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CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY AND THEOLOGY

Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close the seminar is to the seminary.

catherine conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College. She is an authority on the Latin texts of late antiquity, and is the author of four books, including The Laughter of Sarah: Biblical Exegesis, Feminist Theory, and the Concept of Delight (2013). She is also the editor of a new series for Cambridge University Press, Cultures of Latin from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. simon goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. He is one of the best- known writers on Greek literature and cultures, publishing almost twenty books and numerous articles on texts and topics from the whole span of antiquity and its reception. His books have won three international prizes and have been translated into ten languages.

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CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY AND THEOLOGY Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar

edited by CATHERINE CONYBEARE Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

SIMON GOLDHILL University of Cambridge

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Contents

List of Contributors page vii

1. Philology’s Shadow 1 Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill 2. Philology’s Roommate: Hermeneutics, Antiquity, and the Seminar 12 Constanze Güthenke 3. The Union and Divorce of Classical Philology and Theology 33 Simon Goldhill 4. The Philology of Judaism: Zacharias Frankel, the Septuagint, and the Jewish Study of Ancient Greek in the Nineteenth Century 63 Theodor Dunkelgrün 5. Source, Original, and Authenticity between Philology and Theology 86 Irene Peirano Garrison 6. Whose Handmaiden? ‘Hellenisation’ between Philology and Theology 110 Renaud Gagné 7. Julian the Emperor on Statues (of Himself) 126 Susanna Elm 8. Boethius in the Genres of the Book: Philology, Theology, Codicology 149 Mark Vessey

vi Contents 9. Virgil, Creator of the World 180 Catherine Conybeare

10. Theology’s Shadow 199 Erik Gunderson

Bibliography 225 Index 265

Contributors

catherine conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College. She works on the Latin texts of late antiquity, with a particular interest in Augustine of Hippo; her most recent book is the Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions (2016), and she is now preparing a monograph entitled Augustine the African. She is fascinated by Latin and Latinities over the longue durée, and has recently started a book series with Cambridge University Press, Cultures of Latin from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. theodor dunkelgru¨ n is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge, and afﬁliated lecturer in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His recent publications include a volume co-edited with Paweł Maciejko, Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). susanna elm is Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on the social and cultural history of the Later Roman Empire. Recent publications include Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome (Berkeley, 2012) and Antioch II – The Many Faces of Antioch: Intellectual Exchange and Religious Diversity, CE 350–450, ed. Silke-Petra Bergjan and Susanna Elm (Tübingen 2018). renaud gagne´ is Reader in Ancient Greek Literature and Religion at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Classics) and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He has published most recently Regimes of Comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology (Brill 2018, with Simon Goldhill and Geoffrey Lloyd), Les dieux d’Homère II.

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viii List of Contributors Anthropomorphismes (De Boccard 2019, with Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui), and Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2020). simon goldhill fba is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the British Academy. He has published widely on both Greek literature and Victorian culture. His book Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity won the Robert Lowry Prize for the best book on Victorian Literature, 2012; and his book Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy won the Runciman Prize for the best book on a Greek subject, ancient or modern, in 2013. erik gunderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He focuses on the literature and culture of the Roman era with an emphasis on the relationship between the self and institutions. He is the author of monographs on antiquarianism, declamation, rhetorical theory, Plautus, and Seneca. constanze gu¨ thenke is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, and E.P. Warren Praelector at Corpus Christi College. Her research focuses on antiquity after antiquity and the ways in which understanding of classical antiquity has been expressed. She is the author, most recently, of Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and editor of the Classical Receptions Journal. irene peirano garrison is Professor of Classics at Yale University. She works on Roman poetry and its relation to rhetoric and literary criti- cism, both ancient and modern. She is the author of The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2019). mark vessey is Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia, where he is also Principal of Green College. His publications include Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (Routledge, 2005)and,aseditor,A Companion to Augustine (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).