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Septuagint Odes
Occasionally the student of the NT comes across a reference to the Septuagintal Odes. The Odes in the LXX (to be distinguished, n.b., from the Odes of Solomon) are a variable collection of nine or...
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A few Philonic parallels to the New Testament
When I reviewed Craig Evans’s book Ancient Texts for New Testament Study (on the whole, very helpful), I noticed a certain under-use of Philo in the index of ancient parallels. As a very cursory...
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Philo of Alexandria: animals as enemies
While reading through Philo last year, I was struck by how often he characterizes human-animal relationships as fraught with danger, at times reflecting no doubt on fatal encounters of which he had...
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Marginalia goes live
This past Tuesday, 29 January, The Marginalia Review of Books, with which I’ve been privileged to be involved over the better part of the last year, went live. This is an exciting intellectual venture...
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Article on Philo and the Physiognomic Tradition published
My article on Philo and his critically complex stance toward the ancient practice of physiognomy, that is, the art of discerning the soul from the face or body, has now been published: “Philo and the...
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Announcing the Son of God in Matthew
One of my very perceptive students, George Farmer, pointed out something to me a few years back that has stayed with me: Matthew appears to intentionally vary those who call Jesus ‘Son of God’ in his...
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Bibliographic leftovers on physiognomy in early Judaism and Christianity
Originally my article on Philo’s stance toward physiognomy contained some brief discussion of other proposals to see physiognomy at work in early Jewish and Christian texts. In the end, I cut much of...
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The Transformation of the Reader in the Johannine Prefaces of Origen and...
During the course of a colloquium last year on pre-critical commentators on the Gospel of John, Origen stood out to me for his combination of depth of insight, analytical precision and spiritual...
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A forgotten (partial) translation of F.C. Baur on the Fourth Gospel
Several months ago I stumbled across, while experimenting with Google books searches, two remarkably early translations into English of portions of Ferdinand Christian Baur’s works. One of these was...
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Reception History and NT Introduction
Over at The Bible & Interpretation, I have a brief piece now up in which I suggest that we should think seriously about including elements of reception history in New Testament Introductions. The...
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Septuagintal daydreams: corpus papyrorum graeco-judaicarum?
I’ve been working on a couple of (overdue) lexical articles for a new LXX lexicon edited by E. Bons and J. Joosten (Mohr Siebeck). In the process, apart from realizing that I am no lexicographer, it...
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Seduction in 1 Tim 2:14 v.l.?
The simple verb ἀπατάω only occurs three times in the New Testament (Eph 5:6, 1 Tim. 2:14, James 1:26), though ἐξαπατάω is more common (6 times, all in the corpus Paulinum: Rom. 7:11; 16:18; 1 Cor....
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The Consequential Jesus
In my lectures and tutorials on the ‘historical Jesus’, I have sought to find ways to introduce my students to shifts in the terrain of HJ scholarship in recent years. While there has, since at least...
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Oxford New Testament Seminar, Trinity Term 2013
Here’s the programme for the NT Seminar this term (HT: Mary Marshall). Anyone in the area or passing through is more than welcome to attend by permission. All sessions take place 2.15-3.45 p.m. in the...
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Desiderata I: Handausgabe of the Targums in English Translation
We have compact editions and translations of the LXX, the OT Pseudepigrapha, the Mishnah, Josephus and Philo (though both of those could use a cheaper format than the Loeb, as useful as it is;...
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Desiderata II: Hellenistic Jewish Texts in Greek and English
While I’m thinking of desiderata, wouldn’t it be relatively painless to produce one or two LCL-style volumes of ‘Hellenistic Jewish Texts’ in Greek and English? Just thinking off the cuff, if we...
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Genizah Psalms
Over the course of this academic year, the Graduate Colloquium in Biblical and Early Christian Studies (Markus Bockmuehl’s brainchild originally, but a meeting I now co-convene with him) has been...
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What Do We Mean by (Non-)Pauline Authorship, Part 1
I’ve been pondering for a while the varieties of authorial models in play in discussions of the Pauline letters. This hits the ground in a very practical sense when one wants to use stylistic criteria...
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What Do We Mean by (Non-)Pauline Authorship, Part 2
In a previous post, I introduced a typology of authorial models for the corpus Paulinum that I intend now to discuss one by one. Here is the first installment. 1. IA = HA: Paul writes his own letters,...
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Bible & Interpretation article on Paul’s Deuteronomy
For anyone who might want a short summary of my book (to be published in a cheaper version by Baker Academic any day now – or apparently, according to amazon, it’s already been printed?), I have a...
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