Category:Spanish Scholarship
Spanish Scholarship includes works authored, edited or translated by Spanish Scholars.
- Spanish Scholars - biographies of Spanish Scholars
See also: Spain -- Spanish -/- Spanish language -/- Spanish Fiction -- Spanish Authors
- This page is edited by Carlos A. Segovia, Camilo José Cela University, Spain
Overview
Spanish scholarship on Second Temple Judaism, Christian, Rabbinic, and Islamic origins includes contributions such as Alejandro Díez Macho's editio princeps of Targum Neophyti 1 and Florentino García Martínez's translations of, and studies on, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The beginnings: from the mid-15th to the mid-20th century
In 1478, Daniel Vives published a Catalan translation of the Bible which stands as the third known printed translation of the Bible in a modern language, after the German edition by Johannes Mentelin in 1466, and the Italian edition by Niccolò Malermi in 1471. It was also based upon the Latin text of the Vulgata. There followed Juan Martín Cordero’s Spanish translation of Josephus’ Jewish War, which was published in the 1550s; Benito Arias Montano’s (perhaps the first relevant Spanish Hebraist) Antewerp Polyglot or Biblia regia, which was in turn published between 1568 and 1573 and the first to include, alongside the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin versions of the Bible, the Syriac New Testament and several additional Targumic texts; Arias Montano’s Spanish translation of Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, which was published in the 1570s; an edition of Paul’s epistles with commentary by Francisco de Ribera and José de Acosta published in the 1590s; and Joseph Semah Arias’s translation of Josephus’ Contra Apionem in the 1680s. Yet no significant volumes were produced between the late 17th and the mid-20th century.
Looking back at the 20th century: chief developments and achievements from the 1950s to the 1990s
Spanish research on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins was virtually inexistent, and hence absent from the international scholarly scene, until the 1950s. Nor had there been prior to that time a sustained editorial policy regarding the Spanish edition of studies originally published in other European languages. Antonio González Lamadrid’s 1956 volume on the Dead Sea discoveries and the Spanish edition in the late 1940s of the second volume of Giuseppe Ricciotti’s Storia d’Israele (which was curiously made possible through the efforts of Xavier Zubiri, a very influent Spanish philosopher who had studied in his youth with Husserl and Heidegger) must be by and large considered, therefore, as the point of departure of this particular field of study in contemporary Spain.
Spanish scholarship has since mainly focused upon five general topics: (a) the Dead Sea Scrolls, (b) the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, (c) the Greek versions of the Bible (including the Septuagint), (d) the Targum, and (e) Christian Origins.
Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls were broadly explored, especially in the 1990s. One should mention here, amidst other works, Jesús Cantera Ortiz de Urbina’s Spanish translation of the Habakuk Pesher from Qumran; the studies on the Greek papyri from Qumran Cave 7 by José O’Callaghan Martínez, whose suggestions concerning the possible presence of some New Testament fragments amongst the Qumran scrolls have been widely disputed on both philological and statistic grounds; Luis Vegas Montaner’s critical edition of the Minor Prophets according to the Qumran textual witnesses; José María Casciaro Rodríguez’s comparative essays on the Qumran literature and the New Testament; Santiago Ausín Olmos’ studies on the ethical language of the sectarian writings from the Qumran community; the proceedings of the Madrid Qumran Congress, which was organised in 1991 by Luis Vegas Montaner and Julio Trebolle Barrera; Jaime Vázquez Allegue’s studies on the Rule of the Community. Yet the foremost contribution to the study of the Qumran Yahad and its literature was made by Florentino García Martínez, who, as Gabriele Boccaccini rightly observes, has helped contemporary research on late Second Temple sectarianism to move “out of Josephus precious yet so cumbersome testimony”, and whose well-known hypothesis on the intra-Essene schismatic origins of the Qumran Yahad, first made public in English in 1988, was already suggested by him in a Spanish as early as 1985.
