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Further thoughts on translating St Cuthman’s “Life”
How papyrus rolls lost their tops and bottoms – from Oxyrhynchus
Some notes on St Alnoth
St Cuthman, the Vulgate, the sacramentary, and so forth
Literary sources for the “Life” of St. Eanswythe
The harvester who became a magistrate – an inscription from 260-270 AD
Did Pope Gelasius create St Valentine’s Day as a replacement for the Lupercalia?
From my diary
A concise explanation of the legal basis for Roman persecution of Christians
A pagan philosopher writes against Manichaeism: Alexander of Lycopolis and his “Against the Manichaeans”
From my diary
Searching for the Vulgate: one genuine text and two fakes
Returning to book publishing
The apocryphal canons of a supposed apostolic council of Antioch
From my diary
The text of De Solstitia et De aequinoctia (CPL 2277)
“OMG I’m So Hungover” – Ogham Annotations in a 9th century copy of Priscian
From my diary
Order my books before they go out of print!
Subscriptions by email
Some notes on “De solstitiis et aequinoctis” (CPL 2277)
Was there no festival of Sol on 25 December before 324 AD?
The first mention of Yule: the Gothic liturgical calendar in the Codex Argenteus
From my diary
“Feasting in excess”: a fingerprint phrase in quotations of Gregory Nazianzen on the Nativity
A miscellany of things
St Nicholas and the story of the three schoolboys murdered by an inn-keeper and stashed in a pickling cask
Digging for gold: the archaeology of the internet and the “Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies” (EJMS)
From my diary
The earliest mention of Halloween? John Mirk’s “Festivall” or “Festial” or “Liber Festivalis
From my diary
A symposium on Ephrem Graecus next week at Marquette university in Milwaukee
From my diary
“Bread for slaves – 2” – An ancient shopping list from Pompeii
Comments caught in the spam filter
All Saints Day: Alcuin in 800 AD exhorts his friend to celebrate it on 1st November
All Saints: the edict of Louis in 835 establishing the date as 1st November
The Martyrologium Poeticum of ps.Bede, a.k.a. The Metrical Calendar of York
From my diary
From my diary – thinking about All Saints Day
More manuscripts of the “notae” in the margins of Cassiodorus, “Expositio Psalmorum”
The late antique use of “Christianitas”
More on “Christianitas” in the Codex Theodosianus
More on the earliest use of the word “Christianity”
What is the earliest use of the word “Christianity”?
Diversity of teaching and early Christianity
Catherine Nixey, “The darkening age” is back – and annoying scholars in five languages
Finding online manuscripts
Blog recommendation: Papyrus Stories, by Jenny Cromwell
Where are the academic reviews of bible translations?
From my diary
Thinking about ways to display Latin syntax information in a translation tool
A little-known museum in Rome – the Case Romane del Celio.
Notae in the margins of Cassiodorus, “Expositio Psalmorum”
“Let the flamen dialis shave only with a razor of bronze!”
From my diary
Monachos.net “account suspended” – anyone know what has happened?
Philo of Byzantium, On the Seven Wonders of the World: an English translation and some notes
Isidore of Seville – on the Tironian notae
An ancient handbook of short-hand: Tironian notes and the “Commentarii notarum Tironianarum”
Drawings of Old St Peter’s in Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.A.64.ter
An unusual view of the Meta Sudans across the Piazza del Colosseo in 1930
From my diary
“John the deacon” – just who was he?
Free! Database of manuscripts containing Latin Saint’s Lives – at the Bollandists
Looking for manuscripts of John the Deacon’s “Life of St Nicholas” (BHL 6104 etc)
Of the wickedness of men
T. D. Barnes on Rodney Stark’s claim that only a “tiny number of Christians were ever martyred”
An early printed hagiography – the volumes of Aloysius Lippomanus
More on Mombritius, and John the Deacon’s “Life of St Nicholas”
Some thoughts on Craig Evans, “How Long Were Late Antique Books in Use?”
The column of Arcadius – a detailed pre-1700 drawing
Some wonderful pictures from the Column of Arcadius in Istanbul, and notes on when it was destroyed
From my diary
Extracts from Peter of Alexandria (d.311) and the original copy of the Gospel of John
St Nicholas and the “Life” by John the Deacon
Farewell J.-B. Piggin, of ” Piggin’s Unofficial list” of Vatican manuscript releases online
Valentine of Rome (BHL 8465) – extracts from the Passiones of Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abacuc (BHL 5543)
From my diary
How to approach translating hagiography; St Valentine of Rome; and why I won’t translate his “Life” (BHL 8465)
St Valentine – his “Passio” (BHL 8460) now online in English
Still working on the translation of the “Life” of St Valentine of Terni
Ignorant musings about saints
A good portrait of Constantius II?
Tutorial: How to download the LIDAR datasets from the UK Environment Agency website
Underwater archaeology beneath the pyramids of the Black Pharaohs
A 1987 plan for the ruins of the Roman fort of “Walton Castle”
Two ancient Latin versions of the letter of Arius to Eusebius of Nicomedia
Ibn Khaldun, taxation, and Boris Johnson
The New Jerusalem like a bride in Rev. 21:2 and Christ as bridegroom
Arius to Eusebius of Nicomedia: the Son is “fully God”
Some further notes on Primasius
Primasius and his Commentary on Revelation
Augustine’s “De ordine” and his comment on prostitution
An online quote attributed to St. Jerome, on prayer
John Zonaras on the date of Easter
The late antique edition of Livy by the Nicomachean family
Bits and bobs
More Meta Sudans photos and a document on the demolition!
Manuscripts and text of the Vita S. Valentini: a review of the article by Edoardo D’Angelo
From my diary
From my diary
More on “Magganum” and St George
What does “magganum” mean? Looking for the Commentator Cruquianus of Horace
Discovery of unpublished letter by Eastern bishop on Easter, from the time of Nicaea, mentioning the Acts of Pilate
Commercial use of my stuff by someone else?
Norwich Cathedral and the Latin origins of modern English liturgies
From my diary
Theophanes III of Nicaea and the light of God as the fire of hell for those who reject Him
The Lysippus bust of Alexander the Great
Tertullian and British Israelitism
Banishing the letter “v” from the Latin alphabet
Did King James issue instructions to the bible translators to change the text to hide his own sins?
The domes of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
Eusebius of Caesarea, Six extracts from the Commentary on the Psalms, in English
Richard McCambly, Lectio Divina, and Gregory of Nyssa
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 8)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 7)
The Acts of John in the minutes of the Second Council of Nicaea (787)
The Second Council of Nicaea (787) and the Canon of the New Testament
Why can’t I find this passage from Cyril of Alexandria’s “Commentary on John” in the text?
From my diary
An unexpected tale for Good Friday: The House on Lake Minnetonka That Never Existed
A fresco of the interior of Old St Peter’s by Filippo Gagliardi in San Martino ai Monti in Rome
Lidar on the Roman fort at Felixstowe
An interesting request: get books without paying for them!?
A silver “votive plaque” of the 2-3rd century AD, attributed to “Mithras”
From my diary
The tomb of Aelia Arisuth in Libya
From my diary
Finding “Great Long Dole” – maps of the fort area, old and new
The Errington sub-aqua expedition to “Walton castle”, 1969 – the press clippings
Old drawings of “Walton Castle”, the Roman fort of the Saxon Shore at Felixstowe
More on the “Errington manuscript”
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary: looking for the Roman fort of “Walton Castle”
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Latin as it is spoke: some thoughts on Latin syntax
Will the real St Valentine please step forward? – A look at the BHL
From my diary
Help!
From my diary
The importance of standard spelling in critical editions
Why does paleography work, and how did we get it?
Menelaus of Alexandria in al-Biruni
You can call me al-… : Arabic sources on Menelaus of Alexandria
Everything you ever wanted to know about Menelaus of Alexandria but were afraid to ask
A daguerreotype of the Roman forum from 1842
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 6)
A couple of thoughts on translations of Juvenal
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 5)
An ancient life of Juvenal
Terrence B. McMullen: a name on a fly-leaf comes alive
A fuller extract from Gregory of Nyssa on the evils of slavery
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 4)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 3)
Depictions of the column of Justinian in manuscripts of the Notitia Dignitatum
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 2)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 2 – part 3 and last
An unusual angle on the Meta Sudans
Arator, his “Historia Apostolica” and its “tituli” and “capitula”
Cotelerius on Pope Julius and Cyril of Jerusalem
From my diary – The “upgrade” that destroys your website
The search for “John of Nicaea”: adventures in Byzantine prosopography
Dubious claims: Pope Julius I decided that Jesus was born on 25 December?
From my diary
Ephraim Graecus – a list of works
From Hell’s bookshelf: the official 1930 history of the Student Christian Movement
There will be stars: the life and death of Robert H. Schmidt
Ancient Greek / Latin translator available for hire
Memories of the polemical and literary activity of Earl Doherty
A Roman ring with “Pilato” on it found in Israel?
From my diary
Another engraving of the buried Roman west gate of Lincoln
Beatitudines aliae, part 5
Gaffiot’s massive Latin-French dictionary online; plus Du Cange’s medieval Latin glossary
From my diary
Beatitudines 4
Beatitudines aliae 3 – stepping through the Greek once more
Beatitudines aliae, section 2
More on Beatitudines aliae capita xx.
Looking at Ephraem Graecus, “Beatitudines aliae capita XX”
Working on the bibliography of Ephraim Graecus
From my diary – yes, Ephraem Graecus and Phrantzolas etc
From my diary – still more Phrantzolas and Ephraem Graecus
From my diary
From my diary – more Phrantzolas and Ephraem Graecus
Ephraem Graecus and John Wesley
Ephraem Graecus: the Phrantzolas edition (part 5)
Ephraem Graecus: the Phrantzolas edition (part 4)
English translations of Ephraim Graecus!
The ‘genuine’ Ephraim Latinus : a survey
Ephraem Graecus: the Phrantzolas edition (part 3)
From my diary
Two sensible tweets on Twitter, and some reflections on keeping politics out of your twitter feed
The medieval catalogue of the abbey of Lorsch now online!
Fragments of a 4th century manuscript of Cyprian’s Letters
Did pseudo-Ephraim believe in the Rapture? Some notes on the manuscripts, the passage and its Greek origins
Hunting for the modern Greek translation of Ephraim Graecus
From my diary
A big hole in Patristics – the neglect of Ephraim Graecus
The limits of politics
From my diary
From my diary
A bibliography of the various collections of the Apothegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Fathers)
Epiphanius on reading the scriptures? An item from the Apothegmata Patrum
That Museum in Washington
Literary sources for the hippodrome of Alexandria: the Lageion
View the Serapeum from above on Google Maps!
New edition and commentary of the Chronography of 354!
Sayings of Luqman – translated by Anthony Alcock
Does Victor of Vita quote from the Three Heavenly Witnesses?
More on Project Hindsight
Heliogabalus or Elagabalus?
A kind invitation; or a hard-faced attempt to loot?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 2 – part 2
A new translation of Synesius’ “In praise of baldness” from Anthony Alcock
Two inscriptions from the library of Pantainos in the agora at Athens
What on earth is the “Hypomnesticon” of “Josephus Christianus”?
Manuscripts of the Suda / Suidas
What the heck is the “Synopsis Scripturae Sacrae” of ps.Athanasius??
The Manuscripts of Photius’ Epitome of the Church History of Philostorgius
The last oracle of Delphi
1 John 5:7 in the fourth century? Theodore, Diodorus, the Suda, and Byzantine punctuation
My experience of real-time censorship on Twitter
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 2 – part 1
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 3 – part 2 and final
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 3 – part 1
Important items that are not online – Souter’s “Glossary of Later Latin”
Life of Aesop, translated by Anthony Alcock
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 4
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 5 – part 4 and final
The Studios monastery in Constantinople – lots of it still standing
Abraham the Syrian – Arabic text now translated by Anthony Alcock
Hoaxed! “Dionysus, the son of the virgin, … His blood, the blood of the grape…”
St George – the main post! What do we know about him, and how do we know it?
