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GRADUATE UNIVERSITY 2 + lAC B ULLETIN Cover Illustration THE INSTITUTE Bron ze, prutah FOR ANTIQUITY Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus, 103-76 BeE AND CHRISTIANITY Obv: anchor, with Hebrew inscription "King Alexander" Rev: star encircled by diadem, with Greek inscription DENNIS MACDONALD "King Alexander" Director Courtesy ofthe Curtis R. Paxman Coin Collection Claremont School ofTheology VOLUME XXXIII Winter 2006 Our coin was minted in the Hasmonean period by Alexander Jannaeus, who ruled Judea from 103-76 BCE. The obverse bears an LESLIE HAYES anchor with the Greek inscription "King Alexander." The anchor is assoc iated with the Editor Seleucids and experts suggest that the use of the anchor intended to communicate continuity SONYA GRAVLEE with Alexander's predecessor, Hyrcanus I, as well as with Antiochus VII and Antiochus VIII, Assistant Editor all of whom used this symbol. It may also represent Alexander's conquest of coastal cities as he expanded and strengthened the territory under his control. The reverse bears an eight rayed star (sometimes called a "sun-wheel") inscribed with the words " King Alexander" in The Bulletin ojthe Institute fo r Antiquity and Christianity (ISS N 0739-0459 ) is published paleo-Hebrew letters. Like the anchor, the star was a common symbol on early Jewish coins. semi-annually by the Institute for Antiqu ity Its ubiquitous presence in the ancient Near East makes a precise meaning difficult to and Christianity, 83 1 N. Dartmo uth Ave., ascertain. Claremont,CA 9 1711-6 178. Postmaster: Send One of the characteristic features of the Hasmonean coins is the use of archaizing address changes to Institute for Antiquity and Christiani ty, 831 N. Dartm outh Ave., Hebrew script. The Hasmonean use of paleo-Hebrew finds parallels in the Samaritan texts Claremont, CA 91711-6178. of the Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls. A leading expert in ancient Jewish numismatics has suggested that the variety of paleo-Hebrew script styles found on Hasmonean coins can Telephone: 909.621.8066 be attributed to a practice in which engrave rs consulted ancient manuscripts in order to copy httpr/zlac.cgu.edu letters formed in paleo-Hebrew (Meshorer, 48). Another has suggested that errors found in the Hebrew inscripti ons on Alexander' s coins are likewise the result of scribes and engravers struggling with archaic forms of the Hebrew alphab et (Hendin, 138). Table of Contents Alexander Jannaeus was married to Salome Alexandra, who succeeded Jann aeus in 76 Coin 2 BCE. Alexandra ruled Judea as sole monarch for nine years until her own death in 67 BCE. The last independent monarch of Israel, Alexandra was remembered by Josephu s as a Tov Lecture 3 woman, "who showed none of the weakness of her sex" (Ant. XIII.430). Josephu s vests .4 FOTL Project Update Alexandra with the "ability to carry out her plans" in the manner of an absolute monarch Well-Being Conference 6 who has "no consideration for either justice or decenc y" (Ant. XIII.430). Describing lAC Spring 2006 Lecture Series ..7 Alexandra as possessed by an inordinate lust for the power to rule (to
Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Books XII-XIV, trans., Ralph Marcus, vol. VII, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943). Encyclopedia Judaica, v, 14 (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, LTD, 197 1), 691-693. Philip Esler, "Ludic History in the Book of Judith : The Reinvention of Israelite Identity," Biblical Interpretation (10.2) 107-143. David Henden, Guide to Biblical Coins, 4th ed. (New York: Amphora, 200 1). Ya'akov Meshorer, Jewish Coins ofthe Second Temple Period, trans., I.H. Levine (Tel-Aviv: Am Hassefer and Massada, 1967). Jan Willem van Henten, "Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13," in ed., Athalya Brenner, The Feminist Companion to the Bible, v. 7 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995),224-251.
