Οι γυναίκες ως επικίνδυνες αδελφές στην εβραϊκή Βίβλο / Women as dangerous sisters in Hebrew Bible

Στην γνωστή ιστοσελίδα The Bible and Interpretation αναρτήθηκε το πολύ ενδιαφέρον άρθρο της Amy Kalmanofsky (Jewish Theological Seminary) με θέμα γυναίκες στο ρόλο της αδελφής μέσα στην εβραϊκή Βίβλο. Η συγγραφέας εντοπίζει τις γυναικείες μορφές που λειτουργούν ως αδελφές μέσα στην Βίβλο (π.χ. Μιριάμ, Δείνα, Ρεβέκκα κ.ά.) και συζητά το ρόλο τους μέσα στην αφήγηση, κυρίως όταν αυτές εμφανίζονται να αμφισβητούν πατριαρχικές δομές και αξίες.

Amy Kalmanofsky, "Dangerous Sisters in the Hebrew Bible"

O Larry Hurtado για την αξία των διάφορων γραφών στα χειρόγραφα / Larry Hurtado on the valus of variants in manuscripts

Ο Larry Hurtado ανάρτησε στο ιστολόγιό του ένα σύντομο ενδιαφέρον κείμενο για την αξία που αποκτούν πλέον στην κριτική του κειμένου της Καινής Διαθήκης οι διαφορετικές γραφές των χειρογράφων, διότι μας δίνουν πληροφορίες για τις πρακτικές ανάγνωσης και γραφής των αρχαίων εκκλησιαστικών κοινοτήτων, ενώ υποχωρεί σιγά σιγά η έμφαση στον εντοπισμό της αρχικής ορθής γραφής. 

Larry Hurtado, "Textual Variants and Ancient Readers"

Το νέο τεύχος του ASE / In the current issue of ASE

Annali di Storia dell' Esegesi 34:1 (2014)

Contents & abstracts

Early Judaism

• Jeffrey M. Tripp, "A Revelation from Gabriel to Nathan? The Herodian Temple and the Ideology of the Davidic Covenant in the Hazon Gabriel," 7-27

Early Groups of Jesus Followers

• Clare K. Rothschild, "'Have I Not Seen Jesus Our Lord?!' (1 Cor 9:1c): Faithlessness of Eyewitnesses in the Gospels of Mark and Paul," 29-51
• Mara Rescio, "Demons and Prayer: Traces of Jesus’ Esoteric Teaching from Mark to Clement of Alexandria," 53-81
• Carlo Carletti, "Origini cristiane ed epigrafia. Note di lettura a proposito di alcune iscrizioni (forse) «protocristiane»," 83-94

History of Biblical Interpretation

• Tim Denecker, Gert Partoens, "De uoce et uerbo. Augustine’s exegesis of John 1:1–3 and 23 in sermons 288 and 293A auct. (Dolbeau 3)," 95-118

History of Christianity

• Guglielmo Forni Rosa, "Una crisi della coscienza storica: 1896-1904," 119-149
• Mauro Pesce, "La relazione tra il concetto di eresia e la storia del cristianesimo," 151-168
• Elena Mazzini, L’antisemitismo cattolico e le sue trasformazioni. Un tentativo di sintesi a margine di due lavori"," 169-189

Historical Jesus: History of Research

• Michela Catto, "Confucio in Europa e Gesù in Cina," 191-201
• Santiago Guijarro / Mauro Pesce / Pierluigi Piovanelli /Claudio Gianotto, "Discussione del libro di Claudio Gianotto (a cura di), Ebrei credenti in Gesù. Le testimonianze degli autori antichi, Milano, Edizioni Paoline, 2012," 203-224
• Pierre Maraval / Gilles Dorival / François Vouga / Emanuela Prinzivalli / Manlio Simonetti, "Discussione del libro di Emanuela Prinzivalli, Manlio Simonetti, La Teologia degli antichi cristiani (secoli I-V) (“Letteratura Cristiana Antica”, 26), Brescia, Morcelliana, 2012," 225-241

Ένα νέο βιβλίο για το ευαγγέλιο του Θωμά / A new book on the Gospel of Thomas

Από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Brill κυκλοφόρησε το ερμηνευτικό υπόμνημα και μετάφραση του Ευαγγέλιο του Θωμά. Ο συγγραφέας του νέου βιβλίου Simon Gathercole, του Πανεπιστημίου του Cambridge, έχει ήδη και παλαιότερα ασχοληθεί με το συγκεκριμένο εξωκανονικό βιβλίο (The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas: Original Language and Influences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012). Το νέο του πόνημα προσφέρει νέες προοπτικές στη μελέτη του συγκεκριμένου κειμένου. 

Simon Gathercole, The Gospel of Thomas (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 11), Leiden, Brill 2014

ISBN: 9789004190412

700 σελίδες

€193,00

Για την συνέντευξη του ίδιου του Gathercole σχετικά με το νέο του βιβλίο πατήστε στον παρακάτω τίτλο: 

Simon Gathercole, The Gospel of Thomas (inteview)

Eπιπλέον πρόσφατο τεύχος του JSNT είναι αφιερωμένο στις μελέτες των Gathercole και Goodacre σχετικά με το ευαγγέλιο του Θωμά: Journal for the Study of the New Testament 36:3 (2014)

Θησαυρός με νομίσματα της εποχής του Ιουδαϊκού Πολέμου στην Ιερουσαλήμ / A hoard of Great Revolt coins found in Jerusalem

Σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση της Αρχαιολογικής Υπηρεσίας του Ισραήλ ανακαλύφθηκε άγνωστος μέχρι σήμερα οικισμός της εποχής της Ιουδαϊκής επανάστασης στα προάστια της Ιερουσαλήμ. Οι ανασκαφές σε οικία αυτού του οικισμού έφεραν στο φως ένα θησαυρό 114 χάλκινων νομισμάτων, όλα του ίδιου έτους και της ίδιας αξίας. Στη μία όψη φέρουν την επιγραφή "Για τη σωτηρία της Σιών" στα εβραϊκά και παράσταση θυμιατού, ενώ στην άλλη lulav και ethrog και την επιγραφή "έτος 4" (της επανάστασης), δηλ. 69/70 μ.Χ.

Ο ιδιοκτήτης τους τα έκρυψε σε μία γωνία ενός δωματίου της οικίας προφανώς με την ελπίδα ότι θα τα πάρει, όταν θα έχει περάσει ο κίνδυνος. Όμως από ό,τι φαίνεται δεν επέστρεψε ποτέ. Οι οικία, η οποία κατασκευάστηκε κατά τον 1ο αι. π.Χ. καταστράφηκε το 69/70 σύμφωνα με τα ευρήματα. Μέρος της ξανακατοικήθηκε ια μικρό χρονικό διάστημα στις αρχές του 2ου μ.Χ. λίγο πριν την επανάσταση του Bar Kochba. Oι αρχαιολόγοι εικάζουν ότι οι κάτοικοι του οικισμού συμμετείχαν ενεργά και στις δύο εξεγέρσεις εναντίον των Ρωμαίων με αποτέλεσμα ο οικισμός να καταστραφεί δυο φορές. 

