Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL), in conjunction with the Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation, and Exegesis at McMaster Divinity College and the OpenText.org project (www.opentext.org) is a fully refereed on-line and print journal specializing in widely disseminating the latest advances in linguistic study of ancient and biblical Greek. Under the senior editorship of Professor Dr. Stanley E. Porter and Dr. Matthew Brook O'Donnell, along with its assistant editors and editorial board, BAGL looks to publish significant work that advances knowledge of ancient Greek through the utilization of modern linguistic methods. Accepted pieces are in the first instance posted on-line in page-consistent pdf format, and then (except for reviews) are published in print form each volume year. This format ensures timely posting of the most recent work in Greek linguistics with consistently referencable articles then available in permanent print form.

 vol. 8 (2019)

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Recent Developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Review Article Stanley E. Porter McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario This review article examines two major works comprising a total of six volumes on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). One is a collection in five volumes of selected works representative of the history of SFL from its origins to the present, co-selected by one of the major figures in this linguistic model. The other is a singlevolume handbook to SFL with essays by a wide range of SFL practitioners on an equally wide array of topics. Keywords: Systemic Functional Linguistics, linguistics, grammatics, grammatical description, context, register, genre

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The Problem of Gospel Genres: Unmasking a Flawed Consensus and Providing a Fresh Way Forward with Systemic Functional Linguistics Genre Theory Zachary K. Dawson McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario A wave of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated with Richard Burridge’s What Are the Gospels? in 1992 effectively established the consensus that the Gospels are to be classified as ancient βίοι. In this article, I respond to Burridge’s work to demonstrate that his approach to genre is problematic in several ways, which calls the foundation of the current consensus into question. Following this ground clearing exercise, I articulate a way forward in how to understand the relationship between the Gospels’ genre and their social purpose, which is more in keeping with modern genre theory, especially as it is envisioned by systemic-functional linguists. The last section of the article then demonstrates the potential benefits of using Systemic Functional Linguistics genre theory by means of a sample genre analysis of the Lord’s Prayer in Matt 6:7–13, which demonstrates how to understand the social function of genres and opens an avenue for fresh research into the question of Gospel genres. Keywords: genre theory, genre criticism, gospels, Systemic Functional Linguistics, register, βίος, ancient biography

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The Transitivity Network and Koine Greek: The (Ideational) Meaning of Galatians 3:1–5:12 David I. Yoon McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario Interpreters may tend to reach conclusions on the topic or subject matter of a text without having any criteria for how to determine it. Systemic Functional Linguistics offers a method by which one can determine what the text is about, including at the various levels of clause, clause complex, and discourse. The basis of analyzing the ideational meaning of a text (i.e., the subject matter) is the transitivity network, which exists at the clause level. This article outlines a method for analyzing transitivity in Koine Greek to determine the subject matter of the body of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Keywords: Galatians, transitivity network, ideational metafunction, field, participant, process, circumstance, verbal aspect, case, the law, subject matter, topic, theme

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A Hallidayan Approach to Orality and Textuality and Some Implications for Synoptic Gospel Studies Ji Hoe Kim McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario This paper explores how Hallidayan systemic-functional theory and method can advance current discussions of orality and textuality in Gospel Studies. Theoretically, the Hallidayan view challenges Kelber’s view of the discontinuity between oral and written media, establishing a continuum between spoken and written language. An application of Halliday’s method for measuring the degree of orality in a text demonstrates its relevance for Greek texts. As far as the Temple cleansing episodes are concerned (Matt 21:12-17; Mark 11:15–19; Luke 19:45–48; and John 2:13–22), the data conform to the general consensus that Markan language is more spoken language. Keywords: spoken and written language, Halliday, Systemic Functional Linguistics, lexical density, grammatical intricacy, oral tradition

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• 10 Iter responsionis. Le dedicatorie e le prefazioni ai tragici di Tournebus e Canter [1]     Andrea Tessier 09 «Paignion». Piccola Festschrift per Francesco Donadi [8]     a cura di Attilio Mastrocinque e Andrea Tessier 08 Aristotele ambiguo? Qualche riflessione sulla Poetica [1]     di Maria Grazia Bonanno 07 Charis. Studi offerti a Paola Volpe dai suoi allievi [8]     a cura di Stefano Amendola, Giovanna Pace 06 Passato e presente nei generi letterari ‘dionisiaci’ del V sec. a. C. [1]     di Bernhard Zimmermann 05 Il dolore di Fedra tra passato e presente [1]     di Paola Volpe 04 Peani in dattili tra Ellade classica ed età imperiale [1]     di Andrea Tessier 03 Aristofane tra antiche e moderne teorie del comico [1]     di Olimpia Imperio 02 La lettura del filologo [1]     di Maria Grazia Bonanno 01 Antichi versi greci. Considerazioni sullo statuto documentario delle fonti metriche [2]     di Liana Lomiento

