I got this email from a colleague yesterday:
I was looking up Simon Gathercole and found his wikipedia page. I thought this line was great:Dr. Gathercole, you will be relieved to learn that your thesis has not evolved post-publication.
"His monograph Where is Boasting? (2002) was, and indeed still is, an examination of the theme of boasting in early Judaism and in Romans 1-5 against the eschatological backdrop of final judgement."
Glad it "indeed still is". It really sucks when monographs change unexpectedly.
-anthony
I think you should add to his wiki "...and henceforth ever twilt be"
ReplyDeleteThat's fantastic.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe the author of this wikipedia article is a proponent of a "canonical approach", in which the meaning of a writing changes with shifts in the reading community and in a writing's paratextual aspects. ;)
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