Για περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες δέστε: 

Hoard of coins found from time of Great Revolt (San Diego Jewish World)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του VT / In the current issue of VT

Vetus Testamentum 64:3 (2014)

• Hand Debel, "Stones of Contention?!," (abstract)
• John Burnight, "A New Interpretation and Translation of Job 5:5," (abstract)
• Nissim Amzallag, "The Cosmopolitan Character of the Korahite Musical Congregation: Evidence from Psalm 87," 361-381 (abstract)
• Joshua Berman, "What does the Ox Know in Isa 1:3a?," 382-388 (abstract)
• Edward J. Bridge, "A Mother’s Influence: Mothers Naming Children in the Hebrew Bible," 389-400 (abstract)
• Bonifatia Gesche, "Die älteste lateinische Übersetzung des Buches Esdras A—eine neue Entdeckung," 401-415 (abstract)
• Jože Krašovec, "Justification of God in His Word in Ps 51:6 and Rom 3:4," 416-433 (abstract)
• Judith Krawelitzki, "God the Almighty? Observations in the Psalms," 434-444 (abstract)
• Michael P. Maier, "Festbankett oder Henkersmahl? Die zwei Gesichter von Jes 25:6-8," 445-464 (abstract)
• Nathan Mastnjak, "Judah’s Covenant with Assyria in Isaiah 28," 465-483 (abstract)
• Hermann-Josef Stipp, "Legenden der Jeremia-Exegese (I): Das eschatologische Schema im alexandrinischen Jeremiabuch," 485-501 (abstract)
• Terrance Randall Wardlaw, "The Meaning of ברא in Genesis 1:1-2:3," 502-513 (abstract)
• Gareth J. Wearne, "Habakkuk 3:10-11: In Defence of a Masoretic Unit Division," 515-518 (abstract)

24 χειρόγραφα προστίθενται στην ψηφιοποιημένη βιβλιοθήκη της British Library / 24 more digitized mss added to the British Library databank

Από το ιστολόγιο Medieval manuscripts blog της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης πληροφορούμαστε για τις εργασίες του προγράμματος ψηφιοποίησης των βυζαντινών χειρογράφων της που πραγματοποιείται με την οικονομική ενίσχυση του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχος. 24 νέα χειρόγραφα, μεταξύ των οποίων και πολλά της ΚΔ (κείμενο και κατένες) έχουν προστεθεί στην ψηφιακή βιβλιοθήκη.

Twenty-four More Greek Manuscripts Online

Ένα σπάνιο νόμισμα της Judaea Capta στη Βηθσαϊδά / A rare Judaea capta coin discovered in Bethsaida

Η είδηση κυκλοφόρησε λίγες μέρες νωρίτερα και την αναδημοσιεύουμε εδώ για όσους μπορεί να μην ενημερώθηκαν. Κατά τις ανασκαφές στη Βηθσαϊδά ήρθε στο φως ένα σπάνιο νόμισμα της Judaea capta της εποχής του Δομιτιανού και με θέμα την άλωση της Ιερουσαλήμ το 70 μ.Χ. από τον Βεσπασιανό και τον Τίτο. 

Researchers Find Rare Coin, Other Artifacts at Bethsaida Dig Site

Ένα νέο βιβλίο για την Εσθήρ / A new book on Esther

Κυκλοφόρησε από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Peeters ένα νέο βιβλίο στο οποίο συγκρίνεται ο χαρακτήρας της Εσθήρ, όπως παρουσιάζεται στην εβραϊκή και την ελληνική εκδοχή του ομώνυμου βιβλίου.

T. Miller,  Three Versions of Esther: Their Relationship to Anti-Semitic and Feminist Critique of the Story (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology, 74), Peeters, Leuven 2014

ISBN: 978-90-429-3042-1
XXVI-217 p.
64 ευρώ

Summary
Hebrew Esther tells the story of a woman who assumes responsibility to save her people from attempted genocide. Old Greek and Alpha Text Esther are examples of Jewish apologetic and polemic literature that addressed Greek and Latin perceptions of Jewish xenophobia and misanthropy. However, in spite of the fact that Hebrew Esther gives an account of a woman’s leading role in the prevention of the genocide of the Jews of Persia, and the fact that the authors of the Greek versions reinterpreted the Hebrew for the purpose of addressing anti-Semitic sentiment in the Greco-Roman world, the story of Esther is the object of significant anti-Semitic and feminist critique. In contrast to most past and current scholarship, this work uses a combination of critical methods to question both forms of critique, and contrasts Hebrew Esther’s character and actions with her character and actions portrayed in the two Greek versions.

Bible, Critical Theory, and Reception Seminar (16-17th September, 2014)

Ένα ενδιαφέρον σεμινάριο σχετικά με την πρόσληψη της Βίβλου θα λάβει χώρα στα μέσα Σεπτεμβρίου στο Bristol. 

Bible, Critical Theory, and Reception Seminar (16-17th September, 2014) 

Programme

The Star & Dove, 75-78 St Luke’s Road, Totterdown, Bristol, BS3 4RY

DAY ONE
10-10.40am Tiffany Webster, ‘Margaret Thatcher as God?! An Unexpected Reading of Genesis 11:1-9’

10.45-11.25am Mat Collins, ‘Abraham, Isaac, and Polar Bears: Reading Genesis 22 through the Lens of Lost’

Break

11.50-12.30pm Jonathan Downing, ‘“Take Me Away!”: Prince, the Bible, and the End of the World as Sexual Liberation’

12.30-1.45pm Lunch (S); Dinner (N)

1.50-2.30pm Hugh Pyper, ‘The Bible in Moominland: Tove Jansson and the Deceptive Biblical Author’

2.40-3.20pm James Crossley, ‘Rudolf Rocker, Jewish Anarchists, and the English “Radical Bible”’

Break

4-4.40pm Michael Sandford, ‘Reading the New Testament with a New Age Guru: Jesus and the “New Spirituality” of Eckhart Tolle’

4.50-5.30pm Sarah Hussell, ‘Good News for all? The Bible, Christianity and the Continuation of Domestic Abuse in 21st Century Britain’

DAY TWO
9.30-10.10am Jonathan Cahana, ‘Unnatural Theology: Gnosticism, Radical Feminism, and the Frankfurt School’

10.20-11.00am Jo Carruthers, ‘Paul’s “As not”: Entanglements with Agamben, Calvin, Milton and Theories of Affect’