The importance of ignoring “nice to do” things
Texts of the “Life” of St George
Broken noses, crosses on the forehead – the fate of statues at the end of antiquity
A few more interesting links from my backlog
A papyrus of the lost Autobiography of Hadrian; and a papyrus of the lost History of Seneca the Elder
A manuscript of a regionary catalogue and a manuscript of the Notitia Dignitatum online!
Travel posters for Ruritania! Hurrah!
Debunking idiotic myths about Easter. No, it isn’t pagan. No the Easter bunny doesn’t signify anything
Giuliano da Sangallo’s “book of designs”, and the Septizonium
Basil the Great’s condemnation of sodomy? Or Peter Damian? Or Fructuosus?
Origen, Homilies on Ezekiel – now available online
From my diary
Gosh I shall drop everything and start at once – a reader’s letter
Making a selection of interesting passages to translate from Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms
The very words in which Constantine ordered the bible to be assembled? The strange, odd Oahspe hoax.
A false quotation of Augustine against the Jews
The “Acts of Mark” and the “Martyrdom of Mark” – an unnecessary confusion
A few months of interesting links
From my diary
A Nestorian Syriac account of the life of Nestorius – translated by Anthony Alcock
Sunday, the Sabbath, and ps.Athanasius’ De Sabbatis et Circumcisione
From my diary
An annotated translation of part of the Coptic Acts of the synod of Ephesus – by Anthony Alcock
Should we build reproductions of now vanished buildings?
From my diary
A collection of sayings attributed to Ammonius/Amun
9th century ms of Chrysostom on Matthew for sale at Sothebys
Looking at Aufhauser’s 1913 “edition” of miracle-stories of St George
From my diary
Do we really have a 4th century inscription from Sakkaia / Shaqqa dedicated to St George?
The Miracles of St Ptolemy – translated from Arabic by Anthony Alcock
Help at last! A FREE database with all the references to the Saints and their cult before 700 AD!
The oldest dateable inscription mentioning St George
A fragment of a sermon by Peter I of Alexandria – by Anthony Alcock
Suddenly a light shines – something at last on the Martyrdom of St George!
Aufhauser’s discussion of some miracles of St George
The standard English “Life” of St George – by Jacobus de Voragine
From my diary
From my diary
Chasing some fake news about the Gospel of Barnabas
A short Syriac legend on the Emperor Maurice – in English
The Saints’ Lives of St George – texts and sources
From my diary
Nicholas of Myra, “Vita Compilata”, now available in English
Trial and Martyrdom of St Apollonius – by Anthony Alcock
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 5 – part 3
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 5 – part 2
The martyrdom of Theodore the Anatolian: a Bohairic Coptic text translated by Anthony Alcock
Where to find remains of the Hippodrome seating today
From my diary
Appealing for a photocopy – “The Hymns of Saint Hilary of Poitiers”, ed. Myers, 1928
A genuine quote by Plato
A few interesting items
A dubious quote about devotion to Mary, attributed to Hilary of Poitiers
Eutychius and the English Civil War
A June 1935 photograph of the Sphendone in Istanbul
Photos of archaeological work in the Hippodrome in Istanbul
Mithras in Greece – some new locations
A couple more “gentleman’s translations”
An old photograph of the Meta Sudans from the Palatine (plus the Colosseum and Arch of Constantine)
A comparison in tabular form of various translations of Josephus on the Jotapata incident
Firmicus Maternus, On the Error of Pagan Religions – now online in English
Theodoret on Deuteronomy, from “A word in season” by the Augustinian Press
From my diary
The buried west gate of Roman Lindum (Lincoln)
A post on the death of the blogosphere
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 5 – part 1
Trying to find a picture of the “Cista mystica” of M. Modius Maxximus from Ostia
Canna intrat: “Finding the infant Attis among the reeds”?
A new edition and translation of Hyginus, De munitionibus castrorum
New at Livius.org: a revised Zosimus translation
Notes and news
Some more notes on the Archko volume
Please don’t contribute to Wikipedia
From my diary
Syriac Life of Shenoute, by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
Two more items from Anthony Alcock
Microsoft does not believe that Microsoft has a future?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 6 – part 2 and final
tertullian.net – fraudulent use by cybersquatter
Josephus in the hands of Sir Roger L’Estrange
Ps.Chrysostom, De Susanna Sermo – Coptic version translated by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
Update on my book, Origen’s Homilies on Ezekiel
The “Christianos” graffito from Pompeii
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 6 – part 1
The “Apotelesmata” of Apollonius of Tyana – now online in English
From my diary
Merry Christmas
When “it was no longer possible to become a saint”; Byzantium in the 11th century
John the Lydian, “On the Roman months” – version 2.0 now online!
The amazing drawings of Constantinople by Antoine Helbert
Brockelmann’s GAL translated into English??
Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research
Zacharias Scholasticus, “Life of Isaiah the Monk”, now online in English
The final hagiographer: Michael Psellus on Symeon Metaphrastes
A translation of Basil the Great’s commentary on Isaiah is online!
The differences between Menologion, Menaion, and Synaxarion
Anthony Alcock on Ptolemy and the LXX in Agapius
Origen, Commentary on Matthew, book 16 now online and in English
From my diary
St Nicholas of Myra in the Greek Synaxarium – now online in English
A further reference to the “parabalani”?
Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on Luke – now online in English
Online edition and Russian translation of Severian of Gabala, In illud: Secundum imaginem et similitudinem (Gen. 1, 26), CPG 4234
“Parabalani” – an early order of male nurses? or Cyril’s “goon squad”?
Hello Windows 7 my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
Raging against the … Windows?
Fun with footnotes again – a sentence suggesting Christian villainy, and the text of the reference
From my diary
Fun with footnotes – the Laudatio Apostolorum of ps.Chrysostom
Another Coptic text from Anthony Alcock – the martyrdom of Apatil
Some photographs of seats in the Hippodrome of Istanbul from 1950
Hunting the wild misquotation again: the perils for the author of not verifying your quotations
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 7 and final
1918 aerial photograph of the Colosseum, Meta Sudans and base of the Colossus
Cambridge Ancient History (3rd edition) now online at Archive.org
Rome, 1868: the Arch of Drusus, defended by Bourbon soldiers!
The only surviving handwriting of an emperor: Theodosius II and a petition from Aswan
Did Origen record the burning of Marcionite literature?
A 1574 set of drawings from Constantinople in the Freshfield album
Anthony Alcock, “The concept of our great power” – online in English
“Persia and the Bible” … and Mithras?
Book review: Anthony Kaldellis’ “A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities”
The tomb of St Nicholas of Myra?
From my diary
The log book of Inspector Merer from Wadi al Jarf and the pyramid of Cheops / Khufu
Byzantine science – Zoology
Byzantine science: where to start and where to look
Byzantine science – Botany
A forgotten scholar: the grammarian Peter Egenolff (1851-1901)
Why have less than 5% of Byzantine scientific works been published?
A portrait of Constantius II from 354, via two intermediaries
Less than 5% of Byzantine scientific texts have been published?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 6
A few descriptions of Constantinople in the 15th century, none accessible to us
Did Alfred the Great invent the story of Caesar invading Britain?
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit” – an ancient Greek proverb?
English translation of Fortunatianus of Aquileia’s Commentary on the Gospels is online at De Gruyter!
A marvellous photograph of the remains of the Quirinal temple staircase in 1930
A renaissance engraver: some notes on G. da Sangallo and the Quirinal temple
A fake item on eBay
From my diary
A rather useful plan of the Quirinal temple
From my diary
Another marvel through Google maps – the South Arcade of the Quirinal stairway!
Using Google Maps to “fly” around the ruins of the temple of Serapis on the Quirinal hill
The modern remains of the Quirinal hill temple of the Sun / Serapis – map and photographs
A useful list of Syriac and Arabic chroniclers
The mystery picture of the Quirinal temple and the newly built Quirinal palace
Some dictionary material on the Quirinal temple of the Sun / Serapis
From my diary
Peruzzi’s drawing shows the real arrangement of the stairs at Aurelian’s temple of the sun / Serapis on the Quirinal
“Numerous 16th century drawings” of the Temple of the Sun / Serapis in Rome
The stairs at the back of Aurelian’s Temple of the Sun
Palladio and the “Temple of the Sun” in Rome
Some useful reconstructions of the vast “Temple of the Sun / Serapis” on the Quirinal
Some notes on a letter of the Coptic St. Pisentius – by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
Admin
Who were you, “P.R.”? A flyleaf and its story
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 5
In progress: an online translation of Gelasius of Cyzicus!
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 4
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 3
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 2
Forced marriage in saints’ lives – by Anthony Alcock
English translation in progress of Cyril of Alexandria’s “Contra Julianum”
From my diary
Porphyry on quotation practices in antiquity
Altercatio Simonis et Theophili online in English!
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 7 – part 1
Reading the Italian translation of Methodius “De resurrectione”
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19m – Abbasids part 12
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19k – Abbasids part 11
There are Italian translations of Methodius of Olympus!
“The miracle of St Michael at Colossae” – now online in English
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19j – Abbasids part 10
A fragment of Bede’s “De ratione temporum” from his own lifetime?
The awful history of Brockelmann’s GAL (and why it is in the state it is)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19i – Abbasids part 9
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19h – Abbasids part 8
From my diary
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19g – Abbasids part 7
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19f – Abbasids part 6
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19e – Abbasids part 5
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19d – Abbasids part 4
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19c – Abbasids part 3
First use of “abracadabra”? It’s Serenus Sammonicus!
Anthony Alcock: Three short texts relating to Severus of Antioch – now online
An extant “sillybos” – parchment label – from an ancient roll
From my diary
The codex Aesinas of the minor works of Tacitus now online (?)
Severian of Gabala news: critical editions from GCS, plus an online bibliography
John of Ephesus describes the Justinianic plague
Apocryphal and then some: The so-called “Synopsis” of so-called Dorotheus of Tyre
From my diary
An 1850 view of the Meta Sudans and the Arch of Constantine
The date of Hero of Alexandria, and another translation of some extracts of the “Mechanics”
Cleomedes: how big is the earth?
Good Friday – the Pilate Stone
Extracts from Hero of Alexandria’s “Mechanics”
“Burned without pity” – the fake quotation taken back to 1930!
Life of the Coptic Patriarch Isaac (686-689 AD) by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
From my diary
Nice big image of the Nuremberg drawing of Rome (with Meta Romuli)
The Meta Sudans in 1849 in Pierre Monami
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19b – Abbasids part 2
Selling oranges outside the Meta Sudans, 1900-1910
Alin Suciu on the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon or “Gospel of the Savior”
Origen’s Commentary on Matthew – what exists in English?
New book on Hellenistic astrology
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 19a – The Abbasids arrive!
From my diary
A new Mithras inscription from Dacia
Origen: a very early copyist of Matthew made a mistake…
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18i – The remaining Ummayads
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18h – Abd al-Malik, Al-Walid and Suleiman
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18g – the reigns of Yazid and Marwan I
“Burned without pity” – a fake quotation attributed to Pope Innocent III
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18f – the reign of Muawiyah
Temple of Mithras discovered at Mariana in Corsica
String ’em up! How middle managers destroy the value of institutional websites
When did Christmas Day become a public holiday?
A “gentleman’s translation” by H.S. Boyd of Ps.Basil’s homily on Paradise
Let’s not shout at the Vatican library for digitising microfilms
A close up of the Meta Sudans from 1910
A new work by Apuleius!
Piranesi’s engraving of the Arco di Portogallo
From my diary
More on the sestertius of Titus showing the Meta Sudans
Words, Words, Words: A response to Richard Carrier on Feldman and Eusebius
Solomon in Coptic Songs – text and translation by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18e – the reign of Ali
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18d
A few thoughts on handling miraculous passages in ancient texts
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 9)
Is scholarly scepticism about Gallio a modern legend?
Review: Geza Vermes, “The Nativity: History and Legend”
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 8)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 7)
From my diary
A couple more images of the Meta Sudans from Twitter
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 6)
When a book order goes wrong: problems with Abebooks and Reuseabook
Who was “Euthalius”, and what did he write?
If death did not exist, would Stalin still rule in Russia?
