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M. D. Reeve, Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission
Michael D. Reeve, Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission, Rome, 2011. Éditeur : Edizioni di storia e letteraturaCollection : Storia e letteratura, 270xviii-434 pagesISBN :...
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Individual vs. Population Identity in Bioarchaeology
Traditionally when bioarchaeologists are discussing trends in disease or burial patterns, while it may be based on individuals, it is spoken about at the population level. We assess the way that...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas februarias
ante diem iv nonas februarias 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Apronian the Executioner at Ancona … it’s also Candlemas Day … And for all you Latin teachers out there … you can present this Latin ‘distich’...
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Blurbum Romanum
Tip o’ the pileus to Nigel Webb (via Twitter) for pointing us to an item on the history of book blurbs at The Millions … inter alia, of course, there’s the link to ancient Rome: If you needed beach...
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Teaching Thursday: Reflecting on Teaching
One of the key arguments against assigning term papers to undergraduate students is that they have a very limited audience. This argument assumes, of course, that most post-collegiate writing has a...
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Who’s reading this blog?
I’ve been running this blog for nearly six years now, but for most part I don’t know who my readers are! Over the last couple of years I’ve had interactions with a few of you, either in-person at...
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Open Access at the Onassis Foundation USA
Onassis Foundation USA PublicationsTransition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd – 7th Century AD"Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd – 7th Century AD." contains an...
View ArticleWhat Has Been Going On
So, what has been going on guys? Things have been rather quiet around here. I don’t expect anyone to still be around...but hi anyway! Now begins the obligitory “I have not blogged in...
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Fringe: Why Did God Make Me This Way?
Should we refer to J. J. Abrams as in some sense a “theologian”? Last week’s episode of Fringe, “Forced Perspective,” which I only found the time to watch last night, is full of theology and...
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On My Travels - Groningen
Just back from a flying visit to Groningen, where I presented at a Lustrum which celebrated 25 years of Humanities Computing - or "Alfa-Informatica" - there. I was invited to present about Digital...
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Digital Library at The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies
[First posted in AWOL 5 October 2010. Updated 2 February 2012] The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic StudiesThe Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, was established as a joint collaboration...
View ArticleAPA Blog : News from Royal Holloway
The Classics faculty at Royal Holloway have just been informed that in 2014 they will lose one position or, if applications decrease this year, two positions. Applications are holding up, so it seems...
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Kropp's Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte Online
A. Kropp, Ausgewählte koptische ZaubertexteCourtesy of Alin SuciuAngelicus Kropp, Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte Bd. I: Textpublikation (Brussels: Edition de la Fondation égyptologique reine...
View ArticleColumbia University Tablets Online
Just the other day I posted news of the online availability of digitized images of the tablets and inscriptions from the Musées d’Art et d’Histoire of Geneva. Now comes news that images of the Columbia...
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Reflections on a doctorate
Only two research projects left to talk about in my survey of what I have done previously, and this is the biggy, the blast-from-the-past upon which your star will forever be hung, the doctorate. I...
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The “Original Aramaic Lord’s Prayer” is None of the Above
After it came up on this blog a while back, I’ve wanted to return to the topic of the “Original Aramaic Lord’s Prayer.” Why? Because the thing that can be found online referred to in this way is not...
View ArticleNew Versions - Church Fathers in Greek, Latin and English!
After putting together the version of Eusebius’ Church History for BibleWorks, I thought I stumbled onto something good and there was a need to add more writings of the early Church Fathers* into...
View ArticleJob: Digital Archivist at ADS
Particularly appropriate for a digital classicist or archaeologist with an interest in digital preservation and a high level of computer skills (from University of York jobs): The Archaeology Data...
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John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Digital Library
[First published in AWOL 3/27/09; updated 4/18/2010; updated 12/2/2010; updated 2/2/2012]Since 1997, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation has produced each year a volume devoted to a single...
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Paul Mythicism?
There certainly are those Jesus mythicists who would also deny that there was a historical Paul. But for many mythicists, perhaps the majority, the historicity of Paul and the authenticity of Paul’s...
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