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A SYNTAX OF QUMRAN HEBREWMURAOKA T.

This is the first, comprehensive description of the syntax of Qumran Hebrew, a language in which the Hebrew documents discovered in the eleven Qumran caves and at some sites in the Judaean desert are written. Features described include, for instance, the values and functions of the status constructus, tense, aspect and mood of the verb, the word order, the grammatical agreement or lack of it in gender and number, the concord or concatenation, the government of the verb. Comparison is constantly made with Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic - Rabbinic Hebrew. This is important to see the position of Qumran Hebrew in the history of Hebrew. Copiously cited original texts are provided with an English translation by the author. That knowledge of the syntax of this Hebrew is important and has implications for textual criticism of these texts and other compartments such as orthography, phonol-ogy, morphology, lexicography, and stylistics is shown with concrete examples.

• 2020• LX-387 p.• 95 EURO / c. 111 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4025-3• eISBN 978-90-429-4026-0

T. Muraoka

A Syntax of Qumran Hebrew

WHY READ THE BIBLE IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES?MURAOKA T.

A comparison of multiple translations of the Bible in any language shows that they differ at hundreds of places, pointing to the continuing disagreement among Bible scholars and translators in their analy-sis and understanding of those places. To learn Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, the original languages of the Bible, is admittedly not everybody’s cup of tea. Knowledge of them does not necessarily provide a solution to these difficulties. However, there are not a few things in the biblical text which can be missed out if it is read only in translation. A range of linguistic issues touching on the three original languages are discussed in the light of actual examples. Matters of culture and rhetoric are also taken up. A special chapter is devoted to the Septuagint as a bridge between the two Testaments. The book is written in a non-technical style, hence easily readable by non-specialists, but specialists may also find things of interest. No Hebrew or Greek alphabet is used.• 2020

• 111 p.• 19 EURO / c. 22 USD • ISBN 978-90-429-4200-4• eISBN 978-90-429-4201-1

A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE HEXAPLARIC FRAGMENTS OF JOB 22-42MEADE J.D.

A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22-42 contains the established text of all the preserved readings of Origen’s Hexapla in Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Armenian for Job 22-42 with variant author attributions and variant readings presented in a series of apparatuses. In most entries, the editor has supplied Notes in the form of brief commentary on the readings. This edition of hexa-plaric fragments surpasses previous editions (e.g. Frederick Field’s work) in two ways: (1) the edition contains more readings of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion and (2) the critical text of each read-ing is based on the most up-to-date manuscript evidence for the hexaplaric readings of Job. The new edition will have immediate relevance for textual criticism of the TaNaK/Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the Greek lexicon of the late second temple period, and early Jewish and Christian inter-pretation of the Hebrew scriptures in Greek.

• 2020 – Origen’s Hexapla: A Critical Edition of the Extant Fragments

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THE SONG OF SONGS IN ITS CONTEXT. WORDS FOR LOVE, LOVE FOR WORDSVAN HECKE P. ed.

Ever since its composition, the Song of Songs has fascinated generation upon generation of readers. The words for love expressed in the book have captivated the imagination and have inspired many, in each time and age, to interpret its meaning. Also the Song’s love for words – its intricate poetry and its rich and often daring imagery – has caught the attention of its readership. After two centuries of diminished interest in the book, the last two decades have witnessed a remarkable return of schol-arly attention for the Song of Songs. In this volume, twenty-nine papers read at the 67th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (Leuven, July 25-27, 2018), not only bring together the current state of the art, but also sketch new perspectives and future avenues for the study of this shortest but most fascinating book in the Hebrew Bible. Attention is paid, by established and emerging scholars alike, to the Song’s origin and development, to its poetic features and metaphors, and to its rich and complex reception history.

• 2020 – Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 310

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BETL310 THE SONG OF SONGS IN

ITS CONTEXT WORDS FOR LOVE, LOVE FOR WORDS

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NETWORKS OF METAPHORS IN THE HEBREW BIBLEVERDE D., LABAHN A. eds.

