Monday, November 07, 2005

Philo and Philodemus on Music

According to a posting by Mark Goodacre on his blog New Testament Gateway Weblog, there is an article related to Philo in the recent Festschrift to Abraham Malherbethat I have been unaware of so far; Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, eds. John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, L. Michael White (Atlanta: SBL, 2005), 740 pp. I don't know the page numbers but the article concerned is Everett Ferguson, "The Art of Praise: Philo and Philodemus on Music".According to the note by Mark, it looks like the book was published by SBL in 2005; according to the E.J. Brill webpage, it was published in 2003 in the well known series Novum Testamentum Supplements, 110. The book is large; 748 pages, and the price terrible: List price: EUR 192.- / US$ 275.-.

Update.
Since Mark G. (above) mentions the book as published by SBL, he might very well be correct. I know the SBL has an agreement with Brill in publishing some of their works, but so far I have not been able to find this book on the SBL's webpages.

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