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April 17, 2021

Religion, History, & Culture #CFP (Virtual Conference August 15-16, 2021)

Information about a really exciting endeavor: Virtual Conference: Religion, History, & Culture (August 15 &...

November 2020

November 09, 2020

Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games

An interesting upcoming event to be held by the Institute for the Study of the...

December 2019

December 23, 2019

Early Christian Hymns

A round-up of posts related to early Christology, some with particular focus on their expression...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

Moonstruck in the New Testament

After I posted a call for papers for a conference about the moon, John MacDonald...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

History, Education, and Gaming

I've been meaning for a while to share some photos of the replica of a...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

Fan Fiction and Ancient Scribal Cultures #CFP

A call for papers that some readers of this blog will be very interested in:...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

What’s So Funny? #CFP

What’s So Funny? Discovering and Interpreting Humor in the Ancient World A conference to be...

October 09, 2017

Of the Burning of Books There is no End

Tim O'Neill, on his blog History for Atheists, has tackled another widely-held misrepresentation, namely that...

September 2017

September 12, 2017

Lucian of Samosata’s Science Fiction

I have been meaning to blog about Lucian of Samosata since Lorraine Boissoneault wrote an article...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

Scenes from #GenCon50

I'm going to share some highlights from Gen Con 50, which just concluded yesterday. I've...

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...

March 04, 2017

Ancient Hebrew Cosmology

Ben Stanhope shared the following image he made depicting how ancient Hebrews understood their physical...

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...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Ancient Corinth: An Aerial View

Putting drone technology to good use...

June 23, 2016

Ancient Israelite Cosmology Video

I've shared images of the ancient Israelite view of the universe before. But above is...

June 23, 2016

Ancient Israelite Cosmology Video

I've shared images of the ancient Israelite view of the universe before. But above is...

February 2016

February 06, 2016

Ancient Computers?

There was an interesting convergence around the topic of ancient people allegedly using computers this...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

#CFP: The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine

There is an interesting call for papers for a conference in Helsinki, Finland next September,...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Review of Jodi Magness, Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit

I am long overdue to review Jodi Magness' book Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit:...

August 12, 2015

The Gospel against the Prophets?

The above words are how I summarized the gist of my recent post "Micah among the Baptists."...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

The Historical Jesus Goes To University

I recently had a mythicist troll ask for evidence that Jesus is taught as a...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Laziness Ancient and Modern

In an essay earlier this semester, a student quoted Proverbs 18:9 as evidence that laziness...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Importing Modern-Day Science Into Ancient Texts

I shared a long quote from Mike Beidler a while back, and a discussion occurred...

January 14, 2015

Identification of Authors in Ancient Literature

A discussion here on this blog brought up the question of whether other ancient works...

January 06, 2015

Yoda, Buddha, Obi-Wan, and Confucius

AntiquityNow has free materials -ranging from bookmarks to cookbooks to curricula - related to the ancient...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

Moss and Baden on the Lastest Mythicist Nonsense

Via Candida Moss, I learned that she and Joel Baden have responded to - and...

May 2014

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...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

New Testament Transcripts Prototype

AWOL shared a link to the New Testament Transcripts Prototype of the University of Munster...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

Tour Ancient Rome

HT Matthias Rascher

October 2013

October 22, 2013

Skept-o-meter

I began sharing links to interesting things on other blogs on Facebook and Twitter this...

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