Well yet another International Septuagint Day has arrived (and gone) as of yesterday, 8 February. It being a Sunday, I figured I would draw attention to it this morning instead. And as usual, I have something to say about it. First, here’s a list of links to previous years’ celebrations here on the blog:
To celebrate this year, I want to draw attention to an exciting new venture at Oxford.
(more…)Mostly as a way to take a break from grading, I’m taking some time today to write about the fifth of five essays that went to press in 2025. I posted about four others here, here, here, and here.
This fifth essay is entitled “Reevaluating Parataxis in the Septuagint.” It appears in Subordination and Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek: From Syntax to Context, edited by Klaas Bentein, Eleonora Cattafi, and Ezra La Roi (De Gruyter Brill, 2025). This edited volume originated in a conference held way back in May 2022 at Ghent University. Although I was unable to attend in person, my friend and colleague Andrew Keenan read an early version of this paper for me.
(more…)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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Septuaginta &c. 