Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, freedom of speech, information access, and more
I discovered today that there is online a thesis containing an English translation of Jerome’s Commentary on Jonah. It was made by Timothy Michael Hegedus in 1991. It’s here. I am OCR’ing the PDF as I write! I learned about this via AWOL. There is a website Open Access Theses and Dissertations. This is a [...]
Via AWOL I learn that an edition and translation of Bar Hebraeus’ scholia on the Old Testament is now available in PDF form online from the University of Chicago. The PDF is here (linked on that page under the red down-arrow next to the text “Terms of Use”. In addition, an interesting volume, The Early Text of [...]
A little while ago I was encouraged to read Bauer’s Orthodoxy and Heresy. Last weekend the book (in English translation) arrived by ILL, and last night I started to read it. At the moment I have no overall verdict on the book, but a couple of passages struck me, and are worthy of comment for [...]
Today I learned of the Green Collection, a large private collection of manuscripts and papyri. It is owned by the Green family of Oklahoma, who are (a) billionaires and (b) Christians. In consequence they have been collecting material of wide interest. Brill have announced a new series of publications for the papyri: The new series [...]
I have, just this instant, come across an example of how the NIV is being corrupted deliberately, for politically correct reasons, in order to deceive. It nearly caught me out, as I was doing a bible study. I was asked to do something on St. Paul and leadership of women (why me?!). So I looked [...]
Via Paleojudaica I see a report on Evangelical Textual Criticism of an interesting CNN report. The statement is that “within the last 48 hours” a fragment of Romans has been discovered, dated to the mid-2nd century AD. The interview is vague, but it sounds as if a team somewhere in the US has been taking [...]
Continuing from yesterday, here is another excerpt from Christophe Guignard’s book La lettre de Julius Africanus à Aristide. As I remarked, one of the charms of this book is that, in order to establish a text of the fragments of the letter of 2nd century writer Julius Africanus to Aristides on the genealogy of Christ, it provides a [...]
Codex 184.B.64 of the monastery of the Laura on Mt. Athos was one of the manuscripts examined by von Soden and von der Goltz in a trip to the mountain in the winter of 1898. The presence of subscriptios to the letters of Paul, and scholia, caught the attention of the latter, who published an article [...]
Here is a translation (from the French of Francois Nau in ROC) of a letter of James of Edessa, to John the Stylite. The headings in italics are by Nau. ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. To our spiritual and beloved brother, to the religious and pious priest Mar John, (from) James the [...]
Readers will know that I don’t believe any ancient text should be given in an English version revised in accordance with a political programme. It’s dishonest. If I want to read Vergil, I want to read Vergil, not Vergil-as-some-old-hippy-says-he-should-have-written. The editing of the NIV for “gender-inclusivity” — to conform to the political demands of those [...]