In the early 1980s, Alejandro Díez Macho began to prepare a collective Spanish translation of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha of which six out of the seven planed volumes have been already published. Díez Macho was deeply influenced by the work of Paolo Sacchi, on whose views he often relied. This notwithstanding, his general introduction to the Spanish edition of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (vol. 1) deserves being mentioned as perhaps the most insightful Spanish contribution to their modern study ever published. He worked in close collaboration with María Ángeles Navarro, Alfonso de la Fuente, Miguel Pérez Fernández, and Antonio Piñero Sáenz, who codirected the first four volumes of the collection and has been responsible of the edition of its two last published volumes.
A few studies on the Septuagint and the Greek versions of the Bible were also published in the 1970s and the 1990s, both in Spanish and English, by Natalio Fernández Marcos and Ángel Sáenz-Badillos Pérez.
As for the Targum, mention must be made of Alejandro Díez Macho's editio princeps and Spanish translation of Targum Neophyti 1, whose sole extant manuscript he had discovered in 1956 at the Vatican Library. This very remarkable contribution to the study of the Jewish literature from the 1st century CE appeared in 6 vols. between 1968 and 1979, with appended French and English translations by Roger le Déaut, Martin McNamara and Michael Maher, complementary studies by Emiliano Martínez Borobio, Pedro Esterlich and Miguel Pérez Fernández, and a comprehensive Index by Etan Levine. Additional studies on, and translations of, various other targumim were produced in the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s by Emiliano Martínez Borobio, Domingo Muñoz León, Miguel Pérez Fernández, and Josep Ribera Florit. These scholars worked initially under the guidance of Diez Macho, who is credited to have laid the foundation of the Spanish school of Targumic studies and whose work ought to be regarded, together with Florentino García Martínez’s, as the most outstanding Spanish contribution to the study of the Second Temple period and its literature.
Perspectives at the opening of the 21st century
Spanish Scholarship over the centuries
General Statistics
Leading Spanish institutions of higher education, centres for scholarly research, scholarly projects, learned societies, publishers, academic journals, and libriries in the field
Institutions of higher education
- Departamento de Estudios Hebreos y Arameos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
- Departamento de Estudios Semíticos, Universidad de Granada (UGR)
- Departamento de Filología Semítica, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
- Facultad de Literatura Cristiana y Clásica San Justino, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid
- Facultad de Teología, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao
- Facultad de Teología, Universidad de Granada
- Facultad de Teología, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
- Facultad de Teología, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas
- Facultad de Teología, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
- Facultad de Teología de Valencia San Vicente Ferrer
- Facultad de Teología del Norte de España. Burgos
- Facultad de Teologia de Catalunya
- Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de las Religiones, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
- Seminario Evangélico Unido de Teología, El Escorial, Madrid
Centres for scholarly research
- Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Scholarly projects and research seminars
- Rethinking the Making of a Difference: Jewish-Christian Boundary Drawing in Late Antiquity, International Research Seminar, Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC) & Fundación Xavier Zubiri, Madrid
Learned societies
- Asociación Bíblica Española
- Asociación Española de Estudios Hebreos y Judíos
- Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones
Publishers
- Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos
- Ediciones Cristiandad
- Ediciones Sígueme
- Editorial Gredos
- Editorial Trotta
- Editorial Verbo Divino
Academic journals
- Bandue: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones
- Collectanea Christiana Orientalia, Universidad de Córdoba
- Estudios Bíblicos, Asociación Bíblica Española
- Ilu: Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Salmanticensis, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Libraries
- Biblioteca Histórica Complutense, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
- Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid
- Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León, León
- REBIUN - Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias
- Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Scriptorium Biblicum et Orientale, Abadía de Montserrat, Barcelona
Major manuscripts
- Codex Biblicus Abulensis (V) at the Biblioteca Nacional de España
- Codex Biblicus Complutensis (C) at the Biblioteca Histórica Complutense
- Codex Biblicus Legionensis (L) at the Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León
In Depth
- Spanish Scholars – biographies of Spanish Scholars
See also: Spain -- Spanish -- Spanish language -- Spanish Authors -- Spanish Fiction
- Brief Overviews of each period are given above (century-by-century overviews up to the 21st century plus decade-by-decade overviews from the 1900s onwards).