Roman pranks: Glueing a coin to the pavement, in Horace and Persius
More colophons from Coptic manuscripts, by Anthony Alcock
From my diary
The crucifixion graffito of Alkimilla from Puteoli
Review: “Before Nicea: The early followers of Prophet Jesus” by Abdul Haq al Ashanti and Abdur Rahman Bowes, 2005
An aerial shot of the base of the Colossus in 1918
The manuscripts of Manuel Paleologus, “Dialogues with a Muslim”
How I do the footnotes on my blog; and other bits of blog configuration
New dustjackets for old books!
A collection of colophons from Coptic manuscripts, by Anthony Alcock
How I met I.E.S. Edwards
Two questions: can translations be biased? and are ancient texts reliable?
From my diary
From my diary
The base of the Colossus, next to the Colosseum, in 1920
Low life in Cairo before the war, with Bimbashi McPherson
Goodbye Harpocrates, hello Hor-pa-khered!
Temple of Mithras discovered at Diyarbekir in SE Turkey?
How can we write history or mythology when all we have is archaeology?!?
Who the heck is Harpocrates and why is he “really” Jesus?
How to create your own crank theory about Christian Origins (or any other ancient event)
Acharya S, One year on.
From my diary
Translation in progress of Hrabanus Maurus commentary on Judith
From my diary
Coptic text of the Acta Pilati – translated into English by Anthony Alcock
For further reading: A bibliography and resource list for the pyramids at Meroe
Viewing Cailliaud’s engravings of the pyramids of Meroe at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
A labelled map of the north pyramids at Meroe, and a Google Maps satellite view on a phone!
Lepsius at Meroe – the some pictures of the pyramids
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 5)
Mithras in “Mythes fondateurs. D’Hercule à Dark Vador”
The pyramids of Meroe in 1821 – the engravings of Frederic Cailliaud
The difficulties of consulting Libanius
Just one Italian: the pyramids of Meroe and Giuseppe Ferlini, their destroyer
Collecting all ancient texts referring to the gift of tongues
A previously unknown governor of Judaea
English translation of Coptic apocrypha, “The Investiture of the Archangel Michael” – by Anthony Alcock
Publishing in the ancient world
From my diary
The Obelisk of Antinous in the renaissance
Hugh Houghton on New Testament catenas
Returning to Antinoupolis by satellite photo
18th century Egypt and a travelling Frenchman
The obelisk of Antinous – the text written upon it
“In this sign shall you conquer… No, not in that sign. In *this* sign!”
There is nothing like a Dane… Frederic L. Norden at Antinoe in 1737
Another patristic source on Antinous and Antinoupolis
Another picture of the vanished Caesarium at Armant
The “Chronicle of Alexandria” – a will o’ the wisp?
Some patristic sources on Antinous and Antinoupolis
The Antinoupolis inscription of Alexander Severus, in the “Description de l’Egypte”
From my diary
1743: publication of the visit of Charles Perry to Antinoupolis
Drawing the ruins of Antinoupolis in 1778, while pursued by bandits! The account of C. S. Sonnini de Manoncourt.
The 1714 visit of Paul Lucas to Antinoupolis
Preaching with cartoons?
Did Antinous pull Zeus from Olympus? Did Hadrian pave the way for Christ?
Sicard’s illustrations of Antinoupolis
A visit in 1716 to Antinoupolis by Fr Claude Sicard, SJ
Faces in the streets of Antinoupolis
An inscription from Antinoupolis preserved by Richard Pococke
An English visitor to Antinoupolis in 1737
Aerial photo of Antinoupolis in 2011 – before the destruction of the circus began
From my diary
The journal of a French visitor to Antinoupolis in 1672-3
Antinoupolis at the British Museum – a project
Antinoupolis in 1843 – the traveller John H. Allan
Antinoupolis today
The lost city of Antinoupolis in Egypt, as seen by Napoleon’s expedition
Snapshots of the secret world
From my diary
Petronius Secundus, Prefect of Egypt, at the Colossi of Memnon
From my diary
A Japanese Edo-period woodblock image of the Roman forum
The letter of Tiberius to Pilate (Epistola Tiberii ad Pilatum)
More paintings of the Meta Sudans
Materials for the study of the Ethiopian version of the history of al-Makin
A parchment fragment of Agrippa Castor “Against Basilides”?
Reasons to hate Microsoft, part 2
Al-Aktal on “halal” food
A new translation of Agapius into Italian, plus the publication of two more pages of the text
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 1)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – preface
Two postcards of the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus (and the Meta Sudans)
From my diary
An 18th century image of the Meta Sudans in a prospect of the Colosseum
al-Masudi on Christian Arabic historical writings
More old photographs of Rome
A supposed Mithraic mosaic, with zodiac, unearthed in Bursa / Prusa
An almost forgotten anti-Christian jibe by Golding, misquoting Richard Sisson, “Answering Christianity’s most puzzling questions”
Did the Catholic church oppose street lights? Some notes on the Papal States in the 1830s
Anthony Alcock: translation Wansleben’s1671 account of Coptic church
A note on the authenticity of Eusebius of Caesarea’s “Commentary on the Psalms”
From my diary
The manuscripts of Philostratus’ “Life of Apollonius of Tyana”
Catenas on the Psalms – two important French works now online!
The new Chronica Tertullianea et Cyprianea is out
A curious bibliography: Angelo Uggeri and his “Journées pittoresques”, “Ichnografia”, “Icnografia degli Edifizj” etc
A visit to the ancient Roman house in the Villa Negroni – rooms A and B
The Bloodsucker Award, July 2016 – the Royal Institute of British Architects
A visit to the Roman house at the Villa Negroni
An early account of the Roman villa at the Villa Negroni in Rome
I brought this back from Italy, my boy! – paintings from the Villa Negroni
Where do you go to, my hateful?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 4)
Archellites – a 10th century Coptic poem, translated by Anthony Alcock
Some notes on the sermon of Nectarius of Constantinople on the martyr Theodore Tiro (CPG 4300 / BHG 1768)
Old photographs of the Nemi ships
The serpent column in Constantinople in early printed books
That old bull again! – the recent international conference on Mithras in Italy
Qasr Bashir – A Roman fortlet in Jordan
Scribes removing paganism from Galen’s “On my own opinions”?
WARNING!!! Fragments of Euripides “Palamedes” NOT rediscovered in Jerusalem
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 3)
The owner of the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” papyrus unmasked!
Roman statue used for “alien relic” in album cover
Text and translation of three Coptic stelae – by Anthony Alcock
The manuscript tradition of the works of John the Lydian
Euthymius Zigabenus, Commentary on the Psalms – edition and translation completed!
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 2)
An imperial civil servant of the time of Justinian, in John the Lydian
Rome, Quirinal hill: access to the temple of Serapis / Sol Invictus?
The use of Coptic by modern Egyptians – Anthony Alcock translates
The lost opening of Suetonius’ “The Twelve Caesars”, in John the Lydian
Shenoute, On the invasions of the “Ethiopians” – translated by Anthony Alcock
Shenoute – Adversus Graecos de usura / On usury, now online in English
Two photochromes of the Meta Sudans in Rome, from 1890
A collection of 31 (?) rolls and codices found in a jar: the Bodmer / Chester Beatty “papyri”
19th century treatments of palimpsests with chemicals
Why should I ever buy another reference book? Give me a PDF!
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18c (part 1)
Proclus of Constantinople, “Encomium on St Nicholas of Myra”, now online in English
Paypal and “We’re sorry, but we can’t send your payment right now.”
A drawing of the Meta Sudans by Piranesi
The hairstyle of Julia Domna
From my diary
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18b (part 2)
Manuscript of Eusebius’ Quaestiones ad Stephanum/Marinum now online!
In Memoriam: Eve Parkes (d. 2016), Interlibrary loans officer at Ipswich Library
Paul the Persian: Zoroastrianism is incoherent, but science is a better guide
Eznik of Kolb: the Avesta was not transmitted in writing but orally
A couple of pictures of the start and end of Melito’s “De pascha” (On Easter)
1606 Aegidius Sadeler print of the Colosseum and Meta Sudans
Coptic “Life” of Maximus and Domitius
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18b (part 1)
Some post-renaissance paintings of the Meta Sudans
What patristic authors are extant in Old Slavonic?
From my diary
“I have run away. Seize me!” – a slave collar of the time of Constantine, and other similar items
P. Petaus 30: A letter describing a travelling book dealer
Why does the date of Easter move about so much?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18 (part 2)
Is Easter really Astarte, a Babylonian goddess (or festival)?
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 18 (part 1)
The posts containing the translation of Eutychius’ “Annals”
Eutychius: an interlude
An 1860 photograph of the Meta Sudans
TES article calls for translation of Latin, Greek, to be valid research goals
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 9 and end)
A painting of the “temple of Serapis” / “Aurelian’s temple of Sol Invictus”
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 8)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 7)
Has the lost “De baptismo” of Melito of Sardis been rediscovered in Coptic?
Keep christian literature out of the classics!
Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum – English translation published
Where St Nicholas lived (if he did) – a paper on the city of Myra
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 6)
Ezekiel the Tragedian’s play on Moses; quoted by Eusebius, found at Oxyrhynchus
A quote from Tacitus and its source
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 5)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 4)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 3)
A new fragment of the “Forma Urbis Romae” discovered!
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 2)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 17 (part 1)
A hagiographer confesses: “I made it up”
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 16 (part 5 and last)
From my diary
Did Constantine put the Jews to death at Passover? A passage in Eutychius
A challenge for Greek language nerds! What do you make of *this*?!
From my diary
“Non licet esse vos” – a modern politician’s wife writes…
Nicholas of Myra – the story of the generals, and of the three innocents – now online
From my diary
Notes on the Life of Nicholas of Myra by John the Deacon
The Roman dice tower from Vettweiss-Froitzheim (=Vettweiß-Froitzheim Römisches Würfelturm aus Bronze)
Nicholas of Myra in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca
No grant from the Arts Council to translate Methodius from Old Slavonic
Hero of Alexandria, on the making of automata
Legends of St Nicholas of Myra: the miracle of the tax (Praxis de tributo, recension 1) now online in English
Severian of Gabala conference in November 2016
Shenoute – Against the Pagan Philosopher. Now online in English
‘Finding a home’ for copies of about 500 periodical articles and monographs on Tertullian
Another photograph of the Meta Sudans
The faces of Theodosius and his sons
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 16 (part 4)
From my diary
Andrew of Crete, Encomium on St Nicholas of Myra – now online in English
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 16 (part 3)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 16 (part 2)
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 16 (part 1)
In Memoriam: Acharya S
When will the librarians start to throw offline literature away?
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 15 (part 4 and end)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 15 (part 3)
Rome before Mussolini – what a map can tell us
From my diary
John the Lydian – corrigenda
The Legend of Nicholas of Myra by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275
Pietro Bembo: less than 1% of ancient literature survives
The grave of Nestorius in Egypt
The Coptic martyrdom of James the Persian, aka James Intercissus, aka James the Sawn-into-small-bits
Eusebius on the Psalms – a project for a new edition in Germany
Eusebius of Caesarea: Gospel Problems and Solutions – now online in English
Photographs online about Mithras by Michael Fuller
Euthymius Zigabenus, Commentary on the Psalms – draft translation online!
Translation of Porphyry’s “Ad Gaurum” on ensoulment
Is there a distinctive iconography for Sol Invictus?
The Meta Sudans and the Djemila fountain in Algeria
The temple that Cleopatra built for Caesarion at Armant
1603 Zuccaro drawing in red chalk of Old St Peter’s, Rome
Latin translations of Chrysostom’s homilies on John – website
The stadium, hippodrome or “Lageion” of Ancient Alexandria
List of volumes of the “Description de l’Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française”
Timestamp: Alexandria in the 5th century. Sinister goings-on in the ruins of the Serapeum, in Peter the Iberian
What did the Serapeum in Alexandria actually look like?
Images of Theophilus of Alexandria and the Serapeum in a 5th century papyrus codex
On finding my own books
New edition of Cyril of Alexandria’s “Against Julian” is soon to appear – offline, and very pricey
Is “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad” a classical quotation?
From my diary
A diadem of Serapis and a Fayoum portrait
Still more Pantoleon!
