όπως ναούς των Φιλισταίων (11ος-9ος αι. π.Χ.), την αρχαιότερη φιλισταϊκή επιγραφή που έχει αναγνωσθεί, διάφορα αντικείμενα, οχυρώσεις και ίχνη ενός σεισμού (8ος αι.), για τον οποίο ίσως γίνεται λόγος στο βιβλίο του Αμώς καθώς και ίχνη της κατάληψης και καταστροφής της πόλης από τον Αζαήλ της Δαμασκού (Β΄ Βασ 12,18):

Bar-Ilan U. archaeologists uncover entrance gate and fortification of Biblical city

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

Etudes théologiques et religieuses 95:2 (2015)

Samuel Benetreau, "Le symbolisme dans l'Épître aux Hébreux. Images et métaphores" (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του The Bible Translator / The current issue of The Bible Translator

The Bible Translator 66:2 (2015)

• David J. Clark, "Translation as Reincarnation?," 117-128 (abstract)
• John Makujina, "The Futurum Instans and the Translation of Two Hebrew Participles in Genesis 38.29 and 40.10," 129-137 (abstract)
• Yongbom Lee, "Judging or Ruling the Twelve Tribes of Israel? The Sense of Κρίνω in Matthew 19.28," 138-150 (abstract)
• Arthur G. Quinn, "The Vocative Singular in the Greek New Testament: An Exploration of Its Expression in North American English," 151-158 (abstract)
• Gert M. Knepper, "Nida’s Γύναι: Eugene Nida’s Views on the Use of Γύναι in John 2.4," 159-169 (abstract)
• Peter-Ben Smit, "No Small Difference? Galatians 4.1 and the Translation of Διαφέρει," 170-175 (abstract)
• Varghese P. Chiraparamban, "The Translation of Πίστις and Its Cognates in the Pauline Epistles," 176-189 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του BTB / The current issue of BTB

Biblical Theology Bulletin 45:3 (2015)

• David M. Bossman, "Failure Is the Mother of Success," 130
• Johnny Miles, "Reading Esther as Heroine: Persian Banquets, Ethnic Cleansing, and Identity Crisis," 131-143 (abstract)
• Esther Miquel, "The Impatient Jesus and the Fig Tree: Marcan Disguised Discourse against the Temple," 144-154 (abstract)
• Simon J. Joseph, "Redescribing the Resurrection: Beyond the Methodological Impasse?," 155-173 (abstract)
• Fergus J. King, "Revelation 21:1–22:5. An Early Christian Locus Amoenus?," 174-193 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του HTR / The current issue fo HTR

Harvard Theological Review 108:3 (2015)

• Edmon L. Gallagher, "Why did Jerome Translate Tobit and Judith?,"356-375 (abstract)
• Benjamin D. Sommer, "Nature, Revelation, and Grace in Psalm 19: Towards a Theological Reading of Scripture," 376-401 (abstract)
• Steven Weitzman, "Absent but Accounted for: A New Approach to the Copper Scroll," 423-447 (abstract)
• Moshe Blidstein, "How Many Pigs Were on Noah's Ark? An Exegetical Encounter on the Nature of Impurity," 488-470 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του HebAI / The current issue of HeBAI

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 4:1 (2015)

• Christoph Uehlinger, "Distinctive or diverse? Conceptualizing ancient Israelite religion in its southern Levan'tine setting," 1-24 (abstract)
• Amihai Mazar, Religious Practices and Cult Objects during the Iron Age IIA at Tel Rehov and their Implications regarding Religion in Northern Israel,"  25-55  (abstract)
• Omer Sergi, "State Formation, Religion and "Collective Identity" in the Southern Levant,"  56-77 (abstract)
• Seth L. Sanders, "When the Personal Became Political: An Onomastic Perspective on the Rise of Yahwism," 78-105 (abstract)
• Terje Stordalen, "Horse Statues in Seventh Century Jerusalem: Ancient Social Formations and the Evaluation of Religious Diversity," 106-132 (abstract)
• Oded Lipschits, "Manfred Oeming, Yuval Gadot, Interdisciplinary Research of Assyrian Siege Ramps – The Case of Tel Azekah," 135-143 (abstract)

Οι εισηγήσεις του 62ου Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense / The Papers of the 62th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense

Κυκλοφόρησε από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Peeters o τόμος με τις εισηγήσεις που διαβάστηκαν στο 62ο Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense που έλαβε χώρα στις 16 έως 18 Ιουλίου 2013 στο Leuven κι είχε ως θέμα τον Παύλο ως πολίτη του ελληνορωμαϊκού κόσμου:

C. Breytenbach (επιμ.), Paul's Graeco-Roman Context (BELT 277), Peeters, Leuven 2015

XXII-751 p.

ISBN: 978-90-429-3271-5

94 ευρώ

Πίνακας περιεχομένων / Table of contents