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No Amen To That!
The above cartoon from The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus makes a crucially important point. Very often, Christians allow themselves to be manipulated by those who speak with confidence and...
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Gregory Palamas, 150 Chapters
Just a quick note for those that might be searching. I’m working on an essay on why deification in the Eastern tradition can’t be absorption, and I’m doing a section on the essence-energies...
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SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE ICTHYOMORPHIC DRAWING ON OSSUARY 6:3 FROM EAST...
Juan V. Fernández de la Gala, Forensic Anthropologist and Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain, delagala@telefonica.net SUMMARY: Professor Tabor’s...
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Digventures, Flag Fen, and Crowd-everything archaeology
On 29th February 2012, DigVentures, a social enterprise dedicated to funding sustainable archaeology projects, launched a 60 day funding round for Europe’s first ever crowdfunded and crowdsourced...
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Pre-Roman genetic structure has persisted in modern Basque populations
This is a fairly interesting study that paints a picture of continuity of genetic structure among Basques since pre-Roman times. I am not sufficiently familiar with either Basque history or geography...
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500 new fairytales discovered in Germany
From Guardian: A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg,...
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Stanley Porter is Blogging
I’m quite pleased to see this. Hopefully, we’ll see some good Greek blogging coming from him. I’ve always been extremely curious about how his views about developed over the past two decades. Beyond...
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NOMOI: Bibliography on Ancient Greek Law
NOMOI: Bibliography on Ancient Greek Law David Mirhady Ilias Arnaoutoglou Mark J. Sundahl, J.D., Ph.D. Latest entries Last update: January 2009Complete Bibliography: Summer 2011 Alphabetical Listing...
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Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy
Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy Dēmos is a publication of The Stoa: a Consortium for Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, and has greatly benefited from the infrastructure, expertise, and...
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US Collectors: "Monopolists and Guardians of the Truth"
.US dugup collector Thomas Albert remarks on the current situation in 'antiquities'. His comments are typical of those of part of the no-questions-asked portable antiquity collecting milieu. This shows...
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New Open Access Issue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
View ArticleGoshen Commotion: Save-the-Rudolph Campaign’s Petition, Public Hearing
The campaign to save Orange County's endangered Paul Rudolph-designed Government Center, Goshen, NY, now has a logo (above), a website and petition. The petition (173 signatories at this writing) is...
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And tomorrow ...
REMINDER: Verdict finally due in trial of alleged ‘James ossuary’ forger: Oded Golan allegedly faked several of the most spectacular archaeological finds of recent decades. After over 100 hearings, the...
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Neolithic expansions: how the European foragers were assimilated
From the paper: Recently, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from skeletal remains of European early farmers and late hunter-gatherers has been retrieved [7]–[13]. The frequency of mtDNA haplogroups, defined by...
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Jesus Discovery/Talpiot Tombs latest
THE JESUS DISCOVERY/TALPIOT (TALPIYOT) TOMBS DISCUSSION is becoming even more interesting.Robert Cargill: sins of commission and omission: digitally generated marginal ‘fishes’ and overlooked handles...
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High Tech Witch Hunt?
The authors of Chasing Aphrodite have now embarked on a new plan. Apparently, they hope to put out documentation received from Italian and Greek law enforcement onto the web, and then rely on activists...
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Open Access Journal: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
[Most recently updated 13 March 2012]Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies GRBS is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to the culture and history of Greece from Antiquity to the Renaissance,...
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Corso di perfezionamento in Legni e carboni in area mediterranea: problemi...
L’ Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II ha istituito il Corso di perfezionamento in Legni e carboni in area mediterranea: problemi archeologici e paleoecologici Il corso ha lo scopo di fornire...
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Prehistoric Secondary Burial in Argentina
Regeneration, replacement and restoration are common themes in funerary rites. The fear of death and the end is mediated by a number of human societies by focusing on renewal on life. This can manifest...
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Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: William Trollope (1842)
Trollope wrote his grammar with the goal of it functioning as a supplement to Buttmann, specifically focusing on the New Testament and the broader Hellenistic period.[1] The work is brief—just over 250...
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