I say Pantaleon, you say Pantoleon – more notes on this figure
Who *was* that masked man?! The mysterious Pantoleon
The Jests of Hierocles, and a Greek rascal named Minoides Minas
New Mithraeum at Kempraten in Switzerland
A curious software puzzle
Another Coptic translation from Anthony Alcock
From my diary
From my diary
Books lost, books retained
Cybele’s castration clamps – medical apparatus of the Magna Mater
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 15 (part 2)
An anecdote on the perils of being “learned” in public; and some others
Some 4th century pagan festivals in Libanius
An anecdote from 1827
No more free speech
From my diary
Another image of the Meta Sudans
Al-Maqrizi’s account of Coptic feast days – online in English by Anthony Alcock
The encouragement of learning
Notes upon the modern history of the “Bruce codex”
The sack of Constantinople in 1453 (Part 3)
Methodius of Olympus, De Lepra (On Leprosy) – now online in English
The Greek fragments of Methodius translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series
The sack of Constantinople in 1453 (Part 2)
A Coptic fragment of Severian of Gabala on Penitence via Alin Suciu
From my diary
Notes on Andrew of Crete’s Encomium on St Nicholas of Myra
From my diary
Thinking about Methodius, De resurrectione and De autexusio
Methodius of Olympus, On the Leech – now online in English
A list of translations of the Orations of Libanius, at Antiochepedia
From my diary
The last gladiatorial show
From my diary: Gentlemen say “Old Slavonic”, Yankee; the latest on Methodius; plus the Oxford Patristics Conference 2015. All in your soaraway blog!
A visit to a church building in the weekday
The man who wrote the creed of Nicaea
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 15 (start)
Just because you are an Old Testament scholar, that does not make you Moses!
From my diary
How do we define “anti-semitism” so that we can use it for testing Matthew 27:25?
Some reflections on translation styles, provoked by a passage in the NRSV
Methodius of Olympus, De Cibis – now online in English
Origen, Homily 26 on Joshua and Matthew 27:25
From my diary
Augustine, Homily 229F and Matthew 27:25
From my diary
Severian of Gabala bibliography – another minor update
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 14 (Abbreviated)
Spamming to promote the NIV bible?
Methodius, On Life and Rational Action – online in English
From my diary
Works of Fulgentius the Mythographer now online in English
A little more Asterius
Asterius on Matthew 27:25
Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Isaiah, on Matthew 27:25
Do we live in the age of Robert C. Hill?
From my diary
A few more notes on Asterius the Sophist, Asterius the Homiletist, and the Commentary on the Psalms
Some notes on the commentary on the psalms by Asterius the Sophist
From my diary
Some more from St. Jerome on Matthew 27:25
Anthony Alcock – text and translation of the Life of Barsuma the Naked
Translations of the biblical commentaries of St Jerome
New Latin-Italian edition of the collected works of St Jerome from Città Nuova
Some notes upon Apponius and his commentary on the Song of Songs
More pictures of the Meta Sudans
From my diary
Further notes on Methodius in Old Slavonic
A Coptic version of the Acts of Peter – translated by Anthony Alcock
The “Glaphyra” of Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25 (part 3)
Playing with a 1905 Russian book, Finereader 12, and Google Translate
Sometimes it can be a long day at the monastery
The “Glaphyra” of Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25 (part 2)
Upcoming: translation (offline) of Bar Hebraeus’ “Chronicon Ecclesiasticum”
More engravings of Rome in the 18th century from Piranesi: Vatican Rotunda and Meta Sudans!
The “Glaphyra” of Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25
Severian of Gabala, De Sacrificiis Caini (PG 62: 719-722 = CPG 4208) – now online in English
The Meta Sudans in a drawing of the Arch of Constantine by Piranesi
Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25 (part 2): the case of the vanishing passage!
Cyril of Alexandria and Matthew 27:25 (part 1)
From my diary
Procopius of Gaza and Matthew 27:25 (part 2)
From my diary
Post-antique / Byzantine references to Matthew 27:25
Procopius of Gaza and Matthew 27:25
Augustine’s “Treatise against the Jews”
Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah, on Matthew 27:25
Origen’s new homilies on the Psalms – now published!
Origen on Matthew 27:25 from the Commentariorum in Matthaeum Series
Some notes on Origen’s Commentary on Matthew
Jerome on Matthew 27:25
Another Matthew 27:25 reference in Theodoret on the Psalms?
From my diary
Origen, Fragments on Proverbs – translation by Travis Fernald now online
More pictures of the Septizonium
Three texts describing labouring jobs in a Coptic monastery – translated by Anthony Alcock
Online collaborative translation of the Lexicon of Harpocration
From my diary
Vatican Manuscript of the Chronography of 354 uploaded
Vatican manuscript with Grimaldi’s memories of Old St Peter’s in Rome uploaded
Shenoute: Apocalypse and Testimony, translated by Anthony Alcock
“His blood be upon us”: The use of Mt.27:25 and Acts 4:10 in patristic writers
Chrysostom quote: “How is it that you come to be rich?”
Religious tests, profligate wretches, and the tricks of memory
A couple more drawings of the Vatican rotunda
Further notes on the “Cura Sanitatis Tiberii”
The death of Pilate: a text and some notes on the “Cura Sanitatis Tiberii”
Severian of Gabala bibliography – minor update
A couple more photographs of the Meta Sudans and base of the Colossus
Discovered: A 5-6th century fragment of Methodius’ “Symposium”!
Theodore of Antioch: Encomium on Theodore the Anatolian – now online in English
Some tables of contents in minuscule Greek manuscripts
Online: Free .pdf version of Lanciani’s “Forma Urbis Romae”
From my diary
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 13 (part 5 and end)
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 13 (part 4)
English translation of Cramer’s catena on Galatians published
The Nazis at Jesi: some notes on the modern history of the codex Aesinas of Tacitus’ “Germania” &c.
Drawings by Mercati (1629) of Aurelian’s “Temple of the Sun” / temple of Serapis
Anrich online at German site
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 13 (part 3)
The Easter Bunny must die! – fear and loathing at the Guardian
From my diary
Photos of the base of the Colossus of Nero, and Mussolini’s alterations to the Colosseum area
Martyrdom of St. Lacaron – now online in English by Anthony Alcock
Further information on Mussolini and the Meta Sudans, by Elizabeth Marlowe
Mussolini and the Meta Sudans
More archaeology on our own PCs
75 more Greek manuscripts online at the British Library – the last batch
English translation of Shenoute’s “On those who have left the monastery” by Anthony Alcock
Jona Lendering’s new “Ancient History” magazine
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 13 (part 2)
Your article, your footnotes: getting started with Zotero
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 13 (part 1)
Archaeology on our own PCs – unravelling old file formats
Guest-post: Valesius, on Sozomen and Socrates (translated by Anthony Alcock!)
St Nicholas of Myra, “Life” by Michael the Archimandrite (Vita per Michaelem) now online in English
Uploading the remains of the failed al-Makin transcription project
HMML microfilmed manuscripts in Syriac and Christian Arabic
Some stories from the Apophthegmata Patrum
Anthony Alcock, Fourth part of Coptic Sayings of the Fathers now online
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 12
Did St Nicholas of Myra / Santa Claus punch Arius at the Council of Nicaea?
Is this Katharevousa and can anyone translate it? A passage from Damaskenos Monachos on St Nicholas punching Arius
Negotiating the use of another translation – the Vita Per Michaelem of Nicholas of Myra
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 7 and end)
Constantine banned crucifixion – sources
Freaky Fables: The Career of Richard the Lionheart – according to Handelsman!
Some notes on Musonius Rufus
A trip to Colchester Castle museum
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 6)
Paulinus of Nola, and the “Liber Pontificalis”, on the courtyard outside Old St Peter’s
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 5)
The fountain of the pine-cone outside Old St Peter’s in Rome
A drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople?
New English translation of Coptic “Prayer of Athanasius” now online
A few more pictures from Heidelberg
Dosio’s pictures of Roman ruins (1569) also online
More images of then-surviving Roman monuments from “Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae” by A. Lafrery (1593)
Some more images of Old St Peter’s basilica in Rome
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 4)
A useful paper on Eutychius of Alexandria (Sa`id ibn Batriq); and some rueful reflections on why a useful tax-funded book has been made copyright of Brill
Gamucci’s images of the Septizonium; the Temple of the Sun; the Arch of Claudius; and the obelisk and Vatican Rotunda
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 3)
Draft translation of Chrysostom’s “Laus Diodori” now online
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 2)
The literary development of the “Life” of St Nicholas of Myra (=Santa Claus)
Why Methodius ad Theodorum (9 c.) is proving very difficult to translate
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 11 (part 1)
More online Greek manuscripts at the British Library
Sayings attributed to Jesus in Muslim sources, translated by Anthony Alcock
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 10 (part 4 and end)
Latin scribes getting Greek numerals wrong – authorial corrections in the text of Jerome’s Chronicle
From my diary – scanning my own past
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 10 (part 3)
Why do Greek alchemical works get more and more obscure in terminology over time?
Some 1786 images from the Baths of Titus
A bunch of Chrysostom and ps.Chrysostom now online in English
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 10 (part 2)
Constantinople photos: the original width of the Hippodrome, plus the column of Arcadius
A first century fragment of Mark’s gospel? Some thoughts by an outsider
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 10 (part1)
Help wanted by Perseus with metadata for Patrologia Graeca
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 9 (to end)
John the Lydian, “On the Roman months”, books 1-3: now online in English
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 9 (part 3)
A modern myth: that a soap factory was found at Pompeii, complete with scented bars!
Zosimos of Panopolis on soap and soap-making
The Bufalini map of Rome (1551)
Galen on the origins of soap
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 9 (Contd)
John the Lydian, On the Roman Months IV: January now online
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 9
Conference: Syriac intellectual activity in late antiquity. Oxford, 30th-31st January 2015.
Anthony Alcock, Third part of Coptic Sayings of the Fathers now online
Matti Moosa, RIP
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – the remainder of chapter 8.
Cassiodorus “Chronicle” now online in English
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 8, continued
Anthony Alcock : the “Sayings of the Fathers”, from Coptic
And the tide rushes in: now self-service photography arrives at the British Library
46 more British Library manuscripts online
Locating images of monuments online
Augustus’ own reason for attacking Anthony, and an 18th century forgery
The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – opening section of chapter 8
Severian of Gabala bibliography updated again
From my diary
The life of St Nicholas of Myra in the “Methodius ad Theodorum”
Half-way point on the British Library Greek manuscripts
What does Eutychius’ Annals contain?
Coptic Acts of Andrew and Paul now online in English
No photos allowed inside the National Museum in Damascus
Wanted: an epigraphist. Or: Pancieri on “et nos servasti eternali sanguine fuso”
Proof that Roman gladiators hated astronauts
Acts of Andrew and Paul: Does anyone have access to “Orientalia”?
46 more Greek manuscripts online at the British Library – mostly classical or patristic!
Part 3 of the Chronicle of Seert translated by Anthony Alcock – now online
Choosing what we read: a spiritual warfare?
How the church changed after Constantine
Two Pannonian monuments connecting Mithras with 25 Dec.?
A previously unpublished ancient Greek lexicon
Primary sources for the Eleusinian mysteries
Ps.Chrysostom, De Salute Animae, now online in English
Norwich cathedral – no entrance unless you pay $8?
Some translations by Anthony Alcock from Syriac, Coptic and Arabic
Severian of Gabala – On the Holy Spirit, now online in English
Managing the photocopies!
The Green collection founder and his bible museum
H.V.Morton on Gregory the Great and the deserted Palatine
From my diary
Origen on Ezekiel: yet another translation has been made!
If you have access to HathiTrust, can you help me with a 1913 article?
Sever J. Voicu’s 1990 article on Severian of Gabala
Severian of Gabala news
More Greek manuscripts at the British Library
John the Lydian on August
Is it time to nationalise the academic publishers?
British Patristics Conference underway today
Having the right tools
Going a-Rome-ing in August
Mithras, the church of Santa Prisca, and the perils of the imagination
From my diary: the evanescent internet
“Septimus Severus” or “Septimius Severus”? A false trail
From my diary
Abandoning the transcription of al-Makin project
Is “Happy Birthday” an egregrious example of fraudulent claim of copyright?