In continuity with the previous BETL volumes on biblical metaphors, namely Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible edited by Pierre Van Hecke (BETL 187; 2005), and Metaphors in the Psalms co-edited by Pierre Van Hecke and Antje Labahn (BETL 231; 2010), this third volume intends to contribute to and foster biblical research on metaphors by focusing on a phenomenon that has only received scant atten-tion thus far, namely the relationship and interplay between different metaphors in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Biblical metaphors very often come in chains, especially in poetry, in which individual metaphors may interact in a number of ways, e.g. they may modify, reverse, shift, and even contradict or reinforce the previous ones. Biblical metaphors often create families of metaphors that form a genuine repertoire of images to think and talk about a specific target domain from multiple view-points. The same source domain often inspires clusters of thoughts about a wide variety of realities. The same “root metaphor” may run throughout an entire book or a section of a book, emerging on the surface level of the text in many ways and interacting with other metaphors along the text con-tinuum. Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible investigates biblical metaphors not as “isolated events of discourse” but as constantly intertwining and shaping a network of multiple interactions between the figures.


• X-395 p.• 85 EURO / c. 99 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4210-3• eISBN 978-90-429-4211-0

FROM SERVANT OF YHWH TO BEING CONSIDERATE OF THE WRETCHEDThe Figure David in the Reading Perspective of Psalms 35-41 MTBEUKEN W.A.M.

This study attempts an investigation of Psalms 35–41 in the Masoretic tradition from two viewpoints and in the wake of current research on the Psalter. Firstly, the common opinion that they form a sub-unit of their own within the structure of the first ‘book’ of the Psalter (Psalms 3–41) is verified on the basis of their concatenation and pragmatics. Secondly, the Davidisation of the psalmist throughout the whole bundle is examined, not insofar as it is limited to explicit references to the historical David (especially in psalm headings), but also by feasible, lexical (Hebrew) analogies with the vita David in 1-2 Samuel (with 1 Kings 2).• 2020 – Bibliotheca Ephemeridum

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IMAGINING PAGANISM THROUGH THE AGESStudies on the Use of the Labels “Pagan” and “Paganism” in ControversiesVERHEYDEN J., MÜLLER D. eds.

This volume contains the proceedings of the first International Colloquium of the Research Centre “Polemikos” that was founded in 2016 by Joseph Verheyden (KU Leuven) and Daniela Müller (RU Nijmegen). The Centre is dedicated to the study of the history of religious polemics. This first meeting, held 14-16 of March 2018 in Leuven, studied a commonly known and broadly used way to discredit an adversary by using labels, in particular the negative label par excellence – that of being “a pagan”. For practical reasons, the focus was limited to voices and evidence of Western origin – from the famous adversus Paganos literature to the controversies on native populations after the discovery of the New World and the place and role to be given to more “rationalistic” approaches to the Christian faith in the (early) modern period. The case studies presented here illustrate that the label can receive many different meanings. Among these are the characterisation of the others as strangers or barbarians and the accusation of committing idolatry, but also all sorts of insinuations or claims of immoral behaviour and more outlandish ones that associate these “pagan” others with demonic schemes.


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“WITH GENTLENESS AND RESPECT”: PAULINE AND PETRINE STUDIES IN HONOR OF TROY W. MARTINMASON E.F., WHITTERS M.F. eds.

This volume honors Troy W. Martin and his thirty years of fruitful scholarship in New Testament and related disciplines. Sixteen studies by an international group of scholars explore texts and themes prominent in Martin’s own research in the Pauline letters and 1 Peter. Two articles consider rhetorical criticism of Galatians (David E. Aune, A. Andrew Das); four examine key passages and themes in Romans (Laurie J. Braaten, P. Richard Choi, Charles H. Cosgrove, and Mark F. Whitters); five explore issues of interpretation and reception of other Pauline texts (Christopher Forbes, George Lyons, Clare K. Rothschild, Todd D. Still, D. Francois Tolmie); and five address exegetical and rhetorical matters in 1 Peter (Jenny L. DeVivo, Eric F. Mason, Nancy Pardee, Russell B. Sisson, Duane F. Watson). The volume also includes a biographical tribute (Avis Clendenen and Jenny L. DeVivo), an annotated bibliography of Martin’s academic publications (Teresa J. Calpino), and indices (compiled by Najeeb T. Haddad).

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• XVII-451 p.• 94 EURO / c. 109 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4274-5• eISBN 978-90-429-4275-2

THE OLDEST GOSPEL AND THE FORMATION OF THE CANONICAL GOSPELS Part I: Inquiry. Part II: Reconstruction – Translation – VariantsKLINGHARDT M.