EMANUEL TOV LECTURE BY DAVID JACKSON
On Tuesday evening, 6 September 2005, the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity (lAC) and the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center (ABMC) co-sponsored a lecture from world-renowned Biblicist Emanuel Tov. Tov is the J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at Hebrew Univers ity in Jerusalem. He is one of the editors of the Hebrew University Bible Project and the Editor-in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project. Tov is on sabbatical in Claremont this semester. Speaking to a filled-to-overflowing capacity audience in the Haddon Center on the campus of the Claremont School of Theology, Tov spoke on "The Septuagint and Literary Criticism ." Tov highlighted comparisons between the two largest sources for our understanding of the Hebrew Bible: The Masoretic Text (MT: mostly in Hebrew, but some Tov of it in Aramaic) and the Septuagint (LXX: in Greek, compiled by Hellenistic Jewish scholars in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 2nd_1 st centuries BeE). Tov noted that many of the differences between the LXX and the MT emphasize the Deity's cosmic powers, to establish the power of the divine to help those who are marginalized in society. After making his comparisons, Tov made a rather startling statement. Noting that the common pattern historically in Hebrew Bible studies has been to treat the MT as more origina l than the LXX (thus making the LXX dependent on the MT), Tov instead insists that it is time we deal with the LXX as a source in its own right (much of it could be based on older Hebrew or Aramaic texts no longer extant). By doing so, this would mean that scholars should respect the intentional arrangement the compilers of the LXX made. 4 + lAC BULLETIN Forms of the Old Testament Literature Project Celebrates 40 Years BY LESLIE HAYES Co-Director, RolfKnierim Co-Director, Marvin Sweeney
In the Forms oj the Old Testament Literature Project (FOTL), interpretation of the the lAC has seen the continuous operation of one of its first Yahwistic, Elohistic, research and publication Projects. FOTL was conceived as Priestly, Deuterono unique commentary series focused specifically on developing mistic and Chronistic the exegetical discipline ofJormg eschichte (form-criticism) and History works." The applying its findings to the books of the Hebrew Bible. FOTL very name of the series was formally chartered in the Spring of 1966 under the underscores the new Rolf Knierim Marvin Sweeney Co-Director Co-Director leadership of Dr. Rolf Knierim and Dr. Gene Tucker and direction taken by the continues through the present day. After the retirement of Dr. series which, at its inception, anticipated the direction of future Tucker, Dr. Knierim was joined by Dr. Marvin Sweeney as co form-critical research. FOTL began to treat the biblical texts as editor and co-director of the FOTL Project and its publications literature, seeing each book as an integral whole, where textual in 1997. Currently forty years old, FOTL presents a microcosm meaning was sought not only in genre, structure, and oral of the changes that have taken place in the discipline of Hebrew traditions but in the final, literary form of the text. This advance Bible scholarship at large and especially in the exegetical signaled the development of a more complex exegetical task. discipline of form-criticism since World War II. The exegetical method of form-criticism and FOTL began to The project's beginnings were ambitious. As Knierim move beyond a singularly diachronic focus, characteristic of recalls, Knierim and Tucker established the Project "in order to pre-WWII exegesis, into a synchronic focus for analysis. make it possible to establish the field of form-critical research Sweeney notes that while these developments did not appear on the Hebrew Bible as an exegetical discipline in its own right all at once in the early FOTL volumes, they can be traced over besides the exegetical disciplines practiced at the time in the time in the publication history of FOTL. The first FOTL United States and the English-speaking world." When FOTL volumes reflect the classic understanding of form-criticism , was establi shed, says Knierim, German-Swiss scholarship with exegesis focused on