[免費書] The Text of Leviticus

 

"The Text of Leviticus: Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium of the Dominique Barthélémy Institute, held in Fribourg (October 2015)" 而家可以透過Peeters的官網免費下載. 

Link: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/pdf/9789042943452.pdf 

Abstract:

The book of Leviticus is by far the most quoted in rabbinic literature such as the Mishna or the Talmud, while it has been marginalized in the Christian tradition. Nevertheless, scholars of both traditions have again become highly interested in it for some decades now. As shown by many recent publications, the book is thoroughly studied for textual, literary, historical and reception aspects.

It has often been said and written that the text of Leviticus is stable in comparison to many other books of the Hebrew Bible, and that its Greek translation is quite literal. Yet, the text of Leviticus continues to raise questions, not only regarding its content and textual witnesses, but also its interpretation, history and reception. The third international colloquium of the Dominique Barthélemy Institute, held in Fribourg in October 2015, aimed to bring together some specialists of the text of Leviticus in order to advance research on its textual witnesses and the aforementioned topics.

The articles collected in this book reflect the width of current research. They deal with the witnesses to the text of Leviticus in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint. They also study the book’s Hebrew editing; its relation to other books such as Joshua, Luke-Acts and Flavius Josephus; and the challenge of its translation, with a case study in French.

[免費書] Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature

 

"Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature"而家可以透過Bloomsbury Open Access免費下載或直接網上睇. 本書喺Amazon定價接近成千蚊的. 

Link: 

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/abraham-in-jewish-and-early-christian-literature/

Abstract: 

Jewish and early Christian authors discussed Abraham in numerous and diverse ways, adapting his Old Testament narratives and using Abrahamic imagery in their works. However, while some areas of study in Abrahamic texts have received much scholarly attention, other areas remain nearly untouched. Beginning with a perspective on how Abraham was used within Jewish literature, this collection of essays follows the impact of Abraham across biblical texts–including Pseudigraphic and Apocryphal texts – into early Greek, Latin and Gnostic literature.

These essays build upon existing Abraham scholarship, by discussing Abraham in less explored areas such as rewritten scripture, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, the Apostolic Fathers and contemporary Greek and Latin authors. Through the presentation of a more thorough outline of the impact of the figure and stories of Abraham, the contributors to this volume create a concise and complete idea of how his narrative was employed throughout the centuries, and how ancient authors adopted and adapted received traditions.

Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

 

最近睇緊呢本書, 好正. 

幾年前我都有錄片講過, 有個記者叫Ariel Sabar喺本雜誌出咗篇文章, 將The Gospel of Jesus' Wife的主人Walter Fritz完全起底, 進一步證實耶太福音書係偽造. 呢本新書係更詳盡的故事. 

Howtin舊片: [耶太福音書] 記者發功起底 揭發神秘人面紗

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0csQLHEUo

[免費書] Jacob Wright, "War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible"

 

 

呢排年年考第一的林鄭月娥表明當劍橋大學的榮銜為垃圾, 所以今次share一本Cambridge University Press新出的舊約學術書: Jacob Wright的War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible. 全書而家可以喺劍橋官網免費睇, 如果喺Amazon正價買, 差唔多成千蚊港幣.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108691512

[免費書] John Trevor, Scrolls from Qumrân Cave I: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Order of the Community, the Pesher to Habakkuk

Claremont School of Theology近日宣佈, 送咗250,000本宗教研究的書籍俾Internet Archive, 放喺Open Library俾大家免費睇.

其中一本係聖經學者John Trever的死海古卷「寫真集」. 呢本書包括The Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QS, 同1QpHab的相片. Trever係世上最早有機會可以影相拍到死海古卷的人, 因為當時佢喺ASOR工作, 有人帶住幾卷古卷叫佢幫眼睇下.

雖然而家有更多後來拍到的古卷高清相片可以喺網上睇到, 但Trever拍攝時期早, 保存咗少少古卷後來破爛咗的地方, 所以係有價值的歷史資料嚟.

