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October 2022

October 13, 2022

Job Opportunities: Remote Research Positions, Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library

The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library (SMDL) at the UCLA Library is currently hiring for several...

April 2021

April 16, 2021

Bilingualism in the Earliest Church

It is funny how ideas come up. It started with me mentioning to my Sunday...

December 2020

December 27, 2020

Jesus and Those With Him

I am puzzled why most commentators regard the reference in Mark 3:21 as being to...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Learning by Listening

I have been benefiting from audiobooks to no end, and I have been podcasting more...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

A Hug from Jesus

You know the experience. You are reading something that should be familiar, and yet something...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendations

I've been meaning since Peter Gurry blogged about it last year to mention the launch...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Digital Humanist Wanted

This job announcement came to my attention via the NASCAS e-mail list, and I thought...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Tolkien Have Mercy

Dănuţ Mănăstireanu drew my attention to the video above. It is striking how its creator...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Learning Ancient Greek as a Spoken Language

I have been meaning ever since I got back from SBL to blog about some...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

ΚΑΤΑ ΣΑΔΔΟΥΚΑΙΩΝ

A work by Mikis Theodorakis, drawn to my attention by Siobhan Dowling Long and John...

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Learn Ancient Greek with Prof. Leonard Muellner

Ancient World Online shared the above playlist of videos for learning ancient Greek, courtesy of...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

A Man Attested By God: Daniel Kirk on the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels

I recently had the opportunity to read an advance copy of Daniel Kirk's forthcoming book, which he...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

A Bible Typo as Prelude to the Hymn of Jesus

The Acts of John concludes with Jesus leading his disciples in song (with words that...

December 10, 2015

How Many Variants?

Peter Gurry has written an interesting post about variants in the manuscripts of the New...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Strong Ability in Biblical Languages

As I sought feedback on the Swahili lyrics of Baba Yetu recently, one of the...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Fundamentalists and Scholarship

I made the same point some years ago in a blog post. But the above...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

What the Greek REALLY Says

HT Henry Neufeld

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Exegesis as Reading

The Patrologist recently blogged about exegesis as reading, warning about two extremes - the tendency to...

December 02, 2014

Spending the Night with Jesus

One objection to the antiquity of the Secret Gospel of Mark is that it uses...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

Expository Preaching in the First Century

Via Anglican Memes and Humour on Facebook.

June 2014

June 08, 2014

Speaking in Tongues at Crooked Creek Baptist Church

Today at my church, as it was Pentecost, we had the text (Acts 2:1-13) read...

May 2014

May 10, 2014

Ancient Greek OCR

I haven't tried it out yet, but the news AWOL shared about optical character recognition...

May 07, 2014

“Let It Go” in Ancient Greek

Click on the above to watch the video on YouTube (I'm still having trouble getting...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Happy Septuagint Day!

Abram K-J pointed out in his last Septuagint Soiree that today would be Septuagint Day....

December 2013

December 30, 2013

God is Agape

I recently had someone say something about "leaving students agape" on Twitter. It is perhaps...

December 11, 2013

Fragments of Extracanonical Greek Gospels Online

What's New in Papyrology highlighted some new images of Greek manuscripts that have been placed...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Performing Ancient Texts in the Original Languages

My colleague Chris Bungard is one of the performers (the first you see) in the...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

Septuagint Studies Soirée

Abram K-J has proposed a new blog carnival with a specific focus: the Septuagint Studies...

August 02, 2013

When God Spoke Greek

I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in the blog tour...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Ancient Greek Hipster Religion

Via "He Has a Wife You Know"

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