Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV

Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV
Author: Hélène Cuvigny
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1954731019

Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV springs from work undertaken at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at its Papyrological Summer Institute in 2003. This fourth volume of Yale papyri presents three groups of texts dating from the second century BCE to the seventh century CE. Editions are presented in chronological order, and include items such as samples of scribal training, mathematical tables and exercises, schoolroom work, letters, tax- receipts, contracts, and petitions. Contributors in addition to the volume editors include Daniel Markovich, Charles W. Hedrick, Jr., Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, Kevin Wilkinson, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Richard L. Phillips, Gary Reger, Shane Berg, Elizabeth Penland, George Bevan, Josiah E. Davis, Mariam Dandamayeva, Andrew T. Crislip, and Jean Gascou.

New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World

New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World
Author: Catherine Cooper
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004440755

New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World is about Classical Archaeology at its broadest and is important reading to all Classicists. As part of a recent movement to highlight the rich diversity of the subject it overcomes traditional disciplinary boundaries to show the variety of current approaches to the study of Classical Antiquity from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Antique period. The multi-disciplinary papers deal with archaeology and art history, museum objects and fieldwork data, ancient texts and material culture, archaeological theory and historiography, and technical and literary analysis. The international contributors discuss a selection of methodologies currently used to study ancient material, and illustrate their relevance through case studies which span the Greek and Roman world.

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
Author: Getzel M. Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520931025

This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. Organized geographically, the volume pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Cohen's magisterial breadth of focus enables him to provide more than a compilation of information; the volume also contributes to ongoing questions and will point the way toward new avenues of inquiry.

A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts

A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Author: James Keith Elliott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2000-05-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521770122

This book, first published in 2000, is the main bibliographical listing of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts

Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts
Author: F.A.J. Hoogendijk
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2008-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047443365

This volume contains editions of sixty-five Greek, Demotic, Coptic and Arabic texts from Egypt, contributed as a token of friendship and respect by forty-six of Klaas Worp’s colleagues and co-authors upon his retirement from the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden in August 2008. The contents are as diverse as Klaas Worp’s own wide range of interests, and provide a vivid impression of life and culture in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The texts are written on papyrus, potsherds, parchment, paper and wood. They include both literary and documentary papyri and ostraca, and date from the third century BC to the eleventh century AD. They are published fully, most for the first time, with transcriptions and translations, and are accompanied by photographs.

Encountering the Manuscripts

Encountering the Manuscripts
Author: Philip Wesley Comfort
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780805431452

Encountering the Manuscripts focuses on the most significant New Testament manuscripts from the perspective of paleography and textual criticism.

Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set)

Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set)
Author: Gil Renberg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1130
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004330232

Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of “incubation", the ritual of sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult sites of numerous other divinities throughout the Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; later, Christian worship came to include similar practices. Renberg’s exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history. This set consists of two books.

Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography

Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography
Author: William A. Ross
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884145638

/0A long-standing tradition within biblical scholarship sets the Greek text of the Septuagint constantly in relationship with its supposed Hebrew or Aramaic Vorlage, examining the two together in terms of their grammatical alignment as a standard. Yet another tradition frames the discussion in different terms, preferring instead to address the Septuagint first of all in light of its contemporary Greek linguistic environment and only then attempting to describe its language and style as a text. It is this latter approach that William A. Ross employs in this textually based study of the Greek versions of Judges, a so-called double text in the textual history of the Septuagint. The results of his study offer a window into the Old Greek translation and its later revision, two distinct stages of Greek Judges with numerous instances of divergent vocabulary choices that reflect deliberateness in both the original selection and the subsequent change within the textual development of the book. Ross’s study illustrates the practicalities and payoff of a Greek-oriented lexicographical method that situates the language of the Septuagint squarely within its contemporary historical and linguistic context.