genre, structure, setting, and intention formed the center of form-critical research. Happily for North in terms of individual units or passages that made up a biblical American biblical scholarship in general and the lAC in book. Yet a contemporary reader can see the authors of the older particular, Knierim was a student of Gerhard von Rad, a volumes beginning to reach beyond these classic boundaries preeminent German scholar of the form-critical method, so and by the early nineties, says Sweeney, FOTL authors were Knierim was specially posit ioned to bring continental grappling with the insight that "the understanding of the whole Jormgeschichte to the United States and to Claremont. could not be derived adequately from the focus on individual In establishing FOTL, Knierim and Tucker intended to passages as separate, independent units." Sweeney observes advance the field of form-criticism beyond the conceptual that volumes such as Simon De Vries' Chronicles, Ronald Hals' parameters developed several generations earlier by German Ezekiel, and Burke Long's Kings "show an increasing biblical scholars. Knierim explains that while the purpose was awareness of the larger literary context." And by the mid to continue the work of form-criticism established in Germany nineties and beyond, Marvin Sweeney's Isaiah, and Michael around the turn of the twentieth century, the Project was Floyd's Minor Prophets demonstrate greater concentration on designed to treat the texts of the Hebrew Bible first and the literary formation of the biblical book. At this point, foremost as literature "rather than merely cases of attention, redaction criticism becomes a clear point of focus as exegetes however inevitable and important, as, for example, in von Rad's recognize that genre, structure, and setting are filtered through lAC BULLETIN + 5 both author and community. Of latest publications , Ehud Ben Zvi's Micah and Hosea consider how the biblical books are received, representing another advance in the series that FOTL Commentary Series Publications incorporates analysis of the final literary forms; at the same Seventeen volumes are published to date, listed chronologically time, Anthony Campbell's Samuel incorporates literary critical Roland E. Murphy, Wisdom Literature: Job. Proverbs. Ruth. Canticles. scholarship, producing a synchronic literary analysis. Ecclesiastes. Esther, vol. XIII, 1981. Even as literary methodologies expand, Sweeney notes that George W. Coats, Genesis: With an Introduction to Narrative other changes in the FOTL series are also apparent in the Literature, vol. I, 1983. increasing diversity of the current pool of contributors. When the series began, contributors were all Christian, all male, some John 1. Collins, Daniel : With an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature, American, some German. Current contributors include Jewish vol. XX, 1984. and female authors representing varied international and Burke O. Long, I Kings: With an Introduction to Historical Literature, cultural backgrounds , ranging from the Caribbean, Russia, vol. IX, 1984. Israel, Argentina, and the United States. The co-editors expect Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Psalms: Part I with an Introduction to Cultic this diversity to expand and look forward especially to Poetry, vol. XIV, 1988. increasing the number of women contributing the series. Simon J. De Vries, 1 and 2 Chronicles, vol. XI, 1989. FOTL is directed toward a readership of biblical scholars, students, and clergy. While the series operates at a scholarly Ronald M. Hals, Ezekiel, vol. XIX, 1989. level of technical expertise, the studies are accessible to clergy Burke O. Long, 2 Kings, vol. X, 1991. who wish to engage the biblical texts at a sophisticated level in order to explore their complex layers of meanings. Marvin A. Sweeney, Isaiah 1-39: With an Introduction to Prophetic The quality of the FOTL series means that it enjoys an Literature, vol. XVI, 1996. exceptional relationship with its publisher, Wm. B. Eerdmans. George W. Coats, Exodus 1-18, vol. IIA, 1999. Eerdmans has ensured the continued publication of past volumes so that even the earliest volumes are always easy to Ehud Ben Zvi, Micah, vol XXIB, 2000. obtain. Biblical exegetes will never search for a FOTL volume only to be