Break

11.20-12noon Thomas E. Hunt, ‘A Christian Order of Books and the Silence of Zachariah in the Patristic Era’

12.05-12.45pm Fiona Black, ‘Block Books and Erotic Skins: The Song of Songs and the Embattled (Medieval) Reader’

12.45 onward Lunch (S); Dinner (N)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του FSR / In the current issue of FSR

Feminist Studies in Religion 30:1 (2014)

Julia Watts Belser, "Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Talmudic Disaster Tales," 5-24

Michelle Fletcher, "What Comes into a Woman and What Comes Out of a Woman: Feminist Textual Intervention and Mark 7:14-23," 25-41 (abstract)

To τεύχος του 2009 του FilNeot στο διαδίκτυο / The 2009 issue of FilNeot online

Filologia neotestamentaria 22 (2009)

• Hendriks Wim, «Lectio e Qua Caeterarum Ortus facillime explicetur», 3-40
• Naizer Eric R., «Discourse Prominence in Matthew 20,1-16: Stanley Porter's Verbal Aspect Theory applied», 41-54
• Victor Ulrich, «Textkritischer Kommentar zu ausgewählten Stellen des Matthäusevangeliums», 55-90
• Becker Eve-Marie, «Mk 1:1 and the Debate on a 'Markan Prologue'», 91-106
• Rius-Camps Josep - Read-Heimerdinger Jenny, «The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles (XX) (Acts 14:1-27)», 107-132
• Baumert Norbert, «'Epi-gnosis' bei Paulus 'Eifer der Juden' - ohne 'Erkenntnis'? (Röm 10,2)», 133-148
• Reuter Rainer, «'Those of the Circumcision' (Gal 2:12) Meaning, Reference and Origin»,149-160

Έκθεση για την καθημερινή ζωή των νέων αρχαία και ρωμαϊκή Θεσσαλονίκη / Exhibition about everyday life in ancient and Roman Macedonia

«Νέος και με υγείαν αρίστην… Όψεις της ζωής των νέων στην αρχαία Μακεδονία»

Η καθημερινή ζωή των νέων στην αρχαία και ρωμαϊκή Θεσσαλονίκη αποτελεί το θέμα της έκθεσης που θα λειτουργήσει στο Μουσείο της Αρχαίας Αγοράς της Θεσσαλονίκης από 6 Σεπτεμβρίου έως 6 Νοεμβρίου 2014. Η έκθεση, όπου θα εκτεθούν 140 περίπου αντικείμενα από διάφορες πόλεις της Μακεδονίας, είναι οργανωμένη σε 8 θεματικές ενότητες οι οποίες καλύπτουν διάφορες πτυχές της ζωής των νέων και της πορείας τους από την εφηβεία στην ωριμότητα.  Περισσότερες πληροφορίες εδώ.

"A young man in excellent health ... Aspect of youth life in ancient Macedonia"

The everyday life of youth in Ancient and Roman Macedonia is the topic of the exhibition that will run at the Ancient Agora Museum of Thessaloniki from September 6 to November 6, 2014. The 140 artifacts of the exhibition from various parts of Macedonia are organized in 8 thematic units and cover various aspects of the life of ancient young Macedonians: the cultural context, sports, body and beauty, ephebes etc. 

Το τρέχον τεύχος του ExpT / In the current issue of ExpT

The Expository Times 125:10 (2014)

• L. W. Hurtado, "Revelatory Experiences and Religious Innovation in Earliest Christianity," 469-482 (abstract)
• Richard K. Moore, "N. T. Wright’s treatment of ‘Justification’ in The New Testament for Everyone," 483-486 (abstract)
• N. T. Wright, "Translating δικαιοσύνη: A Response," 487-490 (abstract)

To τρέχον τεύχος του Théophilyon αφιερωμένο στον Ιούδα / The current issue of Théophilyon devoted on Judas

Théophilyon 19:1 (2014)

• Dominique Cerbelaud, "De l’enfer au paradis : Judas dans la littérature francophone du XXe siècle" (abstract)
• Jean-Marie Gueullette, "Judas, arrêté par la désespérance" (abstract)
• Bernard Barc, "L'évangile de Judas réhabilite-t-il le disciple qui a livré Judas" (abstract)
• Jacques Descreux, "« Serait-ce moi ? » Approche narrative du personnage de Judas en Marc, Matthieu et Luc-Actes" (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του VigChr / In the current issue of VigChr

Vigiliae Christianae 68:3 (2014)

• E.A. de Boer, "Tertullian on “Barnabas’ Letter to the Hebrews” in De pudicitia 20.1-5," 243-263 (abstract)
• Richard Carrier, "The Prospect of a Christian Interpolation in Tacitus, Annals 15.44," 263-284 (abstract)

Δυο άρθρα βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του StTh / Two articles of biblical interest in the current issue of StTh

Studia Theologica 68:1 (2104)

John M. G. Barclay, "Pure grace? Paul's distinctive jewish theology of gift," 4-20 (abstract)

Mogens Müller, "The New Testament gospels as Biblical rewritings. On the question of referentiality," 21-40 (abstract)

Ένας συλλογικός τόμος για τα ψευδεπίγραφα της ΠΔ και την ΠΔ / A collective volume on the OT pseudepigrapha and the OT

Κυκλοφόρησε από τον εκδοτικό τόμο Peeters ένας συλλογικός τόμος με τις εισηγήσεις που διαβάστηκαν στο Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012:

E. Tigchelaar (ed.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures (BETL 270), Peeters, Leuven 2014

ISBN: 978-90-429-3128-2

95 ευρώ

Summary:

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures contains the papers of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012, which focused on a series of contemporary questions in Pseudepigrapha research. The papers discuss the relationship of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha to scriptures, both in a technical sense (how did authors rewrite or interpret Scripture) and in a literary sense (how and why did authors expand or extend earlier scriptures). Many papers cover the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy, giving explanations ranging from pious forgery through various kinds of literary devices to authorial self-effacement. Some contributions discuss the historically fluid boundaries between canonical and pseudepigraphic texts, and the production and use of Old Testament pseudepigrapha in early Christianity.

Contents

Ένα συνέδριο για τον Αύγουστο / A conference on Augustus

Commemorating Augustus: a bimillennial re-evaluation
University of Leeds, UK, 18th–20th August 2014

The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19th August 2014 commemorates the end of his life and the beginning of a rich posthumous reception history. Running over the bimillennium itself, the Commemorating Augustus conference will undertake a focused, comparative exploration of this history of responses, from AD 14 to 2014.

Already in his lifetime, Augustus was a man of many images. Since his death, he has served in one context as a model of ideal rule and another as a tyrant, while playing a key role in narratives about the emergence of Christianity, the foundation of Europe and the relationship between politics and the arts. His reception history is a vivid exemplum of historical relativism in action, demonstrating the scope of the source material to support utterly conflicting interpretations. Yet to date it has been studied only sporadically. The Commemorating Augustus conference aims to address the full range of Augustus' reception history, to trace its evolution, to explore its connections and disjunctions, to understand its impact on contemporary perspectives, and to put us in a better position to articulate what Augustus means to us in the 21st century.

