Does God Care About Oxen?
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In this ongoing short series on the Top Seven Fateful texts of the N.T. I
select another from the apostle Paul–which taken out of context downplays
this pr...
From my diary
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I came across someone online who professed that the transmission of texts
from antiquity was so full of mistakes that the modern copies are not
reliable so...
Where would I be without Bob Goudzwaard?
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*Christian Courier* has picked up my tribute to Bob Goudzwaard: Where would
I be without Bob Goudzwaard? Subtitle: "Goudzwaard always emphasized the
huma...
Two items from Erasmus on Stunica
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I've been reading through vol. 74 of the *Collected Works of Erasmus*
series—Erasmus' controversies with Stunica—Diego López de Zúñiga, if you
prefer (n...
NAPS Annual Meeting Travel Scholarships
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The Pappas Patristic Institute at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of
Theology is pleased to announce a limited number of scholarships to help
students, fa...
Chrysostom's homily on Ignatius, the martyr
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In my *Writing the History of Early Christianity *(CUP 2019, 301-302), I
claim that "reference is made to the ‘name’ of Ignatius; he is called
‘holy’, ‘b...
Luke the Chronicler
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2024.04.03 | Mark S. Giacobbe. Luke the Chronicler: The Narrative Arc of
Samuel-Kings and Chronicles in Luke-Acts. Bible Interpretation Series 211.
Brill, ...
A Notice
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The editors at the Catholic University of America Press are asking me to
take down the “work-in-progress” edition of Bekkos’s On the Union and Peace
of the...
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 ...
the stylite addresses the world
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die before you die, let the vultures of the air hover over your body,
buried in the dome of the sky, touching the horizon and leaning towards the
depths. c...
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...
The Resurrection of the NT Pod
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After spending a lot of time in university administrative jobs (Director of
Undergraduate Studies, Department Chair, and so on), I find myself back in
th...
fringe philology
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Greetings!. It’s been a long while, but if you’re interested in more posts
like those you’ve seen here at hmmlorientalia, please check out fringe
philology...
In memorandum
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As many of you now know, my father Larry Hurtado has passed away on the
25th of November 2019. I will keep his blog online as it is a testament to
his work...
PhD Abstract- I have finished!
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My PhD has been accepted and passed!
*The Abstract: *In the Arabic version of the account of Jesus’s agony in
the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus engages in a...
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...
Doctor Who: Arachnids in the UK
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In a recent interview, Mandip Gill (the actress who plays Yaz on Doctor
Who) was asked: “If you could go anywhere in the TARDIS, where would you
go?” Her a...
The PhD: It is Finished ... Well, Mine is
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Hello World!After the many years this blog has lain dormant, I don't expect
anyone to actually still be paying attention to whether I've put up a new
post....
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...
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 ...
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...
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
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