Il Museo Papirologico dell’Università del Salento fu fondato nell’àmbito di un Progetto coordinato delle Università di Lecce e di Catania finanziato dalla Comunità Europea. La sua realizzazione ed il suo allestimento richiesero otto anni di lavoro. Inaugurato il 22 giugno del 2007, il Museo nacque per dare sistemazione e valorizzazione adeguate alla raccolta di papiri che chi scrive, direttore del Centro di Studi Papirologici dello stesso Ateneo, dal 1992 ha acquistato a più riprese sul mercato antiquario italiano e straniero. La Collezione dei papiri leccesi, contrassegnata dalla sigla PUL (Papyri Universitatis Lupiensis), attualmente è costituita da oltre 400 papiri, gran parte dei quali sono greci e demotici, ma non mancano papiri geroglifici, ieratici e copti. 

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Five years ago, I made available an Outline of Gāndhārī Grammar that had grown out of my classes at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Leiden and the University of Munich. This past July, I updated my Outline for another class that I taught in the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics. The new version is freshly typeset and now features links from example words into the Dictionary of Gāndhārī that illustrate the range of evidence on which my grammar statements are based. Gāndhārī words are now cited in Dictionary orthography as well as by their reconstructed pronunciation. Like the previous version, this updated version of the Outline is made available under the terms of the CC BY-ND license. [Text via Gāndhārī Language and Literature]

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Tsafon est une revue d'études juives interdisciplinaire dont les thèmes sont : textes bibliques et rabbiniques, religion et relations interreligieuses, histoire du peuple juif de l'Antiquité à nos jours, histoire de l’État d'Israël, littérature contemporaine juive et israélienne. Les aires géographiques concernées sont le Moyen-Orient et les lieux des diasporas juives. Chaque numéro présente un dossier thématique, des varia, la parution d'un inédit (document d'archives, textes littéraires inédits), des actualités du champ d'études juives, des comptes rendus de lecture.

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Vici.org is the archaeological atlas of classical antiquity. It is a community driven archaeological map, inspired by and modelled after Wikipedia.

The first version of Vici.org went online in May 2012. It was preceded by a sister website Omnesviae.org, a roman routeplanner based on the Peutinger map. Since its start, Vici.org has grown a lot. At the time to this writing, over 140 contributors have added nearly 20,000 locations, approximately 1,000 line tracings and over 3,000 images.

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Similar to Wikipedia, all written content is available for reuse using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-license. Metadata is available using the CC0 / Public Domain dedication. Images or line tracings may be available under other licenses. Vici.org invites everyone to participate and share his of her knowledge of classical antiquity. Vici.org does provide various services to reuse this shared knowledge, through various dataservices or by using the Vici widget.

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Livius

The Livius.org website offers information on ancient history. There are currently 4181 pages. You will also find almost 9,800 original illustrations. You can search to find what you are looking for or browse through the articles using categories or tags; the articles listed after the map are just the most recent ones.

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Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities (PALMA) is a series of monographs by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (Netherlands).
The museum was founded in 1818 and houses important collections of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Classical, and Dutch archaeology. The Leiden Museum has always been active in the field of research, including excavations, and is also known for its special exhibitions, some of which travel around the world. PALMA is designed to reflect all these activities.

Perspectives on Lived Religion

Practices - Transmission - Landscape

Edited by Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss | 2019

Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples....

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A monument for the reawakening of Osiris

Marco Zecchi | 2019

The naos AM 107 of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden was made by order of king Amasis in the 6th century BC, a period...

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‘The most prominent Dutchman in Egypt’

Jan Herman Insinger and the Egyptian collection in Leiden

Maarten J. Raven | 2018

Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom...

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Exorcism, illness and demons in an ancient Near Eastern context

The Egyptian magical Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345

Susanne Beck | 2018

Papyrus Leiden I 343 + 345 is one of the most extraordinary manuscripts providing a deeper insight into magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt.

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The Coffins of the Priests of Amun

Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden

Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017

Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body....

