Sibylline Leaves: February 2008

Somebody ought to be keeping track of the outpouring of support for Jim West since his hugely popular blog's untimely demise. Might as well be me. Here's what I've seen so far . . .

Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel: Jim West Blog
Ancient World Bloggers Group: Jim West's Blog
Awilum: Open Letter to Jim West - Support Jim by Linking to his Blog
Bible and Ancient Near East: Deletion of Jim West's Blog
Biblioblogs: A Scandalous Act (Jim's farewell speech to the Ephesian elders: "For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God", etc., Acts 20.27 tniv)
Chrisendom: From Jim West (the same)
Codex: Back to Blogging
Dr. Claude Mariottini: Jim West: A Note of Appreciation
Dr. Claude Mariottini: Jim West Says Goodbye to Blogging
Dr. Platypus: What Kind of Craven Slimeball Deletes Another Person's Blog?
Exploring Our Matrix: Around the Blogosphere
Higgaion: I'm not sure what good a link will do . . .
Idle musings of a bookseller: In memoriam
James' Thoughts and Musings: The Deletion of Jim West's Blog
Lingamish: Dr. Jim West disappears
Lingamish: Update on the disappearance of Jim West
Metacatholic: Total Depravity
Narrative and Ontology: Support for Jim West
Northstate Science: Deleted Blog
NT Gateway Weblog: Jim West's blog: transmission cut
Observatoria Biblico: Blog de Jim West foi completamente apagado
PergaMent: Man skal huske et tage back-up
Le Pharisien Libere: l'ami Jim West a perdu son blog
Pseudoscienze cristiani antiche e medievali: Jim, this time I don't agree with you
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth: The End of an Era
the stuff of earth: say it ain't so, jim!
Sufficiency: Blogging and Mortality
Sufficiency: Dr. Jim's posts still on bloglines
The Tell es-Safi/Gath Excavations: Jim West's Blog is erased!
The View from Jerusalem: Dr. Jim West, Be resurrected!
The Voice of Stefan: Total Depravity: Unconscionable Cowards
If I've missed your Jim-West-related post, please let me know via e-mail (gordonwatley at gmail dot com) or comment, and I'll include it as I update the list.

UPDATE:
Second Go (Biblioblogs)
Breaking News (Lingamish)
He's back (Idle musings of a bookseller)

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).

Sibylline Leaves

2/20/2008

Honoring Dr Jim West

by Dr. Gordon Lyn Watley

My CV

Blessed to be here . . .

I found out . . . !

Sibylline Oracles

OT Pseudepigrapha

Judaism & Christianity in Antiquity

Blogs

Essential reading

Archive

Hit counters