- Partial Statistics Tables are also included after each century-by-century and decade-by-decade overview to show the subject rankigns of each period: they comprise (a) books by Spanish scholars originally published in Spanish, (b) books by non-Spanish scholars translated into Spanish, and (c) books by Spanish scholars originally published in other languages different from Spanish by number and subject; (d) the total number of books published in and outside Spain in each period is also provided.
- A General Statistics Table which offers (a) a survey of all subjects dealt with and all books produced by century (from the mid-15th century to the 19th century) and decade (from the 1900s to the 2010s), and (b) subject rankings by scholars and publishers is provided separately, after the "Spanish Scholarship over the centuries" section.
- Six different resource lists containing the names and websites of the leading Spanish institutions of higher education and the leading Spanish centres for scholarly research in Second Temple Judaism, Christian Origins and other related areas of specialization, as well as the names and websites of the main Spanish learned societies, the leading Spanish publishers and academic journals in the field, and the Spanish libraries relevant to the study of early Jewish and Christian documents, are then appended.
- Major manuscripts preserved in Spain are also mentioned after these.
- Related Categories such as Spanish language and Spanish Fiction are provided as well.
- Periods with no apparent scholarly production (e.g. the 19th century or the 1920s) are intentionally left in blank.
- Blue links correspond to now active entries; red links, to still non-active entries which will be, nonetheless, created and developed in the future.
- Please kindly inform the editor (segoviamail@gmail.com) of any missing references you may notice.
Pages in category "Spanish Scholarship"
The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.
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- El fundador del cristianismo (1974 Dodd / Lator), book (Spanish ed.)
- Las Parábolas del reino (1974 Dodd / de la Fuente), book (Spanish ed.)
- Ensayos exegéticos (1978 Käsemann), book (Spanish ed.)
- El evangelio según Juan (1979-1999 Brown), book (Spanish ed.
- Israel y las naciones: La historia de Israel desde el Éxodo hasta la destrucción del Segundo Templo (1979 Bruce), book (Spanish ed.)
- Jesús y el Espíritu (1981 Dunn / Fernández/Talavero), book (Spanish ed.)
- Abba: El mensaje central del Nuevo Testamento (1981 Jeremias / Ortiz/Vevia/Ruiz-Garrido/Bernáldez/Rey/Martínez), book (Spanish ed.)
- Los evangelios gnósticos (1982 Pagels), book (Spanish ed.)
- ¿Cómo entendió y vivió Jesús su muerte (1982 Schürmann / Martínez), book (Spanish ed.)
- Estudios sobre el Nuevo Testamento (1983 Bornkamm / Sauras/Martínez), book (Spanish ed.)
- Historia de Israel y de Judá: Desde los orígenes hasta el siglo II d.C. (1984 Castel / Ortiz), book (Spanish ed.)
- Historia política de Israel: desde los orígenes a Alejandro Magno (1984 Cazelles / Sierra), book (Spanish ed.)
- Apócrifos del Antiguo Testamento (1984-2009 Díez Macho/Piñero Sáenz), edited volume
- Sacerdotes antiguos, Sacerdote nuevo: según el Nuevo Testamento (1984 Vanhoye), book (Spanish ed.)
- Estudios de sociología del cristianismo primitivo (1985 Theissen), book (Spanish ed.)
- El evangelio según Lucas (1986-2005 Fitzmyer / Mínguez), book (Spanish ed.)
- El evangelio según Marcos (1986-1987 Gnilka), book (Spanish ed.)
