ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

“Throughout, the book keeps in focus the materiality of manuscripts and the embodied aspects of the craft of manuscript research. Although subtitled “A Guide for Textual Scholars,” this volume insists that we can neither sever ancient text from the papyri, parchment, or paper on which it has been transmitted, nor separate ourselves as scholars from the histories, networks, and institutions that have brought the researcher and the manuscript into contact.”

Christopher Bonura’s treatment of Pseudo-Methodius’ origins and return to the source itself, shorn of centuries of interpretive baggage, lays a new foundation for future scholarship on this generative source.

In The Fourth Synoptic Gospel, Mark Goodacre challenges this perspective and attempts to demonstrate that the author of the fourth gospel was not only aware of the Synoptic Gospels but also used them in the writing of their gospel text.

Graf serves as an able guide for readers through the complex ideas of Stoicism, Seneca’s philosophical vision, and affect theory. Readers less familiar with Senecan ideas will likely find this book a helpful introduction.

In Unfinished Christians, Frank focuses on literary records produced in and for shared spaces, liturgical and otherwise, where ordinary Christians would have gathered for various religious rites.