Benno A. Zuiddam, Heilige Letters en Lettergrepen. De functie en het karakter van Schriftgezag in de tweede eeuw, zoals dit naar voren komt in de werken van Ignatius van Antiochië, Irenaeus van Lyon en Clemens van Alexandrië, Importantia (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Teologia, 2007).
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Heilige Letters en Lettergrepen
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NEH Summer Seminar in Tunisia
The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring a summer seminar for College and University Professors in July of 2010 in Tunisia to be led by Professor Thomas Heffernan.
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Jeffery A. Wittung
An editor at Baker Academic who worked with NAPS members on their publications died unexpectedly on January 10, 2010. Below is the press release from Baker Publishing Group:
Baker Publishing Group mourns the loss of a colleague and friend, Jeffery A. Wittung. Jeff, one of Baker’s academic editors, was injured in a car accident on his way to work January 6, 2010. He passed away the evening of January 10. He leaves behind a wife, Marne, and two daughters: Ana (5) and Kate (1).
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International Conference: Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity
Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity
International Conference
Ebeltoft, Denmark
31 May – 4 June 2010Further Information:
Conference website and registration:
www.relnorm.au.dk/en/may2010conf/presentationThe conference explores questions such as: How did ancient religious texts and traditions attain normative and canonical status? Which ideological and rhetorical strategies were used in the struggle for the normative status of specific texts and traditions? Discussions will take place under these five headings:
1. Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts
2. Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 3. Orthodoxy and Heresy
4. Formation of the Biblical Canon
5. Canons, Classics and Foundation Texts in Antiquity: A Comparative Perspective -
New Book
I’m happy to announce the publication of my new book:
J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Enlivening the Past: An Asian Theologian’s Engagement with the Early Teachers of Faith (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009).
Thanks to friends at NAPS, especially Dr Charles Bobertz, who encouraged me to do this.
