Rush Wants to Watch
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Rush Limbaugh must be having one hell of a jolly time what with all the
attention he’s garnered by calling Sandra Fluke—the young Georgetown
University law...
From my diary
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I’ve been working on OCR’ing Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans, from the
1839 issue of the Christian Remembrancer. I’m most of the way through
this, althou...
What a Difference a Day Makes
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When the research on our robotic arm discoveries at the Talpiot “patio”
tomb was published just last Tuesday, within two days six of my colleagues
(Meyers,...
How to be a Biblical Man
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The ESV translation of 1 Corinthians 16:13 has Paul tell his audience to
“act like men.” This tradition of translation goes back at least as far as
the KJV...
Forscher fordern Tötung von Neugeborenen
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Eltern soll es erlaubt werden, ihr Baby umbringen zu lassen – dafür
plädieren zwei Wissenschaftler. Ihre Begründung: Kindsmord sei auch nichts
anderes als ...
John's gospel in Coptic
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Over at Alin Suciu's blog, you can read my official announcement of the
launch of the Coptic portion of the IGNTP John database. I am grateful for
the coll...
Second St. Andrews Graduate Conference
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FOLLOWING UP last year's highly successful conference, for which a
conference volume is now in the making:
*The 2nd St Andrews Graduate Conference for Bibl...
The Talpiot Tomb, Jonah and Q
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So it turns out that there is a really important Synoptic Problem angle on
the issue of the Talpiot Tomb B, the "patio" tomb and its alleged depiction
of J...
The Talpiot Tomb, Jonah and Q
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So it turns out that there is a really important Synoptic Problem angle on
the issue of the Talpiot Tomb B, the "patio" tomb and its alleged depiction
of J...
Earliest Christian Tomb? This year’s hoo-ha
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Well, Easter is approaching and so it’s time for someone to declare this
year’s fantastic new discovery that will radically re-orient our
understanding of ...
Hebrews Carnival February 2012
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Phillip Long responds to Peter O'Brien's and Scot McKnight's views on the
warning passage of Hebrews 6:4–12. He also comments on the statements
"recall th...
Saint Isaac the Syrian Resources
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It was mentioned by Kristian Heal on the Hugoye Syriac Studies list today
that the fathers at Holy Transfiguration Monastery, just a hop, skip, and a
jump ...
What's New in March 2012
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1- Crusades
Conflict Between Christendom And Islam
Chapter 18: The Franks and the Syrian Christians Chapter 19: The
Christians under Turkish Rule
Dr. Ma...
Große Fastenzeit
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Orthodoxe Gläubige fasten ab heute sieben Wochen lang. Mit dieser
Fastenzeit bereiten sich die orthodoxen Christen für den größten
christlichen Feiertag ...
Those Invidious Lists!
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(Larry Hurtado) Clearly, the “top 10″ lists demanded of us by our PhD
students have generated some comments (see the posting and comments). It
is a devi...
Conscience, authority and moral intuition
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A former student of mine wrote to me with a query on about how institutional Church authority could co-exist with the authority of individual conscience. She...
Met. Ephrem: The Fast is for Purifying the Heart
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*The Arabic original, published in the newsletter al-Karmeh, can be found
here.*
*The Fast is for Purifying the Heart*
Beloved, at the beginning of the f...
The Pre-Easter Update - Forgeries & Follies
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Sensationalist Lenten offerings for your enjoyment. :-)
Sorry for being on hiatus with all things blogging for a long while. Lots
of family stuff has been ...
Theodore of Mopsuestia and Those Heretics
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Theodore is was the Bishop of Mopsuestia in the late 4th and early 5th
centuries, a town in the vicinity of Antioch. He was a fellow student of
the much ...
Two cheers for the welfare state
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The welfare state consists of a network of public, financial benefits
originally established to even out the boom and bust extremes of the
business cycle. ...
Judgeship in ‘Umayyad Spain
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The following are two short anecdotes about a judge in Cordoba, Spain
during the rule of the ‘Umayyad amir Abdallah ibn Muhammad (r. 888-912).
Both stories...
“…they don’t know what it means…”
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I’m way behind in blogging, I realize. I have a lot to say about the
Florovsky Symposium as well as my trip to Holy Cross, plus there some other
cool thing...
Cassian's Institutes and other updates
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A new text has been uploaded to the Early Church Texts website: Cassian's
Institutes, Book 10, chapters 1 and 2 in which Cassian talks of the Spirit
of "Ac...
NAPS 2012 Annual Meeting Announcements
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Dear NAPS members, I am happy to announce that the program for our May 2012
meeting is now available online at the NAPS website. To access the
program, pl...
Time Out!
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With the Super Bowl behind us, I can at last put aside the numerical
complexities of football: three-point field goal; six-point touchdown;
one-point conve...
Christian Apocrypha at 2012 SBL
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Pierluigi Piovanelli, the new chair of the SBL Christian Apocrypha section,
has asked me to pass along the call for papers for this year's annual
meeting: ...
