New book from the Presses Universitaires de Liège:

Gabriel Nocchi Macedo and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (eds.). Signes dans les textes, textes sur les signes: Érudition, lecture et écriture dans le monde gréco-romain.
Papyrologica Leodiensia 6; Liège: PUL, 2017.

The various paratextual signs found here and there in early-Christian papyri and manuscripts have drawn quite some attention during the last decade for the possible clues they could offer not only about the use of these manuscripts but possibly also about liturgical practices and the formation of the canon.

This book offers sixteen contributions on the Greek and Roman background on signs found in manuscripts and inscriptions, and should therefore inform all future developments of such debates. The papers are written in Italian, English, Spanish and French, so it should be good fun. I’ve pasted the contents below, for convenience. Daniela Colomo’s article, on quantity marks in Greek prose texts on papyrus, is available online here.

Guglielmo CAVALLO
Prefazione

Maria Chiara SCAPPATICCIO
Segni nei testi, testi sui segni: perché?

Julia LOUGOVAYA‐AST
Some Observations on the Usage of Punctuation in Early Greek Inscriptions

Lucio DEL CORSO
Segni e layout delle iscrizioni greche in Egitto. Un sondaggio su testi esposti in prosa

Alberto NODAR DOMÍNGUEZ
Los signos de lectura más antiguos en papiro

Gianluca DEL MASTRO
La ponctuation dans les papyrus grecs d’Herculanum

Daniela COLOMO
Quantity Marks in Greek Prose Texts on Papyrus

Kathleen MCNAMEE
Sigla in Late Greek Literary Papyri

Rodney AST
Signs of Learning in Greek Documents: the Case of spiritus asper

Eleanor DICKEY
Word Division in Bilingual Texts

Rodolfo FUNARI
Segni di interpunzione e di lettura nei frammenti storici latini da papiro e pergamena rivenuti nell’Egitto

Gabriel NOCCHI MACEDO
Textes sur les signes : les sources latines

Giuseppina MAGNALDI
Integrazioni con parola‐segnale in manoscritti ciceroniani e apuleiani

Serena AMMIRATI
Segni nei libri: esempi e problemi nei manoscritti medievali di contenuto grammaticale

Louis HOLTZ
La pratique de la ponctuation dans les manuscrits de Lyon du Ve au IXe siècle

Claudio GIAMMONA
Ricezione ed evoluzione di un trattato elementare : le Declinationes e le redazioni dell’Ars Ambianensis

Fidel SEBASTIÁN MEDIAVILLA
Herencia clásica en la ponctuación y la acentuación del Siglo de Oro español

New book from Brill:

Veronika Černušková, Judith L. Kovacs, and Jana Plátová (eds.)
Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, May 29–31, 2014)
VCS 139; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017.

Blurb

In Clement’s Biblical Exegesis scholars from six countries explore various facets of Clement of Alexandria’s hermeneutical theory and his exegetical practice. Although research on Clement has tended to emphasize his use of philosophical sources, Clement was important not only as a Christian philosopher, but also as a pioneer Christian exegete. His works constitute a crucial link in the tradition of Alexandrian exegesis, but his biblical exegesis has received much less attention than that of Philo or Origen. Topics discussed include how Clement’s methods of allegorical interpretation compare with those of Philo, Origen, and pagan exegetes of Homer, and his readings of particular texts such as Proverbs, the Sermon on the Mount, John 1, 1 John, and the Pauline letters.

For a taste of this, you can find the contributions of Annewies van den Hoek (“Clement of Alexandria and the Book of Proverbs“) and Matyáš Havrda (“Clement’s Exegetical Interests in Stromateis VIII“) readily available on academia.edu. Good stuff, this.

The program of the 2017 North American Patristics Society has just been published, here. Plenty of cool papers to go around, methinks.

Of course, as for any such occasion, check out Melissa Ridley’s advice on cultivating collegiality, and David Lincicum’s jolly good tips on how not to be a jerk at conferences.