From my diary
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I’m rather busy with other things, but I’ve done some work on OCR-ing the
translation of Theodoret’s commentary on Romans from the Christian
Remembrancer o...
Sterbehilfe im Namen Jesu?
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In den Niederlanden sollen ab 1. März 2012 Sterbehilfe-Teams quer durchs
Land fahren und schwer kranken Menschen beim Sterben assistieren. DIE WELT
schreib...
The Sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam
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From the late Hava Lazarus-Yafeh. Also available here on Google Books. Hava
Lazarus-Yafeh-The Sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam
Paul and the (Continental) Philosophers
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One of the luxuries of my “retirement” is that I have the opportunity to
catch up on a few things that the press of other commitments previously
prevented....
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 ...
More on Jacobovici, Tabor, and that Talpiot tomb
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THE ASOR BLOG has three new posts on Jacobovici's and Tabor's book, *The
New Jesus Discovery*, and their theories about Talpiot Tomb B:
Reflections of an E...
And now the Jesus Discovery Website
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I have been wondering when the website connected to the book and
forthcoming documentary on the latest on the Talpiot Tomb would be
available, and here it ...
And now the Jesus Discovery Website
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I have been wondering when the website connected to the book and
forthcoming documentary on the latest on the Talpiot Tomb would be
available, and here it ...
Highlights from this month’s Lamp Post
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The Faculty Ministry Lamp Post — our sister ministry’s monthly email
chronicle — was published earlier today, and I’d like to draw your
attention to a few...
Those Invidious Lists!
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(Larry Hurtado) Clearly, the “top 10″ lists demanded of us by our PhD
students have generated some comments (see the posting and comments). It
is a devi...
Conscience, authority and moral intuition
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A former student of mine wrote to me with a query on about how institutional Church authority could co-exist with the authority of individual conscience. She...
Met. Ephrem: The Fast is for Purifying the Heart
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*The Arabic original, published in the newsletter al-Karmeh, can be found
here.*
*The Fast is for Purifying the Heart*
Beloved, at the beginning of the f...
The Pre-Easter Update - Forgeries & Follies
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Sensationalist Lenten offerings for your enjoyment. :-)
Sorry for being on hiatus with all things blogging for a long while. Lots
of family stuff has been ...
Lost Texts of Early Christianity: A Wish List
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So many works from early Christianity have been lost, leaving more
questions than answers. Which lost texts would most intrigue you if they
were to be disc...
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 ...
The Text of the Lord's Prayer in Marcion's Gospel
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My friend Dieter Roth, specialist on the reconstruction of Marcion's Gospel,
tells me that his new article on "The Text of the Lord's Prayer in
Marcion's G...
Two cheers for the welfare state
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The welfare state consists of a network of public, financial benefits
originally established to even out the boom and bust extremes of the
business cycle. ...
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...
“…they don’t know what it means…”
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I’m way behind in blogging, I realize. I have a lot to say about the
Florovsky Symposium as well as my trip to Holy Cross, plus there some other
cool thing...
He’s on a mission for God!
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A friend of mine here at the seminary, Jordan Zanetis, is preparing to
return to Tanzania on a mission trip, teaching in Orthodox schools in the
country. H...
Cassian's Institutes and other updates
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A new text has been uploaded to the Early Church Texts website: Cassian's
Institutes, Book 10, chapters 1 and 2 in which Cassian talks of the Spirit
of "Ac...
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: ...
Resurrection asceticism
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"Resurrection asceticism"- this is the term that I think I've coined and
that I'm now using for St Aphrahat's distinctive approach to ascetic
motivation. I...
"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...
A generation of locusts
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One of the nice things about blogging is that the genre allows one to write
about anything and everything that seems important. Politics is important
and, ...
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...
What's New in january 2012
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1- NEW LIGHT ON OUR NUMERALS
JEKUTHIAL GINSBURG
2- More Monastic Origins: The Syrian Orthodox Tradition in Turkey Today
Michael Kelly OSB
3- التماثيل الا...
The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”
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*The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”[1]*
Mitchell First
In a previous post at the Seforim blog, Dan Rabinowitz dealt with the topic
of the origin of the ...
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...
New reflection on service in the Holy Altar
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We have today published a new reflection in our Liturgical Resources area: 'To
Serve in My Father's House' - Reflections on Service in the Holy Altar.
Focu...
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...
Saint Stylianos Orthodox Children’s Charities Inc. in Clarkesville, GA is sponsoring an online class in Biblical Hebrew. The class is free and scheduled to begin on Saturday, October 1st at 6:00 PM Central Standard Time. The class will continue once weekly for two hours per week, for twelve weeks total. To join the Intro to Biblical Hebrew class, sign up here:
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