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77% of Posted Comments Against Renewal of Cypriot MOU
John Hooker has performed the following analysis of the 338 comments posted on the regulations.gov website in response to the State Department's invitation to comment on the proposed renewal of the MOU...
View ArticleA 1918 list of English translations from ancient Greek
This evening I ran across F. M. K. Foster’s English translations from the Greek: a bibliographical survey, Columbia, 1918 (Google books here). A book of this date ought to be of great interest, in...
View ArticleMore Origen Update
Further to my post earlier today, the 7th homily of Origen on Ezekiel is now done, complete. That was a very quick turnaround, thankfully. We should have about an hour’s worth of formatting on...
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View ArticleHobbins’ Review of God of the Living
I hope John Hobbins never reviews anything that I write because no human alive will be able to compile a bibliography that meets his expectations much less read the books on them. All kidding aside,...
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Searchable Greek Inscriptions: A Scholarly Tool in Progress. The Packard...
Searchable Greek Inscriptions: A Scholarly Tool in Progress. The Packard Humanities InstituteDescription [From the digitalclassicist wiki]:The Packard Humanities Institute, in conjunction with Cornell...
View ArticleIf Your Teacher Asks You
Since I have it at hand, I thought I’d better take a little time and browse the whole of Koch-Westenholz’s compilation of Mesopotamian extispicy texts. Even among the ancient commentaries, there is a...
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Huge differences in personality between men and women
From the paper's conclusion: In conclusion, we believe we made it clear that the true extent of sex differences in human personality has been consistently underestimated. While our current estimate...
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“Honesty Above Propriety”: Biblical Pictures Worth More Than A Thousand Words
Via Rachel Held Evans, I learned of Jim LePage’s “Word Bible Designs” which attempt to encapsulate what is central to a book in the Bible in a single image. Many of them are provocative, in ways that...
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Freedom of Interpretation?
This cartoon by David Hayward seems to me to illustrate well the situation we find ourselves in as interpreters – whether of life or of texts. The danger is when we genuinely believe that we are free,...
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WORLD'S OLDEST TEMPLE AND THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION FEATUED IN DEC 19-26 NEW...
There is a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles called Gobekli Tepe in the Urfa, Turkey countryside as reported by Elif Batuman in a fascinating article in the New Yorker. Gobekli is...
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Another Curse Scroll
On the 2nd of January, 2012, in an article by Sindya N. Bhanoo the New York Times reported on the unravelling of a cruse scroll found in the 1930s by the Excavation Committee. It clearly represents a...
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Curtain-Twitching
.There is some insubstantial chat on some coin discussion lists about a seizure at the New York International Coin Show. On the morning of Jan 3rd (the forums say 4th), just hours before the "Triton...
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Two US Lawyers, Two Approaches to CPAC Comments
.It is quite instructive to look at the approach of two US cultural property lawyers to the public commenting on the Cyprus MOU renewal. It seems that there were a total of 338 comments electronically...
View ArticleRencontres autour de la sculpure romaine en France
Ces rencontres biennales ont pour vocation de réunir la communauté scientifique s’attachant à l’étude de la sculpture romaine en France : archéologues, conservateurs de musées, universitaires,...
View ArticlePratiques religieuses et christianisation de la cité dans l’Antiquité tardive
Le colloque a pour objectif de rassembler des historiens, archéologues, historiens des religions, autour du problème de la christianisation de la cité tardo-antique, et plus précisément autour des...
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Wall Mile 42
The Trail leaves the eastern site of the fort across a field with prominent remnants of post-medieval ridge-and-furrow ploughing. Once again, a modern field wall runs on top of the curtain wall to our...
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2012.01.03: Ad (L)usum lectoris: etimologia e giochi di parole in Apuleio....
Review of Lara Nicolini, Ad (L)usum lectoris: etimologia e giochi di parole in Apuleio. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino, 117. Bologna: 2011. Pp. 220. €18.00 (pb). ISBN...
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2012.01.04: Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity
Review of Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity. London: 2011. Pp. viii, 269. $80.00. ISBN 9780715638958.
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2012.01.02: Reflections of Romanity: Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial...
Review of Richard Alston, Efrossini Spentzou, Reflections of Romanity: Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome. Classical Memories/Modern Identities. Columbus: 2011. Pp. xv, 247. $59.95. ISBN...
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