confronted with those disappointing words, "out of Michael H. Floyd, Minor Prophets: Part 2, vol. XXII, 2000. print." Erhard S. Gerstenberger. Psalms: Part 2 and Lamentations, The FOTL series reflects the progress made in North vol. XV, 2001. American form-critical analysis, progress that, Knierim notes Antony F. Campbell, I Samuel, vol. VII, 2003. with regret, has not continued apace among European counterparts. The basic components of classical form criticism Antony F. Campbell, 2 Samuel, vol. VIII, 2005. remain a part of the FOTL exegetical method. The understanding of the underlying conceptual structure of a text Rolf P. Knierim and George W. Coats, Numbers, vol. IV, 2005. through its genres, structures, settings, and intentions remains Ehud Ben Zvi, Hosea, vol. XXIAlI, 2005. basic to exegesis. But Sweeney notes that form-critical exegetes now also focus on social settings which receive the text as well Volumes in preparation include Exodus 19-40 (Rolf P. Knierim); Leviricus (Rodney R. as produce the text, on the "end of composition " and the "end Hulton); Deuteronomy (Frederick G. Tiffany); Joshua (Ronald L. Hubbard, Jr.); Judges (Serge Frolov); Ezra, Nehemiah (Kent H. Richards); Isaiah 40-66 (Roy F. Melugin); of reading." Jeremiah (Richard D. Weis); Amos (Gene Tucker); and Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah (Mignon R. Jacobs). 6 + lAC B ULLETIN
THURSDAY EVENING, 23 FEBRUARY 2006, 7:30PM: OPENINGSPEAKERAND RECEPnON Introduction to Conference and Speaker: RAFAELCHDDDS, ESQ., lAC Speaker: J. Harold Ellens, Em eritus Director, Christian Association for Psychological Studies God's Health andHuman Health: The Interface of Psychology andSpirituality in theQuest for WeI/ness
FRIDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2006 SATURDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2006 MJJ BoardofT rustees Room, CGU MJJ Boardof Trustees Room, Harper Hall, CGU 9:00-9:30 AM - Coffee and Registration 9:00 -9:30 AM - Coffee and Registration
SESSION I: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS SESSION III: A BALANCE BETWEENWELL-BEING & LAW 9:30-12:15 - Judson Emerick, Pomona College, Chair 9:30-12:00 - Rafael Chodos, ESQ. , lAC, Chair
Welcome and Opening Remarks John S. Kloppenborg University of Toronto Nancy van Deusen, Director, CCMEMS Self-help and LegalRedress in Biblical, Post-Biblical andHellenisticLaw DeLloyd J. Guth University of Manitoba Ben Schomakers Free University Amsterdam and University of Utrecht Late Medieval English Well-Being:Medicine, LawEquity The Limitationson Happiness: TwoAncientPhilosophers on Well-Being Robert W. Hanning Columbia University Anselm K. Min Claremont Graduate University The Dawes Act of 1887: Civilizing theSavages The Good Life: A Typology andDialectic andthe Legacy ofNativeAmerican Impoverishment Kenneth Baxter Wolf Pomona College Elizabeth of Thiiringen (1207-1231)and HerSearchforsales animae 12:15-1:45 PM - LUNCH , lAC LIBRARY 12:30-1:45 PM - LUNCH, lAC LIBRARY SESSION IV: WELL-BEING ACHIEVED SESSION II: QUESTIONS OF WANT AND PLENTY 2:00-5:00 - Leonard M. Koff, UCLA, Chair &Respondent 2:00-5:15 pm - Simon Forde, Brepols Publishers, Chair Lori Anne Ferrell Claremont Graduate University George Gorse Pomona College Leaming Chess / Learning Manners: BartolomeoPaschetti andthe Cityas Body in RenaissanceGenoa Selling the GoodLife in Early Modern England Gabi Diilff.Bonekamper Technical University, Berlin Ricardo Quinones Claremont McKenna College AmbiguitiesandAmbivalences: The Social Valueof DisputedMonuments Well-Being andTwoIntellectualNations Robert Klitgaard Claremont Graduate University Thomas Backer Human Interaction Research Institute, Encino, CA Well-BeingandEconomic Development BalancingWork, Life, Creativity: Lessons from Artists CLOSING REMARKS : Nancy van Deusen 5:30-7:00 PM - RECEPTION INSTITUTE FOR ANTIQUITY AND CHRISTIANITY LIBRARY RECEPTION: Foyer of the Board of Trustees Room , CGU lAC BULLETIN + 7 The Spring 2006 Lecture Series at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Library
FEBRUARY 16 Professor Kristin De Troyer, Claremont School ofTheology & CGU "Of Revising Biblical Translations, There Is No End: A Closer Look at the Issues of the Old Greek Biblical Text"
De Troyer
