Translation is a fundamental aspect of biblical scholarship and an ever-present reality in a global context. Scholars interested in more than linguistically oriented translation problems of a traditio
Proclus's Commentary on Plato's Republic contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist antiquity. In the conte
This book provides the first translations in English and a preliminary analysis of the commentaries on the chreia chapter in Aphthonius's standard Progymnasmata, a classroom guide on composition. The
This book, which grew out of the Society of Biblical Literature's Paul and Scripture Seminar, explores some of the methodological problems that have arisen during the last few decades of scholarly res
The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to furthering the study of Hellenistic Judaism, and in particular the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandr
Anderson (emeritus, religious studies, Michigan State U.) and Giles (biblical studies, Gannon U.) collaborate on a third study of the Samaritans, a community with ancient origins that still exists tod
Described by Origen as a writing that “even the masses of believers have read,” the Sentences of Sextus offers unique insights into popular Christian thought during the late second century C.E. Althou
This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional objections to
In his 2004 first volume to the series Synoptic Problem, Burkett (religious studies, Louisiana State U.) set out a new theory about the sources of the material that Mark shares with Matthew and/or Luk