Part I: The Gospel that was part of Marcion’s collection in the first half of the 2nd century is the oldest of all Gospels. The author presents a meticulous reconstruction and argues that all canonical Gospels are dependent on this Gospel. This sheds new light on the formation and tradition history of the gospels, contributes new insights on the history of the New Testament text and textual criti-cism, and has significant consequences for how to assess the formation of the canonical edition of the New Testament and the history of earliest Christianity in general.Part II: Reconstructing the text of Marcion’s Gospel is essential for the two basic tasks of establishing this Gospel’s priority over canonical Luke and understanding the formation process from this oldest Gospel to the canonical Four-Gospel book. Part. II offers a reconstruction of the oldest Gospel. Its text is established on the basis of evidence provided by the heresiological witnesses and the textual variants. A detailed commentary makes every single decision of the reconstruction transparent and carefully traces the steps of the tradition history for individual sayings and pericopes.

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• XVII-1409 p. (2 vol.)• 195 EURO / c. 228 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4309-4• eISBN 978-90-429-4310-0

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THE QUEST FOR THE MEMORY OF JESUS: A VIABLE PATH OR A DEAD END?HAVUKAINEN T.

This study is focused on the active international field of study in which various theories of memory (e.g. social/collective memory and individual memory) and ancient media studies (e.g. study of oral tradition and history) are applied to historical Jesus research. The main purpose of the monograph is to study whether the memory approach constitutes a coherent methodological school of thought. The dissertation discusses in what ways the memory approach distinguishes itself from earlier research and whether one can speak of a new beginning in historical Jesus research. A central focus of the study is the research-historical discussion on the nature and processes of the transmission of the Jesus tradi-tions in early Christianity, which is a significant research problem for both earlier historical Jesus research and the memory approach.• 2020 – Contributions to Biblical

Exegesis & Theology 99• X-336 p.• 67 EURO / c. 78 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4125-0• eISBN 978-90-429-4126-7

LIFE PRESERVATION IN GENESIS AND EXODUSAn Exegetical Study of the Tebâ of Noah and MosesSPOELSTRA J.J.

Tebâ is found exclusively in Gen 6-9 and Exod 2:1-10 for the vessels of Noah and Moses, respectively. Suggestive of an inter-textual relationship, tebâ is exegetically investigated to identify its source lan-guage and meaning to thereby determine its biblical appropriation and theological signification. Once the Flood Narrative and Foundling Narrative are synchronically and diachronically analysed, Babylonian and Egyptian languages, literature, and lexemes are examined to determine the source of tebâ; also, a recension history of scriptural traditions and daughter translations of the Flood and Foundling Narratives is charted. Exod 15:1-21 is examined, further, to extend the narratival arch of Exod to match that of Gen 6-9, which includes synthetic cosmological and covenantal elements, and temple ideology. Theologically, therefore, the multivocality of tebâ intimates God’s enshrined protec-tion of a person from threat of death unto renewed life; thus, tebâ is a terminus technicus for a life-preserving receptacle.

• 2020 – Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 98


MICAHDE MOOR J.C.

The book of Micah provides insight into the struggle of a prophet with his vocation in an extremely difficult time. On the basis of new textual and archaeological data from the entire Ancient Near East this commentary argues that much more can be regarded as actual fire-and-brimstone preaching of the historical prophet Micah. This conclusion was achieved among other things by collating more than a hundred Hebrew manuscripts of the book of Micah. The commentary devotes also much attention to geology, climate, flora, fauna, agriculture and art. Fifty illustrations elucidate these realia.

• 2020 – Historical Commentary on the Old Testament

• XVII-443 p.• 76 EURO / c. 88 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4363-6• eISBN 978-90-429-4364-3

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DES POLYTHÉISMES AUX MONOTHÉISMESMélanges d’assyriologie offerts à Marcel SigristGABBAY U., PÉRENNÈS J.J. eds.

Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of assyriologists for his major contribution to the knowledge of the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC), owing in particular to the transcription of thousands of tablets that he published in various books. For several decades he taught Assyriology at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, where he also served as the director on several occasions. His scholarly legacy includes a selfless commitment to science, a desire to make the world of the Bible better known, as well as a concern to share his knowledge of the Ancient Near East and the Holy Land with a wider audience and not only with specialists. The many researchers, from all over the world who came to work in Jerusalem also remember Marcel Sigrist’s warm welcome. This volume, written in English and French by several renowned colleagues, is a token of their esteem and gratitude.

