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If There is Gallows Humor, Can There Be Crucifixion Humor?

I came across this cartoon at The Far Left Side:I am (as most readers know) open to attempts at humor that verge into territory that some might find irreverent. But this one simply didn’t seem all that...

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APA Blog : CFP: TEI Infrastructures

Submissions due 30 September 2012 http://journal.tei-c.org/ The TEI has proven to be one of the great success stories in the Digital Humanities. It has emerged as the de facto standard for online...

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Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Even as we speak I was rolling out to Williston to do some research in the Bakken Oil counties. So I’m hopeful that the weather in North Dakotaland continues to be generous to us! So here is a little...

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Spring, Skeletons, and Easter

It's Eastertime, so I thought I'd highlight some pieces I wrote recently.  Read them when you're too stuffed with chocolate to do anything else (or when your kids have their inevitable sugar crash and...

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APA Blog : APA Member in the News: Skateboarding Professor Becomes Internet...

From the JournalStar.com: Tom Winter finished a lecture on passive and past-tense Latin verbs on Thursday, pulled his skateboard from the desk and rolled into a cool spring afternoon. The University...

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Harley and Woodward's The History of Cartography Online

The History of Cartography, Volume 1Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the MediterraneanEdited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward©1987 | 622 pages | 32-page color insert, 40...

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Harley and Woodward's History of Cartography Online

[First posted in AWOL 5 July 2011. Updated 6 April 2012] The History of Cartography, Volume 1Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the MediterraneanEdited by J. B. Harley and...

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Acrocorinth 1920s

The Peschke show has forced me to revisit some canonical images of Greek landscapes and I have revisited one of the most important photographic publications on Greece, the Wasmuth volume on Greece,...

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Also Seen: The Parthenon and its Derivatives

At the Classicist blog: CLASSICAL COMMENTS: THE PARTHENON AND ITS DERIVATIVES [very useful post; plenty of photos]

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Is “Jesus Archaeology” Becoming Like Professional Wrestling?

That was the thought that hit me after reading “Scientists say Turin Shroud is Supernatural.” Now, you all know that I’m interested in the Shroud of Turin. (How could I not be when I write a blog like...

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Three Francis Chan Bestsellers: Free Dowload

Three Francis Chan Bestsellers: Free Dowload! (via @gospelebooks): http://t.co/FckTfXBD

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Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies is an independent research institute and think tank for the study of history and social sciences, with...

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Roman camps in Scotland

Long overdue, Rebecca Jones' new book Roman Camps in Scotland is getting justifiable coverage. She details every one of the military camps in Scotland drawing on photographs from the RCAHM collection....

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Maya Blue source confirmed

Bonampak Mural with Maya Blue background. Image: Nick Leonard (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)Maya blue is the brilliant long-lasting pigment that coloured the Maya world and is one of just a...

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SBL Paper Proposal Accepted: Revisiting the Relationship between the Mandaean...

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days. I received notification that the paper I proposed, “Revisiting the Relationship between the Mandaean Book of John and the New Testament,” has been...

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The Secondary Context Workshop: A Report

Site ravaged by looting, SE corner of the enclosing walls of the inner city, Al Resafa, Syria. Image, courtesy of the photographer, Thomas Schutyser A Report In the waning days of November, 2011,...

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Aegyptus [1920– 2006] at JSTOR

Aegyptus 1920-2006 (Anni 1-86) (Previous Title: Studi della Scuola papirologica [1915–1920]) ISSN: 0001-9046 Aegyptus, the Italian Egyptology and Papyrology journal, was founded in 1920 by Aristide...

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IVP’s Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

Today I found myself wondering just what the early Christians would have to say on various controverted passages in Scripture, passages where modern issues cause us to look urgently at the text.  If...

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Objects Revealed!

University of South Alabama National Archaeology Day Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm

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New Open Access Issue of IpoTESI di...

New Open Access Issue of IpoTESI di Preistoria http://ipotesidipreistoria.cib.unibo.it/issue/view/269/showToc A Gis-Based Archaeological Predictive Model for the Study of Protohistoric...

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