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10/6/09: A new page has been added to the CBA website entitled "Special Intentions." It will carry information on CBA members (only) requesting prayers. It can be accessed from the "Miscellaneous & Jobs" link on the main menu. See link.
9/21/09: John Meier's fourth volume of A Marginal Jew, which appeared some months agao (Congratulations Fr. Meier!) is now available to CBA members at a reduced rate. Our list price will be $55; for CBA members, $35. 8/6/09: The CBA membership directory has been updated on our webpage and includes members newly elected or advanced from associate to active membership at the August meeting; committees have been updated.
4/1/09: Announcing the 2009-10 Lawrence E. Boadt Professorship in Scripture Studies for EPS (Education for Parish Service). This endowed lectureship is intended for a promising student in biblical studies to teach at least one course to the adults enrolled in the EPS program. This endowed position also includes a chance for a public lecture to showcase the candidate’s work and expertise. For details, see President’s letter; for application, click applic.
3/24/09: For those who have been asking about when the revised NAB can be expected to appear, this chronology, which brings us from the beginning to the present, is provided here
3/12/09: CBQMS, Volume 45, The Story within a Story in Biblical Hebrew Narrative, by David A. Bosworth, is now available: $12.50 ($10 for CBA members). For the wholes series, see Monograph Series.
3/12/09: As announced long ago, the prestigious and well-known Anchor Bible Series, formerly published by Doubleday, was taken over by Yale University Press in 2007. More recently, on August 11, 2008, Yale University Press announced the appointment of John J. Collins as the new General Editor of the series (now called The Anchor Yale Bible Series). John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University Divinity School. Dr. Collins was CBA President in 1996-97 and has been an Associate Editor of CBQMS since 1979. He replaces David Noel Freedman (also a CBA member), who died April 8, 2008 (see below at 4/10/08), as General Editor of the Anchor series.
1/27/09: The Board of the Canadian Friends of the Ecole Biblique has established a scholarship at the Ecole Biblique to encourage Canadians to study and do research at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. For details, please see one of the following links: for French or for English .
9/17/08: The Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI has reappointed Donald P. Senior, C.P., to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Congratulations! Fr. Senior is President of the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and former CBA President (1997-98). The PBC is composed of twenty biblical scholars from around the world. The appointment is for five years.
8/21/08: CBQMS 44 was unveiled at the CBA meeting at Fordham University: Jeremy Corley and Vincent Skemp (eds.), Studies in the Greek Bible: Essays in Honor of Francis T. Gignac, S.J. The volume was presented to Fr. Gignac to the applause of the assembled members. (To order, see Monograph Series).
8/21/08: CBQMS volume 40, The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts, by Gordon J. Hamilton, has received two very significant awards. Last year it was awarded the Frank Moore Cross Award for scholarly research and publication by the American Schools of Oriental Research, and this year the R. B. Y. Scott award, given by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies for an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the ancient Near East. Our congratulations to Gordon J. Hamilton and thanks for adding to the luster of our monograph series. (To order, see Monograph Series).
4/15/08: We are happy to announce that CBA member Most Rev. Earl Boyea, formerly Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, has been named Bishop of Lansing. We all offer sincere congratulations.
4/10/08: It is with profound regret that we announce of the death of the celebrated biblical scholar David Noel Freedman on Tuesday, April 8th. He was widely know for his work on the Anchor Bible Commentary and for a host of other scholarly works. He was SBL President in 1976. A CBA member from 1966, he was regular in attendance at our meetings, even in the last years when he was obviously frail and in poor health. Always cheerful, he was friendly and open to all, high and low. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him and by many who did not.
11/8/07: Boston College has named CBA Past-President Richard Clifford, S.J., currently acting president of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, as founding dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. The school will begin holding classes in fall 2008, and will include BC's Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry, the online programs of BC's Church in the 21st Century Program, and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, which is re-affiliating with Boston College after 33 years. The School of Theology and Ministry will be located on the Brighton Campus of Boston College. The CBA offers heart-felt congratulations to Dick and confident prayers for his good success in this new (in every sense of the word) post.
10/26/07: Volume 43 of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly--Monograph Series is now available: Lance Byron Richey, Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John ($13; members $10.40). Click here for listing and order form.