• 2020 – Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 82

• VI-543 p.• 92 EURO / c. 107 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4193-9• eISBN 978-90-429-4194-6

THE PROTEVANGELIUM OF JAMESBREMMER J.N., DOOLE J.A., KARMANN T.R., NICKLAS T., REPSCHINSKI B. eds.

This book is the first modern collection of studies on important aspects of the Protevangelium of James. The volume opens with three chapters on introductory questions, such as the canonical or apocryphal status of the Protevangelium in early Christianity, its date, author and provenance, and the way it adapted and developed earlier traditions about the birth of Jesus. The subsequent chapters first focus on the protagonists Mary and Joseph, after which they discuss the Jewish aspects of the Protevangelium, Salome’s manual inspection of Mary, the place and nature of space in the Protevangelium, and the question of the text’s consistency and coherence. The final two chapters discuss a series of annuncia-tion scenes in Christian and Islamic literature, which are often heavily dependent on the Protevangelium, and the latter’s reception in the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy. The Appendix looks at the Armenian apocryphal text entitled Script of the Lord’s Infancy, a witness to the great popularity enjoyed in Armenia by the early Syriac apocryphal stories of Christ’s birth and childhood. As has become usual, the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.

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LA TOPOGRAPHIE DE LA JÉRUSALEM ANTIQUEEssais sur l’urbanisme fossile, défenses et portes. IIe s. av. - IIe s. ap. J.-C.CABARET D.-M.

L’auteur bouleverse la vision de la Jérusalem antique. Son habileté d’horloger excelle à décrire les grilles d’urbanisme et à placer les unes par rapport aux autres. On le suit avec une curiosité accrue au fil de la lecture. Les quartiers ont été fondés par les rois hasmonéens au IIe s. av. J-C et la place de la Porte de Damas s’ouvre en agora. Au nord du Temple, Hérode lotit un quartier pour y mettre un théâtre et son quadriportique. L’arc de l’Ecce Homo redevient une porte hérodienne percée dans le Deuxième mur de la ville. L’ambitieux petit-fils Hérode Agrippa déploie la ville au nord et le Tombeau des Rois y trouve sa place. Tout a été remanié après la destruction du Temple pour l’implantation intra-muros de la Dixième Legio Fretensis. Jérusalem a été embellie par Hadrien qui en fit une colonie romaine pour y célébrer son propre culte et celui de Jupiter, en place du Sépulcre, et sur une plate-forme sacrée de l’ancien Temple juif a trôné la statue équestre d’Hadrien. Le bilan de ces travaux est une recherche audacieuse. Elle ravive un débat qui s’annonce fécond.

• 2020 – Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 98

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LA FIGURE BIBLIQUE DU JUSTE ET SES ENJEUX THÉOLOGIQUES DANS LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENTFRICKER D., SIFFER N. eds.

Les textes bibliques renvoient régulièrement à la figure du juste, sans pour autant la caractériser, ni la définir. À l’évidence, il ne s’agit pas d’une figure homogène et les portraits qu’elle décline varient suivant les contextes. Ce collectif s’attache à en préciser quelques contours et les enjeux théologiques qu’elle recouvre, en particulier dans le Nouveau Testament et certains écrits issus de la littérature connexe. Le parcours effectué dans les différents corpus montre que la figure du juste s’inscrit dans l’attente d’une justice divine déployée dans une histoire du salut où aussi bien des personnalités sin-gulières – Jésus, le Maître de justice – que des figures collectives jouent un rôle majeur. Derrière ces figures, souvent idéalisées, se dessinent des contextes historiques où la cause du juste se heurte à un environnement – communautaire, social ou politique – qui suit ses exigences propres en matière de justice, faisant parfois du juste une figure tragique qui inspirera les générations futures.

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LES DÉLIMITATIONS ÉDITORIALES DES ÉCRITURES DES BIBLES ANCIENNES AUX LECTURES MODERNES.Editorial Delimitations of the Scriptures from Ancient Bibles to Modern ReadingsBADY GUILLAUME, KORPEL M.C.A. eds.

The present volume provides insight in what has been achieved in the relatively young discipline of delimitation criticism up till now. Through a dozen contributions, the biblical and patristic corpuses are investigated in several directions: How were the texts delimited in Antiquity? What intentions can be discerned behind delimitations in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Syriac Bibles? What transformation of meaning do the divisions of textual units bring about in certain modern translations compared to ancient documents? What are the nature and signification of the divisions and titles in the Psalms, Greek and Syriac? How did some Greek authors refer to a specific biblical text? What can we learn from the Greek “synopses”? And what profit for this kind of research has a digital tool like Biblindex to offer? These are, without a doubt, the first milestones for new investigations to come.