MARCH 23 Professor Kristina Sessa, Claremont McKenna College "The Rector of Rome: Episcopal Space, Culture and Practice in the Late Antique City"
Sessa
APRIL 6 Professor Dennis R. MacDonald, Claremont School ofTheology & CGU "My Turn: A Critique of Critics of Mimesis Criticism"
MacDonald
MARCH 30 2006 BROWNLEE MEMORIAL LECTURE Professor Hermann Spieckermann, University of Gottingen "Is God 's Creation Good ? Priestly Code, Plato, Ecclesiastes and Ben Sira" Spiecker rnann ALBRECHT AUDITORIUM 8 + lAC BULLETIN
IN MEMORIAM
Robert W. Funk (1926-2005) With regret we note the passing of Robert Funk, New Testament scholar and founding director of the Westar Institute whose most well-known project is the Jesus Seminar. We at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont Graduate University received the news of Bob's death with a sense of profound loss. Few scholars of our day have done more than he in making cutting-edge biblical scholarship accessible to non-scholars . His enormous energy, vision, and heart have been infectious for those of us who were blessed to have known him; his contributions to and beyond the Westar Institute, Polebridge Press, and the Jesus Seminar were Herculean. I include myself among those whose life and career have been enriched by his friendship and vision. I know that it would be Bob's wish that we continue the fight for honest, creative, and provocative scholarship that engages our culture for the creation of a more sane and humane world. For myself and the other staff and Project Directors of the Institute I want to express my admiration and gratitude for Bob's exemplary life, leadership, and scholarship . - Dennis MacDonald, lAC Director
Ernest W. Tune (d. November 2005) With sorrow we report the passing of our dear friend, New Testament scholar and Institute Bibliographer, Dr. Ernest W. (Ernie) Tune. Ernie was a man with uncommon and wide-ranging talents, not the least of which included serving his military duty on a submarine during World War II and linguistic expertise in ancient Coptic and Greek. Ernie gave much to the Claremont community. From his service to the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity as Coptic instructor for the Nag Hamrnadi translation team, as member of the Advisory Board, and as Ernie and Gudrun Tune, February 2002 IACICST Tune Tribute Event Bibliographer, to his formative director Ernie shows his CST medallion ship and lifelong support of the library at the Claremont School of Theology, Ernie will be best remembered for his love of books. It was this love that provided the research library at the Institute and that formed the Tune Collection, one of the finest small research libraries for ancient Coptic and Nubian studies in the region. All who knew Ernie were touched by his gentle demeanor and his deep love of learning. Ernie is survived by his loving wife Gudrun; sons, John, Peter, and Stuart; daughter, Karen Denise; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In honor of Ernie and Gudrun F. Tune Ernie, Claremont School of Theology and the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Nemrud Dagi (7083 ttl in SE Turkey celebrated Ernie's life on the 17th of November 2005 in Kresge Chapel on the CST West Terrace of Colossal Gods with heads of Antiochus I campus . While the whole memorial program for Ernie could not be included here, the and the Goddess Tyche-Commagene Kingdom of Commagene, 100BC·100AD order of service for the memorial can be found on page nine. lAC BULLETIN';" 9 A Celebration ofthe We of Ernest w. Tune 7 pm, Thursdaq,17November 2005 Kresge Chapel,ClaremontSchool olTheologq
Prelude Gio.nluigi Gugliermetto Andante Bach pianist Welcome Rev. Althea Spencer Miller Musical Meditation Gianluigi Gugliermetto, pianist Cht1DSOn deMatin Elgar Ceo£!Pollick, violinist Meditation on a Lile Rev. Sonya Y.Gravlee Musical Prayer Geo£!Pollick, violinist l1nlandia Sibelius Tributes to Ernie Leslie Hayes