6/18/07: It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Michael Patrick O'Connor of cancer of the liver on Saturday morning, June 16th. Michael, who seemed to be in good health until quite recently, was Chair of the Department of Semitic and Egptian Languages and Literature at Catholic University, and had been an active CBA member since 1982, and had been Assistant Managing Editor of OTA since 1998. for further details, see obituary. The funeral is tenatively scheduled for 9:30 AM on Friday, June 22, at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord, 26 Thom Ave., Orchard Park, NY 14127.
6/5/07: With sadness for ourselves, but with joy for him, we announce that Rev. Robert North, S.J., died on Saturday, June 2, 2007. Father North was born Mar. 25, 1916, obtained an S.S.D. from the PBI in 1954, and was CBA President 1983-84. His labors were monumental, best known as Editor of the Elenchus of Biblica (1980-2000), and for his lively lectures on archaeology at the PBI, where he taught 1951-1992. These last years he has been living in retirement in a suburb of Milwaukee. May he now enjoy the reward of his labors.
5/2/07: Volume 42 of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly--Monograph Series is now available: Joan Cecelia Campbell, Kinship Relations in the Gospel of John, 246 pages; list price: $12; for members: $9.60. For the CBQMS list and access to order form, see CBQMS listing.
4/30/07: Lineamenta of the Synod of Bishops XII Ordinary General Assembly, "The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church, available at "Additonal Links" on CBA webpage.
1/22/07: The Board of the Canadian Friends of the École Biblique has established a scholarship to encourage Canadians to study and to do research at the École in Jerusalem. For details click here.
1/21/07: Volume 41 of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly--Monograph Series is now available: Gregory Tatum, O.P., New Chapters in the Life of Paul: The Relative Chronology of His Career, 145 pages; list price: $9; for members: $7.20. For the CBQMS list and to access order form, see CBQMS listing.
out of print. Therefore, though it is listed on the flyers we have sent out with recent invoices, we will not be able to supply it at either the list or subscriber price.
8/11/06: We congratulate Philip J. King, past CBA President, in whose honor the Philip J. King Professorship has been established by the Leon Levy Foundation at Harvard University. For further information and for details of Fr. King's accomplishments, see this link.
8/11/06: We announce the appearance of CBQMS 40: Gordon J. Hamilton, The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts ($18; members $14.40). For further information and order form, see CBQMS Listing
3/13/04: The revised "Instructions for Contributors to the Catholic Biblical Quarterly" CBQ 65 [2003] 682-710) is now available on this web page and can be downloaded therefrom. See under "General" in main menu. These now replace the "Instructions" published in 1998. Thanks to CBA member Peter Spitaler for help on this.
1/28/04: The text of the NAB is available on the Vatican website; check out this link; the link will be found also under "Additional Links.
3/13/03: As those CBA members on our listserv have already been informed, all our current members and subscribers can now both browse and search all volumes of back issues of CBQ from 1946 (Volume 8) to the most recent, thanks to CBA's participation in ATLA's ATLAS project. As you were able to browse before by using the link provided, using "cathbib" as "User ID," and giving your subscriber/customer number as the password at login, so now the same procedure will give you access to search, with this difference: the login screen will have a default "Archive," with will take you to the browse as before, and "Search," which will take you to the ATLAS search screen.
Statement on Iraq. The statement was issued by Bishop William D. Gregory, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reaffirming the concerns expressed in a letter to President Bush last September and in a major statement of the full body of bishops last November (links to both of these documents contained in the present statement).
9/4/02: The "NAB Lectionary Watch" has been replaced by "Liturgy Watch" (still under "Miscellaneous"). This new page contains all that was in "Lectionary Watch," but also much more, and presents its contents in a more accurate and orderly manner.
8/13/02: Guidelines for CBQMS are available on this web page under "General."
4/23/02: The widely heralded document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, is now available on line in English. Click here.
8/17/01: In response to several requests, some from overseas, the letter and document sent by the CBA Executive Board to the U.S. Bishops concerning Liturgiam authenticam have now been posted on our web page. For the letter click letter; for the document click document.
8/16/02: Officers and committees as elected or appointed are posted and regularly updated. See under "General," "All About the CBA."
5/30/00: Please note the specifications for conveniently providing us with update information for your entry on the "Membership Directory."
5/1/00: Link added for Tell Mozan/Urkesh archaeological site; see under "Archaeological Digs Supported." More detailed information and the dramatic findings there are promised for the near future.
5/30/98: Daily NAB lectionary readings available on web; see "Additional Links"
Directories of Active and Associate Members, click on "Membership"; a separate directory lists just names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for those willing to have them displayed.