On the SBL Bookreviews site two reviews were published yesterday that is of relevance for students of Philo and diaspora Judaism:
James R. Davila
The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other?
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 105
Leiden: Brill, 2005. pp. vi + 278. $142.00
Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki
Logos Bible Software
The Works of Philo: Greek Text with Morphology. Bellingham, Wash.: Logos Bible Software, 2005. CD-ROM.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
RGG
Most biblical scholars will know what the three abovementioned letters RGG stand for; the great German multivolume lexicon Religion im Geschichte und Gegenwart. Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft.
Some 'belated' news about this lexicon:
1) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft now offers a CD version of the 3rd edition of this lexicon for the very acceptable price of 99 Euro. The price is, as usual, for members of the WBG, but membership is cheap, and the WBG has lots of books of interest to scholars and other students of the Bible and Judaism.
2) The 4th edition of this Lexicon is out, and has its own webpage; you can have a look at it here.
3) An English 10 volume translation of this large 4th edition is now also in the process of being published by Brill as Religion Past and Present. Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion. Further information about this edition can be found here.
Some 'belated' news about this lexicon:
1) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft now offers a CD version of the 3rd edition of this lexicon for the very acceptable price of 99 Euro. The price is, as usual, for members of the WBG, but membership is cheap, and the WBG has lots of books of interest to scholars and other students of the Bible and Judaism.
2) The 4th edition of this Lexicon is out, and has its own webpage; you can have a look at it here.
3) An English 10 volume translation of this large 4th edition is now also in the process of being published by Brill as Religion Past and Present. Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion. Further information about this edition can be found here.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
New book and new series on Peter Lang
Peter Lang publishers has just established a new series, interesting for students of Philo: Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity (ECCA). The editors of the series are from Germany - Ulrich Jörg, USA - David Brakke and the Danish scholar Anders-Christian Jacobsen.
The first volume of the series is a result of a conference in Aarhus in January (2005). The volume is called Beyond Reception. Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity.
I participated myself at the conference, so that is also why I might seem a little eager to tell about it. I have been reporting from the conference earlier and explained my ideas in my own article: I am arguing in favor of prof. Roald Skarsten's thesis that De Aeterniate Mundi cannot be Philonic. In one way my title is misleading, since I mention Philo's Aet. One should perhaps write "Aet. - often claimed to belong to Philo", but that is too long for a metonymic title. Here are all the titles:
Contents: David Brakke/Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Introduction to Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity (ECCA) - David Brakke/Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Preface to Beyond Reception (ECCA 1) - Christoph Markschies: Antiquity and Christianity or: The Unavoidability of False Problems - Maren R. Niehoff: Philo's Contribution to Contemporary Alexandrian Metaphysics - Kåre Fuglseth: The Reception of Aristotelian Features in Philo and the Authorship Problem of Philo's De Aeternitate Mundi - Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Paul's Necessity: A Bourdieuesque Reading of the Pauline Project - Niels Willert: The Reception of Biblical and Greco-Roman Ethics in the Apologetics of the Early Church - Martin Vahrenhorst: Greek Religious and Cultic Terminology in the LXX Pentateuch - Einar Thomassen: The Reception of Greco-Roman Religious and Cultic Terminology in Judaism and Christianity, with Special Reference to Sacrificial Terminology - Gary B. Ferngren: The Early Christian Reception of Greek Medicine - David Brakke: Origins and Authenticity: Studying the Reception of Greek and Roman Spiritual Traditions in Early Christian Monasticism - Samuel Rubenson: Antony and Pythagoras: A Reappraisal of the Appropriation of Classical Biography in Athanasius' Vita Antonii - Aage Pilgaard: The Classical Biography as Model for the Gospels - Marie Verdoner: Cultural Negotiations in the Psychomachia of Prudentius.
The first volume of the series is a result of a conference in Aarhus in January (2005). The volume is called Beyond Reception. Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity.
I participated myself at the conference, so that is also why I might seem a little eager to tell about it. I have been reporting from the conference earlier and explained my ideas in my own article: I am arguing in favor of prof. Roald Skarsten's thesis that De Aeterniate Mundi cannot be Philonic. In one way my title is misleading, since I mention Philo's Aet. One should perhaps write "Aet. - often claimed to belong to Philo", but that is too long for a metonymic title. Here are all the titles:
Contents: David Brakke/Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Introduction to Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity (ECCA) - David Brakke/Jörg Ulrich/Anders-Christian Jacobsen: Preface to Beyond Reception (ECCA 1) - Christoph Markschies: Antiquity and Christianity or: The Unavoidability of False Problems - Maren R. Niehoff: Philo's Contribution to Contemporary Alexandrian Metaphysics - Kåre Fuglseth: The Reception of Aristotelian Features in Philo and the Authorship Problem of Philo's De Aeternitate Mundi - Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Paul's Necessity: A Bourdieuesque Reading of the Pauline Project - Niels Willert: The Reception of Biblical and Greco-Roman Ethics in the Apologetics of the Early Church - Martin Vahrenhorst: Greek Religious and Cultic Terminology in the LXX Pentateuch - Einar Thomassen: The Reception of Greco-Roman Religious and Cultic Terminology in Judaism and Christianity, with Special Reference to Sacrificial Terminology - Gary B. Ferngren: The Early Christian Reception of Greek Medicine - David Brakke: Origins and Authenticity: Studying the Reception of Greek and Roman Spiritual Traditions in Early Christian Monasticism - Samuel Rubenson: Antony and Pythagoras: A Reappraisal of the Appropriation of Classical Biography in Athanasius' Vita Antonii - Aage Pilgaard: The Classical Biography as Model for the Gospels - Marie Verdoner: Cultural Negotiations in the Psychomachia of Prudentius.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Rambi!
At the SBL international meeting last summer I met one of the scholars that are working with Rambi, a bibliographic index of articles on Jewish studies. I promised him to take a closer look. I see that it was mentioned by Torrey in April, 2005, but I haven't had time to use it before now. This autumn I have been struggling with a lot of teaching affairs on subjects far away from Philo or Biblical studies, and haven't had time to do any research (alas), not to mention help Torrey to blog. Now things are more calm, so here you are:
Rambi is a very promising project, we realy need topic-based lists like this. Nothing can be compared to such databases if they become more or less complete.
A little bit confusing perhaps to know where to start, but you have to click on the "Rambi web" to find the search window, it will take you to the the main research window.
A search on "Philo of Alexandria" returns 584 posts. A more limited search on a specific topic or name is also possible, t.d. a search on "Torrey Seland" gave me 7 posts :-)
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