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The women are more beautiful than any I have ever seen

Heinrich Schliemann’s travels through Spain in 1859

Edited by Wout Arentzen & Maaike van Asch | 2019

In the fourth part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann, the famous 19th century trader, traveller and archaeologist, on his travels through Spain...

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Schliemann and the California Gold Rush

The 1850-1852 American travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann: a transcription and translation

Christo Thanos & Wout Arentzen | 2014

In this second part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann (the famous 19th century archaeologist, trader and traveller) through his diary on his...

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Without having seen the Queen

The 1846 European travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann: a transcription and annotated translation

Christo Thanos & Wout Arentzen | 2012

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Schliemann en Nederland

Een leven vol verhalen

Wout Arentzen | 2012

De beroemde archeoloog, zakenman en reiziger Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) legde de basis voor zijn fortuin in Nederland. Dit boek beschrijft zijn leven daarom vanuit een...

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Coptic Scriptorium is happy to announce our latest data release, including a variety of new sources thanks to our collaborators (digitized data courtesy of the Marcion and PAThs projects!). New in this release are:

• Saints’ lives
  • Life of Cyrus
  • Life of Onnophrius
  • Lives of Longinus and Lucius
  • Martyrdom of Victor the General (part 2)
•  Miscellaneous:
  • Dormition of John
  • Homilies of Proclus
  • Letter of Pseudo-Ephrem

We are also releasing expansions to some of our existing corpora, including:

• Canons of Johannes (new material annotated by Elizabeth Platte and Caroline T. Schroeder, digital edition provided by Diliana Atanassova)
• Some Kinds of People Sift Dirt
• Apophthegmata Patrum
• A large number of corrections to most of our existing corpora, which are being republished in this release.

All documents have metadata for word segmentation, tagging, and parsing to indicate whether those annotations are machine annotations only (automatic), checked for accuracy by an expert in Coptic (checked), or closely reviewed for accuracy, usually as a result of manual parsing (gold).
You can search all corpora using ANNIS and download the data in 4 formats (relANNIS database files, PAULA XML files, TEI XML files, and SGML files in Tree-tagger format): browse on GitHub. If you just want to read works, cite project data or browse metadata, you can use our updated repository browser, the Canonical Text Services browser and URN resolver:
http://data.copticscriptorium.org/
Our total annotated corpora are now at over 850,000 words; corpora that have human editors who reviewed the machine annotations are now over 150,000!
We would like to thank Marcion, PAThs and the National Endowment for the Humanities for supporting us – we hope this release will be useful and are already working on more!

Palestine Open Maps is a platform that seeks to combine emerging technologies for mapping and immersive storytelling to:

• Open-source and make searchable, for the first time, a uniquely detailed set of historic maps from the period of the British Mandate of Palestine;
• Curate layered visual stories that bring to life absent and hidden geographies, in collaboration with data journalists, academic researchers, and civil society groups.

This alpha version of the platform allows users to navigate and search the historic map sheets, and to view basic data about present and erased localities.

FGrHist 104 si può descrivere come un manuale di Storia Greca, interessato, ma non completamente focalizzato, come nessuna biografia, alle vite e alle gesta di personaggi illustri e di coloro che vissero e interagirono con essi, alla sequenza degli eventi e ai dati, alle informazioni di riferimento: numeri, luoghi, distanze, vincitori. Solo in determinate circostanze il testo affronta questioni eziologiche e solo dove la tradizione ha visto cristallizzarsi un'argomentazione a riguardo, come per le cause della guerra del Peloponneso. Tuttavia, conserva ancora una buona parte di quel dubbio, o meglio di quella ambiguità, che fa di Plutarco un biografo e uno storico e si lascia riportare, per alcuni elementi, fino ad un periodo in cui storia e biografia non erano ancora nettamente distinti come generi.¹⁴ Ricordi, stimoli, distrazioni, memorie, immagini costruiscono l'informazione prima che sia riprodotta, anche se questa modifica avviene secondo convenzione e il momento della tradizione che più agisce su questo tipo di contenuto è quello che passa tra l'orecchio e la mano, lo stesso per cui le fonti di Erodoto non sono soltanto orali e non sono tutte letture quelle che si trovano in Plutarco...

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MORTEXVAR looks into the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid and Coffin Texts (c 2350-1550 BC), and other related materials, for changes in the language, spellings, texts, beliefs, material culture, social data, and historical context.

