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Kathleen Stock rehabilitiert
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Sie wurde an ihrer Universität gemobbt, weil sie an ihrem biologischen
Geschlecht festhielt. Schließlich kündigte Kathleen Stock ihren Job (vgl.
hier). J...
Jonathan Edwards and Hebrews
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New book:
Joseph T. Cochran. *Jonathan Edwards and Hebrews: A Harmonic Interpretation
of Scripture*.
"This publication is the first survey of Jonathan E...
Bible versions
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My latest column has been posted at *Christian Courier*: Bible versions.
Here is an excerpt:
Having grown up with the King James Bible, I was briefly ena...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland and Canada
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There has been quite a bit of speculation about why Donald Trump keeps
talking about acquiring Greenland and Canada becoming the 51st state. Most
are just ...
GA 2136, Another Copy of a Printed Edition
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As I mentioned in my last post, I’m in the process of working through all
the Pauline manuscripts in the *Liste*, in order to get a precise count of
whic...
Online Seminar-Documents of the “Arian” Controversy
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The next session of our On-line Seminar “Discussing the Documents of the
‘Arian’ Controversy: Toward the 1,700 Years of the Council of Nicaea” will
be Frid...
Science Corner: Time Dilation
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The news, science and otherwise, happens fast, but a little patience to get
things right is still valuable.
The post Science Corner: Time Dilation appear...
Summaries of the Epigraphs
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The Epigraphae of John Bekkos (PG 141, 613B-721B) are a florilegium or
collection of patristic texts divided into thirteen sections, each of them
prefaced ...
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....
How Patriarch John X was Elected in 2012
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*Yazigi New Patriarch of the Orthodox Church*
*by Ghassan Rifi in al-Safir, Arabic original here.*
The bells of Balamand Monastery rang out to announce ...
Vom Herzensfeuer des Ostens
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Eine Rezension von Christian Rummel zu dem Werk "An den Mauern der Kirche",
von Sergej Fudel
Eine Entdeckung! Erstmals erschien im Jahr 2023 in deutscher...
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
Inneren Gebets, die aus seinen Briefen fließt Der selige Altvater Joseph
der Hesy...
I am not sure what I expected, but I thought perhaps I would see the codex highlighted and surrounded by a few other items shown on the Passages website. This was not the case. Whether by lack of marketing were whether by intentional understatement, the extent and quality of the collection is both surprising and overwhelming to the degree that the Codex Climaci Rescriptus is almost swallowed up.
The one weakness of this exhibit is that there was no master list of display items. Had this been available I think the collection would have made a bigger splash; not necessarily for you academic types, but moreso for local pastors and knowledgable lay people who are aware of manuscript, translation, and printing history but have seen historical items only as photos in textbooks or on the internet. It is wonderful to find a high resolution scan of an ancient codex, but it is another thing altogether to read words on the living page.
In the absence of an official exhibit list, I offer here my own incomplete and hastily written list of items on display at the Passages exhibit. Judge for yourself whether the Codex Climaci has found a worthy home. But be aware, my list represents only about a third of the actual exhibit...
"Evanis" Gospel illumination
Circular menorah hewn from a single stone. Most likely used in the 2nd temple, according to the display.
Dead Sea Scroll fragment (was not able to get detail, maybe later)
Bodmer papyrus XXIV
Evanis Gospels, Greek, c. 1000.( illuminated on parchment. One of the earliest and smallest examples of calligraphic minuscule.)
Multiple Greek papyri- 2nd-5th centuries
Codex Climaci Rescriptus- only two leaves on display, one showing the underlying Greek text (with a handwritten "5" in the corner), the other showing the CPA palimpsest (the rest of the Codex is stored off site, in the possession of the Green family).
Conveyance document (transfer of property title), signed by John Wycliffe's brother Robert and including his seal. 1393
1454 Gutenberg "noble fragment" of Romans
The Anti-Christ and 15 Signs of the Doomsday
1462 Gutenberg Bible printed by apprentice Peter Schöffer, 1 of 4 surviving copies.
1480 Latin Bible with papal seal, taken by Napoleon
The Anti-Christ and 15 Signs of the Doomsday (Der Antichrist und die fünfzehn Zeichen). Block-book. Nuremberg: Hans Sporer, 1470. Only surviving copy.
1493 Nuremberg Chronicle
1470 edition of "Antiquity of Jews and the Jewish Wars" by Josephus (Latin)
1471 edition of "Postilla Litteralis super Bibliam" by Nicholas de Lyna
1476 Venetian edition of "Summa Contra Gentiles" by Thomas Acquinas
"The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis, 1st edition. c 1418.
Genoa Polyglot Psalms, 1516 (Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin, Arabic). Psalm 19 includes a margin reference to Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World and the prophetic character the Gospel being carried around the world: Et in fines mundi verba eorum, Saltem teporibus nostris ... mirabili ausu Christophori Columbi genuensis, alter pene orbis repertus est christianoremus cetui aggregatus.
Johannes Frobens "Poor Man's Bible" 1491 (Latin)
Last Will and Testament, Martin Luther, Oct. 1518.
"Babylonian Captivity of the Church" by Martin Luther, 1520.
Papal Bull Condemning Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, 1520.
Papal Bull Condemning Martin Luther, Pope Adrian VI, 1523.
a 1525 indulgence
1522 Erasmus' Commentary on his Latin paraphrase of the NT
1516 Erasmus Greek NT (the one that was rushed to print)
1521 Erasmus Greek NT
Complutensian Polyglot, Vol IV, NT (whose typeface begat some of our modern Greek PC fonts)
1525 Daniel Bomberg Pentateuch (Hebrew text including Aramaic targum and Rabbinic commentary)
Martin Luther NT 1524 illustrated/painted/gilded
Tyndale Pentateuch 1530
Tyndale NT 1536
Coverdale Bible 1535
Coverdale NT English/Latin 1538
Taverner (Coverdale revision) 1539
Geneva NT 1557
Geneva Bible 1560
"Bishop's Bible" 1568
Rheims NT 1582
1611 1st edition KJV
relief book cover by Salvador Dali (click on photo to enlarge)
several KJV folio editions
Stephanus Greek NT 1551
multiple KJVs from 1600s
"Wife Beater" Bible 1551
"Child Killer" Bible 1795
"Wicked Bible" 1631
"Vinegar Bible" 1717
multiple illustrated and engraved Bibles.
10th cent. Greek Psalter from Constantinople
Psalterium Gallicannus Ferriatum (?) 1420
Illustrated Psalter, Master of Jacques de Besancon 1480
Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1370, Tyrol
Metal relief book cover by Salvador Dali for Sigmund Freud's Moïse et Monothéisme