Papyri

(Virtual) Oxford Septuagint Seminar, 27 May

Details for the next seminar, available virtually, are as follows for tomorrow:

Oxford Septuagint Seminar

27 May | 2:00 PM (BST)

Dr Camilla Recalcati “The Septuagint in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Papyrological Approach”

Dr. Camilla Recalcati is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University and Bar-Ilan University whose research explores the Septuagint, its linguistic features, and the multicultural Jewish world of the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Author of The Egyptian Background of the Septuagint and co-chair of the EABS research unit on Papyrology and the Biblical World, she is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

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New Publications: Part 3

This is the third post in a series of an eventual five that highlight a batch of publications from this year. You can read the first two here and here.

This particular publication is an essay entitled “The Syntax of Year Expressions in Hellenistic Greek Papyri and Ancient Jewish Translation.” It is published in a very large collection that presents the proceedings of the thirtieth International Congress of Papyrology, which was held in Paris in 2022, where I initially presented my research. (Remarkably, the volume is available to download for free here.)

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Book Announcement: Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography

Just a short but exciting bit of news to share today. I’m very pleased to report that my new book Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography has now been published with SBL Press in the Septuagint and Cognate Studies series. This book is the “official” — and only lightly revised — version of my doctoral thesis, which I completed in 2018 at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of James (Jim) K. Aitken (see below). (more…)