'This is a rich and diverse collective volume, which captures the reader's interest and has the merit of putting forward a topic that deserves further attention. … The editors and authors deserve credit for having moved this issue onto the stage and the scholarly agenda. It has led to a volume that challenged my thinking and which informed me. Its richest contribution lies in the collective project as a whole. The book will be most rewarding for the reader who focuses on the first section of five essays and the introductory paper. The message that those contributions put forward deserves to be heard.' Reinhart Ceulemans, Augustiniana
1. Philology's shadow Catherine Conybeare and Simon Goldhill; 2. Philology's roommate: hermeneutics, antiquity, and the seminar Constanze Güthenke; 3. The union and divorce of classical philology and theology Simon Goldhill; 4. The philology of Judaism: Zacharias Frankel, the septuagint and the Jewish study of ancient Greek in the nineteenth century Theodor Dunkelgrün; 5. Source, original and authentic between philology and theology Irene Peirano Garrison; 6. Whose handmaiden? 'Hellenisation' between philology and theology Renaud Gagné; 7. Julian the Emperor on statues (of himself) Susanna Elm; 8. Boethius in the genres of the book: philology, theology, codicology Mark Vessey; 9. Virgil, creator of the world Catherine Conybeare; 10. Theology's shadow Erik Gunderson.