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Following Jesus ever more closely … ouch
I’ve just seen the website of St. Marys, Bletchley, which has the slogan: Following Jesus ever more closely Just like this: Hmm. It’s probably my warped sense of humour, but this conjured up quite an...
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Do you love H.P. Lovecraft?
Me, I’m a big Lovecraft buff and oddly enough it seems a lot of other archaeologists/anthropologists is as well. In Stockholm as in many cities there are free newspapers around, as Metro etc. Since I...
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COMUNICATO STAMPA Distacco di una limitata porzione di intonaco nel Tempio di...
Press release from the SANP: COMUNICATO STAMPADistacco di una limitata porzione di intonaco nel Tempio di GioveIn data odierna si è verificato il distacco di un pezzo di intonaco grezzo di circa un...
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So I met Kevin Vanhoozer last night…
Our Student Theological Society invited Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer to give a lecture here at MBI last night. I couldn’t stay for the lecture, but had the opportunity to join him and the society leadership...
View ArticleGeagan’s dedicatory inscriptions from the Athenian Agora volume published
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens has announced the publication of The Athenian Agora XVIII: Inscriptions: The Dedicatory Monuments, by Daniel J. Geagan. Additional information is...
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Hadrian's First Wall - Free download
I am making my research into the earth and timber phase of Hadrian's Wall, covered in the previous three posts, available as a convenient electronic or printable copy. Since this amounts to 12,500...
View ArticleDevotions to an Etruscan deity in TLE 939
According to Helmut Rix's Etruskische Texte, an important resource that lists inscriptions on Etruscan artifacts, an inscription written on a vessel from Caere in the 7th century BCE labeled ET Cr 0.4...
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‘They put a chimpanzee mask on the statue of Andreas Papandreou’
Imprisoned then exiled by the Metaxa dictatorship; possible member of pro-democracy military conspiracy ASPIDA; imprisoned then exiled by the Colonels’ junta; author of Democracy at Gunpoint; founder...
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Shark curry dinner leads to 13th century medallion find
A shark curry dinner in Malaysia turns up an unexpected find – a Portuguese medallion that is thought to date to the 13th century! Portuguese artefact from a shark. The Star, 20120222 Woman finds...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Call for Participants: Online Summer Symposium
On "Cyrus' Paradise: A Collaborative Commentary to Xenophon's Cyropaedia" June 18–29, 2012 Sponsored by Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC (http://chs.harvard.edu/) Moderated...
View ArticleAbnormally Interesting Biblical Studies Carnival Countdown
Duane Smith has posted a reminder that the next Biblical Studies Carnival is fast approaching. If you have posts related to Biblical studies that you have written this month, or have grabbed your...
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The 32 000 Year Old Flower
Russian scientist's have taken fruit buried for 32 000 years by a squirrel and used parts of the fruit to grow a living plant from the material. The fruit was found buried 20-40 meters down in a...
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A God No One Really Believes Exists?
A while back I posted on why I don’t think anyone today really believes that God, exactly as depicted in the Bible, exists. In the Bible, God doesn’t hesitate to show off, demonstrating power by...
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Scholiastae: Lucian "Pan and Hermes" and Alciphron 1.3
Two more brief texts for Scholiastae.org: Dialog of the Gods 2, Pan and Hermes; and Alciphron 1.3, Glaucus to his wife Galataea.
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ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE analysis of select South Asian/West Eurasian...
This is the final result of the analysis mentioned in this previous post on the Kalash, using all 22 chromosomes. Due to the quadratic running time of ChromoPainter, I took a random sample of 15...
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Open Access Journal: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques
[First posted in AMIR 12 December 2010. Updated 21 February 2012]Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiquesISSN: 0259-7373 Le Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, fondé en 1984, est un...
View ArticleNew Online Jewish Studies Resources
Two major resources that I want to share:The Cairo Genizah Collection at the Bodleian Library in Oxford (HT Dan McClellan and AWOL)The Israel Antiquities Authorities National Treasures (HT Jim West)
View ArticleCultureGrrl Q&A with Incoming Getty Museum Director Timothy Potts---Part II...
Sunset at the Getty CenterPhoto by Lee Rosenbaum[Part I is here.]During our conversation last Thursday, I had a detailed discussion with incoming Getty Museum director Timothy Potts regarding...
View ArticleDu récit au rituel par la forme esthétique
Les mythes en général et les mythes grecs en particulier nʹont dʹexistence que dans les différentes formes poétiques et iconographiques qui les actualisent pour des circonstances sociales et cultuelles...
View ArticleSteppe Societies - Revisiting the Andronovo Culture
The Late Bronze Age (~3200-1200 BC) horse-back riding cultures of Asia, sometimes called Andronovo culture, have always been an interest to me. But I admit, I haven't written much to date. The problem...
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