Activities: Ancient Societies Workshop

Ancient Societies Workshop 2014: What is Commentary?

• Working Papers and Resources
• Steven Fraade, Handouts for workshop “Early Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary”.
• Steven Fraade, “Early Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary” bibliography.
• Table of Contents and further reading from Most, Commentaries/Kommentare and Gibson & Kraus, The Classical Commentary.
• Ed Kamens, Handout for workshop on September 5, 2014: “Classical Japanese Poetics through Commentary”
• Platonic Self-Commentary? — Verity Harte
• Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory. Edited by Gibson + Kraus [ebook]

• Greco-Roman Classics and the Classical Tradition
• Guthmüller, Bodo and Peter K. Marshall, “Commentary” In Brill’s New Pauly, Classical Tradition (2006)
• Kaster, Robert. “Commentary II: Latin.” In Brill’s New Pauly (2006)
• Graziosi, Barbara. “Commentaries.” Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, Edited by Barbara Graziosi, Phiroze Vasunia, and George Boys-Stones (2009)
• Falcon, Andrea, “Commentators on Aristotle”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2013), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
• Sellars, J., 2004, “The Aristotelian Commentators: A Biographical Guide”, in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M. Stone (eds.), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, supplementary volume 83.2, 239–268.

• Medieval
• Copeland, Rita. “Gloss and Commentary.” In Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature Edited by Ralph Hexter and David Townsend (2012).
• Hanna, Raph et al. (2005). Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature. In: Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson (eds.) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, 361–421. Cambridge Histories Online.

• Near Eastern
• Butts, A.M., “Embellished with Gold: the Ethiopic Reception of Syrian Exegesis”.
• Butts, A.M., “In Search of Sources for Ibn Al-Tayib’s the Paradise of Christianity: Theodore Bar Koni’s Scholion”.
• Burton, John. “Quranic exegesis”, Religion, Learning and Science in the ‘Abbasid Period. Ed. M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham, and R. B. Serjeant. Cambridge 1991, 40–55. Cambridge Histories Online.
• “Exegesis.” In Encyclopædia Iranica. New York, 1996-.

• Judaica
• Fonrobert, Charlotte E., and Martin S. Jaffee, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature (2007).
• “Midrash.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation, edited by Carol Bakhos. Oxford Biblical Studies Online.
• Herr, Moshe David. “Midrash.” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 14. Detroit 2007, 182–185. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• Stern, David. “Midrash and Jewish Interpretation.” In The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford Biblical Studies Online.

• South Asian
• Mayer, Alexander L. “Commentarial Literature.” Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Ed. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Vol. 1. New York 2004, 166–169. Gale Virtual Reference Library.

• Digital Humanities
• de commentariis β (on commentaries): a web application for crowd-sourcing commentaries on ancient texts.

• Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 
• An online journal for commentary and the commentary tradition, from CUNY.