Keynote speaker: Karl Galinsky (Austin, Texas).

Other invited speakers: Mary Harlow (Leicester), Ray Laurence (Kent), Valerie Hope (Open University), Alison Cooley (Warwick), Steven Green (UCL), Shaun Tougher (Cardiff), Martin Lindner (Göttingen).

Topics covered: Augustus' old age and death; worship and deification; Tiberius, Nero and the Flavians; Seneca, Tacitus and Suetonius; posthumous provincial responses; coinage and the visual arts; late antique responses; Byzantine politics and literature; early Christianity; medieval history and literature; European literature; European politics and power; Augustus in novels and on screen; Augustus between the wars; historiography and scholarship; monuments and architecture.

Further details: A full programme, abstracts and details of how to register are available at: http://augustus2014.com/conference/.

Registration closes on 1st August 2014, and a late fee will apply to bookings made after 17th July 2014. For any queries, pleased contact augustus2014@leeds.ac.uk.

The conference venue is Devonshire Hall, a self-contained University of Leeds residence in the style of an Oxbridge college.

The conference is generously supported by the Classical Association, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the Augustus Collection.

Programme & Abstracts

The conference at a glance

Monday 18th August – registration and check-in opens at 12 noon; conference opens at 14:00 and closes at 18:30; Dinner 19:00

Tuesday 19th August – conference opens at 09:00 and closes at 18:00; Conference Dinner 19:30

Wednesday 20th August - conference opens 09:00 and closes 17:30. There will be an opportunity for interested delegates to join an informal post-conference evening meal.

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Abstracts 

Programme

Monday August 18th

12:00-14:00 Registration; sandwich lunch available from 13:00

14:00-14:30 Conference opening

14:30-16:00 1a) End of an era: the final days and death of Augustus 

Mary Harlow (Leicester) and Ray Laurence (Kent) – Augustus and Old Age

Alison Cooley (Warwick) – The last days of Augustus

Valerie Hope (Open University) – Grieving for Augustus: emotion and control in Roman imperial mourning ritual

1b) Text and persuasion

Daniel Sarefield (Fitchburg) – Book Burning After Augustus

Carey Fleiner (Winchester) – The Augustan shaping of imperial education and its legacy in ancient and medieval historians

Kathleen Lamp (Arizona) – Augustus in the Rhetorical Tradition

16:00-16:30 Refreshment break

16.30-18.30 2a) Becoming a god 

Rachel Thomas (Ohio) – Literary Time-Travel: Commemoration of Augustus in Virgil and Ovid

Susan Sorek (Open University) – He Who the Sun has Chosen: Augustus and the obelisks in Rome

Lya Serignolli (Sao Paulo) – Liber, Augustus, and Tiberius

Kelly Shannon (Virginia) – Temples and Memory: Augustus' Deification and Tiberius' Reputation in Tacitus' Annals

2b) Historiography and scholarship

Peter Wiseman (Exeter) – Missing the essentials: How we get Augustus wrong

Maggie L. Popkin (Case Western Reserve University Ohio) – The Parthian Arch of Augustus and its Legacy: Memory Manipulation in Imperial Rome and Modern Scholarship

Pawel Madejski (MCSU, Lublin) – Pax in the Augustan policy: between myths of historiography and the evidence

Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard) – National Marxism: Gramsci's Augustan Rome and its Legacy in Italian Historiography

Tuesday August 19th

09:00-10:30 3a) The Tiberian response 

Penelope Davies (Austin, Texas) – Tiberius, Primus Supra Pares: Augustus Legacy And The Built City

Lovisa Brännstedt (Lund) – Femina Princeps? The response to Livia's adoption into the Julian family

Marius Gerhardt (Berlin) – Augustus in the age of Tiberius: the case of Velleius Paterculus

3b) Provincial perspectives

Greg Rowe (Victoria) – From Greece to Rome and Back Again: the Res Gestae in Provincial Context

Nayla Kabazi Muntasser (Austin, Texas) – Provincial Variations on Augustan Themes: representation, reception and local identity

Dario Calomino (British Museum) – Emperor or god? The commemoration of Augustus in the coinage of the Provinces

10:30-11:00 Refreshment break

11:00-13:00 4a) Neronians to Flavians 

Steven Green (UCL) – Seneca's Augustus: Fashioning a Protean Model for a Young Prince

Liz Gloyn (Royal Holloway University of London) – Fathers, be good to your daughters: Seneca, Augustus and familial ethics

Lauren Ginsberg (Cincinnati) – Remembering Nero's Augustan model in the Octavia

Victoria Gyori (KCL) – Flavian responses to Octavianic/Augustan coinage

4b) Monuments and architecture

Margaret L. Woodhull (Denver, Colorado) – Architecture and Female Agency in Post-Augustan Rome: Agrippina the Younger's Temple for Deified Claudius and the Demise of Imperial Women Building Rome

Thea Ravasi (Newcastle) – Imperial residences from Augustus to Hadrian: architectural planning and sculptural display

Andreina Maahsen-Milan (Bologna) – Heroes und Heldentum: Second and Third Reich War Memorials. The Mausoleum of Augustus as prototype, type and variation

Rubén García Rubio (Valladolid / Rome Tre) – The Forum of Augustus vs Yale University Art Gallery of Louis I. Kahn

13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch

14:00-16:00 5a) Late antiquity 

Shaun Tougher (Cardiff) – Julian Augustus on Augustus: a view from late antiquity

Jill Mitchell (Trinity Saint David) – Symmachus composes a panegyric for Augustus: an appreciation of Imperial panegyric in the late fourth century and its relationship to the oratory of the Augustan age

Frances Foster (Cambridge) – Praising Augustus through his Ancestors: Servius on Representations of Augustus in Virgil

Michael Sloan (Wake Forest) – Augustus: The Harbinger of Peace (Orosius' reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos)

5b) Tacitus, Suetonius and Augustus

Alice Hu (Pennsylvania) – Tacitus' Philippics: Tiberius, Augustan precedent, and literary memory

Aske Damtoft Poulsen (Lund) – Conflicting reports? Three accounts of Augustus' involvement in the civil wars

Trevor Luke (Florida) – A Gift for the Princeps: Suetonius on Augustus Final Journey

Patrick Cook (Cambridge) – Embodying the Legacy of Augustus

16:00-16:30 Refreshment break

16:30-18:00 6a) Byzantine politics and literature 

Birgitta Hoffmann (Liverpool) – Belisarius' triumph and Justinian's Equestrian statue – Justinian as a new Augustus?