John the Lydian on “July” – now online in English
From my diary
Severian bibliography updated
Unpublished homilies by Severian of Gabala which are not listed in the CPG?
Severian of Gabala – On repentance and compunction – now online in English
Notes on Walter Bauer’s “Orthodoxy and Heresy” – part 5. Afterthoughts
A book describing the ceiling of the vanished Septizonium in Rome
Notes on the manuscript tradition of Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations”
Oxyrhynchus Papyri online … or maybe only in the US?
Origen of Alexandria: Exegetical works on Ezekiel. Sermons, scholia, fragments.
The demolition of the Meta Sudans
Images of vanished Rome once more
A couple more images of the Meta Sudans (minus one I can’t show you!)
Images of vanished Rome : the Septizonium and the Meta Sudans
Review: “Commentaries on Genesis 1-3: Severian of Gabala” from IVP Academic
Severian of Gabala, “De fide et de lege natura” – now online in English
Another image of the Vatican rotunda
Lexicon: an introduction to the dictionaries of ancient Greek that survive from antiquity
“Glossa ordinaria” on 1, 2 and 3 John now available in English
Translation of Bar Hebraeus “Chronicon Ecclesiasticum” to appear later this year
Jerome: God hates the sacrifices of heretics
A change to comment policy
John the Lydian’s thoughts on the Roman months: June is now online in English
Basil the Great, On holy baptism – now online in English
A Coptic life of Severian of Gabala (!)
Severian bibliography updated again
Rome in 1557 – Old St Peters, the Septizonium, the Templum Solis
Patristics Carnival XXXV: Pentecost Edition – at Linguae Antiquitatum
Some 1860 photos of the lost Meta Sudans fountain in Rome
How to download a book at the German Arachne – DAI site
From my diary
The epigrams of Palladas of Alexandria
What did the Romans bury with a 5th century empress?
English translations of Chrysostom “De Severiano Recipiendo” and Severian’s “De pace” now online
Severian of Gabala – bibliography (updated)
Academic hoaxes, academic feuding – an article in the Oldie
“You’re not the same religion as me” – Severian of Gabala and his editors and reviewers
Plans and illustrations of the Vatican from 1694
Boxes of papyri in Berlin “unopened” since they left Egypt a century ago
Ancient sources on the Gaianum / Circus of Nero
An extract from Severian of Gabala “On Epiphany”
Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes available online!
How ancient writers lost their books? A modern parallel!
Works of Severian of Gabala
John the Lydian on the month of May – now online in English!
Bits and pieces on the Circus of Nero
New translation of Chrysostom’s 3 sermons on the devil now available
Piranesi’s drawing of Old St Peter’s square ca. 1660
A wooden model of Old St Peter’s
Old St Peters, the Circus of Caligula and the Phrygianum
Worrying questions about the supposed new NT papyri from mummy cartonnage
How to scam a scholar – the ps.Gospel of Jesus’ Wife affair
Origen hardback arrives!
Origen of Alexandria on Ezekiel has arrived!
Caesar’s reform of the calendar – some ancient sources
More on Old St Peters in Rome
De’Cavalieri’s image of the Septizonium.
Another image of old St Peters in Rome
An evening in Cambridge, a strange phrase in a book, and a man who ran away
Some early engravings of the Septizonium
From my diary
Greek and Latin Epigraphy – an absolute beginners’ guide
Struck by the Lightning Source … right in the Origen … ouch!
Happy Easter
A time to hold and a time to give – when to pass on old books
Rufinus’ account of the fall of the temple of Serapis in Alexandria
A marvellous collection of photographs – Following Hadrian, by Carole Raddato
Copyright and critical editions – a French court says the text is not copyright
Proof-reading help wanted
Chariot-racing at Leptis Magna in a mosaic
A postit note
Digitising ancient texts – the future that did not happen
Where have all the photos (of archaeology) gone? Gone to recycle bins, every one.
The inopportune polemicist in my email inbox
From my diary
English translation of Michael the Syrian by Matti Moosa now available
The decay of digital media
Damascius on Orphic mythology
From my diary
From my diary
Origen’s Homilies on the Psalms – in English in a dissertation
Mithras scholar Vermaseren on the Mithras cranks
Finding archaeology online about Mithras
A quotation from Libanius
Help! How can I get hold of this?
Italian items online!
From my diary
A ray of light for Mithras at Hawarte on the 25th December?
1st century inscription mentioning the library at Alexandria
Ancient Christian Writers volumes online at Archive.org
The Bankes 2nd c. Homer papyrus roll now online at the British Library
Getty your hand out of my wallet – some way to go on open access, I fear
What happened to the later neoplatonists – a quotation from Damascius
A list of the works of Origen (Jerome, Letter 33)
New edition of “Scribes and Scholars”
Google books lets me down badly
Experiments in Arabic OCR
Erpenius’ al-Makin arrives in Word format
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 12
From my diary
They shoot webpages, don’t they? Some notes for a reader
Coin-images and smartphones
From my diary
CSEL volumes to be typed up and made freely available online
Augustine to Jerome on the inspiration of scripture
Photos of underwater basilica at Nicaea
Investigating “quotations” online – another blog
What happened to the bindings of the Syriac manuscripts at the British Library
Might we lose money (shock) if we publish open-access?
Fancy translating some of the Glossa Ordinaria?
Chrysostom’s letters – more translations at Academia.edu, this time from Wendy Mayer
The Roman sponge-on-a-stick
A list of translations into Arabic of biblical texts from Graf’s GCAL
Welcome to Christophe Guignard’s “Marginalia” blog
From my diary
Chrysostom letters – translations at Academia.edu
Divine disapproval: the complete letter from David Silvester
Byzantine insularity in the early Dark Ages
From my diary
Did moral decay destroy the ancient world?
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 11
A useful map of Constantinople
The church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople – already in ruins before 1453?
More on the inscription of “D. Cetiannus”
An ancient Latin inscription on the pyramids of Giza
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 10
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Street preacher arrested on frivolous grounds, held overnight, brought to court in Dundee, Scotland
An English translation of Martin of Braga’s “De correctione rusticorum”
Fortunatianus of Aquileia and his lost gospel commentary
Honouring “Jupiter’s day” in the 6th century AD
Major pagan temples still operating in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 5-6th century?
Julian the apostate and the magician
From my diary
From my diary
Basil the Great discusses twitter, blogging and online discussion fora
A catena fragment of Eusebius on Psalm 29:7
The curious case of the Tongeren codex
A mystery quotation attributed to Leo the Great
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 9
Some notes on the bindings of ancient codices
From my diary
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 8
A curious tale about the burial of St Peter – a fake by Leo the Great?
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 7
A typist for part 2 of al-Makin
Connecting to tumblr
From my diary
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 6
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 5
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 4
Hiring someone to type up an edition of al-Makin from a couple of manuscripts
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 3
From my diary
A new Claudio Zamagni article on Eusebius’ Gospel problems and solutions
Ancient literary sources for St Nicholas of Myra
Proof-reader wanted
How not to do scholarship – the perils of studying those we disagree with
The Life of Severus of Antioch – part 2
The life of Severus of Antioch by Zacharias Rhetor – part 1
An old engraving of the Hippodrome at Constantinople, sabotaged by Google Books
The brass statue of Justinian in Constantinople
When interests collide: Elsevier start threatening the scholars who publish with them if they post copies online
Emperor with a crown of glass paste: John VI Catacuzene
Narratives about Constantinople – the “Patria”
Creating addiction – are there links between Wikipedia and the techniques used by online computer game sites?
Why Codinus did not write the works ascribed to him – by Theodor Preger
How to find the digital manuscripts at the Bodleian-Vatican project
From my diary
More on the tombs of the emperors at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
“In the Heroon of the great and holy Constantine towards the east end lies the porphyry larnax of the great Constantine himself…”
Some ancient statues taken to Constantinople under Constantius and Theosodius II
The “Testimonium Flavianum” in al-Makin
The two recensions of al-Makin
Diez’ article on al-Makin is online!
Melting down the statues in Constantinople in 1204
The Latins break open the tombs of the emperors in Constantinople
From my diary
Ehrman on Epiphanius and the Borborites – some notes
Some Chrysostom, ps.Chrysostom, ps.Athanasius in translation at academia.edu
Al-Makin in prison
LACE Greek OCR project
Arrested for saying a word
From my diary
Epiphanius and the veil – a 4th century attitude to images
Summing up the ancient accounts of the Borborites-Phibionites
The Blue Mosque in the snow
Diez on al-Makin and the Testimonium Flavianum
Eusebius Chronicon book 1 – portion of original Greek rediscovered!
In progress: an English translation of Cedrenus in Australia!
Do Syriac historians care about getting their dates right?
Mediceo-Laurenziana digital manuscripts site offline for fear of cyber-attack
Is this the best Santa Claus post this Christmas?
Titus of Bostra – critical edition of Greek and Syriac now available!
The Borborites-Phibionites in the “books of Jeu”
People Per Hour will simply take your money without telling you
More on the translation of Origen’s homilies on Ezekiel
170 Christian Arabic manuscripts from St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo now online!
Epiphanius on the Borborites or Phibionites
Ephraim the Syrian on the Borborites / Phibionites
Filaster on the Borborians / Phibionites
Untangling the homilies of Chrysostom “on the resurrection”
When the emperor Constans looted Rome of all its statues in 663
A further reference to the Borborites-Phibionites in the Codex Askewianus
Theodoret on the Borborites / Phibionites
Rather than ruin all the library books with photocopying…
From my diary
Fire in the sky: a piece of ancient sorcery explained in Hippolytus
An important 6th c. historical witness: notes on the ‘Life’ of Symeon Stylites the Younger
More from Mango on ancient statues in Byzantium
Editing Chrysostom – an SC volume appears
Idols “subjected to popular derision” at Antioch?
The Walters understand that images of manuscripts should not be copyright
Simeon Stylites – a new Diogenes?
Theodoret on Simeon Stylites
Haefner and Salvian on forgery
Theodoret’s “Life of Abraham” – related to that of “Abramius”?
More idols overthrown, this time by St Abramius
Ancient Egyptian idols destroyed in the life of Severus of Antioch
Mark the Deacon on the destruction of the statue of Aphrodite
Ancient statues in medieval Constantinople
Theodore Abu Qurrah and an anti-Manichaean synod
Cramer’s catena on Mark translated into English!
Farewell to the NIV?
Infra-red light can “remove” spilled ink from digital images of books?
Fire hits Internet Archive building
From my diary
A new 4th century fragment of Justin Martyr!!!
The patristic idea that God is outside of time
From my diary
Church of Scotland trying to hide a scandal by editing Wikipedia?
The “Senatus Palace” at Nicaea (Iznik)
Coptic Encyclopedia, Nag Hammadi photos, online at Claremont Colleges Digital Library
British Library beginning to digitise its papyri
Some observations on Bart Ehrman’s presentation of Salvian’s letter 9 and “Ad Ecclesiam”
Two opinions on Salvian’s Letter 9
Is Salonius’ commentary on Ecclesiastes authentic?
Is Salonius’ Commentary on Ecclesiastes accessible?
Graf’s Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur online!
Was Salonius Salvian’s “own bishop”?
Why did Salvian place the name of “Timothy” at the head of his “Ad Ecclesiam”
Some notes on the transmission of Salvian’s “Ad Ecclesiam” and Letter 9
The “Book of Ehud” – a modern apocryphon?
Salvian, Letter 9, to Salonius: on why he used the name Timothy when writing Ad Ecclesiam
More on experimenting with Arabic and Ibn Abi Usaibia
The informer and the sycophant in Diogenes Laertius
Ehrman’s use of the term “forgery”
Ehrman on the long recension of Ignatius
The “forgeries of the Apollinarians”
Getting started with the Fathers
Doesn’t every library look like this? If not, why not?
Ibn Abi Usaibia – the GAL entry, and the manuscripts
A little information on Ibn Abi Usaibia, from Ibn Khallikan
From my diary
Experimenting with Arabic, and Ibn Abi Usaibia
From my diary
More on the “arrest” of Josh Williamson
Syriac and Manichaean-related materials on a British Library blog
A 2-3rd c. papyrus “title page”?
