Hexapla Institute Blog

John Meade has (re?)started up the Hexapla Institute blog as part of the reboot of the Hexapla Institute as a whole with two articles on Origin's Hexapla and the Early Jewish Revisers. According to his newsletter, the Hexapla Institute is now a registered 501(c)(3) and looking to foster more intensive work on the Hexapla. Sign up for their newsletter for updates.

Origen as Philologist Colloquium

John Meade announces that Phoenix Seminary's Text and Canon Institute will be hosting a colloquium on Origen as philologist on 18-19 November 2020. They have a great line-up of speakers presenting, so I'm sure it will be a very interesting conference. From their website:

About the Colloquium

Twenty five years after Oxford’s Rich Seminar sparked a renaissance of research on Origen’s Hexapla, the Phoenix Seminary Text & Canon Institute will host its first colloquium to explore Origen’s textual scholarship and its reception in late antiquity.

Origen of Alexandria moved to Caesarea around AD 230 and soon after began his work on the Hexapla or six-parallel-columned edition of the Old Testament. This edition inspired the preparation of subsequent scholarly editions of the Greek scriptures at the Caesarean Library that impacted the text and exegesis of the Scriptures in their Greek and Hebrew forms there and in other locales.

For its inaugural colloquium, the Text & Canon Institute is bringing together a group of international scholars to write this chapter of the Bible’s history.

Presenters & Topics

Alison Salvesen ※University of Oxford
“Symmachus at Caesarea: the Use and Reception of his Ekdosis by Caesarean Scholars”

Edmon L. Gallagher ※ Heritage Christian University
“The Hexapla in the Church according to Jerome”

Michael Graves ※ Wheaton College
“Jerome’s Epistle 106 and Origen’s Hexapla”

Bradley J. Marsh, Jr. ※ University of Oxford
“The ‘Afterlife’ of Hexaplaric Samaritan Readings”

Peter J. Gentry ※ The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“History of Hexapla and Tetrapla from the Evidence of the Colophons”

Anna Kharanauli ※ Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

“Grammarians at Work”

John D. Meade ※ Phoenix Seminary
“Late Fourth- and Early Fifth-Century Reception of the Caesarean Ekdoseis”

Matthew Miller ※ Classical School of Wichita
“The Caesarean Hebrew Text: Insights from the Asterisked Material in Codex Colbertinus-Sarravianus”

Francesca Schironi ※ University of Michigan
“Textual Scholarship in Hellenistic Alexandria (and beyond)”

Benjamin Kantor ※ University of Cambridge
“The Pre-Hexaplaric Secunda: Greek Transcriptions of the Hebrew Bible in Roman Caesarea”

Meade on Hexaplaric fragments of Job

John Meade announces his forthcoming book on the Hexaplaric fragments of Job. Congratulations on a job well done and an undoubtedly helpful resource for the field!