Kosta Simic (Brisbane) – The Byzantine Augustus: Examples from Chronicles – Homiletics and Hymnography

Elizabeth Fisher (George Washington University) – The “Essential” Augustus in the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus

6b) The power of images

Matteo Cadario (Milan) – The image of Nero and Augustan legacy

Nandini Pandey (Loyola, Baltimore) – Augustus and the Ara Coeli Legend in Northern Renaissance Art

Nicole Berlin (Johns Hopkins) – Augustus as Propaganda: The Case of the Vatican Gallery of Maps

18:30 Pre-Dinner Drinks reception

19:30 Commemorative dinner

Wednesday August 20th

09:00-10:30 7a) Bridging the gap: towards the Middle Ages 

Joseph Geiger (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) – The First Emperor

Paulo Martins (Sao Paulo) – A new perspective on the post mortem image of Augustus

Jürgen Strothmann (Siegen) – Augustus and the new Roman emperor in the West. The case of the Carolingian views on Augustus

7b) Augustus in the novel

Martin Lindner (Göttingen) – In Search of a German Princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels (1934-1962)

Ayelet Peer (Tel Aviv) – Letters to Augustus: John Williams' portrayal of the princeps in his novel Augustus

Juliette Harrisson (Newman University) – I, Claudius Augustus in text and on screen

10:30-11:00 Refreshment break

11:00-13:00 8a) Augustus between the wars 

Penelope Goodman (Leeds) – Beyond Italy: the 1938 bimillennium as a global phenomenon

Fabio Cavallero (Rome ‘La Sapienza') – Augustus and Mussolini: city planning and architecture. An effective use of power for the creation of a new cultural and communicative memory.

James Chlup (Manitoba) – The Proconsul and the Emperor: John Buchan's Augustus

Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool) – The Influence of John Buchan's Calvinism on his reception of Augustus

8b) European literature

Giampiero Scafoglio (Naples) – Augustus in Dante's Thought and Works

Bobby Xinyue (UCL) – Augustus in Book 8 of Morisot's Fasti

Paul Hammond (Leeds) – Dryden's Virgilian Kings

13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch

14:00-16:00 9a) The 21st-century Augustus 

Anna Clareborn (Swedish Institute, Rome) – Augusto Reframed: Exhibiting Augustus in Bimillennial Rome

Chloe Bent (UCL) – Engaging with Augustus in the 21st Century: A biographical analysis of Rome's northern Campus Martius

Eleanor OKell (Leeds) – What does it mean to be an Augustus today? A comparative online perspective

9b) Augustus on screen

Melissa Beattie (Aberystwyth) and Amanda Potter(Open University)– Res Gestae per Televisionem Nuntio Divi Augusti: Octavian and Rome

Jess Anderson (Leeds) – Augustus' adventures beyond history: ahistorical screen treatments

Fiona Hobden (Liverpool) – Life through a lens: Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries today

15:30-16:15 Refreshment break

16:15-17:15 10) Karl Galinsky: Augustus: an assessment

Tο τρέχον τεύχος του RB / In the current issue of RB

Revue biblique 121:3 (2014)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του JSJ / In the current issue of JSJ

Journal for the Study of Judaism 45:3 (2014)

• Hans Debel, "Anchoring Revelations in the Authority of Sinai: A Comparison of the Rewritings of “Scripture” in Jubilees and in the P stratum of Exodus," (abstract)
• Yishai Kiel, "Penitential Theology in East Late Antiquity: Talmudic, Zoroastrian, and East Christian Reflections," (abstract)
• Magnar Kartveit, "Samaritan Self-Consciousness in the First Half of the Second Century B.C.E. in Light of the Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim and Delos," (abstract)
• Anna Krautbauer / Stephen Llewelyn / Blake Wassell, "A Gift of One Eunuch and Four Slave Boys: P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 and Historical Construction," 305-325 (abstract)
• Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, "Was the Hypothetical Vorlage of the Testimonium Flavianum a “Neutral” Text? Challenging the Common Wisdom on Antiquitates Judaicae 18.63-64," 326-365 (abstract)
• Peter-Ben Smit, "Reaching for the Tree of Life: The Role of Eating, Drinking, Fasting, and Symbolic Foodstuffs in 4 Ezra," 366-387 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Apocrypha / In the current issue of Apocrypha

Apocrypha 24 (2013)

• À la mémoire de François Bovon (1938-2013) - La redaction p. 7
• Marie Anne POLO DE BEAULIEU, «Les apocryphes dans les recueils d’exempla : traces, réécritures et diffusion », 9-56 (abstract)
• Stephen PELLE, «A Preliminary Study of the Historia de Melchisedech in the Latin West », 57-90 (abstract)
• François BOVON et Bertrand BOUVIER, «Miracles additionnels de Thècle dans le manuscrit de Rome, Angelicus graecus 108», 91-110 (abstract) 
• Valentina CALZOLARI, «La version arménienne du Martyre de Philippe grec : passages encratites et manuscrits inédits», 111-138 (abstract) 
• Christiane FURRER et Christophe GUIGNARD, «Titre et prologue des Actes de Pilate. Nouvelle lecture à partir d’une reconstitution d’un état ancien du texte», 139-206 (abstract)
• Florence JULLIEN, «La légende des Trente pièces d’argent de Judas et le roi Abgar»,  207-220 (abstract)
• Pierluigi PIOVANELLI, THE GOSPEL OF THE SAVIOR (‘UNBEKANNTES BERLINER EVANGELIUM’) « Liminaire », 221-222 (abstract)
• Charles W. HEDRICK, «Dating the Gospel of the Savior : Response to Peter Nagel and Pierluigi Piovanelli», 223-236 (abstract)
• Paul DILLEY, «Christus Saltans as Dionysios and David : The Dance of the Savior in its Late-Antique Cultural Context», 237-253 (abstract)
• Erik YINGLING, «Gather Unto Me O My Holy Members : Liturgical Dance, Coptic Theology, and a Reconstructed Lacuna in the Gospel of the Savior»,  255-279 (abstract)

Ένα νέο άρθρο στο τρέχον τεύχος του TC / A new article in the current issue of TC

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

Gareth Wearne, ‫ קרנים מידו לו‬and ‫:מימינו אשדת למו‬ Reading Habakkuk 3:4 and Deuteronomy 33:2 in Light of One Another

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

The Bible Translator 65:2 (2014)

