Το τρέχον τεύχος του Biblical Annals / The current issue of Biblical Annals

Biblical Annals 5:1 (2015)

• Barbara Rzepka, "Paradise Lost: Genesis 2-3, a Narrative with a Double Conclusion?," 9-36 (abstract)
• Stanisław Bazyliński, "Venite Adoremus Dominum Regem (Psalm 95)," 37-57 (abstract)
• Tomasz Bąk, "Shenute and His Quotations of Psalms in the Homily: Ad philosophum gentilem," 59-79 (abstract)
• Adam Kubiś, "Musical Instruments in the Book of Amos," 81-94 (abstract)
• Edward Lipiński, "‘Shall I Offer My Eldest Son?’ (Mi. 6:7)," 95-109 (abstract)
• Andrzej Piwowar, "The Acquisition of Wisdom according to Sirach (Sir 6:18-37). Part I: Receiving Education as a Way to Acquire Wisdom (Sir 6:18-22)," 111-135 (abstract)
• Marcin Kowalski, "A Sad Pharisee, an Inloved Sinner and Jesus with Divine Power. The Construction of Characters in Luke 7:36-50," 137-158 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Die Welt des Orients / In the current issue of Die Welt des Orients

Die Welt des Orients 45:1 (2015)

• Shawn Zelig Aster, "Ezekiel’s Adaptation of Mesopotamian Melammu," 10-21
• Daniel Bodi, "The Double Current and the Tree of Healing in Ezekiel 47:1–12 in Light of Babylonian Iconography and Texts," 22-37
• Dale Launderville, "The Threat of Syncretism to Ezekiel’s Exilic Audience in the Dry Bones Passage," 38-49
• Jonathan Stökl, "Schoolboy Ezekiel: Remarks on the Transmission of Learning," 50-61
• Christoph Uehlinger, "Virtual Vision vs. Actual Show: Strategies of Visualization in the Book of Ezekiel," 62-84
• Martti Nissinen, "(How) Does the Book of Ezekiel Reveal Its Babylonian Context?," 85-98
• Madhavi Nevader, "On Reading Ezekiel By the Rivers of Babylon," 99-110

Ένα νέο υπόμνημα της Α΄ Πέτρου / Α new commentary on 1 Peter

Από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht και στη σειρά Novum Testamentum Patristicum κυκλοφόρησε το πρώτο μέρος του υπομνήματος στην Α΄ Πέτρου με βάση την πρόσληψή της στην αρχαία Εκκλησία. Ήδη στην ίδια σειρά έχουν κυκλοφορήσει τα υπομνήματα στην προς Γαλάτας (Μ. Meiser) και στα απόκρυφα κείμενα (T. Nicklas / J.-M. Roessli) κι αναμένεται η κυκλοφορία και των άλλων τόμων που έχουν εξαγγελθεί (κατά Ματθαίον, προς Τίτον, προς Φιλιππησίους, προς Κολοσσαείς, Β΄ προς Θεσσαλονικείς):

Andreas Merkt, 1. Petrus. Teilband 1 (Novum Testamentum Patristicum 21.1), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,Göttingen 2015

ISBN 978-3-525-53974-3

252 σελίδες

69,99 €

Περιεχόμενα / Contents

Το τρέχον τεύχος του The Bible and Critical Theory / The current issue of the The Bible and Critical Theory

The Bible and Critical Theory 11:1 (2015)

• Itzhak Benyamini, "On the Self-Creation of God: A Critical Theology of the First Verses of Genesis, Following Leibowitz and Hegel"
• David J. Fuller, "Homi K. Bhabha and the “bene yisrael”: Postcolonial Probings into the Chronicler’s Construction of Northern Israelian Cultural Identity"
• Christopher B. Zeichmann, "Rethinking the Gay Centurion: Sexual Exceptionalism, National Exceptionalism in Readings of Matthew 8:5-13//Luke 7:1-10"
• Joanna Osborne, "Encountering the Song of Spring in Ralph Hotere and Cilla McQueen’s Song of Solomon"

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του Inductive Biblical Studies / In the current issue of Inductive Biblical Studies

Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies 2:1 (2015)

• Dorothy Jean Weaver, "Inheriting the Earth: Towards a Geotheology of Matthew’s Narrative"
• Benson Goh, "The Charge of Being Deluded Interpreters of Scripture: A Reassessment of the Importance of Chiasms in Mark 11–12"
• Howard Tillman Kuist, "A Selection from The Pedagogy of St. Paul: Chapters 3-4, Bibliography"
• Michael D. Matlock, "Finding a Comfortable Home in Biblical Hermeneutics: The Hospitality and Expansiveness I Found in Inductive Biblical Studies"

Το τρέχον τεύχος του NovT / The current issue of NovT

Novum Testamentum 57:4 (2015)

• Andrew R. Krause, "In Association with the Ancestral Customs: Pharisaic Ancestral Traditions as a Semi-Private Association Code in Matthew 15 and Antiquitates judaicae 13," 343-359 (abstract)
• Ronald H. van der Bergh, "'Old Testament Awareness' and the Textual Tradition of the Explicit Quotations of Isaiah in Codex Bezae’s Acts," 360 - 378 (abstract)
• James R. Unwin, "'Thrown down but not Destroyed," 379 - 412 (abstract)
• Benjamin Sargent, "The Exegetical Middah דבר הלמד מענינו and the New Testament," 413 - 417 (abstract)
• Laurent Pinchard, "Des traces vétérotestamentaires dans quelques variantes du Codex de Bèze traditionnellement jugées harmonisantes," 418 - 430 (abstract)

CFP: Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

The organisers of the St Andrews Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies are happy to announce the theme of the next installation of this series taking place at the University of St Andrews 6-8 June 2016

Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity.

