From: Arthur Kiron <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:30:07 -0500
The International Institute of Advanced Studies, Kyoto, announces the publication of: Modernity and Interpretations of Ancient Texts: The Collapse and Remaking of Traditions Series: International Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) Report No. 1102 (Project Leader: Isaiah Teshima) Publisher: International Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Kyoto-Nara, Japan ISBN:978-4-906671-85-3 Format: Paperback, A4 Pages: 319 Price: \3,800(Yen) Order from: International Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) 9-3,Kizugawadai,Kizu-cho,Soraku-gun,Kyoto 619-0225 JAPAN TEL:+81-774-73-4000 FAX:+81-774-73-4005 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.iias.or.jp/en/ This is a collection of the papers of the IIAS project ”Modernity and the Studies of Ancient Texts,” which went on from 2008 to 2010 in Nara-Kyoto Japan. The basic idea of the project, based on Umberto Cassuto’s insight into the parallel development of Higher Criticism in Homeric and Biblical scholarship of the 19th century, is to review the past and the present of Biblical and Homeric Studies and the merits and shortcomings of Historical Criticism. During this three-year period, scholars of the Bible and Homer in Japan met with scholars invited from abroad to share the issue and discuss scholarly achievements from a fresh and critical point of view, conscious of clashes between the values of secularism and traditionalism in the sense of Wissenschaft in modern times. The English and Japanese papers collected in the volume discuss the methodological issues of Historical Criticism as it relates to Source Criticism, Textual Criticism, Historical Grammar, and Context. Contributors from abroad are Robert L. FOWLER, Takamitsu MURAOKA, Jeffrey TIGAY, Malcolm DAVIES, and Alexander ROFÉ. Table of Contents Prologue ―How Do You Know It‘s True? On the Role of Humanities in Modern Crisis Isaiah (Izaya) TESHIMA 7 Part 1. Introduction: Our Perspectives 1-1 The Studies of Ancient Texts and the Problem of the Term “Classic in” Europe (Japanese with English Summary) Gengo ITO 22 1-2 Classical Studies Open Up a Bright Future: Looking Back at Its Past (Japanese with English Summary) Yoshiko NISHIMURA 33 Part 2. Historical vs. Literary: Varieties of Methods in Contrast 2-1 Homer and his Tradition Robert L. FOWLER 42 2-2 Could We Still Learn Something from Pre-modern Jewish Hebraists and Bible Scholars? Takamitsu MURAOKA 53 2-3 Bible as Literature: Robert Alter‘s Case Yu TAKEUCHI 65 2-4 The Modern Debate on the Homeric Question and the Legacy of Milman Parry (Japanese with English summary) Yoshiko NISHIMURA 75 2-5 Neoanalysis in Homeric Studies: On the Creativity of the Poet against Tradition (Japanese with English Summary) Yoshinori SANO 89 2-6 Modern Linguistics and Hebrew Studies: A Case of “Tenses” of Suffix and Prefix Conjugations (Japanese with English Summary) Jun IKEDA 99 Part 3. In Search of History 3-1 The Documentary Hypothesis, Empirical Models and Holistic Interpretation Jeffrey TIGAY 116 3-2 Mesopotamian Historical Texts and the Deuteronomistic History (Japanese with English Summary) Shigeo YAMADA 144 3-3 The Age of Heroes and the Age of Iron: Hesiod‘s View on Greek Social History (Japanese with English Summary) Makoto ANZAI 163 3-4 The Autobiographies of Odysseus: Between Truth and Fiction in the Odyssey (Japanese with English Summary) Noriko YASUMURA 191 Part 4. Ancient and Modern Interpreters: How Did They Read Homer, Hesiod and the Bible? 4-1 Homeric Questions of Aristotle (Japanese with English Summary) Koji WATANABE 212 4-2 Homeric Criticism in Antiquity and Homeric Allegories of Heraclitus (Japanese with English Summary) Tsugunobu UCHIDA 223 4-3 Reading a classical text in the time of the Reformation: Philip Melanchton‘s preface and commentary on Hesiod‘s Works and Days (Japanese with English Summary) Gengo ITO 232 4-4 Charles James Fox, Homer and Heracles Malcolm DAVIES 250 4-5 Cassuto and Higher Criticism Alexander ROFÉ 255 Part 5. Beyond Modern Hermeneutics 5-1 Text as Musical Score, Interpretation as Musical Performance: Primitive-stage Interpretation of the ―Sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22:1-19) (Japanese with English Summary) Ritsu ISHIKAWA 264 5-2 The Heuristic Reading in Commentary on Genesis of Ephrem of Nisibis: Beyond the Paradigm of Modern Hermeneutics (Japanese with English Summary) Shinichi MUTO 279 Epilogue: Grass for Pillow—Man, the Bible and Nature (in Japanese only) Yutaka IKEDA 291 Appendix 305 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
