I’ve just received my copy of Archiv für Papyrusforschung 62/1 (2016):

I have in it an edition of a papyrus fragment of the Shepherd of Hermas housed in Paris (of the same leaf as the Hermas papyrus fragment in Prague) which I’ll upload soon here. I imagine the whole issue will be uploaded (for those with some sort of subscription, I believe) on the webpage of the journal, here. It is not live just yet.

I would also mention Christian Vassalo, “A Catalogue of the Evidence for Presocratics in the Herculaneum Papyri” the title is self-explanatory.  NT people may  well be interested in Peter Malik’s article on P.Beatty III (P47 in NT textual criticism, contains good parts of the Apocalypse of John, LDAB 2778) which pleads for an approach to early Christian codices that integrates the study of non- or paratextual and textual features, and discusses scribal corrections and the link between re-inking and textual variation.

There is an opportunity in Leuven for a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies. The way this works is the following: if you get this position, you have one year of funding  (starting in September, about 1800 euro/month net) in which one works and further refine one’s project with a supervisor (named ‘promoter’ here), and applies in January/February for a full PhD fellowship to the Belgian research agency – the FWO – for further four years (this one). UPDATE: There is an additional opportunity for after the first year, apart from the candidate’s FWO application: the promoter can also submit a project application with the FWO or the Research Council of KU Leuven. Two shots at it, as it were.

This means that if you get that, you end up with five years of full funding which should be enough to complete a thesis, take a few steps toward its publication, and apply for postdocs.

If you happen to be interested, I suggest you check the details, here (updated link), and get in touch with a professor in the faculty right away. The deadline is August 18 (updated).

There are here professors of Greek, respectively Latin Patristics, and the two professors of New Testament are interested in reception history as well.

Good luck!

Edmon Gallagher posted on academia.edu the prepub version of a forthcoming JTS article: “Augustine on the Hebrew Bible“. Enjoy!

Abstract:

Augustine’s support for the Septuagint as the true Christian Old Testament never waned, but his understanding of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint did develop over his career. His earliest statements assume that the Seventy translators faithfully rendered the Hebrew text, with any discrepancy resulting from ambiguity in the source text. His correspondence with Jerome convinced him that there was more to it than that. Augustine’s mature writings evidence an innovative theory whereby both the Hebrew text and its Greek translation could be correct, guiding the reader to spiritual insight, even if they said different things.