Post-Doc Opportunity

Post Doctoral Researcher
"The Fourfold Gospel and its Rivals"

Durham University - Department of Theology and Religion


Salary (£) 23811 - 29249

University of Durham
AHRC-Funded Project on "The Fourfold Gospel and its Rivals":

The Department of Theology and Religion seeks applicants with doctoral- level expertise in New Testament studies and/or Patristics, for a position as Postdoctoral Researcher on a project entitled "The Fourfold Gospel and its Rivals". This will be funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Research Grant scheme, and led by Prof. Francis Watson. Applicants should have completed their PhD within the past three years (i.e. since January 2009), or be intending to submit no later than May 2012. The postholder will be required to provide research assistance to Prof. Watson, to engage in his/her own research within the scope of the project, to undertake limited undergraduate teaching duties, and to participate in the Department's wider research culture. The post is tenable from 1 September 2012 until 31 August 2015.

Vacancy reference: 1548 Closing date: 2 April 2012

Further details of the post and an application form are available on the website (http://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/) or telephone 0191 334 6499; fax 0191 334 6495.

New Publications

Volume 9 (2011) of Segno e Testo. International Journal of Manuscripts and Text Transmission has been published and there are some interesting articles in this volume, e.g.,

Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, "Formes et fonctions de l’astérisque dans les papyrus littéraires grecs et latins (3-33)"

Diletta Minutoli, "Un codice di Giona tra Firenze e Berlino: PSI X 1164 + BKT VIII 18 (93-112)"

And in volume XXI-XXII (2009-2010) of Analecta Papyrologica which is now available:

Herwig Maehler, "L’avenir de la papyrologie grecque," 7-8;
(English translation, "The future of Greek papyrology," 9-10)

Rosario Pintaudi, "Note codicologiche su due codici tardoantichi: PSI X 1166 (Apocalisse 9, 2-15) e PSI X 1171 (Aristofane, Nuvole 577-635)" 127-130.

And, finally, Pintaudi has published the article "Grenfell-Hunt e la papirologia in Italia" in Quaderni di storia 75 (2012), pp. 205-298.

Article description

The scholarly correspondence between the British papyrologists Grenfell and Hunt and the Italian scholars Girolamo Vitelli, Medea Norsa and Evaristo Breccia. Thirty-eight documents dated 1899 to 1934 are published here for the first time with notes. Interesting details on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia are included. The appended plates include letters, printed postcards, press clippings and photographs.

(HT: Papy-L)

John's gospel in Coptic

Over at Alin Suciu's blog, you can read my official announcement of the launch of the Coptic portion of the IGNTP John database. I am grateful for the collaboration of Brice Jones (McGill University ), Elina Perttilä (University of Helsinki) and Alin Suciu (University of Laval) who assisted with the transcriptions, as well as Hugh Houghton and Catherine Smith (ITSEE, Birmingham) who are responsible for the technical aspects of the project. In the coming months, the display should be improved, hopefully allowing for the Coptic translations to be viewed in parallel. Hopefully, the Sahidic will appear within a year or two.

Gathercole's long-awaited book on Thomas

Today is the official publication date of fellow blogger Simon Gathercole's book: 'The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas'. I even received a phone call from an excited friend just to inform me that he had sighted the book in the CUP bookshop in the centre of Cambridge. So it's officially out.

Buy your copy here.

This book represents a major challenge to those who maintain that Thomas has early, pre-synoptic material, or that it has independent access to Aramaic traditions.

Not quite TC, but interesting anyway.

St Andrews Conference

Manuscripts and their Texts: Perspectives on Textual Criticism

With an emphasis on textual criticism, the 2nd St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies is aimed at graduate students and early career scholars. Contributors are welcomed from the following fields of research: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
Pseudepigrapha & Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament and Early Christianity.

There is a plenary speaker for each of these sections:
Prof. Kristin de Troyer (St Andrews)
Dr. Johannes Magliano-Tromp (Leiden)
Dr. Peter M. Head (Cambridge)
Prof. Karla Pollmann (St Andrews)

We will also have a special invited lecture from Dr. Grant Macaskill
(St Andrews) on his edition of the Slavonic text of 2 Enoch.

Further details are available at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/conf/mtt/

[via Jack Sasson]

SBL Annual Meeting Call for Papers

The deadline for submitting a paper proposal for the SBL Annual Meeting in Chicago 2012 has been extended to Wednesday, March 7, so there is really plenty of time for Peter Head and others to think about a possible topic for their paper.

This is the call for papers for New Testament textual criticism:

The New Testament Textual Criticism Section invites proposals for the following two sessions: 1) The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM). We seek proposals that will either exemplify or evaluate this text-critical approach. 2) An open session. Proposals are welcome on any aspect of New Testament textual criticism, especially those that focus on textual criticism and exegesis, and the history and practice of textual criticism. We will also have a third session with a discussion of The Text of the New Testament: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (Brill, 2012), edited by Bart Ehrman and Michael Holmes.

More details here.

Personally, I have already submitted a proposal related to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method. I very much look forward to the meeting as usual. One of the best parts is to get together with friends and scholars, and not to forget about our annual ETC blogdinner.