Link: https://archive.org/details/qumran/mode/2up

[免費書] Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

呢本探討亞蘭文死海古卷的學術書, 原價係一百蚊美金以上, 而家可以喺Brill的官網免費下載:
https://brill.com/view/title/56078

[免費書] Behind the Essenes: History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls

免費書出沒注意. Brown Judaic Studies系列, 有關死海古卷的書. 書入面的文章已經有點舊, 來自90年代之前, 當時都仲未係人人都可以研究所有死海古卷的時代, 不過作者係Philip Davies喎, 仲要免費. Amazon報價係賣百幾蚊美金.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzpv5fb

[免費書] Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/food-taboos-and-biblical-prohibitions-9783161593550

免費書出沒注意. Mohr Siebeck有個Archaeology and Bible系列, 入面 D 學術書係可以免費下載, 原價一般都差唔多成舊水美金. 呢本叫做Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions.

王怡, 《背負十架—中國家庭教會史》

對華援助協會出版咗一本王怡牧師的文集, 供網上下載, 叫做《背負十架—中國家庭教會史》. 王牧師因為被中共控告煽動巔覆國家政權罪同埋非法經營罪, 現已入獄. 呢本書係以佢教會主日學內容錄音編成, 頭五章經王牧師親自審閱, 不過喺完成審閱後五章之前, 就已經被捕.

王牧師同個編輯都表明, 樂意放棄所有版權, 歡迎傳閱:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sjWy_euRMd8h0zGHBAeTFgOliRc2NFaV/view

Lloyd Pietersen, Does the Matthean Jesus really love his enemies?

"To love an enemy is not merely to let them continue in their current course of action without confrontation. Enemy love is tough love. Enemy love is speaking truth to power."

"愛敵人不是默不作聲, 而容讓他們任意而為.
對敵人的愛, 是可能令對方感到難受的愛.
對敵人的愛, 就是對手握權力的人, 講出真相."

David Foster Wallace: "Everybody worships"

In the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth.
 Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
 Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings.
 They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing.

~David Foster Wallace, This is Water

David Foster Wallace, What does it mean to learn to think?

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

~ David Foster Wallace, In the Water

David Foster Wallace: To think is to be just a little less arrogant

There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: "Look, it's not like I don't have actual reasons for not believing in God. It's not like I haven't ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn't see a thing, and it was fifty below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out 'Oh, God, if there is a God, I'm lost in this blizzard, and I'm gonna die if you don't help me.'" And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. "Well then you must believe now," he says, "After all, here you are, alive." The atheist just rolls his eyes. "No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp."
 ……
 there's the whole matter of arrogance. The nonreligious guy is so totally certain in his dismissal of the possibility that the passing Eskimos had anything to do with his prayer for help. True, there are plenty of religious people who seem arrogant and certain of their own interpretations, too. They're probably even more repulsive than atheists, at least to most of us. But religious dogmatists' problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever: blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
 The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.

~ David Foster Wallace, In the Water

Dale Allison: "We all see what we expect to see and want to see"

我一向都很欣賞Dale Allison的坦誠, 佢會更正自己之前寫過的嘢, 亦會對自己本來信奉的嘢提出疑問. 最近喺佢一篇文入面, 見到呢段文字, 是很真實的情況:

Imagine with me a young graduate student in a department of religion. She becomes convinced, let us say, that Albert Schweitzer’s reconstruction of Jesus was close to the truth—or, as the case may be, not close to the truth—because a revered professor, whose arguments she has not the means to rebut, persuades her of this. Once her paradigm about Jesus is in place, a cognitive bias will also be in place. We all see what we expect to see and want to see—like highly prejudicial football fans who always spot more infractions committed by the team they are jeering against than by the team they are cheering for. If we hold a belief, we will notice confirming evidence, especially if we are aware that not everyone agrees with us. Disconfirming evidence, to the contrary, makes us uncomfortable, and so we are more likely to miss, neglect, or critically evaluate it. We do not see things as they are but as we construe them to be. After a period of time, then, one might anticipate that our graduate student will have collected her own evidence for her professor’s belief and become all the more persuaded of its correctness. As soon, moreover, as she communicates her views in public fashion, say by tutoring undergraduates or publishing a paper, she may be set for life—especially as one’s self-perception as an expert, the psychologists tell us, typically enlarges self-confidence. The prospect of embarrassment from publicly admitting error can make it hard to admit error to oneself, to undertake the difficult cognitive task of rearranging data into a new pattern after one has long been looking at an old pattern.

