Eberhard Bons
Affiliated researcher
eb_bons@yahoo.deResearch Interests
Biblical Exegesis (Old Testament): Prophets, Psalms, Wisdom Literature, Septuagint, Textual Criticism, Editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen).
Education and academic experience
He has studied theology, philosophy and Romance languages at the universities of Mainz, Tübingen, Rome (Gregorian University), and Frankfurt (Faculty of Sankt Georgen). In 1988 he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Mainz. In 1993, he also earned a doctoral degree in theology (biblical exegesis) from the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Georgen, Francfort. He received his habilitation in 2000 from the University of Strasbourg (France), where he teaches as a Professor of Old Testament Exegesis. Bons is a member of the editorial board of Septuaginta Deutsch (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2009–2011) and editor of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck). Moreover, he has edited several books on Septuagint studies, Old Testament prophetism, and biblical monotheism. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana (Milan), “Classe di Studi sul Vicino Oriente,” sezione ebraica.
Featured publications
Monographs
E. Bons, Textkritik und Textgeschichte. Studien zur Septuaginta und zum hebräischen Alten Testament (Forschungen zum Alten Testament I/93), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
Volumes edited
E. Bons, D. Candido, D. Scialabba (a cura di), La Settanta – Perché è attuale la Bibbia greca? Siracusa, Edizioni San Metodio, 2016, seconda edizione 2017.
E. Bons, J. Joosten (a cura di), Handbuch zur Septuaginta – Handbook of the Septuagint. Vol. 3: Die Sprache der Septuaginta – The Language of the Septuagint, Gütersloh, Gütersloher Verlag, 2016.
E. Bons, K. Finsterbusch (a cura di), Konstruktionen individueller und kollektiver Identität (II). Alter Orient, hellenistisches Judentum, römische Antike, Alte Kirche. Mit Beiträgen von Eberhard Bons, Werner Eck, Judith Hartenstein, Wolfgang Grünstäudl, Astrid Nunn, Patrick Pouchelle, Ulrike Steinert und Günter Stemberger (Biblisch-Theologische Studien 168), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.
E. Bons, E. Prinzivalli, F. Vinel (a cura di), La pluralité des sens de la Bible. Lire les Écritures à l’époque des fondamentalismes, Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2017.
E. Bons, D. Scialabba, D. Candido (a cura di), La Septuaginta - ¿Por qué resulta actual la Biblia griega? (Estudios Bíblicos 65), Estella (Navarra), Editorial Verbo Divino, 2018.
E. Bons, P. Pouchelle, D. Scialabba (a cura di), The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and its Hellenistic Background (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/496), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
E. Bons, A. Mambelli, D. Scialabba (a cura di), Exodos. Storia di un vocabolo (Testi, ricerche e fonti, nuova serie 62), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.
E. Bons, M. Geiger, F. Ueberschaer, M. Sigismund, M. Meiser (a cura di), Die Septuaginta – Themen, Manuskripte, Wirkungen (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I/444), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
E. Bons (a cura di), Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint. Volume I: Alpha – Gamma, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
Articles
«Textual criticism of the prophetic corpus», C. Sharp (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 117–131.
«L’Ancien Testament et la diversité de ses versions. Réflexions à partir de quelques exemples dans les Psaumes», E. Bons, E. Prinzivalli, F. Vinel (a cura di), La pluralité des sens de la Bible. Lire les Écritures à l’époque des fondamentalismes, Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2017, pp. 49–64.
«La traducción griega de la Biblia en la actualidad», E. Bons, D. Scialabba, D. Candido (a cura di), La Septuaginta - ¿Por qué resulta actual la Biblia griega? (Estudios Bíblicos 65), Estella (Navarra), Editorial Verbo Divino, 2018, pp. 15–33.
«La Septante du livre dʼAmos: Traduction et interprétation», H.-J. Fabry (a cura di), The Books of the Twelve Prophets. Minor Prophets - Major Theologies (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 295), Leuven, Peeters, 2018, pp. 231–242.
«Die Septuaginta als biblischer Referenztext für jüdische und christliche Literatur. Neue Fragestellungen und Ergebnisse», M. Meyer-Blanck (a cura di), Christentum und Europa. XVI. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie (10.-13. September 2017 in Wien), Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019, pp. 340–357.
«Amos», S. Kreuzer (a cura di), Introduction to the Septuagint, Waco TX, Baylor University Press, 2019, pp. 437–445.
«Philos Vorstellung vom Lehrer nach De posteritate Caini, 138–142.146–147», C. Eberhart, M. Karrer, S. Kreuzer, M. Meiser (a cura di), Tempel, Lehrhaus, Synagoge. Orte jüdischen Lernens und Lebens. Festschrift für Wolfgang Kraus, Paderborn, Schöningh, 2020, pp. 103–118.