Dictating to a scribe can alter the language used?
The Codex Agobardinus of Tertullian is online at Gallica!!
Some new patristic translations in the pipeline at Moody – Spokane
Life of Mar Aba – final version now online in English
Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans – online in English
And yet another (!) street-preacher arrested in the UK
From my diary
Oliver R. Barclay (1919-2013)
Bart Ehrman says that I am a Moonie. And a Scientologist.
Feldman, the Testimonium Flavianum, Eusebius and the TLG
From my diary
Some questions about “looting matters”
From my diary
Yet another street-preacher detained for endless hours
“Freedom of speech is not something to be awarded to those who are thought deserving and denied to those who are thought undeserving’ – judge
A modern pillar-hermit?
Miscellania: some snippets about the CICCU and the SCM from Google Books
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 41 (and end)
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 40
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 39
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 38
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 37
Making money from my efforts; but do I care?
Passion of St Saturninus of Toulouse – now online in English
Admin: possible changes to the appearance of the site
More on the arrest of a preacher in Norwich for objecting to homosexuality
From my diary
English clergyman informed against, harassed by police for saying homosexuality is a sin
An extract from Eusebius, “Ecclesiastical Theology” III, 4-6
Forthcoming: translation of Eusebius’ “Contra Marcellum” and “Ecclesiastical Theology”
A quotation from Thales?
The unlawful pleasures of the imagination
Chrysostom, De terrae motu (on the earthquake) now online in English
Medieval poison ring found – get one now!
Notes upon the Acts / Passion of St. Saturninus
More Egypt vandalism: the museum in Minya attacked and looted by Muslim Brotherhood
Coptic monastery set alight; fate of Coptic manuscripts unknown
Notes on chapter divisions in Syriac manuscripts from antiquity
Updating the WordPress software
Google sabotaging Internet Explorer
A visit to the Verulamium Museum
Selections from Schröder’s “Titel und Text” – 4
Augustine, Letter to Firmus – English translation
British Library impressions
Manuscripts online at the Walters Art Museum
The Townley Homer at the British Library
Selections from Schröder’s “Titel und Text” – 3
An extract from Galen’s “De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus”
The origins of marking written work in red ink – Cicero and Atticus
(Ps.)Chrysostom, Homily on the Nativity, now online in English
From my diary
Leontius of Byzantium, Against the frauds of the Apollinarists – now online in English
Which manuscript of Leontius Byzantinus did Angelo Mai use?
Who translated Leontius of Byzantium, Adversus fraudes Apollinistarum, into Latin?
Still more on early French travellers to Libya – Durand’s article at last!
Selections from Schröder’s “Titel und Text” – 2
No free speech in France – Jewish group successfully sues Twitter to hand over ID’s of foes to police
Selections from Schröder’s “Titel und Text” – 1
Alin Suciu on the Berlin-Strasbourg Apocryphon / ‘Gospel of the Savior’
Armenian version of Chronicle of Michael the Syrian now in English
From my diary
Reading a book in a language you don’t speak
A saying from Polyaenus’ Strategems
Saying grace before ….
From my diary
Manuscripts online at the Spanish National Library
Links on the Wimbledon preacher arrest
Bamberg manuscripts online
Police statement on arrest of street preacher in Wimbledon
Excel spreadsheet of all manuscripts at the British Library
More on the arrest of the street preacher at Wimbledon
Street preacher arrested at Wimbledon, held for seven hours
Chapter divisions, titles and tables of contents in the BNF Greek mss.
E. Schwartz on the book titles and kephalaia of Eusebius’ Church History
The colloquia of the Hermeneumata PseudoDositheana
Greek mss. at the French National Library
The Arethas codex (Paris gr. 451) of the Greek apologists is online!!!
Papyrus manuscript of Didymus the Blind’s “Commentary on Ecclesiastes” online!
Some notes on Parthenius of Nicaea, and his “Peri Erotikon Pathematon”
Detlefsen on the “indices” of Pliny the Elder’s “Natural History”
Buying images of pages from a manuscript in the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg – part 1
Leithart’s “Defending Constantine” – an interesting idea
A Christian inscription from Palmyra dated 135 AD?
The manuscripts of Polybius
The manuscripts of Pliny the Elder’s “Natural History”
Stephen Langton and the modern chapter divisions of the bible
Christians in the madhouse of the early 21st century
The Law Society and the Mendham collection – afterthoughts
Anyone have access to “Kanon in Konstruktion”?
Theses online at Oxford University Research Archive
A manuscript of Polybius online at the British Library
Three kinds of hate mail
Bibliography management tools – any suggestions?
In Cambridge today
The Repose of John – Alcock’s translation
The Syriac translation of Eusebius of Caesarea’s “Church History”
An earlier Morton Smith – D’Antraigues and Clement’s “Hypotyposeis”
Disabling IE10 auto-complete spam
Syriac manuscripts in St Petersburg, Russia
“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 5 of translation from Coptic now online
Break-up of the Mendham Collection – Law Society flogging their books to Sothebys
From my diary
John the Lydian – On April
A drawing of Old St. Peter’s and the Vatican palace from 1535
“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 4 of translation from Coptic now online
Review: Tony Burke, “Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate”
From my diary
Scribonius Largus – an authorial table of contents
More on chapter titles
Chronica Tertullianea et Cyprianea 2011 now out
The evil bishop, the evil Pope, and the satire of Erasmus on such creatures
Another angle on the Meta Sudans
“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 3 of translation from Coptic now online
Back from Rome
Attempts to hack the new Mithras pages
From my diary
“The mysteries of the Greek alphabet” – part 2 now online in English
Isidore of Pelusium, Letter 78
Anglican church of Canada bishop Michael Bird uses church funds (?) to sue blogger for “defamation”
“Ingesting the Godhead”? – a dubious “quote” from Cyril of Alexandria
Guidance in Christian life and the sort of things we should do
Off to Rome
Jerome’s Commentary on Jonah – online in English
From my diary
“The Mysteries of the Greek Alphabet” – part 1 of Coptic text now online
Eusebius book – doing the money
Translation of the Triadon, part 2 – now online in English
A note on Sir Henry Savile’s edition of Chrysostom
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 36
Some information on the homilies of Severian of Gabala
Free ancient Greek OCR – getting started with Tesseract
From my diary
The man who discovered Egypt – a BBC TV programme on Flinders Petrie
Ancient Greek OCR – progress, perhaps!
The dialogue of the Saint with the mummy of a Graeco-Egyptian: readings in the Life of St. Pisentius
From my diary
Press and web censorship to be introduced in Britain
From my diary
From my diary
Christians rescue snowed-in motorists in UK: story in Daily Mail
Dishonesty at Wikipedia: “they don’t like it up ’em, sir”
Finding interesting things at the Christies web-site
From my diary
Eusebius on the Psalms – some old quotations on the sabbath
A Mithraic brooch in the Ashmolean in Oxford
From my diary
Egypt and Archduke Rainer
About to die? “I’d rather not know”
From my diary
Manuscript images at the British Library are “public domain”?
From my diary
The fetiales in Nonius Marcellus
Inscriptions containing the title “Pater Patratus”
The office of “Pater patratus” in Roman religion
A Mithraic Pope? The “Pater Patrum” or “Father of Fathers”
The monument of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
John the Lydian, On the Roman Months — “February” now online
From my diary
A Greek Christian Text on the Seven Sages: Ps.-Athanasius, “On the Temple at Athens” now online in English
Translation of the Triadon, part 1 – now online in English
From my diary
The Dieburg Mithraeum – some reflections on the 1928 publication
Celebrating the Lupercalia
Chrysostom’s Christmas sermons – now online in English
The Law Society and the Mendham collection – will no-one rid us of these turbulent …, erm, “books”?
How old are the Wikipedia administrators?
Vatican manuscripts online!
From my diary
Mali and the politics of spite
Piecing together Diogenes of Oinoanda
From my diary
A truly nasty IE9 bug: “” doesn’t work any more!
Finding the limits of the internet
The Dura-Europos military calendar (“feriale duranum”)
From my diary
Islamic criminals take down Egyptology web sites: TPTB take no action.
New translation of the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah online in English
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Versiones Slavicae: Greek texts extant in translation in Slavonic
From my diary
Lobby your alumni association for JSTOR access now
Sudden ordination: the Great Mother wants you!
Mithras and Ormazd in Britain
Offline and forgotten … but still $126, thanks!
JSTOR: Now includes books, and more free stuff than before
Wiki-nonsense – material about Mithras of very dubious standing
English translation of the Epistula Apostolorum now online
From my diary
A lovely view of the hierostheon at Nemrud Dag
From my diary
How we would prefer not to discover antiquity – Durighello and the Sidon Mithraeum
From my diary
The joy of the hunt: some nice Mithraic sculptures and … Sidon?
Surfing the information wave: yeeehaaaa!
Mithras in the Apocalypse of Adam
From my diary
Accessing images of monuments and inscriptions of Mithras
Ezquerra, Romanising Oriental Gods – freely accessible online!
Wikipedia and the hoax articles
From my diary
From my diary
Vandalism already at the Mithras pages!
Life at the court of Lysimachus
Unbinding the Codex Alexandrinus to photograph it
Ephraim Syrus, Hymns 23 and 24 against heresies now online in English
Update on the Rollston saga
From my diary
BBC Radio 4 on Mithras
From my diary
Mithras the free-mason?
From my diary
Gaudete! Christus est natus!
Greek wit 2
Greek Wit 1
‘Twas Christmas Eve in the workhouse…
French dissertations online
From my diary
From my diary
The man who gave a few pence to the emperor Augustus
From my diary
Macrobius on the date of Saturnalia
Some sayings by Cicero from the ‘Saturnalia’ of Macrobius
Still more evil-doing by the Church of Scotland at St George’s Tron
Egyptological taken offline by ‘hackers’
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 35
The Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage, Athanasius and the ordinariate
Scottish congregation evicted and sued by Church of Scotland
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 34
Nicht Christus folgen, sondern Horst Wessel!
New contexts for old texts: but no public please
An anecdote that mentions Solomon Caesar Malan
From my diary
More modern Coptic literature online
From my diary
Armenian sources online at Robert Bedrosian
Tufts University: banning Christians is “in keeping with Tufts’ commitment to a diverse and welcoming campus community and to a vibrant spiritual life on campus”
More on the Charities Commission and the Brethren
Modern Coptic Christian materials online in PDF
Another Wikipedia murder
From my diary
Is there an Arabic text of the “History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church” online anywhere?
Progress on Paulys Realencyclopadie at German Wikisource
Mithras and the Portable Antiquities Scheme database
Mithraeum in Rome under Baths of Caracala reopens
Mithridates Chrestos – the fate of a younger brother
Al-Maqrizi on the pyramids
An ancient roll-end from the 1st century BC / 1st century AD
From my diary
How the end of a book was marked in ancient rolls
Machine translating unknown texts – the copiale manuscript
A letter of Francisco Filelfo to Theodore of Gaza about Plutarch
Phaedrus and Tiberius
Aesopica: the horse and the stag
Plymouth Brethren banned in Britain
Soliciting donations
A new review of the Eusebius “Gospel problems and solutions” book
Sabbadini on the discovery of Greek and Latin codices in the 14-15th century
A bit more from Festus’ lexicon
Some excerpts from Festus, De significatione verborum
More on the manuscript of Festus’ Lexicon
From my diary
From my diary
Paying more for translations
Some notes on the lexicon of Festus
The scientist revolt against academic journal publishing
Some literary sources on the “nundinal days”
The Latium parapegma and the nundinal days
British MP attacks Charity Commission attempt to tax the Brethren
Finereader 11 – do not install!
Official: Christians banned from operating adoption agencies in UK
From my diary
Does reading the New Testament in Greek undermine your faith? And what can you do about it?
Chrysostom, Against the games and the theatres, now online in English
The basic problem
The difference between an LP and a CD
Vintage worship tapes and other memories
Incipits and explicits in extant papyri?
From my diary
List of inscriptions and literary works of Constantine
From my diary
Did Origen say “The Scriptures are of little use to those who understand them as they are written”?
