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Bible Review Chosen by Library of Congress for Blind and Handicapped
The special first anniversary issue of Bible Review (
The service produces books and magazines in recorded form for persons who cannot read because of a physical disability. Each month the service chooses one magazine as the Talking Book Magazine of the Month, which is sent free to all participants in the program. Bible Review was the March 1986 selection.
If you know someone who is blind or physically handicapped and who is interested in participating in this program, write to The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1291 Taylor Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20542.
Religion/Science/Magic Conference at Brown University
More than a dozen scholars of such diverse specialties as Early Christianity, Antique and Medieval Judaism, Ancient Babylonia and Greek philosophy will meet August 9–13, 1987, at Brown University to explore the two distinctions, “religion and magic” and “science and magic.” Ancient and medieval documents will be probed and the authors analyzed—whom did the authors address and whom did they exclude? What practices fell into the two categories?
Scholars scheduled to present papers include Jacob Neusner of Brown, Hans Dieter Betz of the University of Chicago and Moshe Idel of Hebrew University.
A university dormitory has been set aside for housing conference participants, and a meal plan and athletic facilities are available. For more information, write to Mr. Paul Flesher, Conference Manager, Program in Jewish Studies, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island 02912–1826
Metzger and O’Connell Join BR Editorial Advisory Board
Two distinguished scholars, Bruce M. Metzger and Kevin G. O’Connell, S.J., have joined BR’s Editorial Advisory Board.
Metzger, now emeritus, held the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has been called “probably the greatest New Testament textual specialist that America has produced” (Raymond E. Brown Theology Today). His books include Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography, The Text of the New Testament and The Early Versions of the New Testament.
O’Connell, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, is currently preparing a translation and commentary on the Book of Exodus for the Anchor Bible Series. For the Fall 1987 semester, O’Connell will be the first William K. Warren Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Religion at the University of Tulsa. A working field archaeologist, he served as the administrative director of the Tell el-Hesi excavation in Israel from 1973–81. O’Connell is best known to BR readers as the author of “Continuity and Change in Israel’s Covenant with God,” BR 01:04.
New Journal and Series on the Pseudepigrapha
Beginning in October 1987 Pseudepigrapha studies will gain its own journal. James H. Charlesworth of Princeton Theological Seminary and James R. Mueller, lecturer in Christian origins, will serve respectively as Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, to be published by the University of Sheffield’s JSOT Press. The Editorial Board comprises an international panel of eminent authorities. The new journal will appear three times per year in a format similar to its companions, Journal for Study of the Old Testament and Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
A Supplement Series of monographs has also been established in conjunction with the new journal, and the following three titles are scheduled for 1987: Portraits of Adam in Early Judaism by John R. Levison, Flavius Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome by Per Bilde, and The History of the Qumran Community by Phillip R. Callaway.
For more information, write to Eisenbrauns, P.O. Box 275, Winona Lake, Indiana 46590.
Bible Review Chosen by Library of Congress for Blind and Handicapped
The special first anniversary issue of Bible Review (BR 02:01) was selected as the “Talking Book of the Month” by the Library of Congress’s National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
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