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...
View ArticleAPA 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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleSpring, 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...
View ArticleAPA 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...
View ArticleHarley 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...
View ArticleHarley 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...
View ArticleAcrocorinth 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,...
View ArticleAlso Seen: The Parthenon and its Derivatives
At the Classicist blog: CLASSICAL COMMENTS: THE PARTHENON AND ITS DERIVATIVES [very useful post; plenty of photos]
View ArticleIs “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...
View ArticleThree Francis Chan Bestsellers: Free Dowload
Three Francis Chan Bestsellers: Free Dowload! (via @gospelebooks): http://t.co/FckTfXBD
View ArticleArab 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...
View ArticleRoman 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....
View ArticleMaya 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...
View ArticleSBL 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleAegyptus [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...
View ArticleIVP’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...
View ArticleObjects Revealed!
University of South Alabama National Archaeology Day Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
View ArticleNew 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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