Wednesday 20 November 2013

SBL Annual Meeting (again): on manuscripts and amulets (and receptions)

The SBL/AAR Annual Meetings are just around the corner and I am packing my bags.

Together with Nils H. Korsvoll, I will give the paper "Enoch, Baruch, and Sesengen bar Pharanges: An Amulet for Xvarr-Veh-Zad" in the Syriac Literature and Interpretation of Sacred Texts section (Saturday at 9:00 am, Holiday 2 - Hilton Baltimore). You find the abstract here .

I am also one of the panelists in the MOTP-review session (noted here several times already). My response is entitled "Text - Work - Manuscript: what is 'an Old Testament Pseudepigraphon'". In other words, I am dealing with editorial models, our notions of Pseudepigrapha as "works", and how these models and assumptions influence the way we imagine ancient textual units.  Show up at this session! The panelists (Collins, Najman, Kraft and Davila) are great and I promise you a highly interesting discussion!

And while we are at it, the  Nordic Universities Reception takes place at the Sheraton Inner Harbour Hotel, Sunday at 9:00-11:00 pm. You'll find me there - somewhere in the Viking crowd. 

More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha-review session follow up

For those of you planning to attend the SBL review-session dedicated to the volume Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scripture. Volume One, please note that there has been a change in the order of presentations. The correct order is:

John J. Collins
Liv Ingeborg Lied
Robert A. Kraft
Hindy Najman

And then a response by James R. Davila.

Room 334 - Convention Center, Monday 25 November, 1:00-3:30 pm


Friday 1 November 2013

Two books on 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch!

This post is not strictly on religion, manuscripts and/or media
culture, but anything on 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch is relevant to me!


Apparently these are good times for my two favourite apocalypses.
Two books will be published in November.


4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Translations, Introductions and Notes, by
Matthias Henze and Michael Stone, was released by Fortress Press
today. You find it here: http://store.fortresspress.com/store/productgroup/620/4-Ezra-and-2-Baruch-Translations-Introductions-and-Notes

The volume Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the
Fall
, edited by Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini, with the help of Jason
Zurawski, will be published very soon. Rumors have it that it will
be out before SBL. Here: http://www.brill.com/fourth-ezra-and-second-baruch


Enjoy!