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My Regensburg Year Part 3: October 2024

by Tony

It’s October in Regensburg and the weather is finally becoming seasonal. Long gone now are the heat waves of August and September; we have even turned on the heat a few times. For some reason, the colder weather does not deter Regensburg natives and tourists from sitting outside at the restaurants and cafés. Perhaps the opportunity to smoke while drinking is more important than bodily warmth.

The big event for us this month was our second visit from home, this time in the form of my daughters Sophie and Meghan, along with Meghan’s boyfriend Kevin. Sophie arrived first and we took her to Salzburg overnight and to Dachau. Once Meghan and Kevin arrived, we all took a trip to Weltenberg Monastery (pictured above) in nearby Kelheim. Access to the monastery is via a scenic boat ride or a 5 km hike. There is not a lot to see at the monastery—it has a Biergarten serving the monastery’s own brews, a church, and a chapel; the scenery en route is really the appeal. Before long, Meghan and Kevin journeyed on to Prague and Sophie headed home to Canada. We were left once again to ourselves, but the travelling continued with another trip to Weltenberg (this time with our neighbours Sam and Roxanne, and by foot rather than by boat) and to Landshut. We were really not optimistic about Landshut, having been stuck there for a while on our way back from Hallstatt in September. But once you get away from the …

Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2024

by Tony

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs from November 23 to 26 in San Diego, California. I won’t be attending this year, but I can still post my usual roundup of sessions and individual presentations that focus on Christian Apocrypha. Take note of how many presenters this year are fellows of the Beyond Canon project at Universität Regensburg. Looks like I’ll be the only one left in the office!

1. Christian Apocrypha Sessions

S23-213 Christian Apocrypha (1:00 PM to 3:30 PM)
Janet Spittler, University of Virginia, Presiding

Thomas J. Kraus, Universität Zürich/University of the Free State: “What Did Jesus Christ Do between Death and Resurrection? The Descent of Christ into Hell (Gos.Nic.) and Some of Its Interrelations with Other Texts”

Martin Meiser, Universität des Saarlandes: “‘Acts of the Apostles’ within and beyond the Canon?.”

Triantafillos Kantartzis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: “Voice of the Unseen Narrator: Shaping the Christological Contours in the Acta pilati.”

Benjamin Lensink, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: “Mygdonia: Model of the Perfect Christian in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas.”

Timothy B. Sailors, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: “Odes of Solomon 24 and Its Allusions to the Baptism of Jesus.”

S23-310 Christian Apocrypha / Jewish Christianity / Christian Judaism (4:00 PM to 6:30 PM)
Theme: Jewish Christianity/Christian Judaism and Christian Apocrypha
Jae Han, Brown University, Presiding

Daniel Maier, Københavns Universitet, Denmark: “Paradise Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter as a Central Witness for the Conceptualisation of the Righteous’ Afterlife in Early Christian Literature and Its Ancient …

My Regensburg Year, Part 2: September 2024

by Tony

Our second month in Regensburg included a visit from home, an encounter with a “climate event,” and a meeting with the boss.

When we told our family and friends about our year-long stay in Regensburg, we invited everyone to come and visit if they were able. Few people, alas, have taken us up on this invitation. Is it because Germany is just not that attractive a tourist vacation? Is it the expense? Is it (gulp) US? We had our first intrepid visitor early this month when my mother came to town. Mum visits her sisters in England every year, so it was a quick and easy jump across the channel to see us. And because it was her first trip to continental Europe, we were determined to “show her a good time.” But we may have overdone it. My mum is quite fit even at 79 but she had to endure a lot of walking at the tail end of a heatwave. Still, she survived and together we explored the city (including our first visit to the Historische Museum for its Roman artifacts), and journeyed outside to nearby Passau, Munich, and Salzburg.

Our other major sightseeing excursion was a trip to Vienna that coincided with a major rain storm that resulted in floods throughout the region. Good timing! We’d like to say we “saw” Vienna but what we saw was mostly sidewalk as we pushed through the wind and rain with our heads down, moving from one museum or art …

My Regensburg Year, Part 1: August 2024

by Tony

“You should come work with us here in Regensburg.” These words from Tobias Nicklas in 2020 made my heart leap. I was in Regensburg for a conference held by Tobias’s Beyond Canon Project and fell in love with the town. Several of my friends and colleagues had already spent time at the project; it seemed the “place to be.” So I immediately began to think of how to make it happen.

My sabbatical in 2024/2025 would be a perfect opportunity. I had never spent time out of Canada on sabbatical before. I had family obligations (two daughters) and three cats to care for. But in 2020 I could see a time soon when the kids would be adults and the cats (sadly) would be meeting their maker. As the time approached, I solidified arrangements with Tobias, my wife and I helped the girls get established, and grieved our feline family members one after the other. Everything was falling into place.

We arranged to live at one of the university properties: the Gasthaus at Hinter der Grieb 8, a thirteenth-century building in the heart of the medieval city. Most apartments in the building are a single room but we managed to get a large one-bedroom unit that would enable us to host guests (we invited all of our family and friends). Staying in the same building are two English-speaking scholars we met in Oslo in June (Sam Cook and Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin), and not far away are two others I had …

What More Do You Need? The Next Wave in Christian Apocrypha Texts and Translations

by Tony

The following paper was presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

This paper has two goals: to narcissistically acknowledge and celebrate the publication this past summer of the third volume of the More New Testament Apocrypha series, edited by me with contributions from numerous SBL and NASSCAL (North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature) members, and to consider, where we as members of the field might go next in our editing and translation efforts. The question is raised, in part, because Eerdmans, the publisher of the MNTA series, has said that it will publish additional volumes, and I am continually asked whether there will be More MNTA, to which I respond, “Why do you hate me so?” Because the volumes are a LOT of work and as my wife will attest, editing makes me very grumpy. I also have projects of my own to write; a scholar cannot live on editing alone. And I have to wonder how much additional volumes of MNTA are really needed, given the other options that have become available over the past few years for scholars to publish both texts and translations.

So this paper asks “What More Do You Need?” and by “you” I really mean “we,” the Christian apocrypha scholars of SBL and NASSCAL and anyone who studies and reads this material. As scholars who, I hope, want to collaborate, where do we go from here? What projects do we want to collaborate on? How …