• 2020 – Pericope 11• X-276 p.• 90 EURO / c. 105 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4375-9• eISBN 978-90-429-4376-6

P e r i c o p e 11

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FROM HIGH PRIEST TO PATRIARCHHistory and Authority in the ‘Ecclesiastical History’ of Bar ‘EbroyoMAZZOLA M.

The Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo has long been recognized as a crucial source for the history of the Eastern churches in the Mongol period but it has hardly been appreciated as a literary work on its own. Over the past decades, further study on Bar ‘Ebroyo has permitted to dismiss his undeserved label of unoriginal epistomist and to reassess the value of his work. This book seeks to inject that perspective into the study of Bar ‘Ebroyo as an ecclesiastical historian and it argues that his Ecclesiastical History offers an original historical narration that encompasses geo-ecclesiology, theology and political theory. Often read as a mere abridgment of Michael the Great’s Chronicle, the Ecclesiastical History incorporates a number of additional sources and deploys specific narratological tools to convey a unique vision of history that results from the cultural, political and personal circumstances in which Bar ‘Ebroyo wrote his work. In short, the Ecclesiastical History shows how the long-lived tradition of the Church history writing was adjusted to respond to the specific challenges that the political and religious landscape of 13th century Middle East posed to the Syrian Orthodox community.

• 2020 – Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 688

• XX-158 p.• 96 EURO / c. 112 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4231-8• eISBN 978-90-429-4232-5











CATALOGUE OF COPTIC AND ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS IN DAYR AL-SURYAN. VOLUME 1Coptic and Arabic Biblical Texts; Coptic Language Resources, Including Biblical LexicaDAVIS S.J.

A catalogue of the Coptic and Arabic collections at Dayr al-Suryan in Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, to be published in multiple volumes, covering the following genre categories: Biblical Texts, along with Coptic Grammars and Lexica; Commentaries and Canons; Theology; Ascetic Discourses; Saints’ Lives and Sermons; and Liturgical Texts. In addition to introducing readers to the history and con-tents of the monastic library, this series collects data on approximately 1000 manuscripts, recording information on manuscript number and genre, works and contents, date, language, script, and mate-rial, scribes, patrons, and restorers, colophons and endowments, pages and numbering systems, dimensions, area of writing, and lines per page, cover and condition, and other details related to scribal practice and readers’ insertions. The result will serve as a foundation for further research on Coptic and Christian Arabic literature and on the monastery and its important library.

• 2020 – Corpus Scriptorum Christiano-rum Orientalium 677

• XXXVI-427 p.• 130 EURO / c. 152 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4013-0• eISBN 978-90-429-4014-7

THE FEAST OF THE DESERT OF APA SHENOUTEA Liturgical Procession from the White Monastery in Upper EgyptDAVIS S.J., SCHRIEVER D., FARAG M., MOAWAD S.

An edition and translation of a trilingual manuscript recording the rite of a medieval liturgical proces-sion at the White Monastery (Dayr al-Anba Shinudah) in Upper Egypt, accompanied by two intro-ductions. Primarily in Coptic, with selected sections in Greek and Arabic, the original text is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (BN Copte 68), and it includes rubrics of biblical passages and a sermon by Shenoute meant to be read at different points during the procession. The first introduc-tion situates the manuscript in relation to the history, archaeology, and ritual practice of the monas-tery. The second introduction provides a technical description of the manuscript and of the editorial methods used in producing the edition. The introductions, edition, and translation are supplemented by tables with selected images, an index of biblical citations, and a bibliography.• 2020 – Corpus Scriptorum

Christianorum Orientalium 681• IV-401 p.• 130 EURO / c. 152 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4101-4• eISBN 978-90-429-4102-1

THE PATRISTIC “MASORA”A Study of Patristic Collections in Syriac Handbooks from the Near EastLOOPSTRA J.