• Andrew Bowden, "Count What All Joy? The Translation of πειρασμός in James 1.2 and 12," 113-124 (abstract)
• Yongbom Lee, "Alternative Translation of 1 Corinthians 12.2: Unreal (Contra-Factual) Sense of ἂν ἤγεσθε ἀπαγόμενοι," 125-134 (abstract)
• Stephen G. Louy, "The Septuagint Text of Ezra 9.2," 135-144 (abstract)
• Valérie Kabergs, "Ἀντιτάσσομαι in Hosea 1.6 (LXX): Its Label of “Lexical Error” Reconsidered," 145-156 (abstract)
• Max Rogland, "The Verbal Forms in Haggai 1.8-9," 157-164 (abstract)
• Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm , "Yahweh the Dragon: Exploring a Neglected Biblical Metaphor for the Divine Warrior and the Translation of ’Ap," 165-184 (absract)
• Phil King, "Perspectives on Translating YHWH in Papua New Guinea," 185-204 (abstract)
• Anicia del Corro, "Tinggian: What If There Is No Standard Dialect?," 205-221 (abstract)
• Florian Voss, "The Fifth Edition of the UBS Greek New Testament," 222-230 (abstract)

Γυναίκες κι η ερμηνεία της Βίβλου / Women and Bible interpretation

΄Ενα πολύ ενδιαφέρον άρθρο της Joy A. Schroeder σχετικά με την παρουσία και το ρόλο γυναικών ερμηνευτών της Βίβλου έχει αναρτηθεί στη γνωστή ιστοσελίδα The Bible and Interpretation. Η συγγραφέα θίγει μια συχνά παραμελημένη πτυχή της γυναικείας παρουσίας στις βιβλικές σπουδές: όχι πλέον ως αντικείμενο μελέτης μέσα στα βιβλικά κείμενα αλλά το ερμηνεύον υποκείμενο του βιβλικού κειμένου. Ερώτηση: αλήθεια πώς είναι τα πράγματα στην ορθόδοξη ερμηνευτική παράδοση;

Retrieving the Voices of Women

RBL 30/7/2014

Robert L. Cole, Psalms 1–2: Gateway to the Psalter
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

Avraham Faust, The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II
Reviewed by William G. Dever

Gregory P. Fewster, Creation Language in Romans 8: A Study in Monosemy
Reviewed by Andrew W. Pitts

Steven Fine, Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity
Reviewed by Yael Wilfand

Christian Frevel and Christophe Nihan, eds. Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
Reviewed by Jason M. Silverman 

Jey J. Kanagaraj, John  
Reviewed by Nijay Gupta

John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman, eds. Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present
Reviewed by Scott Charlesworth

Cynthia Miller-Naudé and Ziony Zevit, eds. Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
Reviewed by Stephen A. Kaufman

Yann Redalié, La deuxième épître aux Thessaloniciens
Reviewed by Abson Joseph

Carolyn J. Sharp, Wrestling the Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer
Reviewed by Robert Wafawanaka

Το τρέχον τεύχος του HeBAI / In the current issue of HeBAI

Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 3:1 (2014)

Το τρέχον τεύχος είναι αφιερωμένο στον Αβράαμ

Thomas Römer, "Introduction," 1–2

Israel Finkelstein/Thomas Römer, "Comments on the Historical Background  of the Abraham Narrative.
Between “Realia” and “Exegetica”," 3–23

Jean Louis Ska, "Abraham between History and Poetry," 24–42

Matthias Köckert, "Wie wurden Abraham- und Jakobüberlieferung  zu einer „Vätergeschichte“
verbunden?," 43–66

Irmtraud Fischer, "Wenn „Völker“ geboren werden, entsteht kein Volk  ohne Frauen. Eine
gender-faire Reflexion  der Sara-Figur im Kontext der Welt erzeugenden Erzählungen der Genesis," 67–86

Mark G. Brett, "The Priestly Dissemination of Abraham," 87–107

New Projects
Jan Dušek, "Mt. Gerizim Sanctuary, Its History and Enigma of Origin,"111–133

New Findings
Dominique Charpin, The Assyriologist and the Computer: The “Archibab” Project,"137–153

Το πρώτο τεύχος του JBR / The first issue of JBR

Journal of the Bible and its Reception 1:1 (2014)

Eric Ziolkowski, "Great Code or Great Codex? Northop Frye, William Blake, and Construals of the Bible," 3-28

David Kraemer, "The Reception of the Bible in Rabbinic Judaism: A Study in Complexity," 29-46

Eric Runions, "Babel and the Fear of Same-Sex Marriage: Mapping Conservative Constellations," 47-65

Katherine Marsengill, "The Christian Reception of Sculpture in Late Antiquity and the Historical Reception of Late Antique Christian Sculpture," 67-101

William John Lyons, "From Golgotha to Glastonbury and Beyond: The Transmutation of Jewish Burial Piety into English Imperial Exceptionalism," 103-127

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, "The Bible and Its Cinematic Adaptations: A Consideration of Filmic Exegesis," 129-160

Christine E. Joynes, "Changing Horizons: Reflections on a Decade at Oxford University’s Centre for Reception History of the Bible," 161-171

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Studia Philonica / The current issue of Studia Ohilonica

Studia Philonica 25 (2013)

Περιεχόμενα / Contents

Ένα άρθρο βιβλικού ενδιαφέροντος στο τρέχον τεύχος του SJTh

Scottish Journal of Theology 67:3 (2014)

Orrey McFarland, "'Τhe One Jesus Christ' Romans 5:12-21 and the development of Karl Barth's Christology," 265-284 (abstract)

Ψηφιοποιημένα χειρόγραφα στην Βρετανική Βιβλιοθήκη / Digitizedmanuscripts in the British Library

Ο κατάλογος των ψηφιοποιημένων χειρογράφων της Βρετανικής Βιβλιοθήκης:

 A Giant List of Digitized Manuscripts

Τονισμός, πνεύματα και μεταγραφή χειρογράφων / Accentuation and transcribing

Στο ιστολόγιο Evangelical Textual Criticism έχει αναρτηθεί ένα ενδιαφέρον κείμενο για τον τονισμό των κειμένων που μεταγράφονται ως μία χρήσιμη πρακτική για την αποφυγή λαθών.

Why It Is Helpful to Include Accents in Transcripts?

Ένα νέο άρθρο στο VE / A new article in the current issue of VE

Verbum et Ecclesia 35:1 (2014)

Jock M. Agai, "Did the ancient Egyptians migrate to ancient Nigeria?"