From my diary
Let us praise God for the persecution of Christians on campus
Christian Union banned at US university
Translation of “The story of Joseph the Carpenter” (Coptic apocrypha) now online
From my diary
Google being evil: removing close minimize restore button from IE9 but not from Chrome?
Time to reinvent university education?
From my diary
Does Eusebius give a date for the creation in his Chronicle?
Assessing a papyrus: is scholarship less valuable than science?
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 33
Academic integrity 3 – the Rollston saga continues
A mobile friendly blog
Academic integrity 2: Walter Bauer and the German Christian movement
From my diary
Academic integrity or the lack of it – a thought about the Rollston saga
Ephrem Syrus, Hymn 22 against heresies now online in English
We should blog in the Holy Spirit, and we should read blogs filled with the Holy Spirit
Chrysostom’s Easter Sermon — an online mystery
The Legend of St Mena
The Antikythera mechanism — return to the wreck site
The Qasr el-Wizz apocryphon
Where to find the “Clavis Coptica”
A new translation of the Life of Samuel of Kalamoun
From my diary
Ever downloaded a pirate video? The publisher knows that you did it. Apparently.
Anyone like to suggest untranslated works of spiritual value to modern Christians?
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 32
Notes on Walter Bauer’s “Orthodoxy and Heresy” – part 4 – Edessa (contd) – criteria
From my diary
From my diary
More on codex Palatinus graecus 129
When the political establishment wants to edit the bible
From my diary
Another Heidelberg Palatinus graecus manuscript appears online
From my diary
From my diary
Latin translations by Anianus of Celeda of the Greek fathers in electronic form
From my diary
A Coptic papyrus fragment and the idea that Jesus had a wife
The mystery of human nature: the determined evil-doer
Manuscripts at Cesena, the Malatestiana mss; mss at Lyons
Digitised manuscripts at Heidelberg
Notes on the manuscripts of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
We are what we read?
10th International Coptic Conference at Alin Suciu
Digitised manuscripts at Verdun – Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, liturgical
From my diary
Repertorium pseudo-Chrysostomicum at Alin Suciu
An interesting experiment at HMML by Adam McCollum
Some pages from a manuscript of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 31
From my diary
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 30
Translations from Greek into Georgian
The Ashgate companion to hagiography
Creating a charitable trust in the UK
Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun – updated
From my diary
British Government to take 20% of church collections in tax
UK: Brethren church refused charitable status
New review of my Eusebius book
4th British Patristics Conference – day 3
4th British Patristics Conference – day 2
4th British Patristics Conference – day 1
Holy PG PDF with bookmarks, Batman!!!
Isidore of Seville, good dragons, Moses and Christianity
From my diary
Augustine and Secundinus the Manichaean – works now online in English
Acts of ps.Linus now online
Bauer, Eusebius HE, Rufinus and Edessa – and the Syriac text
Notes on Walter Bauer’s “Orthodoxy and Heresy” – part 3 – Edessa
Notes on Walter Bauer’s “Orthodoxy and Heresy” – part 2 – introductory material
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 29
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 28
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 27
From my diary
The demise of the Methodist central halls
What is bad scholarship?
The Halkin “Life of Constantine” is now online in English
From my diary
From my diary
Still trying to set up my Samsung RF711 laptop with an SSD
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours’…
The fire of Cautopates
Life of Mar Aba – chapters 25 and 26
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 24
Notes on Walter Bauer, “Orthodoxy and heresy” – part 1
A bit more of Abu Qurra
From my diary
Reading what ex-Wikipedians have to say
The early translations of Chrysostom into Latin — 5. The collection of 38 homilies
The early translations of Chrysostom into Latin — 4. The evidence of Julian of Eclanum and Augustine
The early translations of Chrysostom into Latin — 3. Anianus of Celeda
The early translations of Chrysostom into Latin — 2. Pelagius and the first quotation
The early translations of Chrysostom into Latin – 1. The first possible references
From my diary
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 23
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 22
Wikipediocracy: a Wikipedia-watch site
From my diary
The selfish generation get a bit more payback
The overwhelming quantity of John Chrysostom
From my diary
Chrysostom homilies which I just can’t access
A text describing different religions by Abu Qurra
“Mopetan Mopet” or “Mobedan Mobed” or “Moabedan Mobed”?
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 21
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 20
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 19
Beware of “elevated vagueness”
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 18
Online sources and the classroom
From my diary
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 17
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 16
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 15
A bronze plaque recording 4th century Olympic victors
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 14
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 13
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 12
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 10 and 11
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 9
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 8
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 7
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 6
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 5
Life of Mar Aba – chapters 3 and 4
Life of Mar Aba – chapter 2
Opening portion of the “Life” of Mar Aba
Gone rather horrible
From my diary
From my diary
More British Library mss.
From my diary
Papyri of St Augustine in the Green collection?
Wikipedia bans the chairman of the Wikimedia charity
Some primers on online security – because the criminals are really there
From my diary
New issue of Hugoye (15.2)
From my diary
Some notes on the life of Mar Aba I (=Maraba)
When were the Olympic games abolished?
From my diary
An Iranian perspective on Christians in Sassanid Iran
An Armenian version of Ephraim’s commentary on Hebrews?
Dishonesty at the BBC – as usual
BBKL site now pay-only
Ephraim the Syrian, Hymn 23 Against Heresies
On giving too much
Some notes on Ephraim the Syrian’s “Hymns against heresies”
Some Roman law on adultery
A new work by Aristotle in the Green collection?
Eusebius book update
Did early heretics call themselves “Christians”
From my diary
More on Ephraem Syrus’ “Hymni contra haereses”
Whoopee!!! Pray-o-mat installed at Manchester University, UK! That’ll show ’em, man!
From my diary
A quotation on ordinary people, from Simeon the New Theologian
The cost of copying books by hand
Aurispa and his 238 Greek manuscripts
Law Society to sell Mendham collection – and my own experience of it
Marcionism in Edessa
How to give money anonymously to friends
More manuscripts online at the British Library
Notes on the Askew codex
The “Res Gestae Divi Saporis”
Website for Sidonius Apollinaris
Developing web pages in PHP
Graeco-Roman mummy portrait exhibition at the John Rylands Library
From my diary
JSTOR access for Oxford University alumni
French translation of the poems of Sidonius Apollinaris
British Library papyrus of the Aristotelean constitution of the Athenians – images online
Silencing dissent in the modern world
UK government promoting open access to research it funds?
Majorian in the De Imperatoribus Romanis site
From my diary
4th British Patristics Conference – Exeter, 5-7 September 2012
Harassing the monastery of Mor Gabriel in Turkey
From my diary
Hunting the wild misquotation – “our Father was crucified”
Dumbarton Oaks Syriac resources now online
Have you seen this (stolen) papyrus?
From my diary
A newly discovered Mithraeum in Scotland
Vedius Pollio and the lampreys
A series of posts on Cyril of Alexandria at “All along the watchtower”
The festival of the Maiuma at Antioch
Free speech online gets less free … but who can blame them?
The importance of verifying your quotations, part 94
I don’t think they like us, Batman!!!
ICUR – Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae – online
The things not stated, and opaque to later readers
Migne, Dictionnaire des apocryphes – online
The different grades of papyrus in use in antiquity, according to Pliny and Isidore
Priscilla Throop and the two translations of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies
Pliny the Elder and others on the first ancient library in Rome, that of Asinius Pollio
Learning about the ancient libraries of Rome
Lanciani on the pagan revival of the fourth century
Britain will not contribute to the internet – copyright suicide proposed
Looking for Gregory the Great, “lib. vii, ep. 64”?
Gregory the Great, “Moralia in Job”, now online *complete* in English
The ps.Acts of Linus (Acta Petri et Pauli gnostica)
A gem with a Mithraic tauroctony of the 1st century BC?
An online edition of the Derveni papyrus
From my diary
Pamphilus’ Apology for Origen and the fragments of Origen’s commentary on Titus
The Acta Pauli blog and Wikipedia trolls
Volumes of the Acta Sanctorum online
From my diary
Another interesting fragment from Origen on Genesis
An interesting quote from Origen on Genesis
Sources for Punic inscriptions
Manuscripts of the Panarion of Epiphanius
Using aliases to manipulate debate online
And yet more on the Origen ms. from Alex Poulos
Translation of part of one of the new Origen homilies
Which of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms were previously known, and more on Jerome
Jerome’s Letter 33, listing the works of Origen
More on the new homilies on the Psalms by Origen
Greek text found of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms!
A nasty new form of email spam
Two visions of the world
An English translation of a portion of the Acts of Processus and Martinianus
From my diary
The troll and the policeman — a natural connection?
An important victory for free speech in Canada
From my diary
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
Manuscripts of Quintus Curtius Rufus
Why can’t I buy a PDF?
From my diary
Mithras and Jerome
A possible Carthaginian inscription on human sacrifice
From my diary
Sacrifices of children at Carthage – the sources
Christians in an increasingly hostile society
From my diary
Possible outages
From my diary
Sign a US petition that govt-funded research papers be available online to ordinary people
From my diary
Cranmer, the ASA and its gay chairman
Facsimile edition of the ms. of Critoboulos’ History of the Fall of Constantinople to be published
Armenian mss photographed in Syria by HMML
A Clavis for Old Slavic, and a site for Slavic Chrysostom material
Matthieu Cassin on the chapter titles of Contra Eunomium I
From my diary
Stick with your work
The Letter of Pilate to Tiberius
Advertising Standards Authority threatens the Cranmer blog
From my diary
Gregory of Nyssa on chapter titles
Ancient texts with “indices”
“How long is in living memory”, part 2
Not liking the desert fathers
Automated microfilm readers to convert microfilms to digital form?
From my diary
Chapter divisions in Gregory of Nyssa’s “Contra Eunomium”
A curious article opposing open-access to the products of state-funded research
Images of 5th century letter titles in Pliny the Younger
Over 500 Latin Manuscripts available in PDF at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris!
From my diary
Eusebius book — first review, at Bryn Mawr
Greek Papyri in Cairo now online
Trying to find a 1922 publication in Google books – for my US readers
Indexes in manuscripts of Pliny the Younger’s letters
“Tertullian Tracts” … what can these be?
More on the ban on Norwich church by Norwich council
Norwich Reform Church banned from meeting and from their own market stall by Norwich Council for “hate”
A Mithraeum in Iran? — The “Verjuy Mithra Temple”
“Christians vilified” in Britain — yes or no?
Digitising the manuscripts of Lorsch
Vatican (and Bodleian?) Greek manuscripts to go online?
Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google search?
Would it really be so difficult to determine how chapter divisions are marked in all surviving ancient books?
Chapter titles in Pliny the Elder
New BL mss online: technical texts
From my diary
Some musings on comment spam
Frustrated with Finereader
IVP’s Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Talmud in Arabic
May God curse the NIV committee and its owners!
From my diary
From my diary
Texas Christians raise money to pay medical bill for atheist protestor
How not to preserve Norwich’s city walls
From my diary
Stupidity in Colorado prison administration
Library.nu has been shut down
Reading George Barna, “Revolution”
A bibliography of scholarship on Gregory of Nyssa
40 days of prayer – an online Lent meditation
What do you do, when swindled by a “Christian company”?
Saudi mufti calls for all churches to be destroyed — UK media suppresses story
From my diary
Why copyright does NOT mean money for those who create original material
From my diary
So, farewell, O dead tree Encyclopedia Britannica
International Congress on Patristics Studies, Argentina, 8-10th August
Eusebius of Emesa, Commentary on Genesis, reviewed at Bryn Mawr
Why imposters love the church
From my diary
From my diary
At last! An unreasonable copyright claim is rejected!
From my diary
Ethiopian biblical commentaries — the Amharic “Andemta commentary”
More on the Ge`ez version of the Coptic-Arabic gospel catena
LICOSA.com — more thieving Italians
More on Zeno of Verona
The homilies of Zeno of Verona
Following Jesus ever more closely … ouch
From my diary
Partial translation of Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans online
From my diary
A pilgrimage to Israel
From my diary
From my diary
Evil in England – persecution of Christians grows
From my diary
Comment stonings and comment warriors
Are these really the words of Ignatius?
eChurch blog threatened with legal action for a post
Egypt kisses tourist industry good-bye — starvation to follow
From my diary
A portrait of a damned soul
CIL to be digitised at last?