friends & Colleagues PhilipA Amerson JohnDickason Thomas Trotter WrittenTrihutes, Betty Dements Dennis R MacDonald Ktuen1. Torjesen S. Michael Saad WrittenTrihutes,LeslieHayes Additional Tributes familg Children GudrunTune,Der23. Psalm Musical Tribute Mira 0 Norma £romBellini's opera Norma Benediction Leslie Hayes Postlude Gianluigi Gugliermetto Aurore faure pianist Dismissal Please enjoy the idhleofmemorabilia thenjoinErnie ~ family atthe Reception immediately foUowiDtJ in theMe8J1N Dartmouth 10 + lAC BULLETIN Book Review BY MARVIN SWEENEY Rabbinic Academy at Sura and the founder of the Jewish Claremont School of Theology philosophical tradition, wrote an early commentary on the Sefer Claremont Graduate University Ye-rira that helped to ensure its place as one of the more important works of Jewish mysticism and theurgy. A. Peter Hayman . Sefer Ye-rira: Edition , Translation and Text In the first of three projected volumes on Sefer Yqira, Critical Comm entary. Texts and Studies in Ancient judaism, A. Peter Hayman - well-known for a series of insightful studies 104. Tiibingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. Pp. ix + 206. 79 ,00 euro. on Sefer Ye-rira published in the Journal of Jewish Studies and ISBN 3-16-148381-2. elsewhere through the 1980s and 1990s - provides a text edition , translation, and notes on the work. Future volumes will include a Sefer Ye-rira, "The Book of Formation/Creation," is one of the collection of his papers on Sefer Ye-rira and a commentary on the most interesting and enigmatic examples of Rabbinic-period content of the work. The text edition is not the classic critical text Jewish mystical literature. An example of the rna 'aseh' bertesft, edition which provides a definitive text for the work (cf. Ithamar "work of creation," tradition, it examines a primary means in Gruenwald, "A Preliminary Critical Edition of Sefer Yezira," which human beings act as partners with G-d to bring about the Israel Oriental Studies I [1971]: 132-177), but a synoptic edition , completion and sanctification of creation through the power of which follows the principles laid down by Peter Schafer in his speech; i.e., just as G-d created the world through speech in text editions for the Heikhalot literature (Synopse zur Hekhalot Genesis I:I-2:3, so human beings serve as creative agents within Literatur [TSAJ 2; Tiibingen: Mohr Siebeck 1981]) and the the world of creation by employing the power of speech to act in Talmud Yerushalmi (Synopse zum Talmud Yershalmi [TJAS 3 I; the world, to formulate and articulate new insight and knowledge, Tiibingen : Mohr Siebeck, 199I]). Scribes continued to modify and to prompt others to act on the basis of knowledge and expand sacred texts during the Second Temple and Rabbinic communicated by speech . period in an effort to explain their meanings and applications. Sefer Ye-rira provides a system for formulating and Thus , Sefer Yqira was not transmitted as a single definitive text interpreting Hebrew speech by examining the qualities of the ten but as a variety of text forms that reflect various efforts to sejfrot, i.e., "the ten numbers" or "the ten speeches" that G-d interpret the work over the course of many centuries. made in Genesi s I:1-2:3 to create the world, and the twenty-two Consequently, Hayman presents three major editions of Sefer letters of the Hebrew alphabet that formulated the words that Yqira, each based upon a representative manuscript. His editions G-d spoke. It portrays the sejfrot as the abstract principles of include the long recension, the Saadian recension, and the short spirit/thought, morality, and space that define all physical recension , in parallel columns so that readers can see at first hand creation in Jewish tradition. The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew the various forms of the text that have come down to us. On this alphabet are grouped according to their linguistic properties into basis, he attempts to reconstruct the "earliest recoverable text" of the three mother letters that define the creation elements of air, Sefer Ye-rira, "which can be ascertained from the manuscript water, and fire; the seven doubled letters that define relativity or information we have available, using the standard techniques of balance in creation, the seven days of the week, the seven textual criticism" (7) . In this respect, he attempts to have it both openings of the human body, etc.; and the twelve simple letters ways by constructing what Hayman believes to be an early text that define special dimensions, the activities of the human being, form while demonstrating the complexity of the text's the months of the year, etc. Many maintain that Sefer Yesira is a transmission history. This