Articles by Steve Delamarter
Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2019
Papers by Steve Delamarter
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This is a complete index to the nearly 8000 references to the Protestant scriptures in the margin... more This is a complete index to the nearly 8000 references to the Protestant scriptures in the margins and footnotes of James Charlesworth's 2-volume work, "The Old Testament Pseudepigraphia". The information in the index will assist those studying the influence of the Hebrew bible on the pseudepigrapha and the influence of the pseudepigrapha on the New Testament.
Teaching Theology and Religion, 2018
This article reports on the cataloguing and digitization of previously unknown Ethiopian manuscri... more This article reports on the cataloguing and digitization of previously unknown Ethiopian manuscripts in England and North America. Twenty-three manuscripts are in England in the Bodleian, Cambridge and John Rylands University Libraries and a private collection in London. The nearly 600 manuscripts in North America reside mostly in private collections. The Ethiopian Manuscript Imaging Project has made images of the latter available online.
At the end of his television show, Roy Rogers looked right into the camera and sang to me, "Happy... more At the end of his television show, Roy Rogers looked right into the camera and sang to me, "Happy trails to you, until we meet again." A similar thing happened to my children when Mister Rogers smiled into the camera and reassured them, "I like you just the way you are." These moments stand out in our memory because it is so odd-even jarringwhen an actor or a storyteller steps outside the world of the story, as it were, and enters our own. Sometimes it becomes clear that there are actually three worlds involved: the world of the viewer, the world of the story and the world of the actor. This becomes apparent whenever actors look into the camera and take off their wigs, revealing the distance between themselves and the story. Until tho< inotant, •ll of one •ttennon h, boon focu.,d on the wodd of the How the Book of Jeremiah Came to Be: The Biblical Version of Events With the Babylonians threatening to attack Jerusalem, God commanded Jeremiah to write down all the words that he had spoken to the prophet. According to the Book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah summoned his scribe Baruch and instructed him to begin writing the words. The biblical report (quoted below) on how this and a second draft of the text came into being is unique in the Bible. The clay seal impression at right, which swfaced on the antiquities market and is now in a private London collection, belonged to that very Baruch, and the faint whorls of a fingerprint on the upper left edge of the seal impression may have been left by the scribe himself. (A second impression made from this same seal is in the Israel Museum. See "The Fingerprint of]eremiah's Scribe," Biblical Archaeology Review, March/Aprill996.) The Hebrew script dates to the late seventh century B.C.E, the time of]eremiah. In this period, papyrus scrolls were commonly tied with string and then sealed with a lump of clay, called a bulla. A scribe would then press his seal into the clay, making the document official. The inscription on this bulla reads "Belonging to Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu the scribe." Berekhyahu is a form of the name Baruch; Neriyahu is a form of Neriah. The longer versions incorporate the divine name Yahweh in the form-yahu. The shorter versions of the father's and son's names appear in the biblical passage quoted below, which is based on what author Steve Delamarter identifies as the Second Edition of]eremiah.
Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Volume 2: Codices 106-200, Magic Scrolls 13... more Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Volume 2: Codices 106-200, Magic Scrolls 135-284 The catalogue was prepared by Veronika Sixx, Steve Delamarter, Getatchew Haile, Kesis Melaku Terefe, Jeremy R. Brown, and Erik C. Young.
This book contains my article, "Surviving Genesis: Dangerous Worlds Both Narrative and Real,... more This book contains my article, "Surviving Genesis: Dangerous Worlds Both Narrative and Real," along with about twenty others.
The authors document the rise of so-called hybrid models of distance education and articulate the... more The authors document the rise of so-called hybrid models of distance education and articulate their relevance for theological education in North America. In the first section, the authors lay out a typology of the visions for technology current among theological educators. One feature of this typology is the recognition of two very different ways of thinking about distance education. Early-stage thinking is characterized by a strong dichotomy between online and face-to-face courses. Later-stage thinking has tended toward the development of hybrid programs. The following sections explore the history of the development of hybrid models and how hybrid courses and programs work. In two final sections, the authors ponder the possible strengths of hybrid programs for theological education and the issue of hybrid models and ATS accreditation standards. A close reading of the current ATS standards for distance education reveals that they have been crafted according to models that are both o...
Teaching Theology & Religion, 2007
speak with the tongues of humans and angels, and even have interactive Applets embedded in my Pow... more speak with the tongues of humans and angels, and even have interactive Applets embedded in my PowerPoints, but have not pedagogy, I am become as sounding brass and a clanging cymbal."
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This article offers an introduction to the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) ... more This article offers an introduction to the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) project. This includes a description of the background to THEOT and its primary purpose of mapping the history of the transmission of the Ethiopic Old Testament. The bulk of the article summarizes the project’s preliminary findings, generally, and, in particular, about Ethiopic Psalms, Song of Songs, Deuteronomy, Ruth, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Haggai. Some attention is also given to evidences of contact with the Hebrew text tradition, although the Ethiopic is clearly a daughter version of the LXX.
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This article details the challenges faced by the author in producing a scripture index to Charles... more This article details the challenges faced by the author in producing a scripture index to Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. After reflections on what one expects from a scripture index, he catalogues eleven sets of ambiguities surrounding the indexing task for which answers had to be provided. Finally, he provides a few suggestions to assist future editors whose works need to
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