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Research & Publications

with winged feet. The artists would use this
as an instruction book. … Other mythographers going back to the Middle Ages have
pictures without captions, so you’re sort of
on your own to figure out how it relates to
the text. But Cartari works very hard in his
captions to reinforce the connections.”
For a scholar who devoted years of his life
“working on two massive texts at one time,
never knowing if either would be published,” Mulryan now has the security of
knowing that his next project – a translation of the works of Italian mythographer
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi – already has a publisher.
“ACMRS already gave me a contract for a
Giraldi book to do with Steve (Brown) and
another professor from the University of Illinois, and it’s open ended, so when it’s
done, it’s done,” he said.
Even if his next book never gets done,
Mulryan can be comforted by the scholarly
imprint he’s made.
“The legacy is the important thing about
these translations,” he said. “First of all,
very few academics today know either Italian or Latin, and so they can’t talk about
myth intelligently without these texts. And
even if they do know the languages, they’d
have to go to a rare book room somewhere, and get a copy and a dictionary and
hack their way through it.”
Just like he did, over more than three
decades. The grind of the work, however,
was often mitigated by the joy of discovery.
“Sometimes during the work, you find
something out for the very first time that
no one else knew before,” he said. “That’s
the fun of it — and the torture.”
Dr. Wolfgang Natter, dean of the School
of Arts & Sciences, was effusive in his praise
of Mulryan’s work.
“Over the course of his professional life,
Dr. Mulryan has earned an outstanding reputation among his peers as a meticulous
and inventive scholar. Scholarly work of the
kind this volume displays is both important
and requires a unique combination of erudition, persistence and devotion,” Natter
said.
“The publication of this book adds another reason for the scholarly community,
beginning here at St. Bonaventure, to celebrate Dr. Mulryan’s many accomplishments.”

Stanley edits new book
on Paul and Scripture
Christopher D. Stanley, Ph.D., professor of theology at St.
Bonaventure, has edited a new book on the apostle Paul’s use of
Scripture. The book, which includes two articles by Stanley, was published by the Society of Biblical Literature.
“Paul and Scripture: Extending the Conversation” is the second of two edited volumes
that grew out of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Paul and Scripture Seminar, which
Stanley chaired for six years. Both books explore methodological problems associated
with scholarly research on the apostle Paul’s
engagement with his ancestral Scriptures,
which Christians commonly call the “Old Testament.”
The new volume includes 14 essays that examine the historical
backgrounds of Paul’s interpretive practices; the controversy over
Paul’s faithfulness to the context of his biblical references; the presence of Scripture in letters that do not have explicit quotations;
and the role of Scripture in Paul’s theology. “Taken together, these
two volumes from the Paul and Scripture Seminar represent the
cutting edge of academic scholarship on Paul’s use of Scripture,”
said Stanley. “Virtually every significant research problem in the
field is addressed in one or more of the essays.”
Stanley is the author or editor of six books, including four that
focus on Paul’s use of Scripture, along with numerous professional
articles on this and other subjects. The previous volume of essays
from the Seminar is titled “As It Is Written: Studying Paul’s Use of
Scripture” (Society of Biblical Literature, 2008), and was co-edited
by Christopher D. Stanley and Stanley E. Porter.

Bychkov, Tate translate and edit
work by Russian philosopher Losev
“The Dialectic of Artistic Form” by Russian
philosopher Aleksei Fyodorovich Losev has
been translated, annotated, and introduced
by Oleg V. Bychkov, Ph.D., and edited by
Daniel L. Tate, Ph.D.
Bychkov is an associate professor in the
Department of Theology. He received his
diploma in classics from the University of
Moscow, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of Toronto, and was a Soros Scholar at the
University of Oxford. His areas of interest and
expertise are classical languages, medieval
philosophy and theology, and contemporary theological aesthetics.
Tate is a professor in the Department of Philosophy. He received his B.A. from Denison University, M.A. from Duquesne University and his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. His research interest
lies in the field of hermeneutics and aesthetics.

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