[Fwd: anenews discussion list on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha]
Michael Fisher mwfisher@cts.com
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:22:29 -0600
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From: "Charles E. Jones" <cejo@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: anenews discussion list on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
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From: jrd4@st-andrews.ac.uk (James R. Davila)
Announcing the reopening of a discussion list on the Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha:
otpseud@st-andrews.ac.uk
sponsored by the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews in
Scotland. The list will be active during the spring semester of 1999 (from
4 February to 30 May) and will be tied directly to a course module offered
at St. Andrews. This course, DI3216, "The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,"
will examine the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, a loose collection of
ancient, quasi-biblical writings that were excluded from the canons of both
normative Judaism and Christianity. We shall explore the reasons for the
rejection of these documents by the major canons, the problems of the mixed
Jewish and Christian strata in the texts, their intertextual connections
with biblical literature, and their influence after antiquity. All texts
will be read in English translation.
The theme for this semester will be texts composed and transmitted in
Greek, and the first text to be covered will be the Letter of Aristeas. In
addition, guest lectures will be given online by Dr. Rochelle Altman (on
the physical characteristics of ancient manuscripts), Professor Richard
Bauckham (on the New Testament Apocrypha), and Dr. Loveday Alexander (on
the manuscript tradition of the Testament of Solomon).
This list will be a virtual classroom, so it will be subject to something
rather like classroom etiquette. The realtime course is set up as a
seminar, with a mixture of lectures by the instructor and sessions devoted
to discussion of student seminar papers. Summaries of the lectures and
abstracts of student papers will be posted on the list to stimulate further
discussion by the listmembers. The focus will be scholarly analysis of the
texts we will be reading, of related texts of the same period (such as the
Dead Sea Scrolls or other documents from the Pseudepigrapha), and of the
historical background of the texts in Second Temple Judaism, early
Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world to late antiquity. Discussion
should be courteous, well-informed (i.e., familiar with the assigned
materials for the realtime class and the scholarly literature in general),
and to the point. Further guidelines on list etiquette and approaches will
be distributed to subscribers. The content of the course will be oriented
toward specialists, but nonspecialists are welcome too. I reserve the
right to decide in individual cases whether a potential subscriber should
be added to the list and whether a current subscriber should continue on
the list. The sending of a subscription request (instructions below)
indicates acceptance of the conditions given in this paragraph.
To subscribe to otpseud send an email message to:
majordomo@st-andrews.ac.uk
The message text should contain the single line:
subscribe otpseud
Futher details on the list and the course will be provided in the
introductory message to new subscribers. You can also find a large
database on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha on the course web page at:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/otpseud.html
The origin points for this announcement are Ioudaios-L and Crosstalk.
Please feel free to redistribute this message to any list or person who
might be interested. Apologies for any duplications.
Dr. J R. Davila
Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies
University of St. Andrews
Scotland
jrd4@st-andrews.ac.uk
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