Festschriften and Collected Essays

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Festschriften and Collected Essays Christopher T. Begg, Thomas Hieke, Fred W. Guyette, Brian J. Meldrum, and Carol J. Dempsey OP Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America Thomas Hieke Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Fred W. Guyette Erskine College and Seminary Brian J. Meldrum Catholic University of America Carol J. Dempsey OP University of Portland 771. [History of ANE and Biblical Law] Reinhard Achenbach, Hans Neumann, Eckart Otto, and Guido Pfeiefer (eds.), Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte [ZAR] 26 (2020). Pp. iv + 346. Paper €128. ISBN 978-3-447-18094-8. This volume of ZAR contains a total of 12 articles on various aspects of ANE, biblical, and ancient Greek law, written in either German or English. It likewise features nine book reviews or book review essays, a list of contributors, and an index of passages cited. For abstracts of those articles of most direct interest to OTA readers, see ##4, 47, 101, 192, 426, 429.—C.T.B. Google Scholar 772. [Sirach and Its Contexts] Samuel L. Adams, Greg Schmidt Goering, and Matthew Goff (eds.), Sirach and Its Contexts: The Pursuit of Wisdom and Human Flourishing (JSJSup 196; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021). Pp. viii + 301. $132. ISBN 978-90-04-44732-5. The 14 essays making up this volume stem from a conference held in the summer of 2017 in Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia. The essays are divided up under four headings: Part 1: The Wisdom of Ben Sira: Contexts, Categories and Approaches (5 essays); Part 2: The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sirach: Diversity, Continuity, and Transmission (3 essays); Part 3: Sages and Their Contexts: Hellenism, Hymns, and Pedagogy (3 essays); and Part 4: The Reception of the Book and Figure of Ben Sira in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (3 essays). Each essay comes with its own bibliography. The volume's additional matter includes an introduction (which provides summaries of the following contributions), an array of illustrations, figures, and tables, and two indexes (ancient sources and modern authors). For abstracts of the essays, see ##144, 145, 163, 182, 585, 586, 587, 588, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595.—C.T.B. Google Scholar 773. [Hexaplaric and Lucianic Readings and Recensions] Joshua Alfaro, Dionisio Candido, and Kristin De Troyer (eds.), On Hexaplaric and Lucianic Readings and Recensions (DSI 14; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021). Pp. 235. $63. ISBN 978-1-525-53213-4. In the history of the Greek translation of the Bible, there are two recensions that played a very important role: the Hexaplaric recension of Origen and the Lucian text. Origen brought together the different versions of the biblical text in existence at his time and sought to align the current Greek text(s) more closely with the current Hebrew text. His work in doing this, in the words of Anneli Aejmalaeus, "opened the gates to a flood of approximations of the Greek text to the Hebrew." Filtering out what are the Hexaplaric readings in a given book is thus of utmost importance for the reconstruction of the Old Greek text, which may, in various cases, point to a Hebrew text different from our MT. A similar textual initiative was undertaken by Lucian, and his work too needs to be reconstructed and tracked in the attempt to establish the OG text. The 12 essays making up this volume deal with the above issues in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Joshua, and Esther. [End Page 257] For abstracts of the 12 essays (all of which are in English and each which comes with its own bibliography), see ##107, 108, 129, 139, 142, 147, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161, 166. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 774. [Israel and Aram in Biblical Times] Angelika Berlejung and Aren M. Maier (eds.), Research on Israel and Aram. Autonomy, Independence and Related Issues (Proceedings of the First Annual RIAB Center Conference, Leipzig, June 2016; Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times 1; ORA 34; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019). Pp. xvii + 501. €119. ISBN 978-3-16-157719...