Tuesday, November 01, 2005

News from de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter publishing announces a couple of new books to be releaseed soon that may be interesting for Philo scholars. Here is the main fact about the issues:
Early Christian Paraenesis in Context
Ed. by Engberg-Pedersen, Troels & James Starr
- An up-to-date discussion of early Christian paraenesis in its Graeco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish contexts in the light of one hundred years of scholarship, issuing from a research project by Nordic and international scholars.
http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110181541-1&l=E&ad=nle


Another volume, perhaps not that close to Philo, but relevant for students of ancient diaspora Judaism is this new commentary:Wilson, Walter T.: The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides.
- This commentary on the Greek text of the Jewish-Hellenistic Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, a sapiential poem of the first century BCE or first century CE, offers a full treatment of its sources, structure, perspective, and purpose as well as a verse-by-verse translation and analysis. The Greek text is given as appendix. The cross-cultural nature of these moral teachings is emphasized through extensive interaction with Biblical, Hellenistic Jewish, and Greco-Roman comparative materials.
http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110182416-1&l=E&ad=nle

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