Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar

Cambridge University Press, 9/17/2020
EAN 9781108494830, ISBN10: 1108494838

Hardcover, 288 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close the seminar is to the seminary.

1. Philology's shadow Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill
2. Philology's roommate
hermeneutics, antiquity, and the seminar Constanze Güthenke
3. The union and divorce of classical philology and theology Simon Goldhill
4. The philology of Judaism
Zacharias Frankel, the septuagint and the Jewish study of ancient Greek in the nineteenth century Theodor Dunkelgrün
5. Source, original and authentic between philology and theology Irene Peirano Garrison
6. Whose handmaiden? 'Hellenisation' between philology and theology Renaud Gagné
7. Julian the Emperor on statues (of himself) Susanna Elm
8. Boethius in the genres of the book
philology, theology, codicology Mark Vessey
9. Virgil, creator of the world Catherine Conybeare
10. Theology's shadow Erik Gunderson.