Origen - On Prayer
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A new text has been added to the Early Church Texts website: the concluding
sections of Origen's *De Oratione* (*On Prayer*).
Also additional links have be...
Doctor Who: Blogging the Sixth Doctor
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This is a round-up of all my posts about the Sixth Doctor, played by Colin
Baker. The Twin Dilemma Attack of the Cybermen Vengeance on Varos Mark of
the Ra...
Anomalies in the Talpiot Tomb B Photographs
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While I was looking at the Kloner's 1981 photograph of the ossuaries that
are now the focus of Jacobovici's and Tabor's book, website and
documentary, Talp...
Anomalies in the Talpiot Tomb B Photographs
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While I was looking at the Kloner's 1981 photograph of the ossuaries that
are now the focus of Jacobovici's and Tabor's book, website and
documentary, Talp...
Geht der Ökumenischer Weltkirchenrat unter?
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Der Ökumenischer Weltkirchenrat (ÖRK) steckt in einer Krise. Über die Jahre
haben sich enorme Schulden angesammelt, besonders wegen der Pensionsfonds.
Wenn...
Met. Ephrem's Sermon for Sunday of Orthodoxy, 2012
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*This sermon was given in Kfarhabou on March 4, 2012. The Arabic original
can be found here.*
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, a...
What register is the Bible written in?
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When I asked my 8 year old daughter Anna what “register” means, she
peevishly replied, “I don’t know; cash register?” But she does know what
register is, b...
Changes to Christianorigins.co.uk
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See the new ‘Welcome & Events’ tab above, for upcoming CSCO events here at
New College. We are also now adding faculty pages, with pre-pub samples of
thei...
SBL paper accepted
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I'VE RECEIVED THE GOOD NEWS that my paper proposal for the 2012 Society of
Biblical Literature meeting has been accepted by the Esotericism and
Mysticism i...
The Purification of All Jews
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Today at the Academy for Jewish Religion we had a conference on Patrilineal
Descent in a Pluralistic Community. There are plans for the presentations
to be...
Déjà vu all over again
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Well, a war was fought over all this in the 17th century, wasn't it: Catholic
monarch could put Church of England in peril, bishop warns.
The Bishop of Lei...
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...
Trust in testimony and miracles
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Is it ever rationally believe in the occurrence of miracles on the basis of testimony of others? I have been of late fascinated by the research of the develo...
On my way to Groningen
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I am getting on a plane in a few hours to make the trek across the Atlantic
to Amsterdam and then by train to Groningen. I am speaking at the
University ...
In the Mail Today
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Today I received in the mail this rather rare title on Hebrews:
Paul Inje. *A Two Dimensional Approach: Christ's Sacrifice in the Letter to
the Hebrews an...
Bauckham on the Talpioth Ossuary Inscripton
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Richard Bauckham has posted a very detailed and reasoned analysis of the
inscription on the recently-noted Talpioth ossuary:
http://asorblog.org/?p=1848
Authorial and scholarly vestiges in our libraries
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Some years ago I decided to look for a copy of Paul de Lagarde’s
(1827-1891) edition of the Syriac Geoponica. I found a copy from a used
book dealer in Ger...
So it has come to this.
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As I suspected might happen, the talks I gave as a Lenten retreat at St.
Paul’s Orthodox Church in Emmaus, PA this last weekend have been posted to
Ancient...
Why Does God Suffer?
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Paul Nisly opens Chapter 11 of Sweeping Up the Heart: A Father's Lament for
His Daughter with Psalm 88 and Isaiah 43. Then he turns to three questions;
Sho...
Halakhot Pesukot online
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I just noticed that the (former) Sassoon manuscript of Halakhot Pesukot has
been digitised and is available online. It's a manuscript from 10th century
Ira...
The Fish and the Man…
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There is quite a raging discussion out in the blogging world, or more
specifically what is sometimes called the biblioblogging world, as to
whether our ima...
Sexist Hand Behind P46?
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After a never ceasing flow of blogposts by Peter Head on Papyrus 46, I
finally get the chance!
On his blog, Paul and co-workers, Richard Fellows offers an ...
Some great books
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Some great new books: 1. Spiritual Purification in Islam: The Life and
Works of al-Muhasibi 2. The Secrets of Ascetism 3. The Remembrance of God4. Treatise ...
More on "The Jesus Discovery" - A Fish? Nay.
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I posted this over on the ASOR blog in the comments, but I feel I should
also share it here in more elaboration:
What is this?
If you're not aware, Simcha ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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: ...
"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...
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...
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...
You might remember two years ago Westminster College auctioned off the Codex Climaci Rescriptus with the help of Sotheby's. The Codex is a 6th century document and an important manuscript witness to the Greek text of the Gospels. (The leaf shown at right, linked from the exhibition site, is upside down) It includes a Palestinian Aramaic Bible and Syriac works by St. John Climacus. The Codex will be touring Oklahoma City, New York, and the Vatican. See the official website here:
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