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David T. Runia
Present position
Master of Queen's College, Queen's College,
He can be contacted at
David Runia returned to the University of Melbourne in January
2002, where he took the position of Master of Queen's College.
Contact him at:
Queen's College, College Crescent, Parkville Vic 3052, AUSTRALIA
email address: runia@queens.unimelb.edu.au
telephone: 00 61 3 93490 0750
Curriculum vitae
David Runia was born in the Noord Oost Polder, The Netherlands
in 1951. At the age of 4 he emigrated to Australia, where he studied
Classics at the University of Melbourne, receiving his B.A. (hons)
in 1974 and his M.A. in 1976. In 1977 he returned to the Netherlands,
where he pursued doctoral studies at the Free University, Amsterdam.
In 1983 he gained his D. Litt. degree with the thesis Philo
of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato. From 1985-90
he was Huygens Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Organization
for the Advancement of Pure Research (NWO). During this time he
was a Member of the School of Historical Studies at The Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton (1986-87) and a Visiting Fellow
at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University,
Canberra (1987). In 1990 he was Von Humboldt Stipendiary at the
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
In 1991 he was appointed Professor Extraordinarius in Ancient
Philosophy at Utrecht University. He was appointed to the Chair
of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Leiden University in 1992.
From 1995 to 1999 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.
David Runia has been Editor-in-chief of The Studia Philonica
Annual since its beginning in 1989. He is co-editor of the
journal Vigiliae Christianae and of the series Philosophia
Antiqua (both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden). He is also a
member of the editorial board of Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought
(published by Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht).
Research Interests
David Runia's research interests lie in (1) the area of Philo
of Alexandria and Hellenistic Jewish thought, (2) the tradition
of Platonism, (3) the Platonism of the Church Fathers, and (4)
the study of ancient philosophical doxography.
His current research projects are:
- A multi-volumed study on ancient doxography (together with
Prof. J. Mansfeld, Utrecht University).
- A commentary on Philo's De opificio mundi (in
the Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, to be published in
autumn 2001).
- English translation of Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus
(together with H. Tarrant and D. Baltzly).
Publications (Select)
Books
- Philo of Alexandria and the Timaeus of Plato,
doctoral dissertation Free University of Amsterdam, 2 vols.
(Amsterdam 1983); revised edition Philo of Alexandria and
the Timaeus of Plato, Philosophia Antiqua 44 (Leiden
1986).
- Philo of Alexandria: an Annotated Bibliography 1937-86,
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 8 (Leiden 1988) [with R.
Radice]; 2nd edition, Leiden 1992.
- Exegesis and Scripture: Studies on Philo of Alexandria,
Variorum Collected Studies Series (London 1990).
- Philo in Early Christian Literature: a Survey, Compendia
Rerum ad Novum Testamentum III 3 (Assen-Minneapolis 1993).
- Philo and the Church Fathers: a Collection of Papers,
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 32 (Leiden 1995).
- Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a
Doxographer, Philosophia Antiqua 73 (Leiden 1996) [with
J. Mansfeld].
- Philo of Alexandria: an Annotated Bibliography 1987-96,
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae (Leiden 2000).
- Philo of Alexandria On the Creation of the Cosmos according
to Moses: Translation and Commentary, Philo of Alexandria
Commentary Series 1 (Leiden etc. 2001)
Some of his more recent articles are:
- '‘The Idea and the Reality of the City in the Thought
of Philo of Alexandria’, Journal of the History of
Ideas 38 (2000) 361–379.
- ‘Philo’s Longest Arithmological Passage: De opificio
mundi 89–128’, in Bord, L. J. and Hamidovic, D.
(edd.), De Jérusalem à Rome: mélanges
offerts à Jean Riaud (Paris 2000) 155–174.
- ‘Philo’s Reading of the Psalms’, in D.
T. Runia and G. E. Sterling (edd), In the Spirit of Faith:
Studies on Philo and Early Christianity in Honor of David Hay
[= The Studia Philonica Annual 13 (2001)], Brown Judaic Series
(Atlanta 2001) 102–121.
- ‘The Beginning of the End: Philo of Alexandria and
Hellenistic Theology’, in D. Frede and A. Laks (edd.),
Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology,
Its Background and Aftermath, Philosophia Antiqua 89 (Leiden
etc. 2002) 281–316.
- ‘Eudaimonism in Hellenistic-Jewish Literature’,
in J. L. Kugel (edd.), Shem in the Tents of Japheth: Essays
on the Encounter of Judaism and Hellenism, Supplements
to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 74 (Leiden etc. 2002)
131–157.
- ‘One of Us of One of Them? Christian Reception of Philo
the Jew in Egypt’, in J. L. Kugel (ed.), Shem in the
Tents of Japheth: Essays on the Encounter of Judaism and Hellenism,
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 74 (Leiden
etc. 2002) 203–222.
- ‘Philo of Alexandria, Legatio ad Gaium 1–7’,
in D. E. Aune, T. Seland and J. H. Ulrichsen (edd.), Neotestamentica
et Philonica: Studies in Honor of Peder Borgen, Supplements
to Novum Testamentum 106 (Leiden–Boston 2003) 349–370.
- ‘Plato’s Timaeus, First Principle(s) and Creation
in Philo and Early Christian Thought’, in G. Reydams-Schils
(ed.), Plato’s Timaeus as Cultural Icon (Notre
Dame 2003) 133–151.
- ‘The King, the Architect, and the Craftsman: a Philosophical
Image in Philo of Alexandria’, in R. W. Sharples and A.
Sheppard (edd.), Ancient Approaches to Plato’s Timaeus,
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 78
(London 2003) 89–106.
- ‘Theodicy in Philo of Alexandria’, in A. Laato
and J. C. de Moor (edd.), Theodicy in the World of the Bible
(Leiden–Boston 2003) 576–604.
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