Dr Trevor Evans
BA (Hons) UNE, PhD Usyd.
Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8780 |
Profile
Trevor Evans is a lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities. He took his first degree at the University of New England (1985–91), focusing on ancient languages, and undertook doctoral studies at the University of Sydney (1992–7). The early years of his professional career were spent at Macquarie University as Research Officer (1998–2001) and later Macquarie University Research Fellow (2001–4). Transferring to the University of Oxford he worked as Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (2004–7) and was also appointed William Golding Senior Fellow, Brasenose College (2005–7) before returning to Macquarie in 2007 to take up the current lectureship. In addition to research activities he has taught ancient languages and history at the University of Sydney (1994–9), Macquarie University (1998, 2003), and St Anne’s College, Oxford (2006–7), and with the late Professor Kevin Lee founded the University of Sydney’s Latin Summer School (Co-Director 1995–9).
Trevor has broad research interests in the history of the Greek and Latin languages within their changing cultural contexts. Special concerns are the language of Greek non-literary papyri and related sources, the language of the Septuagint, and Latin lexicography. His current projects include:
- Language, Script, and Acculturation in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a research programme addressing cultural interaction of the classical and Egyptian worlds in the Graeco-Roman period, in collaboration with Dr Malcolm Choat.
- Idiolect and Social Dialect in the Zenon Archive: a study of the language of individuals and social groups in the third century BC Zenon papyri, in collaboration with Dr John Lee and funded by the Australian Research Council.
- The Language of the Papyri: a collection of essays, edited
in collaboration with Dr Dirk Obbink (Christ Church, Oxford), on the potential
of the papyri and related sources for the study of Greek and Latin, provisionally
titled The Language of the Papyri (in preparation for Oxford
University Press).
Awards and Grants
2006 Five grants in support of the conference ‘Buried Linguistic
Treasure’ (Christ Church, Oxford, 30 June–2 July 2006), from
the British Academy, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Craven Committee,
the Board of the Faculty of Classics (University of Oxford), and the Jowett
Copyright Trustees.
2004–7 Australian Research Council Discovery-Project Grant.
2004 Macquarie University Research Development Grant: Visiting Scholar Award.
2001–4 Macquarie University Research Fellowship.
2001 Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship.
1992–5 Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of Sydney.
1991 University Medal and Booth Medal, University of New England.
Selected Publications
Book
Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch: Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew
Interference (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Edited Book
With D. Obbink, The Language of the Papyri (forthcoming from Oxford
University Press 2008).
Dictionary Fascicules
Entries in Howlett, D.R. (ed.), assisted by T.G. Christchev, T.V. Evans,
P.O. Piper, and C. White, Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British
Sources, (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy):
Fasc.
IX: P-Pel (2005);
Fasc. X: Pel-Phi (2006);
Fasc. XI: Phi-Pos (forthcoming 2007).
Book Chapters
‘A Hebraism of Mixed Motivation’, in R. Sollamo and S. Sipilä (eds), Helsinki Perspectives on the Translation Technique of the Septuagint (Helsinki
and Göttingen: Finnish Exegetical Society and Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 2001), 211–28.
‘Orality, Greek Literacy, and Early Ptolemaic Papyri’, in C.J.
Mackie (ed.), Oral Performance and its Context (Leiden and Boston:
Brill, 2004), 195–208.
‘Future Directions for Aspect Studies in Ancient Greek’, in
B.A. Taylor, J.A.L. Lee, P.R. Burton, and R.E. Whitaker (eds), Biblical
Greek Language and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Danker (Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2004), 199–206.
‘Periphrastic Tense Forms in the Greek Tobit’, in F. García
Martínez and M. Vervenne (eds), with the collaboration of B. Doyle, Interpreting Translation: Studies on the LXX and Ezekiel in Honour of
Johan Lust (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), 109–19.
‘Greek Numbers 6, 22–27 on Vellum and Stone:
A Note on the Verbal Forms in the Thessalonica Inscription’, in R.
Pierri (ed.), Grammatica Intellectio Scripturae: Saggi filologici di
Greco biblico in onore di Lino Cignelli OFM (Jerusalem: Franciscan
Printing Press, 2006), 109–116.
'Greetings from Alexandria' in J. Frösén, T. Purola, and
E. Salmenkivi (eds), Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress
of Papyrology, Helsinki, 1st-7th of August 2004 (Helsinki: Finnish
Society of Sciences and Letters, 2007), 299-308.
‘The Court Function of the Interpreter in Genesis 42:23 and Early
Greek Papyri’, in J.K. Aitken, J. Dines, S. Pearce, and T. Rajak
(eds), Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Kingship (forthcoming
from University of California Press, 2007).
‘The Use of Linguistic Criteria for Dating Septuagint Books’,
in J.K. Aitken, J. Dines, S. Pearce, and T. Rajak, Contextualizing the
Greek Bible, with a contribution by T.V. Evans (forthcoming from Cambridge
University Press, 2008).
'Identifying the Language of the Individual in the Zenon Archive', in
T.V. Evans and D. Obbink (eds), The Language of the Papyri (forthcoming
from Oxford University Press 2008).
Journal Articles
‘The Comparative Optative: A Homeric Reminiscence in the Greek Pentateuch?’, Vetus Testamentum,
49 (1999), 487–504.
‘Another Ghost: The Greek Epistolary Perfect’, Glotta,
75 (1999, appearing 2001), 194–221.
‘Some Alleged Confusions in Translation from Hebrew to Greek’, Biblica,
83 (2002), 238–48.
‘The Last of the Optatives’, Classical Philology, 98
(2003), 70–80.
‘A Note on boule in P.Col.Zen. I 10’, Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 145 (2003), 246–8.
‘Approaches to the Language of the Septuagint’, Journal
of Jewish Studies, 56 (2005), 25–33.
‘Valedictory erroso in the Zenon Archive Letters of Hierokles’, Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik,
153 (2005), 155–8.
Reviews
Review of J.D. Denniston, Greek Prose Style, D.S. Raven, Greek
Metre, and G.S. Thompson, Greek Prose Usage, in Ancient
History: Resources for Teachers, 29/1 (1999), 91–3.
Review of J.A.L. Lee, Greek Accents in Eight Lessons , in Classicum , 33 (2007), 31.
Looking for obelisk in Paris, October 2006
- Links
- Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Ancient History Documentary Research Centre:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/ahdrc.html
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/