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In celebration of the OI’s centennial year, over sixty different authors and contributors have come together to provide a personalized history of the OI’s work past and present. In these pages we invite you to join us on an adventure. Explore the legacy of James Henry Breasted and the institute he founded. Discover the inner workings of the OI and its museum. Travel across multiple continents to learn about groundbreaking research. Enjoy a unique collection of nearly six hundred images, all in one publication for the first time. Learn the story of the institute’s development—from being one man’s dream to becoming one of the world’s preeminent authorities on over ten thousand years of human civilization. 

Table of Contents

Foreword. John Rowe
Introduction. Christopher Woods
Note from the Editor. Theo van den Hout
Authors & Contributors
Map of the Ancient World
Timeline of the Ancient Middle East

BEGINNINGS
01. Seeking Permanence
Seeking Permanence: James Henry Breasted and His Oriental Institute. Jeffrey Abt
02. Architecture of the OI
Architecture of the OI. Susan J. van der Meulen

THE INSTITUTE
03. Museum
Introduction. Jean M. Evans
A History of the OI Museum. Emily Teeter
The Tablet Collection. Susanne Paulus
Keeping the Past Present: A Short History of the OI Museum Archives. Anne Flannery
Conservation: One Hundred Years of Change. Laura D’Alessandro
Registration. Raymond Tindel & Helen McDonald
04. Education
OI Volunteer Program. Terry Friedman, Sue Geshwender & Janet Helman
Youth and Family Programs. Calgary Haines-Trautman
05. Research Archives
A Kind of Paradise: The Research Archives of the OI. Foy Scalf
CAMEL. Anthony Lauricella
06. Publications
Makin’ Books: OI Publications. Charissa Johnson

AREAS OF RESEARCH
07. Egypt
Egypt: Where the OI Began. Brian P. Muhs
The Epigraphic Survey, 1924–2019. W. Raymond Johnson & J. Brett McClain
Chicago House: Technological Innovations in Epigraphic Recording. W. Raymond Johnson & J. Brett McClain
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary. Janet H. Johnson & Brian P. Muhs
The Coffin Texts Project. Robert K. Ritner
The “Ancient Egyptian Paintings” Project. Robert K. Ritner
the Mummy Label Database (MLD). François Gaudard, Raquel Martín Hernández & Sofía Torallas Tovar
Tell Edfu. Nadine Moeller & Gregory Marouard
08. Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Archaeology at the OI. McGuire Gibson, Karen Wilson & Jean M. Evans
Assyriology and the Assyrian Dictionary. Martha T. Roth
09. Iran
The Past and Present of the OI’s Work in Iran. Abbas Alizadeh & Matthew W. Stolper
10. Afghanistan
OI Cultural Heritage Preservation Projects in Afghanistan. Gil Stein
11. Anatolia
Hittite and Anatolian Studies at the OI. Richard Beal
12. Levant
Northwest Semitics in the OI: Recollections of the Last Half Century. Dennis Pardee
The OI’S Expedition to Megiddo, 1925–39. Eric H. Cline
13. Nubia
The OI and Nubia. Bruce B. Williams & Lisa Heidorn
14. Islamic
OI Projects from the Islamic Period: Texts and Archaeology. Tasha Vorderstrasse

APPENDICES
Directors of the OI
Curators of the Museum
Advisory Council and Breasted Medallion Awardees
A Few Faces of the OI
OI Founding Documents
University of Chicago Campus Map

• Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100

• Edited by Theo van den Hout

• Oriental Institute Miscellaneous Publications

• Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019 

• ISBN: 978-1-61491-049-7

• pp. xxiv + 428; 584 images (most color)

• Hardback, 11.5” x 10”

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Jean M. Evans, Jack Green, and Emily Teeter, eds.

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This special edition of Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum commemorates the 2019 centennial of the Oriental Institute and presents 100 highlights from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia in the collections.

Table of Contents

Foreword. Christopher Woods
Acknowledgments. Jean M. Evans
List of Contributors
Map of the Ancient Middle East
The Oriental Institute, Its Museum and Collections. Emily Teeter
Plan of the Oriental Institute Museum Galleries
The Mesopotamian Collection
The Syro-Anatolian Collection
The Megiddo and Levant Collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Nubian Collection
The Persian Collection
The Islamic Collection
Appendix: Concordance of Museum Registration Numbers

• 100 Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum
• Edited by Jean M. Evans, Jack Green, and Emily Teeter
• Oriental Institute Miscellaneous Publications
• Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2019 
• ISBN: 978-1-61491-048-0
• 152 pp.; 140 illustrations (most in color)
• Hardcover, 9.5” x 11”
• $79.95