Adele Reinhartz introduces a memorial panel for the late E.P. Sanders that occurred at the 2023 SBL Annual Meeting.
Helen Bond revisits the contributions of E.P. Sanders to historical Jesus studies.
Matthew Novenson remembers the impact of E.P. Sanders on Pauline Studies.
Annette Yoshiko Reed surveys the impact of E. P. Sanders upon the study of Second Temple Judaism.
These texts offered a window onto the literary creativity and inventiveness of the early Syriac tradition itself.
The fantasies ancient writers and contemporary scholars create around these larger than life “Fathers” continue to be a point of interest for me and those fantasies have histories of their own.
But while Barry’s book is not about an upcoming rebranding of Virgin Airlines, it is about bishops and how they and their biographers spun a narrative of Christian exile as a heroic endeavor rather than a cowardly withdrawal.
By methodically reading through its chapters and working through its exercises and chrestomathy, a user of Allen’s grammar can rapidly increase their familiarity with a good amount of the variation found in Coptic texts, then have the book on hand as a quick initial resource for whatever they might happen to read afterwards.
Readers will learn a great deal from G. Smith and Landau about paleography, apocrypha, monasticism, the history of sexuality, and the strange academic environments in which all of these are explored: filled with curiosity, envy, ambition, and flashes of brilliance.
Bishops in Flight reminds us to look to how narratives arise in in the collective memory of a community.
Fraade’s balanced and succinct style of commentary is… a product of and testament to the author’s meticulous use of the comparative method and will surely contribute to conversations between scholars of Scrolls and specialists in cognate fields.
The case of the Jewish catacombs exemplifies how scholars of the ancient world have long worked with undertheorized ideas about religious identities, religious communities, and the relationship between material culture and lived religion, among other things.