Interview with Anneli Aejmelaeus

Helen Dixon has posted an interview with Anneli Aejmelaeus, recently retired professor and Septuagint specialist from the University of Helsinki. I had the pleasure of working with her for the past couple of years and greatly enjoyed my time in Helsinki.

Free E-Books from Brill

For Academic Week 2017, Brill has made several volumes freely downloadable. Thanks to Brill for this generous offer! :) Among those most of interest to readers of this blog, see:

Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book 

Marvin J. Heller

Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West
Explorations with a Global Database

Eltjo Buringh

The Kabbalistic Scholar of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

Robert J. Wilkinson

Early Christian Manuscripts
Examples of Applied Method and Approach

Edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas

New DSS Fragments from the Cave of the Skulls

A recent article notes that a couple of small, as-yet undeciphered fragments were discovered in recent salvage excavations in the Cave of the Skulls.

HT Daniel Falk

LXX Scholar Interview: José Manuel Cañas Reíllo

Will Ross blogs with an interesting interview with José Manuel Cañas Reíllo, the editor of the Göttingen LXX edition of Judges. José gives an interesting window into the work of an editor and a sneak peak into the edition he anticipates to complete in 2020. Interestingly, he suggests it will be possible to produce a single main text of the book, rather than printing two parallel versions. Best of luck to José as he finishes the edition!

Glenny Reviews Kreuzer's "The Bible in Greek"

In the most recent RBL Ed Glenny reviews Sigmund Kreuzer's The Bible in Greek: Translation, Transmission, and Theology of the Septuagint. It sounds like an apology for the Antiochene/Lucianic text in Septuagint research and a good read for anyone interested in Septuagint studies.

New ZAW Articles

A new issue of ZAW (128, no. 4) is out including some articles of text-critical interest.


The Analysis of the Pentateuch
Kratz, Reinhard G.


Comparing Critical Editions: BHQ Proverbs and HBCE Proverbs
Hendel, Ronald


HT Agade

Forgeries in Accordance?

Arstein Justnes laments the inclusion of several post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments in Accordance modules. Somewhat annoyingly, he rejects two Exodus fragments identified by Eshel and Eshel as forgeries... :) I guess that makes more work for me in revising my dissertation!