Papers by Nathaniel Dykstra
The first part of the title of this paper is, as you may have deduced, inspired by Tertullian's f... more The first part of the title of this paper is, as you may have deduced, inspired by Tertullian's famous question, "Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?"¹ His words were intended to highlight the distinction that he was making between the Academy and the Church, or haeretici and Christians, whose perspectives (which he represented by the two cities that he named) were, to his way of thinking, diametrically opposed to one another. Similarly, it will have been only a few decades ago that not many would have seen much of a connection between the computer and the discipline of textual criticism. In recent years, however, dramatic changes have occurred as more and more scholars have become attuned to the possibilities with regard to facilitating such research with the aid of this kind of technology. Now important ventures involving textual research-such as The Hexapla Project, The International Greek New Testament Project, The Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism, The Greek Online Lexical Database, and, dare we say, the Göttingen Septuaginta IV Maccabees project-are pushing the frontiers of what may be accomplished with the use of electronic databases and computer analysis. Preliminary and informal discussions have taken place during the past year or two concerning the possibilities of collaboration amongst these projects with a view both to sharing technological insights and to exploring ways to make the benefits of such advances available to the world of scholarship at large. The origins of the august project that we are celebrating during this conference go back, as we all know, 100 years. The roster of those who have played a role in its development includes luminaries in biblical and Septuagint research. My² introduction to Septuagint textual criticism came in classes that I took with my Doktor-Grossvater at the University of Toronto, John William Wevers, the editor of the Pentateuch volumes in the Göttingen Septuaginta series. My Doktor-Vater, Albert Pietersma, in his address at the inauguration of the Septuagint Institute of 1 Tertullian, De praescriptione haereticorum, 7.9. 2 Throughout the rest of this paper, when the first person singular pronoun is used, the reference is to Robert Hiebert.
The first part of the title of this paper is, as you may have deduced, inspired by Tertullian's f... more The first part of the title of this paper is, as you may have deduced, inspired by Tertullian's famous question, "Quid ergo Athenis et Hierosolymis?"¹ His words were intended to highlight the distinction that he was making between the Academy and the Church, or haeretici and Christians, whose perspectives (which he represented by the two cities that he named) were, to his way of thinking, diametrically opposed to one another. Similarly, it will have been only a few decades ago that not many would have seen much of a connection between the computer and the discipline of textual criticism. In recent years, however, dramatic changes have occurred as more and more scholars have become attuned to the possibilities with regard to facilitating such research with the aid of this kind of technology. Now important ventures involving textual research-such as The Hexapla Project, The International Greek New Testament Project, The Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism, The Greek Online Lexical Database, and, dare we say, the Göttingen Septuaginta IV Maccabees project-are pushing the frontiers of what may be accomplished with the use of electronic databases and computer analysis. Preliminary and informal discussions have taken place during the past year or two concerning the possibilities of collaboration amongst these projects with a view both to sharing technological insights and to exploring ways to make the benefits of such advances available to the world of scholarship at large. The origins of the august project that we are celebrating during this conference go back, as we all know, 100 years. The roster of those who have played a role in its development includes luminaries in biblical and Septuagint research. My² introduction to Septuagint textual criticism came in classes that I took with my Doktor-Grossvater at the University of Toronto, John William Wevers, the editor of the Pentateuch volumes in the Göttingen Septuaginta series. My Doktor-Vater, Albert Pietersma, in his address at the inauguration of the Septuagint Institute of
Journal of Jewish Studies, 2009
This article begins with a review of the preliminary editions of 1QIsa b (by E. L. Sukenik, D. Ba... more This article begins with a review of the preliminary editions of 1QIsa b (by E. L. Sukenik, D. Barthelemy and E. Jain). Next follows a new listing of the scroll's contents by column, as will appear in the forthcoming critical edition (DJD 32, ed. E. Ulrich and P. W. Flint). The main part presents the transcriptions, with comments and text-critical notes, of twelve newly identified fragments belonging to 1QIsa b . Photographs of all twelve fragments are placed together on Plate I.
Die Göttinger Septuaginta, 2013
Journal of Jewish Studies, 2009
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Papers by Nathaniel Dykstra