«L’educazione dei figli secondo Flavio Giuseppe», A.M.G. Capomacchia, E. Zocca (a cura di), Antiche infanzie. Percezioni e gestione sacrale del bambino nelle culture del Mediterraneo e del Vicino Oriente”, Quaderni di Studi e Materiali della Storia delle Religioni, Brescia, 25, 2020, pp. 114-122.
«La sagesse de l’Ancien Testament au carrefour des nations – Quelques réflexions sur l’exégèse biblique des deux derniers siècles», D. Scialabba, F. Vinel (a cura di), La Sagesse au carrefour des nations, Henoch, Brescia, 42, 2020, pp. 20–33.
«Modern Translations of the Septuagint», A. Salvesen, T.M. Law (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 691–705.
«The Septuagint and Greek Style», W.A. Ross, W.E. Glenny (a cura di), T&T Clark Handbook to Septuagint Research, London, Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 93–108.
«The History of Israel and the Early History of Rome in the Light of Jerome’s Writings», I. Schaaf (a cura di), Hieronymus Romanus. Studies on Jerome and Rome on the Occasion of the 1600th Anniversary of his Death (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 87), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, pp. 137–150.
«PsSol 16:10 and its Biblical and Hellenistic Backgrounds», P. Pouchelle, G.A. Keddie, K. Atkinson (a cura di), Psalms of Solomon: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (Early Judaism and its Literature 54), Atlanta GA, Society of Biblical Literature, 2021, pp. 23-33.
Conferences, seminars and workshops
3 February 2021, Paper Hope in spite of death – The use of the words ἐλπίζω and ἐλπίς in 2 and 4 Maccabees, Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense The Books of the Maccabees – Literary, Historical and Religious Perspectives, Leuven.
20 November 2019, Paper Covenant/Diatheke in the Psalms (MT and LXX) Lanier, Conference Berit – Diatheke – Foedus – Covenant – Bund, Theological Library, Houston.
2 October 2019, Paper The History of Israel and the Early History of Rome in the Light of Jerome’s Writings, International conference Girolamo e Roma – Hieronymus und Rom – Jerome and Rome, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma.
5 August 2019, Lecture Observations on the Vocabulary of Epiphanic Revelation in the LXX and in Jewish-Hellenistic Literature, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Aberdeen.
2 July 2019, Paper The use of θλῖψις in the prayer language of the Septuagint, nel panel Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics Section (con A. Bellantuono, L. Bigoni, A. Mambelli, D. Scialabba), SBL International Meeting, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma.
19 June 2019, Seminar La Settanta – L’attualità della prima traduzione greca della Bibbia ebraica (con Daniela Scialabba), FSCIRE, Bologna.
27-28 March 2019, Paper Il Libro di Ruth: Testo ebraico e testo greco, Seminar La recezione della Bibbia ebraica in lingua greca tra Egitto e Palestina (III sec. a.C. - II sec. d.C.): i libri storici, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma.
8-10 November 2018, Paper L’educazione dei figli secondo Flavio Giuseppe, Conference Percezioni e gestione sacrale dell'infanzia nelle culture antiche, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma.
13 September 2018, Paper The Oracle against Judah in Amos 2:4–5 – Considerations on Textual History and Interpretation, International conference Amos: Book – Prophet – Prophecy – Context, Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald.
19 July 2018, Paper Septuagint studies between past and future – State of the art and new perspectives, International conference Die Septuaginta: Themen – Manuskripte – Wirkungen, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal-Bethel, Wuppertal.
6 May 2018, Paper Die Rede von Gott und Mensch in der Psalmen-LXX, Internationale Ökumenische Konferenz der Hebräisch-Dozierenden, Augustana-Hochschule, Neuendettelsau.
11 April 2018, Paper Les épithètes divines dans la Septante: Réflexions méthodologiques à la lumière de l’usage de μακρόθυμος et βοηθός (con Antonella Bellantuono), Journée d’études «Les épithètes divines dans la Bible Hébraïque, la Septante et leur contextes antiques», University of Lausanne, Lausanne.
19 November 2017, Paper The First Volume of the ‘Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, SBL Annual Meeting, Boston.
11 September 2017, Paper Die Septuaginta als biblischer Referenztext für jüdische und christliche Literatur – Neuere Fragestellungen und Ergebnisse , 16th European Conference of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie: Christentum und Europoa, Vienna.
15 June 2017, Paper The LXX Psalter - Translation, Correction, Inculturation, International conference The Greek Isaiah and the Greek Book of Psalms and Their Reception in the Early Christian Tradition, University of Olomouc, Olomouc.