...... 

In my own case, my picture of Jesus was developed long before I much worried about the details of method, and long before I went on record as espousing this or that view of the criteria of authenticity. Moreover, and as one would cynically expect, the method that I developed later led straight to a Jesus congenial to the judgments of my youth. This I find disturbing, and my history cannot be atypical. Surely no one started with method. The implication seems to be that developing and deploying our criteria serve less to help us make truly new discoveries than to help us to confirm inclinations already held in advance.

 Dale C. Allison, Jr., "How to Marginalize the Traditional Criteria of Authenticity," in Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus (eds. T. Holmen and S.E. Porter; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 3-30.

才女魏如萱, 愛情花

原來新陳代謝和相愛也可以有關係,
有的人新陳代謝好, 很快就能忘記分開的痛,
而新陳代謝差的人, 只好慢慢的, 等著痛慢慢褪色.

下次有人問我喜歡什麼花?
我要回答身體上的瘀血, 因為瘀青也是一種花.

他不再送我花, 是因為他留了一個
到現在都沒有好的瘀青花在我心裡的深處.

~言花

送書

今晚約了朋友食飯, 打算送呢幾本書俾佢, 買咗都冇睇過, 留嚟又冇用, 送俾朋友最適合了.

痞子蔡: <鯨魚女孩‧池塘男孩>

鯨魚女孩‧池塘男孩

http://jht.pixnet.net/blog/post/30473052

剛剛完成溫哥華冬奧嗰份工, 係一個好搞笑, 好奇特o既經驗. 雖然比預計中少賺一千蚊, 但係都唔係好緊要, 本來有嘢做就係額外, 應該覺得感恩先係. 而家先休息幾日, 之後就將成個經驗寫出嚟, 做個紀錄.

難得o既係, 一開始失業, 就開始有好多嘢玩: Heavy Rain 已經出咗, Final Fantasy XIII 就快出, 而今日又突然見到痞子蔡有新書出... 咁多好嘢玩, 所以都唔會覺得好落寞.

The First Christmas: The Story of Jesus' Birth in History and Tradition

為咗應節, Biblical Archaeology Society 出咗本免費o既電子書. 我自己仲未有時間睇, 但係見有幾篇文章都係由出名學者寫o既, 有閱讀價值. 望落似係俾一般讀者睇, 應該人人都會睇得明.

http://www.bib-arch.org/e-books/pdf/christmas.pdf

AvaxHome

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/theology_occultism/pages/1

大力推薦呢個網, 佢有大量聖經研究o既電子書下載, 其中不少係 Brill 嗰 d 超級貴書. 互聯網真偉大. 過多十年八年, 第日 d 學生做 research 可能完全唔使去圖書館, 喺網上搵到晒. 而家有 ATLAS 之類o既 database, 只係實現咗一半, 因為冇書, 只有 journal articles.

又有新書到

今次比較多有關新約o既書. 其中我望過下, 似乎係 Early Christian Life 最有用. 我今個月尾就會搬返溫哥華住, 到時因為時差關係, 將來應該會好難買到咁平o既書, 因為喺溫哥華我起床嗰時, 人地喺東岸都已經食 lunch, 乜平書都已經俾人買晒啦.

Paul's Paradigmatic "I"
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Original Price: $179.99

Early Christian Life and Thought in Social Context
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New Readings in John: Literary and Theological Perspectives
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Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior IV (The Letters of Peter)
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Encounter with Biblical Theology
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