Expletives in Star Wars?
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I’m not sure why Star Wars humor seems to reach me in waves, but regular
readers will know that this is the third bit of Star Wars humor I’m sharing
in 24 ...
A real ancient Aramaic Bible manuscript
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TIMOTHY MICHAEL LAW has noted and posted (The Apostle Paul in Cairo!) a
photo of a palimpsest manuscript from the Cairo Geniza whose upper layer is
Mishnah...
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...
The homilies of Zeno of Verona
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A correspondent wrote to ask about an English translation of the sermons of
St. Zeno of Verona: I am trying to find an English translation of St Zeno’s
(of...
Seelsorge: Vertiefungsseminar II
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Beim „Seelsorge: Vertiefungsseminar II“ (22.–27. April 2012) sind folgende
Themen geplant: Ehre Vater und Mutter (Referent Marshall Brown) Ehe- und
Familie...
“…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...
Provenance of Picture of Mark Fragment
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Earlier this week, a photograph of an alleged fragment of Mark's Gospel
began to circulate on the internet and it has rightly been treated with the
sceptic...
Provenance of Picture of Mark Fragment
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Earlier this week, a photograph of an alleged fragment of Mark's Gospel
began to circulate on the internet and it has rightly been treated with the
sceptic...
A Guide to Ancient Texts for NT Studies
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In a supervision meeting today with one of my current PhD students, I drew
attention to a book that deserves wider notice, especially by those
aspiring to ...
Ten Upcoming Books I Will Be Reading
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My list of books to read is growing faster than I can keep up, but that
doesn’t stop me from continuously adding more. I know that there are many
upcoming ...
Met. Ephrem's Sermon for Meatfare 2012
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*The Arabic original, given in the Church of St. Nicholas in Barsa, can be
found here.*
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
...
Another Rashi on the Movie Footnote
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Makor Rishon has a very good article that gives some background to the
movie Footnote. See here for another “Rashi” on Footnote. Article on
Footnote, Makor...
Entering Lent: “I Want” in Higher Education
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Kent Annan, during his recent After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When
Your World Is Shaken tour in South Central PA, played I Want on a number of
camp...
Top 10 books for NT graduate students
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(Frank Dicken, Ph.D. Candidate) Every Tuesday a group of postgraduate
students in New Testament studies meets in an informal reading group to
discuss a pi...
Photo of 1st-century Gospel of Mark fragment found?
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http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-writers/63-acharya-s/654-1st-century-gospel-of-mark-fragment-discovered.html
Filed under: Books and Authors, Chris...
He’s on a mission for God!
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A friend of mine here at the seminary, Jordan Zanetis, is preparing to
return to Tanzania on a mission trip, teaching in Orthodox schools in the
country. H...
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...
The Greek Financial Crisis and Majuscule 0278
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Working my way through Paul, I got increasingly intrigued by 0278, one of
the larger new finds from St Catherine's on Mt Sinai. There was no way I
could fi...
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...
Spring is coming - and a new design
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Dear readers of this blog,
When I started this blog - my first ever in my life - I did not know, how
many people would enjoy it. Over 150,000 views in less...
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: ...
Mary in Epiphanius' Panarion #78
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So I was planning on starting to blog about Theophilus of Antioch, but that
will wait. At the end of the week I received a request for comment about a
bi...
Heiliger Alexander von München
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"Dieses ganze harte 'Unglück' war notwendig, um mich auf den wahren Weg zu
bringen...um mir die Augen zu öffnen...Vor allem bin ich froh und danke
Gott d...
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...
What's New in january 2012
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1- NEW LIGHT ON OUR NUMERALS
JEKUTHIAL GINSBURG
2- More Monastic Origins: The Syrian Orthodox Tradition in Turkey Today
Michael Kelly OSB
3- التماثيل الا...
The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”
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*The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”[1]*
Mitchell First
In a previous post at the Seforim blog, Dan Rabinowitz dealt with the topic
of the origin of the ...
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...
Father John D'Alton has an interesting post on his Syriac Spirituality & History Explorations blog regarding Theodoret of Cyrrhus. Theodoret's use of agona (struggle/war) is translated as "jihad". This is especially interesting given that Theodoret favors metaphors that are martial or physical in nature when describing the great spiritual achievements of the Syrian monks. Read the post here.
Father John D'Alton has an interesting post on his Syriac Spirituality & History Explorations blog regarding Theodoret of Cyrrhus. Theodoret's use of agona (struggle/war) is translated as "jihad". This is especially interesting given that Theodoret favors metaphors that are martial or physical in nature when describing the great spiritual achievements of the Syrian monks. Read the post here.
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