The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology

The first three issues of a short-lived academic journal, published in 1854, illuminate classics and theology in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Edited by), Fenton John Anthony Hort (Edited by), John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (Edited by)

9781108053518, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 August 2012

440 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Contemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–89), Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–92), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910) all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became President of St John's, while Lightfoot and Hort - members, along with Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), later Regius Professor of Divinity, of the 'Cambridge triumvirate' - were eventually appointed respectively Bishop of Durham and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. This short-lived triannual journal, which they founded and edited from 1854 to 1859, is interesting both for its combination of classical and patristic material, illuminating the close relationship between theology and classics as disciplines in the period, and as an example from the early history of academic journals, an emerging genre which would develop into its current form over the following decades. Volume 1, published in 1854, contains the year's three issues.

Part I: 1. The Birds of Aristophanes
2. On Lucretius
3. St Paul and Philo
4. On the dating of ancient history
5. Notes on the study of the bible among our forefathers
Adversaria
Anecdota
Reviews
Notices of new books
Correspondence
Contents of foreign journals
List of new books
Part II: 1. The sophists
2. On the martyrdom and commemoration of St Hippolytus
3. On some special difficulties in Pindar
4. Remarks on some of the Greek tragic fragments
5. On Schneidewin's edition of the Oedipus Rex
6. On the classical authorities for ancient art
7. On a point in the doctrine of the ancient atomists
Adversaria
Anecdota
Correspondence
Notices of new books
Contents of foreign journals
List of new books
Part III: 1. Notes on the study of the bible among our forefathers
2. On Schneidewin's edition of the Oedipus Rex (cont.)
3. S. Clemens Alex. on New Testament chronology
4. Remarks on some of the Greek tragic fragments (cont.)
5. On the interpretation of a passage in the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle
6. On the topography of Halicarnassus
7. On the classical authorities for ancient art (cont.)
8. On some passages in Lucretius
9. On the Hebrew cubit
Anecdota
Correspondence
Notices of new books
Contents of foreign journals
List of new books
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]