Sibylline Leaves: What I'm teaching this semester

1/09/2008

What I'm teaching this semester

I'm excited (!) about what I'm teaching this semester! In addition to the perennial Classical Mythology course (I still do so love teaching on the other [= pagan] side of the aisle), I'm teaching

an "Advanced Scholars" distance learning course for (hopefully college-bound) high school students, on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in which we will work through selected passages on similar subjects (e.g., Adam and Eve; Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael; Mary and Jesus; law and grace; sin and salvation; prayer; gender; war and non-violence; etc.) in the Tanakh, the New Testament, and the Qur'an -- sort of a scripture-study triathlon; and

an upperclass Honors seminar that I've provocatively titled "Rewriting Moses: Jewish biblical interpretation in the time of Jesus", which is mainly an introduction to the study of methods of biblical exegesis in the works of Philo and Josephus, with special reference to their treatments of Genesis and Exodus, and with one eye on the NT and other more or less contemporary Jewish and Christian texts.

Did I mention that I'm also trying to put my dissertation on Sibylline Oracles 1-2 to bed this semester? AND stay married? Wish me luck!

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I found out . . . !

. . . by taking the "Which Church Father Are You?" quiz . . .

. . . I’m an Origen!

"You do nothing by half-measures. If you’re going to read the Bible, you want to read it in the original languages. If you’re going to teach, you’re going to reach as many souls as possible, through a proliferation of lectures and books. If you’re a guy and you’re going to fight for purity . . . well, you’d better hide the kitchen shears."

That's what it says, anyway, and it must be true, since it explains so well why I turned up in the vicinity of Gandhi and the Dalai Lama when I took the (also eerily accurate) Political Compass quiz a while back.

My wife is not at all pleased about this.

Find out which Church Father YOU are at The Way of the Fathers!

Essential reading

Alexandre, Charles, Excursus ad Sibyllina, seu de Sibyllis, earumque vel tanquam earum carminibus profanis, Judaicis, Christianisque, dissertationes VII, insertis Graece et Latine, commentarioque auctis Sibyllinorum gentilium fragmentis quae supersunt (Paris: Didot, 1856).
Beatrice, Pier Franco, Anonymi Monophysitae Theosophia: An Attempt at Reconstruction (Leiden: Brill, 2001). -- annotated Greek & Latin texts.
Buitenwerf, Rieuwerd, Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting: with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
Collins, John J., "Sibylline Oracles" in James H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Garden City: Doubleday, 1983-5) vol. 1.317-472. -- annotated English translation.
Collins, John J., "The Development of the Sibylline Tradition", in Wolfgang Haase and Hildegard Temporini (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt II.20.1 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1987) 421-59.
Collins, John J., Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000).
Collins, John J., Seers, Sibyls, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 1997).
Colombo, Ileana Chirassi e Tulio Seppilli (eds.), Sibille e Linguaggi Oracolari: Mito Storia Tradizione: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi: Macerata-Norcia 20-24 Settembre 1994 (Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998).
Davila, James R., The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other? (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
de Jonge, M., Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as a Part of Christian Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
DiTomasso, Lorenzo, A Bibliography of Pseudepigrapha Research 1850-1999 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 795-849.
Gauger, Jörg-Dieter, Sibyllinische Weissagungen (Dusseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 2002). -- annotated Greek text w/German translation & some related ancient texts.
Geffcken, Johannes, Die Oracula Sibyllina, GCS 8 (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1902). -- critical edition.
Holdenried, Anke, The Sibyl and Her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretations of the Latin Sibyllina Tiburtina c. 1050-1500 (Hants: Ashgate, 2006).
Lane Fox, Robin, Pagans and Christians (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).
Lightfoot, J. L. (ed., tr.), The Sibylline Oracles: with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Parke, H. W., Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity (London: Routledge, 1988), ed. V. C. McGing.
Potter, D. S., Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990). -- annotated Greek text.
Sackur, Ernst, Sibyllinische Texte und Forschungen (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1898; repr. Elibron, 2006).

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1/09/2008

What I'm teaching this semester

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