Though fairly distinct among Syriac manuscripts, the nearly twenty exemplars of the so-called Syriac “Masora” remain relatively unknown and often misunderstood. These handbooks were developed to help the reader pronounce, interpret, and compare words from across a spectrum of different sources: including works of patristics, theology, liturgy, and the Bible. Because earlier studies of this genre have focused, almost exclusively, on the biblical portions of these manuscripts, little has been known about the collections of excerpts from 255 patristic-era writings included in many of these handbooks. This volume is the first-ever study and transcription of over ten thousand excerpted ‘vocalized words and readings’ (šmohē w-qroyoto) from works attributed to Greek writers such as Ps.-Dionysius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Severus of Antioch. This material has the potential to inform not only Syriac studies and Patristics, but the broader study of literacy and modes of learning in the Medieval Middle East.

• 2020 – Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 689

• XXIV-448 p.• 125 EURO / c. 146 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4233-2• eISBN 978-90-429-4234-9









EASTERN AND ORIENTAL CHRISTIANITY IN THE DIASPORATEULE H.G.B., VERHEYDEN J. eds.

This volume contains a selection of papers read at an international colloquium on the way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation. The colloquium was held at the KU Leuven in December 2016. Contributors have focused on liturgical issues (B. Groen, D. Galadza), ecclesiological and juridical questions (A. Kaptijn, V. Pnevmatikakis), the way the Orthodox churches are trying to adapt to these and other challenges of modern West-European and North American society as this was addressed in the recent Council of Crete (P. Kalaitzidis, P. Vlaicu), and the attitude of Middle Eastern Diaspora Christians towards Islam (A. Schmoller). In an epilogue, one also gets an inside view on a recent initiative to establish a theological seminar for Syriac speaking Christians (A. Shemunkasho).• 2020 – Eastern Christian Studies 30


METRICAL DISCOURSES ON FAITH BY THE BLESSED MAR EPHREMTranslated, with Introduction and NotesHAYES A.

Ephrem the Syrian’s six Metrical Discourses on Faith reflect on issues central to or arising from the Arian controversy as it manifested in the Syriac-speaking churches: the unique status of the Son of God, the distinction between creator and creation, and especially the problem of human audacity in the quest for knowledge of God. Like Ephrem’s other works, these discourses are replete with biblical language and brimming with creative symbolism. However, being less terse and allusive in style than many of his other poems, they also serve as a crucial exposition of some of his most fundamental ideas and a relatively accessible introduction to his thought as a whole. This is the first complete English translation of the whole collection, accompanied by a detailed introduction and copious explanatory notes.

• 2020 – Eastern Christian Texts in Translation 4

• LII-102 p.• 38 EURO / c. 44 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-3934-9• eISBN 978-90-429-3935-6

FOUILLES DE TEL YARMOUTH (1980-2009)Rapport final. Volume 1. Les fouilles sur l’AcropoleJASMIN M., DE MIROSCHEDJI P.R.

Tel Yarmuth is a major archaeological site of the southern Levant, located 25 km south-west of Jerusalem. In the Early Bronze Age, it was the largest fortified city-state of this region. Long after its abandonment around 2400 BCE, it was reoccupied on the acropolis only, which remained settled more or less continuously from the Middle Bronze Age II (17th-16th cent. BCE) to the Early Byzantine Period (4th cent. CE). The site is identified with the biblical settlement of Yarmuth and the Byzantine village of Iermochos. This volume is the first monograph of the final publication of the excavations conducted between 1980 and 2009. It is devoted to the excavations on the acropolis where the entire settlement history of Yarmuth was established. It provides an account of those excava-tions, a detailed presentation of the stratigraphy, extensive descriptions of the pottery and the various archaeological artefacts and ecofacts, and a discussion of the archaeological and biblical contexts of the site’s history. The continuous archaeological sequence from the Late Bronze II to the end of the Iron Age I (c. 1200-950 BCE) is especially noteworthy. It illustrates the fate of a Canaanite village in the shadow of larger regional centers during the momentous centuries that witnessed the decline of the Canaanite polities, the rise of the Philistine city-states and the emergence of the kingdom of Judah.

• 2020 – Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 56

• XXXII-582 p.• 160 EURO / c. 187 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-3996-7• eISBN 978-90-429-3997-4










AT THE HEART OF AN EMPIREThe Royal Household in the Neo-Assyrian PeriodGROSS M.M.

