The good of marriage
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The recent wedding of our daughter and son-in-law prompted this reflection
on a basic social institution: The good of marriage. An excerpt:
As I am only ...
Das Schweigen der Kirche
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Während sich die Katholische Kirche in der Diskussion zur Kanditatur von
Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf immerhin vereinzelt geäußert hat, fehlen
Stellungnahmen ...
Using AI to Highlight and Challenge Stereotypes
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Many educators continue to grapple with the place of technologies like AI
image generators in an educational context. Here is an example of how they
can be...
Translating the mega-sentence…. how?
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The first sentence of the “Life” of St Botolph reads as follows:
Omnipotentis Dei benignitas, compatiens errori humani generis, quod ab
antiquo serpente ca...
Videos on Bible History from Amsterdam
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Just this week, John Meade and I returned from a 2-week trip to Amsterdam
to do some speaking and teaching at Tyndale Seminary in the Netherlands. We
had...
Science Corner: Recombination is Creativity
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Recombining existing ideas is a fruitful creative avenue. Is it a good way
to make dinosaurs or dinosaur movies?
The post Science Corner: Recombination i...
Luke's Arrangements and Luke's Special Material
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One of the challenges of studying the Synoptic Problem is also one of its
joys. The more you stare at the Synopsis, and the more you think about the
issu...
New Articles and Dissertation Added
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Thanks to the bibliography provided by Abeneazer Urga, I am able to add
several new articles and a dissertation to my pages:
Coetsee, Albert J. “Deuteron...
The Apologists and Paul
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2025.01.03 | Todd D. Still and David E. Wilhite. The Apologists and Paul.
Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate. London: T&T Clark, 2024. Pp. xiv
+ 346....
homecoming
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there are places, and times,moments at the center of deep circles revolving
with the Spirit,that call up a constant returning, the naturalmovement of
the s...
February 2024 Journal
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January Reflections
January was an unusual but pleasant month for me. As time freed up, I kept
it unscheduled instead of filling the vacuum by committing ...
We’ve moved! Don’t miss current posts . . .
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Like many, I’ve made the jump to Substack. Here’s where I’m actively
blogging now: hwol.substack.com. What is “HWOL”? It’s a place to reflect on
Humanism a...
Linguistics and Loanwords in the Gospel of Mark
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Scholarly readers of the Gospel of Mark have long noted the conspicuous
presence of non-Greek terms and phrases. A forthcoming article sets the
analysis o...
So, Yeah… There Will Be an Announcement Soon. :-)
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Yep, I haven’t posted much or followed up on many Aramaic-related things
because I’ve been extremely busy at RV. Admittedly, this isn’t a very good
picture...
Video of Sessions from the WCJS 2017
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The WUJS has posted to Youtube a number of sessions from this past summer’s
WCJS in Jerusalem. In the video below (8:00) you can see that I am not a
Russia...
Severus paper published
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I have a paper on asceticism in Severus published in a Brill volume.
A pre-pub version is available; http://sshexplorations.blogspot.com.au/
What did you do on #elevennine?
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Every generation has days where they remember exactly where they were and
what they were doing when they heard the news. John F. Kennedy’s
assassination wa...
EZProxy Server Compatibility
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It had been drawn to my attention that the site has not been working
correctly on EZproxy servers used by some libraries and universitities for
their sub...
First Volume from Green Collection Finally Announced
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It appears that Brill Publishing has finally scheduled the publication of
the first volume in its series on manuscripts in the Green Collection. The
title ...
Was Saint Peter a Buddhist monk?
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I apologize for the click bait headline: no, he was not! I was, however,
revisiting some fascinating work done by the syriacist Hidemi Takahashi on
proper ...
The Bible on Abortion – Part 2
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Many people point to Luke 1:41 (“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the
child leaped in her womb.”) as evidence that, in the view of the Bible, a
fetus ...
New blog!
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Welcome to new visitors! I've moved to a new blog, where I'll be talking
about all things having to do with the stories of Jesus' birth and the
history of ...
SBL Paper on Object Marking in Biblical Poetry
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I will be presenting a paper on the use of object marking in poetry during
the Biblical Hebrew Poetry section in the late afternoon session next
Monday at ...
