Classical Philology and Theology
Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

Catherine Conybeare (Edited by), Simon Goldhill (Edited by)

9781108797030, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 September 2021

282 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.424 kg

Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them. It demonstrates how from antiquity to the present they have marched hand in hand, informing each other with method, views of the past and structures of argument. The volume rewrites the history of discipline formation, and reveals how close the seminar is to the seminary.

1. Philology's shadow Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill
2. Philology's roommate: hermeneutics, antiquity, and the seminar Constanze Güthenke
3. The union and divorce of classical philology and theology Simon Goldhill
4. The philology of Judaism: Zacharias Frankel, the septuagint and the Jewish study of ancient Greek in the nineteenth century Theodor Dunkelgrün
5. Source, original and authentic between philology and theology Irene Peirano Garrison
6. Whose handmaiden? 'Hellenisation' between philology and theology Renaud Gagné
7. Julian the Emperor on statues (of himself) Susanna Elm
8. Boethius in the genres of the book: philology, theology, codicology Mark Vessey
9. Virgil, creator of the world Catherine Conybeare
10. Theology's shadow Erik Gunderson.

Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]