RBL 25/7/2014

T. Desmond Alexander, From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Pentateuch
Reviewed by Keith Bodner

Ronald J. Allen, Reading the New Testament for the First Time
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge

Daniel I. Block, By the River Chebar: Historical, Literary, and Theological Studies in the Book of Ezekiel
Reviewed by Ananda Geyser-Fouche

Dave Brunn, One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal?
Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner

Richard J. Dillon, The Hymns of Saint Luke: Lyricism and Narrative Strategy in Luke 1–2
Reviewed by Robert O'Toole

Stephen E. Fowl, Ephesians: A Commentary
Reviewed by Thomas Slater

Susan Mathew, Women in the Greetings of Romans 16.1–16: A Study of Mutuality and Women’s Ministry in the Letter to the Romans
Reviewed by Kathy Ehrensperger

Frederick J. Murphy, Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction
Reviewed by J. Todd Hibbard

David C. Tollerton, The Book of Job in Post-Holocaust Thought
Reviewed by Bradley Embry

Josef Wiesehöfer and Thomas Krüger, eds., Periodisierung und Epochenbewusstsein im Alten Testament und in seinem Umfeld
Reviewed by Thomas L. Thompson

Προφορικότητα και Καινή Διαθήκη / Orality and the New Testament

Κυκλοφόρησε στη σειρά A Guide for the Perplexed του εκδοτικού οίκου Bloomsburry T & T Clark ένα χρήσιμο εγχειρίδιο για την προφορική παράδοση και το ρόλο της στη διαμόρφωση της Καινής Διαθήκης:

Rafael Rodriguez, Oral Tradition and the New Testament. A Guide for the Perplexed, Bloomsbury, London κ.ά. 2014

ISBN: 978-0-567-62600-4

Book Summary

The last three decades have seen an explosion of biblical scholarship on the presence and consequences of the oral expression of tradition among Jesus’ followers, especially in the earliest decades of the Common Era. There is a wealth of scholarship focused on ‘orality’. This scholarship is, however, abstract and technical almost by definition, and to date no introductory discussion exists that can introduce a new generation of biblical students to the issues being discussed at higher levels of scholarship. Rafael Rodríguez address this gap. Rodriguez adopts a fourfold structure to cover the topic, beginning with basic essentials for further discussion of oral-tradition research and definitions of key terms (the ‘what’). He then moves on to discuss the key players in this area (the ‘who’) before examining the methods involved in oral-tradition research among New Testament scholars (the ‘how’). Finally Rodriguez provides examples of the ways in which oral-tradition research can bring texts into clearer focus (the ‘why’). The result is a comprehensive introduction to this key area in New Testament studies.

Contents

1. Introduction - 1

PART ONE

An Introductioon to biblical media crriticism - 13

2. The what of oral tradition and NT studies - 15

3. The who of oral tradition and NT studies - 33

PART TWO

A demonstration of biblical media criticism - 53

4. The how of oral tradition and NT studies - 55

5. The why of oral tradition and NT studies - 87

Notes - 119

Works cited - 147

Indices - 161

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / In the current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 21:2 (2014)

• Jonathan Ben-Dov / Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra, "4Q249 Midrash Moshe: A New Reading and Some Implications,". 131-149
• Tucker S Ferda, "Naming the Messiah: A Contribution to the 4Q246 ‘Son of God’ Debate," 150-175
• Dennis Duke / Matthew Goff, "The Astronomy of the Qumran Fragments 4Q208 and 4Q209," 176-210
• Uri Mor, "Language Contact in Judea? Hebrew, Aramaic, and Punic," 211-233
• Robert Tigchelaar, "A Partial Reedition of 4Q26a (4QLeviticuse): A New Fragment and a Reinterpretation," 234-239

Adamantius 19 (2013)

Adamantius 19 (2013)

• D. KRUEGER, "The Internal Lives of Biblical Figures in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist," 290-302
• H.I. NEWMAN, "Dating Sefer Zerubavel: Dehistoricizing and Rehistoricizing a Jewish Apocalypse of Late Antiquity," 324-336
• A. ALIAU-MILHAUD, "L’étoffement des personnages scripturaires comme reflet de la complexité du texte dans le Commentaire sur Jean d’Origène," 380-394
• C. BANDT – F.X. RISCH, "Das Hypomnema des Origenes zu den Psalmen – eine unerkannte Schrift des Eusebius," 395-436
• C. GUIGNARD, "La date de la Passion du Christ selon Eusèbe de Césarée," 457-462

Αναίμακτη θυσία στο τρέχον τεύχος του GRBS /Bloodless sacrifice in thecurrent issue of GRBS

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 54:2 (2014)

Benedikt Eckhardt, "'Bloodless Sacrifice': A Note on GreekCultic Language in the Imperial Era," 255-273

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του BTB / In the current issue of BTB

Biblical Theology Bulletin 44:3 (2014)

David M. Bossman, "When is a Canon not a Canon?," 122

Karen Wenell, "A Markan “Context” Kingdom? Examining Biblical and Social Models in Spatial Interpretation,"  123-132 (abstract)

Kyu Seop Kim, "Another Look at Adoption in Romans 8:15 in Light of Roman Social Practices and Legal Rules," 133-143 (abstract)

Werner H. Kelber, "Orality and Literacy in Early Christianity," 144-155 (abstract)

John Kloppenborg, "Gospel Parallels/Parallel Gospels,"  156-161 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του TynBull / In the current issue of TynBull

Tyndale Bulletin 65:1 (2014)

Christian Askeland, "A Fake Coptic John and Its Implications for the 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife'," 1-10

The recent revelation of a Coptic Gospel of John fragment from the same source as the so-called 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' has decisively altered the discussion concerning the authenticity of the 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' fragment. The Coptic John fragment is a crude copy from Herbert Thompson's 1924 edition of the 'Qau codex' and is a product of the same modern writing event as the 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' fragment. Both texts are modern forgeries written on genuinely ancient fragments of papyrus.

Nicholas P. Lunn, "The Deliverance of Rahab (Joshua 2, 6) as the Gentile Exodus," 11-20
This short article argues for an intertextual interpretation of the Rahab narratives in the book of Joshua in the light of the deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt as recorded in the book of Exodus. The presence of a range of different verbal and thematic correspondences supports such a notion. This is further confirmed once a structural parallelism between the two portions of text is identified. Suggestions are given as to what the relationship was designed to indicate.

Andreas Käser, "Then David Wrote a Letter (2 Sam. 11:14) – He Himself or Was It His Secretary? A Study of the Criteria for Handling the 'Semantic Causative'," 21-36 
One often speaks of important people as if they did everything on their own. 'Caesar beat the Gauls', thus reads a verse in a poem by Bertolt Brecht. In the following line he makes the point: 'Did he not even have a cook with him?' This way of speaking about kings and lords, rulers and commanders, is a very common literary device used not only in many ancient but also in contemporary languages. In speech it is usually used unconsciously­and even decoded unconsciously. But it is at least noticeable, because sometimes the translators of the Old Testament use a causative in its place. As a result of this usually unnoticed decoding, this characteristic has rarely been explicitly described as a literary phenomenon. The only exception I know of is to be found in Hermann Menge's book about Latin syntax and stylistics, where it is referred to as a 'causative active'. Because it is grammatically an 'active' voice which is to be semantically decoded functionally as a 'causative', I would like to suggest calling this literary device a 'semantic causative'. Now, if this 'semantic causative' is a common form used when speaking about important people, it raises the question: are there criteria which enable us to determine which of the acts are carried out by themselves and which are delegated to others. In my opinion there are indeed certain criteria which can be used to exclude the one or other scenario, but oftentimes a grey area of uncertainty seems to remain. So, did David write this letter himself or was it written by a secretary? In the following I intend to investigate the question of whether a definite answer can be found.