Language & Identity in Early Christian Texts
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(Larry Hurtado) Earlier this week I finished reading the newly-published
version of the PhD thesis of another of our recent students: Julia A.
Snyder, Lan...
Call for Papers-Logos 2015: Religious Experience
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May 7-9, 2015 at the University of Notre Dame Religious experience is
central to religious faith and practice. It often serves as evidence for
belief; it c...
This blog location will be deleted by May 17
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Just a reminder that this blog location has moved to aprildeconick.com.
The blogger location will be deleted on May 17. We will have a party!
A New Home for On Hiring
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Attention, readers: On Hiring is moving!
We’ve had a great run here on chronicle.com for the past six and a half
years. But now we’ve found a new home on...
3 Things I (Re)learned from SBL Baltimore
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I just returned from the combined annual meetings of the Society of
Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion. Here are
the three most...
Origins
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News feeds and Facebook bubbled over yesterday with discussions of a new
genetic study on the origins of Ashkenazic Jews. I read through the study,
underst...
Transitions
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As many of you know, my position at The King’s University College is coming
to a close at the end of the month. The deal brokered between (the now
defunct)...
Keep the womenfolk Barefoot and Pregnant (rerun)
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“also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in
suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or
expensive cl...
Introducing The Conversation
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Brainstorm readers: We’re excited to call your attention to The
Conversation, *The Chronicle’*s new home for opinion and ideas online.
Building on Brains...
True criticism
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In the end, it’s misleading, and perhaps false, to speak of reviews as
‘negative’ or ‘positive’. A good review should contain both elements,
judiciously ba...
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...
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 ...
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, Chri...
Read over here - music and love
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I am annotating my recent spate of posts over here with music and colour -
What a fabulous performance of Psalm 110 - Handel's Dixit Dominus I found.
You n...
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
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If you like old books- I mean reeeaallly old books- you might remember that last year Westminster College in Cambridge, England auctioned off the Codex Climaci Rescriptus with the help of Sotheby's. I first read the news on Steve Caruso's Aramaic Blog (his post here). The announcement on Forbes can be viewed here. And I posted a frustrated note here.
Just as a reminder, the Codex is a 6th century document and an important manuscript witness to the Greek text of the Gospels. It includes the Palestinian Aramaic Old and New Testament and a Syriac copy of writings by St. John Climacus, one of the most important spiritual authors in the Eastern Church. It is thought by some that the Syriac translation was copied directly from the saint's autograph. Based on the combination of languages (Greek/Syriac/CPA) and its original home (St. Catherines monastery on Mt. Sinai), someone could assume the Codex originates from within the Antiochian patrimony.
Word quickly spread around the blogosphere and academic circles were afraid the lucky buyer would simply separate the leaves and resell them individually to wealthy dilettantes looking to impress their friends with historic wall hangings. You can see a discussion of the Codex at the Hugoye Syriac Studies group here.
Here is the update: Just last week I just came across this online article. Here are some excerpts: Leaders of the Oklahoma-owned Hobby Lobby retail chain have acquired hundreds of Bible artifacts and are helping to open a museum. Portions of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, one of the earliest near-complete Bibles, will be featured in the National Bible Museum...
The museum is a nonprofit organization co-founded by historian Scott Carroll, a [former] professor at Cornerstone University in Michigan, along with D. Jonathan Shipman and Daniel Centurione...
Carroll said Wednesday the museum collections will include one of the earliest-known, near-complete Bibles, recently acquired by Hobby Lobby. He said items destined for the museum are being housed in Oklahoma City...
He said Hobby Lobby recently acquired several items for the museum, including portions of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, which he said is one of the earliest near-complete Bibles in the world.
Notice the article is several months old yet I am just now finding it. So the Codex Climaci Rescriptus is being safely kept somewhere within my home town, Oklahoma City. This relic and icon of the ancient church sits within a small radius of where I now sit, waiting for a museum to be built. I am tempted to go poking around local warehouses. I think of the final scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark
How would someone go about pulling the right strings so that people could view the this Codex? There is a handful of local academics, clergy, and readers of Greek and Syriac that would love to see it.
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