is an important step forward in the book of magical incantations; others maintain that it defines publication of text editions, but it points further to the need to principles for engaging in mystical exegesis of biblical and other consult the manuscripts themselves. Jewish texts. Hayman has provided an invaluable tool to scholars of Tradition claims that Rabbi Akiba (d. 135 CE) was the author Judaism, ancient Christianity, Gnostici sm, comparative religion, of Sefer Yqira, and most scholars maintain that it was composed and other fields, who will be interested in Sefer Ye-rira . We are all during the third to sixth centuries CEo Rabbi Saadiah ben Joseph in his debt, and look forward to the publication of his other two al-Fayyurni (892-942 CE) , Gaon or Chief Rabbi of the Babylonian projected volumes. lAC B ULLETIN + 11
The Future of the Past: Biblical and The Future of the Past: Cognate Studies for the 21st Century Biblical and Cognate Studies for the 2pt Century Lively New lAC Program Unit at SBL WHAT NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARS SHOULD KNOW As noted in the Summer 2005 Bulletin, in 2005 the lAC ABOUTANCIENT LITERARY EDUCATION formed a new, 6-year program unit at the Society of Biblical Literature entitled, The Future of the Past: Biblical and Michele Salzman, University of California, Riverside Cognate Studies for the 21st Century . The program purposes to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research on a lAC Late Latin Letters Project Director, presiding wide variety of topics germane to Jewish and Christian ~~~~~~~~ origins as well as chart the trends in past, current, and future methods of research. The lAC and its research projects model The Opening ofthe Gospel ofMark this kind of collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship and the Progymnasmata and hope to foster this model in the wider context of biblical Ron Hock , lAC , University of Southern California and cognate studies. The Biggest Blunder That Exegetes Make If the 2005 panel, "What Do Biblical Scholars Need to Know About Archaeology"," is any indication, the new When Reading Ancient Narrative program unit hit the right note with the SBL (and some Dennis MacDonald, lAC Director American Academy of Religio n) participants. Attracting an Claremont Graduate University overflow crowd, the panel presenters rewarded the audience Claremont School of Theology with a series of incisive explorations of the state of the relationship between the fields of textual and archaeological Your Homer or My Homer? studies. From the papers, to the discussion, to the high The Dilemma ofChristian Paideia attendance, this panel underscored that scholars in both areas Rafaella Cribiore, Columbia University are eager for productive dialogue and partnership. The 2005 panel was organized and ...-...... The Active Reader in the Ancient World led by two lAC Project directors: David Konstan, Brown University
TAMMI J. SCHNEIDER, Tel el-Fara 'h ~~~~~~~~ South Project; and J ONATHAN L. REED , Galilean Archaeology and the Panel Discussion Historical Jesus Project. Panelists Schn eider were scholars with interests in both Reed archaeology and biblical scholarship: classical and New Testament scholars. The topic, "What New John Dominic Crossan, DePaul University; Jodi Magness, Testament Scholars Should Know about Ancient Literary Education," University of North Caroli na; Eric Meyers, Duke University; combines the work of two lAC Projects: RON HOCK, The Chreia and Richard Zettler, University of Pennsylvania; and Ziony Ancient Rhetoric and Educatio n Project; and DENNIS R. Zevitt, University of Judaism. The lAC thanks each of the MACDONALD, Mimesis in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature panelists and presiders for their profound contributions to a Project. Foundational to the panel's task is the observation that New lively session. Testament texts, apart from all else, are literary productions. The question, sometimes controversial, is about the degree to which these Our 2006 panel promises to be equally stimulating. The particular texts are shaped by the literary disciplines and conventions upcoming panel represents a unique collaboration between of antiquity. 12 + lAC B ULLETIN
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