The Ephraem Graecus problem: some thoughts
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The 4th century writer Ephraem the Syrian wrote in Syriac. But in the
Greek manuscripts that have come down to us, there is a great mass of
sermons and re...
Die große Verunsicherung
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Die Karriereberaterin und Therapeutin Brigitte Scheidt beobachtet bei ihren
Ratsuchenden eine zunehmende Verunsicherung. Hier der Auszug aus einem
Inter...
A prayer for peace
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Almighty God, who governest the nations: have mercy on us. Avert, we pray,
the scourge of war. Grant sanity and sobriety of heart to those in seats of
auth...
‘Conjecture Magnets’ Ranked
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In his chapter on emendation in the book *Pen, Print, and Pixels*, Jan
Krans gives some very interesting data from the Amsterdam Database. It’s
the kind of...
Recent activities for February 2026
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I have just posted my Global Scholars Canada newsletter for February 2026.
Included are material related to Christian Nationalism, memories of
Minneapoli...
Classics Kit — Lesson Creation
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Sometimes you have to remember that no one knows what you're working on
unless you talk about it. Though with some unfortunate interruptions (such
is lif...
Judith Lieu, review on my Christ's Torah in SBL
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It is nice to see this in-depth, critical and welcoming review that my
fine colleague Professor Judith Lieu has recently published in SBL. The
view ends...
Hebrews Highlights - December 2025 - Februay 2026
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I am catching up on blog posts. Here are the Hebrews Highlights for
December 2025 through mid-February 2026:
Ken Schenck continues his narrative journey ...
Make Great Christianity Again
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The title of this post does indeed have the words in the right order – I
intentionally wrote “Make great Christianity again.” I’ll explain what I
mean by t...
The Fourth Synoptic Gospel
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2026.01.01 | Mark Goodacre. The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of
Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Eerdmans, 2025. 191 pp. $29.99. Goodacre advances
a st...
Morton Smith: Secret Mark Timeline
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I am grateful to Stephen Goranson for this guest post, and I must apologise
that it has taken me so long to post it. I get so busy during term time
that ...
Der Krieg gegen Ehe, Kinder und Familie
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VON ERZPRIESTER ANDRÉ SIKOJEV
Im Geist und in der Tradition der orthodoxen Kirche sind Familien
ekklesiologisch verstanden – Hauskirchen bzw. Kirchengem...
TAG, Bournemouth University, 13-15 December 2024
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Browse our latest books and journals and chat to Valerie Hall
The post TAG, Bournemouth University, 13-15 December 2024 appeared first on Equinox
Publish...
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...
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...
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:
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:
Between 1897 and 1907, seven hundred boxes of papyri were discovered on the site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus and shipped to the University of Oxford. To date only a small percentage of the "Oxyrhynchus Papyri" has been edited by scholars. Lack of personnel and funds means that about two million segments of ancient papyri are still waiting to be studied, or even read, for the first time.
The task is too big for the Oxford research team so people across the world are invited to help translate the ancient documents. The ingenious part is that no knowledge of classical Greek is required. About 200,000 segments of the ancient Oxyrhynchus papyri have been uploaded to www.ancientlives.org and using character-recognition tools you can assist in the transcription process. Oxford has developed software that allows users to match Greek letters with the symbols on the papyri. The software then translate the words and stores them on a searchable database.