This study is devoted to the Neo-Assyrian royal household as it emerges from the available cuneiform sources. It addresses the functions as well as the conditions of life and work of the royal household personnel. It clarifies which types of officials, professionals and other employees were active within or on behalf of the royal household. What were their tasks, and what was their position within the royal household and in relation to the king and his family? What departments were in place, and who were the managers? What was the role of lower-ranking personnel within this system? The study also inves-tigates the social and cultural background of the personnel as well as their professional life, including their financial means, the quantity and type of their remuneration, and their career progression. Envisaged also as reference book, the book provides a prosopographical catalogue of the wide range of personnel discussed. As the personal household of the sovereign and the administrative and political centre of the empire, this study of the royal household opens up the immediate environment of the king and his family, but also to the governmental apparatus of the empire as a whole.

• 2020 – Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 292

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A HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAHLIPINSKI E.

This history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Judah is quite different from the usual narratives of biblical history. It parallels the same author’s History of the Kingdom of Israel (OLA 275) and is mainly based on information provided by epigraphic sources dating from the 19th/18th century B.C. on, when Jerusalem and its rulers are first mentioned. The book is divided in seven chapters. The first one deals with the proto-history of Jerusalem in Bronze Age and Iron Age I. The second one concerns the Davidic dynasty whose lineage is followed until the mid-ninth century. Chapters III and IV con-tinue the history of the kingdom until the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylonians in 587. After ca. 800 B.C. the name of the kingdom was changed from Beth David in Judah following internal dynas-tic problems. Chapter V examines some questions concerning religion in Jerusalem and Judah, espe-cially the alleged “sacred prostitution” and the “molk-sacrifices”. Chapter VI discusses the special case of the relations between the Yahwistic sanctuary of Bethel, annexed to Judah by king Josiah, and the theonym Bethel, attested in Jewish-Aramaean ambiences of the Persian period. Chapter VII deals with burial customs and the conception of the netherworld or Sheol, mainly from the monarchic period on.

• 2020 – Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 287

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700 SKARABÄEN UND VERWANDTES AUS PALÄSTINA/ISRAELDie Sammlung KeelKEEL O.

Die Sammlung der hier veröffentlichten Skarabäen und verwandten Siegel-Amulette entstand zwi-schen 1975 und 2012 parallel zur Arbeit am „Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel“. Der Zweck war, zu verhindern, dass zahlreiche ungewöhnliche und interessante Stücke in nie veröf-fentlichten Privatsammlungen oder als Bestandteile von Schmuck von der Bildfläche verschwanden, und zu garantieren, dass sie der Wissenschaft und der Öffentlichkeit erhalten und zugänglich bleiben. Die 700 Stücke wurden so ausgewählt, dass sie alle wichtigen in Kanaan/Palästina produzierten oder dahin importierten Gruppen und Motive repräsentieren und so eine Art Lehrbuch zu dieser Thematik darstellen. In diesem Sinne sind die vorliegende Sammlung und der Katalog einmalig.

• 2020 – Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica 39

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THE TEXT OF LEVITICUSProceedings of the Third International Colloquium of the Dominique Barthélémy Institute, held in Fribourg (October 2015)HIMBAZA I. ed.

The book of Leviticus is by far the most quoted in rabbinic literature such as the Mishna or the Talmud, while it has been marginalized in the Christian tradition. The third international colloquium of the Dominique Barthélemy Institute, held in Fribourg in October 2015, aimed to bring together some specialists of the text of Leviticus in order to advance research on its textual witnesses and the aforementioned topics. The articles collected in this book reflect the width of current research. They deal with the witnesses to the text of Leviticus in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint. They also study the book’s Hebrew editing; its relation to other books such as Joshua, Luke-Acts and Flavius Josephus; and the challenge of its translation, with a case study in French.

• 2020 – Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 292


SCRIBES D’OUGARIT ET PALÉOGRAPHIE AKKADIENNELes textes juridiques signésERNST-PRADAL F.

Le volume Ras Shamra – Ougarit XXVII présente les résultats de la recherche que Françoise Ernst-Pradal a consacré à la paléographie des textes juridiques signés mis au jour à Ras Shamra-Ougarit et rédigés en cunéiforme idéo-syllabique. L’étude s”attache plus particulièrement à la question des «mains de scribes». Quand on sait que 96% de la documentation écrite découverte sur ce site est anonyme, on en mesure l’intérêt. La méthode mise en oeuvre à partir des photographies numériques des tablettes originales, conservées dans les musées nationaux de Damas et d’Alep et au musée du Louvre, fait apparaître des caractéristiques propres à l’écriture de chacun des scribes et montre que les «mains de scribes» sont une réalité complexe. Les résultats obtenus pour les vingt-sept scribes signataires de quatre-vingt-trois textes sont discutés après avoir été mis à l’épreuve en croisant leurs graphies avec celles des tablettes anonymes. Ils confirment certaines hypothèses émises par les chercheurs et en invalident d’autres parfois communément admises. Des rédacteurs de tablettes non signées ont pu être identifiés, ouvrant ainsi de nouvelles perspectives pour la recherche sur les questions de datation, de formation, d’organisation des scribes et de leurs liens avec les domaines religieux et économiques ainsi qu’avec les pouvoirs en place au royaume d’Ougarit à la période du Bronze Récent.

