“The essays in this volume represent a diverse range of perspectives, backgrounds, and methodologies.”
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“The essays in this volume represent a diverse range of perspectives, backgrounds, and methodologies.”
*Sees someone parsing a Greek verb*
Me: Wow, this is just like Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History!
The Käte Hamburger Center for Messianic Studies (CEMES) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg, Germany, led by Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmitz and Prof. Dr. Christian Wehr, is inviting applications for the position of Managing Director.
Summer school course: Old Georgian, 4–14 August 2026, Summer School of Ancient Languages, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. For those interested, register here for more information: forms.gle/J6HZYbAZwgAx...
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Redaction critics right now: “This is my moment!”
Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Jewish Studies: July 5-7, 2026, Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto. Applications due January 12, 2026.
PhD scholarship: the Beta maṣāḥǝft Project: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Universität Hamburg. Applications due January 15, 2026. www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/news/phdcall...
Call for Papers: Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions: A Fresh Examination of GA 629, 10-12 June 2026, Irish College, Leuven. Proposals due Dec 31, 2025.
When you’ve solved all the problems of the Documentary Hypothesis by simply eliminating the Elohist.
Ah, Nestle had already anticipated this! Identical letters used for different books won't be confused (he says) since Philemon is only 1 ch. long and so has only a verse reference, unlike Philippians, and 1-2 Timothy have an ordinal number (e.g., 1 τ) (also 1-3 ι). German ingenuity at its finest!
In 1896 Nestle, considering abbrevs such as "Mt" not short enough, proposed abbreviating each book of the NT with a single letter of the Greek alphabet: Μμλιπίπιρκγεφκθέττφα "Who can fail to see how much space & time has been gained here without losing the slightest clarity!"
The Old English Gospels translate Mark 6:3 as Hu nys se smið marian sunu, "Is not this the smith, the son of Maria?"
The hottest Israelite historiography album of the 4th century BCE.
I like this neologism I created because it has the suggestion of "mania"
Probably one of the earliest modern uses of papyri in biblical studies: in 1808 Friedrich Wilhelm Sturz cited the word ἀπάτωρ, "father unknown" (used of Melchizedek in Hebrews 7:3) found in the Charta Borgiana, the first papyrus brought to Europe in 1778.
"What is concealed in the name Esther?" (Homicide, 1991).
Cambridge University theological exam from 1884 includes questions on (1) the textual problems of 1-2 Samuel; (2) text from the hexapla, Aquila, and Symmachus; and (3) the translation "revised [!] in 1611" (i.e., the King James Version), and the Complutensian Polyglot.
31 Oct Lyon/online: « Jérôme et les sources juives et chrétiennes de la
Vulgate » avec Paul Rodrigue, à 13h au 22 rue Sala, Lyon 2e, 1er étage, cnrs.zoom.us/j/99701628112?…
ID de réunion: 997 0162 8112
Code secret: h7VMUv
The majority of biblical scholars know that appeals to “the majority of biblical scholars” so often mask complex debates, crucial assumptions, and the incidental nature of evidence.
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Remember the Panbabylonianism of the late 19th/early 20th century? We’re now living in an era of Pan-Persianism, where everyone wants to date everything to the Persian period. I can only express my surprise that more papers aren’t titled “Like a Persian.”
Did you know that if you simply ignore the difference between Classical Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew, you can date a biblical text to any period you want?
At a Coldplay concert reading the 8th volume of Gerhard Kittel’s Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament and shaking my head the whole time so the people who see me on the Kiss Cam know I disagree with it.
Hybrid meeting: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew, 7 November 2025, 9:30–17:00 (CET), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/online. Register here: networkinstitute.org/2025/10/03/e...
Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...
It was an honor to contribute an essay to this festschrift for Robert Hanhart, whose edition of Septuagint Esther has been a constant companion on my desk for many years.
Chiasm-haters need to read Teeter's essay "Biblical Symmetry and Its Modern Detractors," which deals with *why* scholarship became skeptical but also finds that "biblical compositions appear designed to be read and understood as a fractal-like hierarchy of recursively embedded structural levels."
I'll be presenting for the EABS Graduate Seminar on September 18th at 7:00pm CEST on "A More Ethical Esther? Violence in the Versions of Esther 8–9." Message me if you would like the Zoom link.