Invited addresses will be given by Menahem Kister (Hebrew University), Reinhard Kratz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Jan Joosten (University of Oxford), Richard Bauckham (University of Cambridge), George Brooke (University of Manchester), N.T. Wright (University of St Andrews), Philip Alexander (University of Manchester), Madhavi Nevader (University of St Andrews), Michael Peppard (Fordham University), David Moffitt (University of St Andrews), William Tooman (University of St Andrews), and Matthew Novenson (University of Edinburgh)

Cost: Early bird (1 December 2015-29 February 2016) £50; Standard (1 March-1 May 2016) £75.

Please send short abstracts (250 words) engaging Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, Targumim, Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, New Testament, Rabbinic Literature, or Early Christian Literature to Paul Sloan (ps343@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 15 February 2016 addressing the following questions

Ancient Israelite Religion
Angelology and heavenly mediums
Kingship and royal ideologies
Political ideologies in the Second Temple Period
Corporate sonship and the people of God
Messianism
Christian origins/Christology
Son of God and ancient scriptural exegesis/interpretation
Early mystical traditions
Textual variation and divine sonship
Other related topics


Registration will be available from 1 December 2015. Please address all questions either to Garrick Allen (allen@isbtf.de) or Paul Sloan (ps343@st-andrews.ac.uk). Follow this blog for further updates.

2015 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium

To φετινό συνέδριο του Πανεπιστημίου του York σε συνεργασία με το Πανεπιστήμιο του Texas στο Austin για τα χριστιανικά απόκρυφα θα λάβει χώρα στο διάστημα 24-26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015 στο Vanier College, York University. Οι εισηγήσεις θα κινηθούν γύρω από δύο θεματικές: (α) τα πιθανά κίνητρα πίσω από την παραγωγή αποκρύφων από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι σήμερα, (β) την σύνδεση τον αποκρύφων του Μεσαίωνα και των νεότερων χρόνων (19ος-21ος αι.) με τη γενικότερη απόκρυφη γραμματεία, (γ) το Ευαγγέλιο της Συζύγου του Ιησού και τα στοιχεία που προκύπτουν από αυτό όσον αφορά στην σύνταξη, παράδοση και πρόσληψη των χριστιανικών αποκρύφων. Κύριος ομιλητής ο Bart Ehrman:

Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha

RBL 18.9.2015

Wilhelm Bousset, Kyrios Christos: A History of Belief in Christ from the Beginning of Christianity to Irenaeus
Reviewed by Jonathan M. Potter

Claire Clivaz, Corina Combet-Galland, Jean-Daniel Macchi, and Christophe Nihan, eds., Ecritures et réécritures: La reprise interprétative des traditions fondatrices par la littérature biblique et extra-biblique. Cinquième Colloque International du RRENAB, Université de Genève et Lausanne, 10-12 juin 2010
Reviewed by Renata Furst

Devorah Dimant, History, Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Collected Studies
Reviewed by Peter Porzig

Benjamin H. Dunning, Christ without Adam: Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers’ Paul
Reviewed by Robert Paul Seesengood

Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds., The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Richard Horsley, The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel: Moving Beyond a Diversionary Debate
Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet

Gideon R. Kotzé, The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study
Reviewed by Pieter B. Hartog

Frans van Liere, An Introduction to the Medieval Bible
Reviewed by Marcus Elder

Heinz-Werner Neudorfer, Der Brief des Paulus an Titus
Reviewed by Manabu Tsuji

Walter T. Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus
Reviewed by Johan Thom

Call for papers: Byzantines and the Bible

23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016

Recent scholarship has turned its attention to the role of the Bible in the Byzantine world, notably with two recent Dumbarton Oaks Colloquia on the Old and New Testaments respectively, but much remains to be done in bridging the gap between mainstream Byzantine studies and the activities surrounding the reading, studying and copying of the principal sacred text in Christianity. Following a successful and stimulating paper session organized within the European Association of Biblical Studies meeting in Cordoba (July 2015), we would like to continue to open a dialogue between Byzantinists and biblical scholars by proposing a broader thematic session at the International Conference.

Papers can address any period of Byzantine history but must focus on the impact and reception of the biblical text on the work of known (or unknown) scholars, writers and readers in the Greek language. Papers can be manuscript-based (e.g. work on annotations to biblical mss or their illumination), author-based (e.g. focus on a particular author's use of the Bible), text-based (e.g. work on citations from the Bible in different authors) or period-based (e.g. intersecting the significance between a certain historical period and biblical themes). We welcome comparative contributions with respect to other languages (Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic) and other cultures in relation to the concept of a sacred text: does its normative status encourage or impede philological study? What is the role of interpretation and what forms did it take in Byzantium? Was the Greek Bible a uniting force, or the first place of attrition between different readers, cultures and theologies?

Please send a title and short abstract (max. 3600 characters incl. spaces; no footnotes) of your proposed presentation to: barbara.crostini@gmail.com. Papers will be max. 15 mins long. We plan to publish the papers in a collected volume after peer-review. A financial contribution towards your attendance at the conference may become available.

The Organizers
Reinhart Ceulemans (Leuven), Barbara Crostini (Stockholm), Mariachiara Fincati (Milan)

Deadline for abstract submission:30 September 2015