• 2019 – Ras Shamra - Ougarit 27• VIII-636 p.• 95 EURO / c. 111 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-4120-5• eISBN 978-90-429-4121-2

DISCOVERING PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: EXPLORING BOUNDARIESDILLEN A., GÄRTNER S.

Religion takes different shapes in late-modern society. Pastoral care, church and religion are also in transition. Practical theology explores these new challenges. This book introduces the readers to the field of this discipline in dialogue with the metaphor of ‘boundaries’. Theoretical insights in practical theology and its methodology are combined with discussions about specific topics and case studies from the field of pastoral and spiritual care, with special attention for Catholic contexts. Practical theologians are presented as cross-border workers, whose work is to reflect on ambiguous places and borderlands ‘in between’ positions, disciplines, and fixed identities. Specific attention goes to ques-tions on hope and power in relation to pastoral care, on chaplaincy in prisons and hospitals, on children and theology. This book functions also as an introduction to empirical methodologies and hermeneutical theological reflections.

• 2020 – Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs 47

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MORAL REALISM AND THE EXISTENCE OF GODImproving Parfit’s MetaethicsJAKOBSEN M.

Can there be an objective morality without God? Derek Parfit argues that it can and offers a theory of morality that is neither theistic nor naturalistic. This book provides a critical assessment of Parfit’s metaethical theory. Jakobsen identifies some problems in Parfit’s theory – problems concerning moral normativity, the ontological status of morality, and evolutionary influence on our moral beliefs – and argues that theological resources can help solve them. By showing how Parfit’s theory may be improved by the help of theology, Jakobsen demonstrates the relevance of theology in philosophical and metaethical debates and argues that Christian theism offers a better explanation of morality than what Parfit’s non-naturalism does.

• 2020 – Studies in Philosophical Theology 67


MEISTER ECKHART, THE GERMAN WORKS: 56 HOMILIES FOR THE LITURGICAL YEAR. 2. DE SANCTISIntroduction, Translation and NotesSTURLESE L., VINZENT M.

This volume (based on Loris Sturlese’s liturgical ordering) contains the vernacular texts and English translations of 56 of Eckhart’s German sermons, which can be linked with the cycle of preaching during the liturgical year on the Saints and other occasions (De sanctis). It is the second volume, fol-lowing ETS 9 (De tempore), and gives us Eckhart’s preaching in literary form. The corpus of sermons that have been relocated into their liturgical place are taken from the critical edition of Kohlhammer to which was added a new English translation (for some of the sermons the first so in English). It opens a door to students and interested readers into the world of Eckhart’s liturgical preaching, helped by a thorough general introduction on the topic of sainthood, short prefaces to all homilies and notes.

• 2020 – Eckhart: Texts and Studies 12• XVIII-760 p.• 110 EURO / c. 128 USD• ISBN 978-90-429-3932-5• eISBN 978-90-429-3933-2

NARRATIVE TIME IN THE NEW TESTAMENTEssays on Mark, John, and PaulBONNEAU N.

Human beings live in time; time produces story, the lifeblood of narrative – all the more so for the biblical story which has been, and continues to be, intimately woven into the lives of countless people throughout the generations. Narrative as a literary genre is well represented in the Scriptures as a whole, not least in the New Testament, accounting for approximately three-fourths of its overall content. That so much of the Bible is expressed in this communicative mode cannot be merely inci-dental to its interpretation. The essays collected here aim to illustrate how a narrative approach applied to a number of New Testament passages, particularly in the way they deal with time, can enhance appreciation of the Bible’s capacity to make its message present, thus contributing a vital and conse-quential dimension to the perennial endeavor of faith seeking understanding.• 2020 – Terra Nova 8










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PEETERS 2020 · 2020. 11. 5. · arly attention for the Song of Songs. In this volume, twenty-nine papers read at the 67th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (Leuven, July 25-27, 2018),