Reality and Relationship Online
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The thoughts below from Jason Dueck are specifically about and inspired by
Ready Player One, but they apply well to our current
technologically-mediated in...
Who said it?
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It’s time for another round of everyone’s favorite game: “who said it?”
Now, the invention of Google books has significantly diminished the
challenge of th...
A Human Figure in Profound Meditation
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‘Georges de la Tour, like John Donne, is one of the rediscoveries of the
twentieth century; and the admiration that both have evoked in our own time
may be...
„Die Sache mit der Schlange“ (Teil 2)
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Die Jungs von Lutheristisches Lärmen haben jetzt nachgelegt und den Teil 2
der Analyse eines Worthausvotrages zur Schlange in der Urgeschichte
veröffentlic...
Is Religion Divisive?
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Critics never tire of blaming religion for the world’s divisiveness, hatred
and wars. They point to such things as the many Protestant/Catholic
conflicts, ...
Inventing Hebrews
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Jason Whitlark has informed me that his book, co-authored with Michael Wade
Martin (both Baylor University Ph.D. grads, as am I), will be coming out in
May...
Internet Theology Resources: Monastic Studies
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A very useful page containing texts in both English and Spanish
translation, some apparently unique, and a number of interesting photos of
monasteries. Aga...
From my diary
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It’s all rather busy right now, as it always is for me in April. First,
I’ve tried to enable “https” on the roger-pearse.com address. It’s
possible that t...
Overlords and underdogs
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*Bishop Lesslie Newbigin*No one can read the Bible without recognizing that
God is concerned for the plight of the oppressed. The first five books of
the ...
Prokop von Gaza: Der Genesiskommentar
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2018.04.05 | Karin Metzler (ed). Prokop von Gaza. Eclogarum in libros
historicos veteris testamenti epitome. Teil 1: Der Genesiskommentar. GCSnF,
22. Berli...
China and the Answer to the Last Quiz
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*China and the Answer to the Last Quiz*
*Marc B. Shapiro*
I recently returned from China and one of my friends asked me if during my
time there I found anyt...
Crucifixion Nails: Our Latest Evidence
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I am teaching an advanced undergraduate/graduate course this semester on
the “Archaeology of Earliest Christianity,” probing the question of what
archaeolo...
Rejoice in the Lord always
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Every Sunday is the Lord’s day, the day of the resurrection; but today,
Sunday, April 8, 2018, is, for millions of Orthodox Christians throughout
the world...
Favourite -- and least favourite -- Jesus Films
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Every couple of years, I teach a course on Jesus in Film at Duke. Last time
I taught the course, I ran a fun poll at the end in which I asked students *"Wha...
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...
Basil Updates
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Work has been done at Early Church Texts on updating the Basil of Caesarea
texts pages. Clavis Patrum Graecorum numbers have been added for each of
Basil...
“Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: The adventures of… what?“
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Obviously, at almost a decade old, this blog is basically about nine years
past its prime. My highest-trafficked post is from 2008, I haven’t posted
even s...
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/
Amateur Researcher on the Historical Jesus
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I have received this week a wonderful email by a colleague who called
himself an 'amateur researcher' and who asked me a few questions on my
research. I th...
Hello Iron Yard!
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I’m making a big change and am incredibly excited about it. For the first
time in nine years, I am changing jobs. I am joining The Iron Yard as an
instru...
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 ...
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...
Nightline (and Fox News)
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The Nightline piece was enormously successful, and ended up being featured
on the Yahoo homepage for several hours on Christmas Day.
Here's my favorite com...
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
Inneren Gebets, die aus seinen Briefen fließt Der selige Altvater Joseph
der Hesy...
Editions etc. of the Book of the Laws of the Countries
William Cureton, ‘Bardesan – The book of the Laws of Countries’ in Spicilegium Syriacum: containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion, London: Francis and John Rivington, 1855. (Editio princeps)
A. Merx, Bardesanes von Edessa, nebst einer Untersuchung über das Verhältniss der clementinischen Recognitionen zu dem Buche der Gesetze der Länder, Halle 1863.
François Nau, Bardésane – Le Livre des Lois des Pays. Traduction Française, Paris 1899.
François Nau, ‘Bardesanes – Liber Legum Regionum’ in R. Graffin: Patrologia Syriaca I, 2, Paris 1907: 490–658.
François Nau, Bardésane – Le Livre des Lois des Pays. Texte Syriaque, Paris 1931.
H.J.W. Drijvers, The book of the laws of countries. Dialogue on fate of Bardaiṣan of Edessa, Assen 1965. (Reprint with introduction by J.W. Drijvers: Gorgias Press, 2007)
T. Krannich & P. Stein, ‘Das “Buch der Gesetze der Länder” des Bardesanes von Edessa’ in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 8/2 (2005): 203-229.
Jerome Lund – The Book of the Laws of the Countries. A Dialogue on Free Will versus Fate. A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance, Piscataway, NJ 2007.
Backgrounds to Bardaisan and the Book of the Laws of the Countries
Peter Bruns, ‘Bardaisan, der “aramäische Philosoph” (154-222)’ in Das Christusbild Aphrahats des Persischen Weisen, Solingen 1990.
H.J.W. Drijvers, Bardaiṣan of Edessa, Assen 1966.
H.J.W. Drijvers, ‘Bardesanes’ in Theologische Realenzyklopädie 5 (1980): 206–212.
Tim Hegedus, ‘Necessity and Free Will in the Thought of Bardaisan of Edessa’ in Laval théologique et philosophique 59, 2 (June 2003): 333-344.
A. Hilgenfeld, Bardesanes, der letzte Gnostiker; Leipzig 1864.
T. Jansma, Natuur, lot en vrijheid: Bardesanes, de filosoof der Arameeërs en zijn images, Wageningen 1969.
Paul-Hubert Poirier, ‘Faith and Persuasion in the Book of the Laws of Countries: A Note on Bardaiṣanian Epistemology’ in Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 2 (2002): 21–29.
Javier Teixidor, Bardesane d'Édesse: la première philosophie syriaque. Paris 1992.
Roger Pearse, translator singularis, has uploaded the 1923 version of Isaac Of Nineveh's Mystic Treatises (aka the Ascetical Homilies) translated by Arent Jan Wensinck. This first series of treatises was very translated from Syriac into Greek and several other languages. (A second series of mystical treatises in Syriac was recently discovered and translated by Sebastian Brock). Patrik Hagman's forthcoming book on Isaac mentions the Wensinck translation:
The First Part has been translated several times into many languages. A large number of these translations are based on the Greek text. The only complete translations of the Syriac text into modern languages are Wensinck's English translation from 1923, and Serafim Seppälä's translation into Finnish from 2005. Wensinck's translation is far from satisfactory, and the student of Isaac's text can profitably consult the partial translations made by Hansbury and Brock. Finally, the translation by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, although mostly done from the Greek translation, includes translations from Syriac of those parts of the First Part that are not included in the Greek text.
The downloadable file (PDF, 16 MB) can be found on Archive.org: