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Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters
Series: - Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, Volume: 16
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Thus far intepretations of Homer and the Bible have largely been studied in isolation even though both texts became foundational for Western civilisation and were often commented upon in the same cultural context. The present collection of articles redresses this imbalance by bringing together scholars from different fields and offering prioneering essays, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric interpreters in light of each other. The picture which emerges from these studies in highly complex: Greek, Jewish and Christian readers were concerned with similar literary and religious questions, often defining their own position in dialogue with others. Special attention is given to three central corpora: the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic writers of the Imperial Age, rabbinic exegesis.
Contributors include: Margalit Finkelberg, Guy G. Stroumsa, Filippomaria Pontani, Francesca Schironi, René Nünlist, Maren R. Niehoff, Katell Berthelot, Sharon Weisser, Cyril Aslanov, Guy Darshan, Yonatan Moss, Yakir Paz, Yair Furstenberg, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, and Joshua Levinson.
Contributors include: Margalit Finkelberg, Guy G. Stroumsa, Filippomaria Pontani, Francesca Schironi, René Nünlist, Maren R. Niehoff, Katell Berthelot, Sharon Weisser, Cyril Aslanov, Guy Darshan, Yonatan Moss, Yakir Paz, Yair Furstenberg, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, and Joshua Levinson.
Maren R. Niehoff, D.Phil. (1989) in Jewish Studies, Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was publisehd extensively on Philo, ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including her recent book Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship (Cambridge, 2011).
Contributors
SETTING THE STAGE Why Compare Homer’s Readers to Biblical Readers?, Maren R. Niehoff
Canonising and Decanonising Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity, Margalit Finkelberg
Scripture and Paideia in Late Antiquity, Guy G. Stroumsa
“Only God Knows the Correct Reading!” The Role of Homer, the Quran and the Bible in the Rise of Philology and Grammar, Filippomaria Pontani
GREEK-SPEAKING INTERPRETERS
The Ambiguity of Signs: Critical σημεῖα from Zenodotus to Origen, Francesca Schironi
Topos didaskalikos and anaphora—two Interrelated Principles in Aristarchus’ Commentaries, René Nünlist
Philo and Plutarch on Homer, Maren R. Niehoff
Philo and the Allegorical Interpretation of Homer in the Platonic tradition (with an Emphasis on Porphyry’s De antro nympharum), Katell Berthelot
The Dispute on Homer: Exegetical Polemic in Galen’s Criticism of Chrysippus, Sharon Weisser
Homer within the Bible: Homerisms in the Graecus Venetus, Cyril Aslanov
HEBRAIC OR ARAMAIC SPEAKING INTERPRETERS
The Twenty-Four Books of the Hebrew Bible and Alexandrian Scribal Methods, Guy Darshan
Noblest Obelus: Rabbinic Appropriations of Late Ancient Literary Criticism, Yonatan Moss
Re-Scripturizing Traditions: Designating Dependence in Rabbinic Halakhic Midrashim and Homeric Scholarship, Yakir Paz
The Agon with Moses and Homer: Rabbinic Midrash and the Second Sophistic, Yair Furstenberg
Midrash and Hermeneutic Reflectivity: Kishmu’o as a Test Case, Ishay Rosen-Zvi
From Narrative Practise to Cultural Poetics: Literary Anthropology and the Rabbinic Sense of Self, Joshua Levinson
Index
SETTING THE STAGE Why Compare Homer’s Readers to Biblical Readers?, Maren R. Niehoff
Canonising and Decanonising Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity, Margalit Finkelberg
Scripture and Paideia in Late Antiquity, Guy G. Stroumsa
“Only God Knows the Correct Reading!” The Role of Homer, the Quran and the Bible in the Rise of Philology and Grammar, Filippomaria Pontani
GREEK-SPEAKING INTERPRETERS
The Ambiguity of Signs: Critical σημεῖα from Zenodotus to Origen, Francesca Schironi
Topos didaskalikos and anaphora—two Interrelated Principles in Aristarchus’ Commentaries, René Nünlist
Philo and Plutarch on Homer, Maren R. Niehoff
Philo and the Allegorical Interpretation of Homer in the Platonic tradition (with an Emphasis on Porphyry’s De antro nympharum), Katell Berthelot
The Dispute on Homer: Exegetical Polemic in Galen’s Criticism of Chrysippus, Sharon Weisser
Homer within the Bible: Homerisms in the Graecus Venetus, Cyril Aslanov
HEBRAIC OR ARAMAIC SPEAKING INTERPRETERS
The Twenty-Four Books of the Hebrew Bible and Alexandrian Scribal Methods, Guy Darshan
Noblest Obelus: Rabbinic Appropriations of Late Ancient Literary Criticism, Yonatan Moss
Re-Scripturizing Traditions: Designating Dependence in Rabbinic Halakhic Midrashim and Homeric Scholarship, Yakir Paz
The Agon with Moses and Homer: Rabbinic Midrash and the Second Sophistic, Yair Furstenberg
Midrash and Hermeneutic Reflectivity: Kishmu’o as a Test Case, Ishay Rosen-Zvi
From Narrative Practise to Cultural Poetics: Literary Anthropology and the Rabbinic Sense of Self, Joshua Levinson
Index
All those interested in Hellenistic Culture, Ancient Judaism, early Christianity, the history of Alexandria, the emergence of the rabbinic movement, history of exegesis, encounter between religion and culture.