NOUVELLES DE JÉRUSALEM - Pâques 2018

toral research and stressed the
role of ANE royal ideology as the
background for rightly reading
the Song of Songs as a Solomonic
book.
Two Neutestamentler also made
presentations. Anthony Giambrone,
OP, delivered a paper in the
Historical Jesus section, where the
discussion this year focused upon
historiography of the so-called
“Third Quest”. His talk was entitled
‘Die größte Tat der deutschen
Theologie’: Schweitzer, Lagrange,
and the German Roots of Historical
Jesus Research and, together
with the other presentations, it
will be published in a special issue
of the Journal for the Study of the
Historical Jesus. Gregory Tatum,
OP, in his turn, made an energizing
and substantial presentation as the
centerpiece of a special, ecumenical
panel sponsored by the École.
Playing on the 500 th anniversary
of the Reformation, Fr. Tatum’s
paper offered A Participationist
Eschatological Reading of Justification
in Galatians, Philippians,
and Romans. Douglas Campell of
Duke University and Mark Elliot
of St. Andrew’s in Scottland were
the invited respondents. The timely
topic clearly struck a chord,
since the room was too small to
hold the large number of eager listeners.
Another special event, a “Fireside
Chat”, was organized one evening
around Émile Puech, who was an
invited guest of Prof. Bernd Schipper
and the meeting organizers.
The lovely room in the faculty
of theology building was filled to
capacity and all enjoyed the delightful
and interesting interview,
at once personal and professional,
which honored Fr. Puech’s long
and illustrious career as a scholar
of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dennis Halft, OP, finally, a friar
of the Province of Teutonia,
who is offering lectures and living
at the École this year, also
made a very erudite presentation,
The Roman Arabic Vulgate in
17th-Century Persia: Some Notes
on the Cross-Cultural Effects of
the First Edition of the Gospels
in Arabic Translation. The paper
explored the biblical sources used
by Twelver Shiite scholars in Safavid
Iran and was delivered in the
EABS section The Bible in Arabic
in Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
The impressive diversity in methodologies
and fields of research,
the creativity and high quality
of all the various presentations
offer an encouraging sign of the
vitality and balance of biblical
research at the École. From an
honored professor emeritus to a
newly minted doctor, from three
regular professors to a visiting
lecturer completing a post-doc
project, the signs of a robust intellectual
community were on admirable
display in Berlin.
In November, the École was once
more represented at the SBL Annual
Meeting in Boston, which
hosted more than 1,200 academic
sessions over the course of four
days. Frs. Olivier-Thomas Venard,
Gregory Tatum, and Lukasz
Popko offered various presentations
and the massive exposition
of bible books and software provided
an occasion for the brothers
working on the Bible in its
Traditions project to celebrate the
publication of Hosea, the first biblical
book entirely annotated on
the BEST model. Encounters with
potential contributors and a large
number of former students and
friends from all over the world
were made possible thanks to the
hospitality of Peeters, who put a
special, well-placed stand at the
disposal of the EBAF. The meetings
in both Boston and Berlin
allowed the École to make an excellent
impression and advance its
international reputation.
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP
Lecturer at the École biblique
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Lettre aux amis de l’ÉBAF - N° 95 - Pâques 2018