Roger-Pearse

Daily Gleanings from Roger Pearse about the translation of the King James Version and AWOL about Brill’s “Digital Biblical Studies” series.

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Ancient Near East and Second Temple Judaism

• Phillip R. Callaway, The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, reviewed by Stephen Reed
• Benedikt Eckhardt, ed., Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
• Oded Lipschits and David S. Vanderhooft, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah, reviewed by Aren Maeir
• Annick Payne, Hieroglyphic Luwian: An Introduction with Original Texts, reviewed by Robert Holmstedt

New Testament and Cognate Studies

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On the web:

• Jim Davila reports the discovery of some previously lost Greek homilies on the Psalms, potentially by Origen ( 1, 2).
• Peter Williams provides a link to a set of images of the manuscript.
• Roger Pearse comments on the press release and quotes Jerome’s catalogue of Origen’s writings.
• Alin Suciu passes along a letter from Lorenzo Perrone, provides several updates on the discussion, and releases a guest post from Mark Bilby.
• Dirk Jongkind comments on a textual variant in the text’s quotation of 1 Corinthians.