Jesse R. Scheumann, "Mothers of Offspring in 1–2 Kings: A Messianic Hope in David's Line?," 37-56

In the books of 1 and 2 Kings, the mothers of Judaean kings are given a unique focus in being mentioned. Historically-minded scholars, neglecting a more message-minded approach, have not sufficiently explored why this is the case. However, when viewed as an allusion to Genesis 3:15, the focus on mothers reveals a literary marking of each Judaean king as an offspring of the woman, maintaining messianic hope within a dark period of Judah's history.

John F. Evans, "Death-Dealing, Witchcraft in the Bible? Notes on the Condemnation of the 'Daughters' in Ezekiel 13:17–23,"  57-84
The essay proposes a new reading of Ezekiel 13:17–23, drawing on ancient Near Eastern materials to argue that the exiled 'daughters' were likely not practising the binding magic of the kaššaptu (Akk.) 'witch' but a defensive, even therapeutic, binding magic similar to that of the Babylonian ašipu 'exorcist'. Through their magic-bands Ezekiel's female opponents are said to bring 'death' (v. 19), but this is best explained as either the women's prophetic declaration of who was to live or die, or as the judgement of YHWH upon those in the community who believed their 'lies' and 'false visions', refusing to heed Ezekiel's warnings. Deception by unauthorised prophecy, divination, and magic is the key issue.

Michael S. Heiser, "Monotheism and the Language of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls," 85-100
Most Hebrew Bible scholars believe that Israelite religion evolved from polytheism to monotheism, an evolution in which the biblical writers participated. The dominant version of this consensus is that this religious evolution culminated by the end of the exile or shortly thereafter. A minority perspective places the evolutionary end point later. At issue is the presence of the language of divine plurality, positive references to other gods ( or ) under YHWH's authority, in Jewish religious texts composed during and after the Second Temple period. This article surveys the language of divine plurality in the Hebrew Bible and the sectarian literature at Qumran to show its conceptual continuity and longevity, and rejects the notion that it is incongruent with a belief in the uniqueness of YHWH.

Thomas W. Simpson, "Testimony in John's Gospel: The Puzzle of 5:31 and 8:14," 101-118
Testimony is a central theme in John's Gospel and John has a developed view on how it works. This paper makes two contributions. First, I show the complexity and sophistication with which John handles different kinds of testimony in his narrative; this constitutes a category of evidence for the centrality of testimony not noted hitherto. Second, I address the central puzzle, namely the prima facie contradiction between 5:31 and 8:14. At issue is whether Jesus' testimony about himself requires corroborating testimony for it rationally to be believed. I argue that 8:14 has interpretative priority: according to John, no such corroboration is required.

David Hall, "The Interpretation of Pros in Romans 3:26," 119-124
In an article published in 1980, Richard Hays argued that Romans 3 should be seen as a unity. The whole chapter is an assertion of God's in­tegrity­that God is . Verses 21–26 'close the circle by answering the objections raised in verses 1–7'. Hays's thesis has been largely rejected. S. K. Stowers stated in 1984 that Hays was 'almost alone' in stressing the internal coherence of the argument in Romans 3, and subsequent scholarship has largely concentrated on the analysis of specific sections of the chapter rather than on the chapter as a whole. My aim in this article is to support Hays's thesis by examining verse 26, and in particular Paul's use of the preposition in that verse.

Benjamin Sargent, "'Interpreting Homer from Homer': Aristarchus of Samothrace and the Notion of Scriptural Authorship in the New Testament," 125-140
This study attempts to explore certain exegetical arguments within the New Testament that operate upon the basis of an assumption that a scriptural text's meaning is in some way contingent upon its author. The exegetical and text-critical Homeric scholarship of Aristarchus of Samothrace is examined as a possible parallel to this assumption of authorial contingency. Aristarchus makes exegetical and text-critical decisions about the Iliad by means of a conception of Homer as the perfect writer. Whilst it is unlikely that any New Testament writer was aware of Aristarchus' work, Aristarchus undoubtedly represents more widespread Greek thought about authorship and meaning that may have been shared by certain New Testament writers.

Stuart E. Parsons, "Very Early Trinitarian Expressions Very Early Trinitarian Expressions,"  141-152
While older scholarship identified the earliest use of Trinitarian terminology near the end of the second century in the work of Theophilus of Antioch, some recent studies have challenged this view. However, while affirming certain insights of these newer studies, it is necessary to revisit them in light of the historical setting of the second-century apologists. In reality, Theophilus and other early apologists evidenced a certain implicit Trinitarianism by affirming unity, distinction, eternal pre-existence and economic subordination in the Godhead. Studies of early Trinitarian terminology must look beyond explicit descriptions of the Godhead. They must consider also broad patterns of implicit Trinitarianism.

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του ThBeitr / In the current issue of ThBeitr

Theologische Beiträge 45: 3/4 (2014)

• Klaus Haacker, "Kritik an Christen und am Christentum im Neuen Testament" 
• Rainer Riesner, "Gott, Glaube und Geschichte. Drei neuere Ansätze" (text)
•  Thomas Pola, "„Gott will im Dunkel wohnen und hat es doch erhellt.“ Form und Inhalt von Gen 32,23–33" 
• Christoph Rösel, "„Um meines Namens willen …“. Der Zorn Gottes und seine Überwindung im Ezechielbuch"

To τρέχον τεύχος του ZAW / In the current issue of ZAW

Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 125:2 (2014):

• Annette Schellenberg, "More than Spirit. On the Physical Dimension in the Priestly Understanding of Holiness," 163-179 (abstract)
• Benjamin D. Gordon, "The Misunderstood Redemption Fee in the Holiness Legislation on Dedications (Lev 27)," 180-192 (abstract)
• Omer Sergi, "Foreign Women and the Early Kings of Judah. Shedding Light on the Historiographic Perception of the Author of Kings," 193-207 (abstract)
• Mark Leuchter, "The Medium and the Message, or, what is »Deuteronomistic« about the Book of Jeremiah?," 208-227 (abstract)
• Mark E. Biddle, "The Redaction of Jeremiah 39–41 [46–48 LXX]. A Prophetic Endorsement of Nehemiah?," 228-242 (abstract)
• Wolfgang Schütte, "Die Michaschrift und Israels Exil in Juda," 243-260 (abstract)
• Valérie Kabergs, "Lovely Wordplay in Canticles 8,6a," 261-264 (abstract)

Συμπληρώσεις στα λεξικά της ακκαδικής / Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionary:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/altorient/etymd.html

The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian: http://www.eda.uni-jena.de/