- Del movimiento de Jesús a la Iglesia cristiana (1987 Aguirre Monasterio), book
- Ética del Nuevo Testamento (1987 Schrage), book (Spanish ed.)
- El Targum de Isaías: la versión aramea del profeta Isaías (1988 Ribera Florit), book
- El mensaje moral del Nuevo Testamento (1988-1989 Schnackenburg), book (Spanish ed.)
- Muhammad: su vida, basada en las fuentes más antiguas = Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (1989 Lings / Algora), book (Spanish ed.)
- Lectura del evangelio de Juan (1989-1998 Léon-Dufour / Ortiz), book (Spanish ed.)
- La sinagoga cristiana (1989 Montserrat Torrents), book
- El evangelio: Unidad y pluralismo (1989 Pikaza), book
- Evangelio y tradición de Israel (1991 Collin/Lenhardt), book (Spanish ed.)
- Conflicto en Lucas: Jesús, autoridades, discípulos = Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples (1992 Kingsbury / Godoy), book (Spanish ed.)
- El Evangelio según San Mateo (1993-2006 Luz / Olasagasti), book (Spanish ed.)
- El Nuevo Testamento en su entorno social (1993 Stambaugh/Balch), book (Spanish ed.)
- La mesa compartida: Estudios del Nuevo Testamento desde las ciencias sociales (1994 Aguirre Monasterio), book
- La fiesta judía de las Cabañas (Sukkot): interpretaciones midrásicas en la Biblia y en el judaísmo antiguo (1995 Rafael), book
- Orígenes del cristianismo (1995 Trevijano Etcheverría), book
- El judeo-cristianismo palestino en el siglo I (1995 Vidal Manzanares), book
- Cuando las mujeres eran sacerdotes (1996 Torjesen / Valiente), book (Spanish ed.)
- Raíces bíblicas de la fe cristiana (1997 Aguirre Monasterio), book
- En el crisol de la prueba: Estudio exegético de Sir 2, 1-18 (1997 Calduch-Benages), book
- Cristología del Nuevo Testamento (1997 Cullmann / Pikaza/Gattinoni), book (Spanish ed.)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (1997-98 García Martínez, Tigchelaar), book
- Targum Jonatán de los Profetas Posteriores en tradición babilónica: Ezequiel (1997 Ribera Florit), book
- Targum Jonatán de los Profetas Primeros en tradición babilónica, 3: I-II Reyes (1998 Martínez Borobio), book
- Lo hebreo en los autos sacramentales de Calderón (1998 Reyre), book
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- La religión judía: Historia y Teología (2001 Rodríguez Carmona), book
- La palabra descendida: Un acercamiento al Corán (The Descended Word: An Approach to the Qur'an / 2002 González Ferrín), book
- La religión de los primeros cristianos (2002 Theissen / Olasagasti), book (Spanish ed.)
- Los valores negados: Ensayo de exégesis socio-científica sobre la autoestigmatización en el movimiento de Jesús (2003 Gil Arbiol), book
- ¿De dónde viene el cristianismo? (2003 Taylor / López), book (Spanish ed.)
- Los tres proyectos de Jesús y el cristianismo naciente (2003 Vidal García), book
- Teología del judeocristianismo (2004 Daniélou), book (Spanish ed.)
- Cristianismos perdidos (2004 Ehrman / Noriega), book (Spanish ed.)
- Filiación: Cultura pagana. Religión de Israel. Orígenes del cristianismo (2005-2012 de Navascués Benlloch/Ayán Calvo/Aroztegui Esnaola/Crespo Losada/Sáez Gutiérrez), edited volume
- La nueva Jersusalén: ¿Ciudad celeste o ciudad terrestre? (2005 Álvarez Valdés), book
- Esplendor en la diáspora: La historia de José (Gn 37-50) y sus relecturas en la literatura bíblica y parabíblica (2006 Guevara Llaguno), book
- Antropología bíblica: Tiempos de gracia (2006 Pikaza), book