Resurrection asceticism
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"Resurrection asceticism"- this is the term that I think I've coined and
that I'm now using for St Aphrahat's distinctive approach to ascetic
motivation. I...
"Is the Original New Testament Lost?"
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Join us for an evening of scholarly dialogue on the origins, the
transmission, and the reliability of the New Testament. Do we have the
original manusc...
A generation of locusts
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One of the nice things about blogging is that the genre allows one to write
about anything and everything that seems important. Politics is important
and, ...
Biblia Hebraica Moves to Washington
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Or "why I only posted 20 times in 2011."
2011 was a year of transitions for me and my family. First, I switched PhD
programs at the beginning of the year...
Grammar of Akkadian with new Hebrew Appendix
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Last week Eisenbrauns announced the third edition of John Huehnergard’s A
Grammar of Akkaidan. Amongst a variety of updates and revisions, a new
appendix o...
Christian Carnival ii (2 November 2011 edition)
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Welcome to the November 2nd edition of the Christian Carnival ii, where
Christian blog writers — of various denominational backgrounds — share
their best p...
New reflection on service in the Holy Altar
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We have today published a new reflection in our Liturgical Resources area: 'To
Serve in My Father's House' - Reflections on Service in the Holy Altar.
Focu...
Shutting Down
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Because several people have noted the importance of certain posts, this is
how I will adjust the shutdown. As of this afternoon, this blog will go
“privat...
Moving On
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The Talmud Blog is now live as a web log collective at
www.thetalmudblog.wordpress.com. Update your RSS feeds and what have you,
and move on over. The (aca...
Beyond Greek Grammar and Syntax
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It is crucial for the Greek student to move beyond a surface level
understanding of the language. Language communicates much of what it
communicates at a ...
CAL seems to be back online
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I just noticed that the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, which was offline
for approximately six weeks due to a ‘hacker’, is now back on-line. What
exactly w...
Euangelion Has Moved to Patheos.com.
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Dear friends, just to let you know that Joel and I have decided to move *
Euangelion* to a new host site Patheos.com. We think this will represent a
bigger ...
Various and Sundry
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1. I just want to take a moment to say thank you to the fine folk over
at Women in Theology for tirelessly advocating for and supporting
Ford...
Three Religions, One God
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We cannot point to any three other religions that form so intimate a narrative relationship as do the successive revelations of monotheism -- Judaism, Christ...
Still working on the Psalms
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I continue to refine my reading of the psalms. I am updating all my
translation posts from 2010 slowly over the next two years with a
commentary on each ps...
Story on Salt Lake City NBC Station
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In conjunction with the celebration of Epiphany on January 6th, the NBC
affiliate in Salt Lake City did a very nice piece on the book. I was
especially gla...
Karl Barth on Commentaries
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In the preface to the second edition of The Epistle to the Romans, Karl
Barth addresses his critics who accuse him of being an opponent of
historical criti...
All things bright and beautiful?
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Whilst reading this recent piece in the Guardian by John Milbank and Philip
Blond, and brought to our attention by Roland Boer, I was, for some reason,
rem...
vv 11-20
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So ok Madinah means Ascendant, Rising and then land of the so the East but
up and down are symbols here
ܘܥܒܕܘ ܥܡܝ ܚܘܪܩܢܐ . ܘܟܬܒܘܗܝ ܒܠܒܝ ܕܠܐ ܢܬܛܢܐ
11 They ...
Jesus: First for the Jew, then for the Gentile
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Many Muslims misrepresent the Bible. I am sure they do not do this as an
act of dishonesty, but it is that the Qur’an forces them to engage in such
dishone...
Oh Those Pesky 'Angels and Demons'
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At this point it is hard to believe all the ruckus that was caused by Dan
Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which, when people calmed down, they realized it
was...
Altvater Joseph der Hesychast
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Abt Ephraim von Vatopedi: Altvater Joseph der Hesychast und die Lehre des
Inneren Gebets, die aus seinen Briefen fließt Der selige Altvater Joseph
der Hesy...
The Sixth North American Syriac Symposium will be organized at Duke University on June 26-29, 2011. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together university professors, graduate students, and scholars from the United States and Canada (more than half of the participants) as well as from Europe, the Middle East, and India, in particular from the State of Kerala.
Theme: Syriac Encounters This general theme allows us to highlight various kinds of diachronic and synchronic interaction and dialogue, formation of communal identity, construction of tradition, language contact, and religious conversation both within Syriac Christianity and between Syriac Christianity and other traditions, in particular Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and various forms of Western Christianity. The overall theme is not meant, however, to exclude topics that are not directly related to it.
The Sixth North American Syriac Symposium will be organized at Duke University on June 26-29, 2011. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together university professors, graduate students, and scholars from the United States and Canada (more than half of the participants) as well as from Europe, the Middle East, and India, in particular from the State of Kerala. 
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