From my diary
The modern way of death is cruel
Sunday and Eusebius — a supposed quotation?
The Australian on “Scholarly licence to print money”
Ps.Chrysostom on the Ascension
Getting the CIMRM in digital form – sadly not
Barney Coombs, “Dealing with what life throws at you”
Grandsons of man born in 1790 are still alive today
From my diary
Bede on Yule
Wondering about Yule
Early papyrus fragment of Romans 9-10?
Glenn Myers, Life Lessons : life-changing stories for Christian growth
Does God only use “people” people?
Finding Christians in your local town in the UK
Ibn Abi Usaibia: an analysis of authority
Field research on manuscripts and monasteries in Ethiopia
What kind of Thule am I?
The church that Constantine built over the grave of St. Peters, 1450
Google’s personal search makes the search engine useless
How do we search sites that no longer exist?
Christian bookshops — the key part of the local church?
From my diary
A camel for your thoughts, my dear
From my diary
From my diary
A false quotation circulated by Christians?
More Origen Update
A 1918 list of English translations from ancient Greek
Origen update
From my diary
The forum of Nerva
Looking back, looking forward
The threat of copyright claims to the web
An 1843 guidebook to Italy, Rome and the Papal states
Michael Bourdeaux: Religious Ferment in Russia (1968) now online
The arch of Constantine, the meta sudans, and the arch of Titus in 1575
From my diary
Coptic-Arabic gospel catena also known in Ge`ez?
Origen project update
Anyone know where I can get an electronic Greek text of the LXX for Ezekiel?
From my diary
Searching for Lommatzsch
From my diary
Origen project update
From my diary
The return of “Roman Piso”!
Russian State Library Methodius mss
An amusing critique of Wikipedia and the people who run it
Google translate, on the Slavonic manuscripts of the Russian State Library
Manuscripts of the Old Slavonic Methodius online!
More on the Origen status
Origen update
Michael Bourdeaux, Gorbachev, Glasnost & the Gospel (1990) now online
Abbyy Finereader 11 – a dog indeed?
Michael Bordeaux, Faith on Trial in Russia
Blogging about the Fathers is like seeing airships over Jerusalem
Bodleian to relocate books “to Antarctica”
From my diary
More (very small) images of the Septizonium
A cork model of the arch of Titus in Rome
Russian translation of Methodius now online
Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae
Galen on Jews and Christians
Should we expect a translation when a scholar prints a previously unpublished text?
ZDMG online?
From my diary
Du Perac’s 1575 picture of the ruins of the Septizodium
More images of the temple of the sun in Rome
Another image of the ruins of the Temple of Sol Invictus
David Ulansey to bring out new book on Mithras?
More on Aurelian’s temple of the sun
Ibn Abi Usaibia, “History of Physicians” now online
Hunting for Ibn Abi Usaibia in Brockelmann
Atheists in Santa Monica hijack nativity displays
Ibn Abi Usaibia update
From my diary
Blogger considering legal action
A 1629 picture of the ruins of Aurelian’s temple of the sun
A letter of Jerome to Eustochia, on the fall of Rome
Academic papers want to be free
From my diary
More on the raid on a blogger
Converting a page photograph into black and white
Ibn Abi Usaibia update
“A leak?! Arrest those who found out what we’re doing!”
From my diary
Fleshpots of Egypt to be closed down as un-Islamic?
I wish I were a German
Another go at Severian of Gabala’s “De Pace”?
The notes to Lothar Kopf’s translation of Ibn Abi Usaibia
John the Lydian: December
On the right use of the Fathers 1
Ibn Abi Usaibia update
An amusing OCR error
From my diary
Romanian patristics sites
From my diary
Access to the CIMRM – hurray!
A new device for photographing manuscripts?
From my diary
Less of a YODEL, more of a scream
Looking for the dragon standard
From my diary
Ulansey’s “Origins of the Mithraic mysteries” – reviewed
Rage and fury
Methodius, De Lepra – opening portion now online in English
Not quite Tennyson
Mithras in the papyri
Eusebius book update
Google or Bing? A surprising answer
Reading Ulansey’s “Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries”
Images of Perseus with a phrygian hat
The translation of Methodius crashes and burns
Ulansey on the origins of the Mithraic mysteries
Vale, the Cyprian Project
A manuscript collation of Pappus of Alexandria
Writing your own “Atheist manual and cookbook”
From my diary
Known colloquially as “Biff” or “Sunny”
Mithras: how scholarship really should be done
The perils of marrying an ignorant woman (however hot)
From my diary
Not quite what they had in mind
Something to dip into
Should we update Quasten?
Chrysostom’s “Quod Christus Sit Deus”
Chrysostom and the Jews uploaded
Chub’s preface to Methodius now online
Ve haf vays of meking you translate … not you Google, sit down!
Translating the Russian preface to the works of Methodius
Get arrested for what you say on Twitter
The text tradition of the Greek artillery manuals
Translations of the works of Hero of Alexandria
From my diary
Suffolk libraries and political thuggery
Reading Methodius in Russian
From my diary
Another 75 Greek manuscripts online at the British Library
When libraries forget their mission
From my diary
C. S. Lewis died today
Notes from the preface to the 3rd edition (1913) of Cumont’s “The mysteries of Mithras”
Canada to repeal thought-crime law?
Finding Cumont’s “Textes et Monuments” online
How do we know that Mithras’ sidekicks were called “Cautes” and “Cautopates”?
An inscription dedicated to “Sol Serapis”
London Mithraeum to be reconstructed on original site
Still plodding on with Ibn Abi Usaibia
The lost preface to Suetonius’ “Lives of the 12 Caesars”
Methodius in Russian to go online
Where do we find a primer on Christian history?
No more typewriters (Greek or otherwise)
Modern scholarship on the origins of Mithras
From my diary
The seven initiations of Mithras in a bronze plaque in Budapest
Problems upgrading from IE8 to IE9 on a Sony Vaio on Windows 7
From my diary
Problems with Abbyy Finereader 11
Ibn Abi Usaibia update
Methodius update
From my diary
The date of the Mithraeum of San Clemente in Rome
From my diary
ALDL demanding copies they aren’t entitled to?
From my diary
Converting DjVu into PDF
From my diary
From my diary
Eusebius supplementa update
Nuance Omnipage 18
From my diary
Translating Methodius
John the Lydian — On November
GCS 27 – Methodius – *is* online!
A. C. Swinburne on dealing with trolls and other internet low-lifes
First impressions of Abbyy Finereader 11
More on literary sources for Isis
A list of GCS volumes online
OCR: Omnipage and Finereader
From my diary
More on Methodius
Hunting for publications of Methodius in Old Slavonic and Russian
More Greek manuscripts online at the British Library
The works of Methodius
Isis and Valerius Maximus
The difficulty of orientation: trying to learn about Isis
A forgotten Coptologist, Arthur des Rivières
Why Cumontian Mithras studies are dead
Eusebius update
Easily the most inaccurate statement about Mithras I have ever seen
From my diary
From my diary
As the evenings draw in and the mornings grow frosty…
From my diary
Ibn Abi Usaibia in French in the Journal Asiatique
JTS charging far too much?
Some notes on blogging
Political imprisonment in Britain today
From my diary
Galen: what the Arab knew and we only discovered in 2006
From my diary
From my diary
Rochester abbey library catalogue – manuscript page online
An interesting overview of Coptic Patristic literature in the Cambridge Ancient History
John the Lydian, “On the Roman Months 4”: October
An English translation of the Life of Samuel of Kalamoun
Image of Mithras at Dura Europos
Images of Persian Mitra
From my diary
More on Jesus in the Greek Magical Papyri
Plato says “Be kind”
Jesus in the Greek Magical Papyri
From my diary
Delving in the Analecta Bollandiana
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Is ambiguity in ancient texts a problem for the translator?
John the Lydian, September – now online
Another UK attack on free speech
Bibliography (with links) of Pachomian literature
US universities harassing Christian groups
The image of Christ-Helios in the mosaics of Vatican tomb M
An example of why abolishing AD and BC causes problems
Forthcoming: an English translation of Michael the Syrian
Writing a page or pages on Mithras
From my diary
Christianity — the only belief you can censor?
A little plank of wood
More Coptica at the British Museum
Eight Evil Thoughts
John the Lydian on September and October
Don’t deal with Libreria Ancora Roma
Cheap desktop multi-spectral imaging
Papyri in the British Museum database
Athanasius on the cult of the martyrs
British Museum catalogue now online and searchable (with pictures!)
Early CSCO volumes from the Coptic series online
From my diary
More on John the Lydian
Getting John the Lydian into English
From my diary
Islamic medical manuscripts now online at the Wellcome trust
An unintentionally humorous passage in Ibn Abi Usaibia
JSTOR start to make content available to independent scholars
Materials from the Greek Ephraim
The assault on free speech in our time
From my diary
Eusebius update
From my diary
From my diary
Google “lobbying hard” to change UK’s backward copyright law
Getting Ibn Abi Usaibia into electronic form
From my diary
Musing about Mithras
Arabic biographies of Mohammed – Brockelmann’s bibliography
Manuscripts of the catena of Nicetas
Some interesting thoughts on copyright and copyfraud
Network solutions get it wrong again
Academic publishers charging $30 for a PDF — but for how long?
How giving a beating has replaced discussion online
More on Ibn Abi Usaibia
People with guitars busted by heavy-handed Feds in 2011?
From my diary
Still waiting for Tertullian.org to transfer…
More on catenas
Tertullian.org may go down over the next day or two briefly
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Eusebius update
Idiot of the week award goes to …
Christophe Guignard on the catena of Nicetas
The “Sententiae” of Publilius Syrus
Christophe Guignard on Julius Africanus’ letter about the genealogies in Matthew
More on Armenian catenas
Some notes on Armenian catenas
Notes on Libanius, his manuscripts etc
A maxim by Libanius, on the love of learning and literature
How far back is “living memory”?
From my diary
From my diary
Some notes on the Von der Goltz codex of Acts, Paul’s letters, and the catholic letters
The literary remains of Shenoute of Atripe
Alice Whealey, SBL 2000 paper on the Testimonium Flavianum
The shifting, sifting sands of what is normal on the internet
The letter of Dioscorus to Shenouda about heretical books
Oxford Patristics Conference – Saturday (Contd.)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Saturday
Oxford Patristics Conference – Friday (Contd.2)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Friday (Contd.)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Friday
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday (Contd. 4)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday (Contd 3)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday (Contd 2)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday (Contd)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday (Contd)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Thursday
Oxford Patristics Conference – Wednesday (Contd 2)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Wednesday (contd)
Oxford Patristics Conference – Wednesday
A thousand page English translation of Ibn Abi Usaibia at the US NLM
Oxford Patristics Conference: I shall be late!
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Still searching for Ibn Abi Usaibia
From my diary – translation projects and other things
Arabic sources for Mohammed – from 1854
An unpublished English translation of Abd al-Latif?
Eusebius update
Still working with Brockelmann
Andrea Gehrz blog
Any more bloggers at the Oxford Patristics Conference next week?
Annoying copyright problem
Extracts from Brockelmann’s “History of Arabic literature” – 1
What I did on my holidays
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Problems in the broadcast media
Not obtaining the catalogue of the manuscripts of Vlatadon in Thessalonika
Working with Brockelmann’s history of Arabic literature
JSTOR: your articles are mine!
On actually reading texts
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Philip of Macedon on those who spoke ill of him
Did the Romans eat strawberries?
From my diary
Islamic manuscripts website with many PDF articles on it
From my diary
More on “human rights” for Christians in Britain
OCR with macrons and other funny letters in Finereader
Can we stop kicking Zahi Hawass, please?
Christians in Britain may have rights after all, announce thought police
This week in patristics
Adding your own notes to your own print-out of an old book
More papers of interest to be presented at the Oxford Patristics Conference
Oxford Patristics Conference blog – abstracts online
A Babylonian priest of Roman Mithras
From my diary – translating Cyril, marketing Eusebius, and Keston College
Mithras in Plutarch
Greek books online
From my diary
From my diary
Manuscript stolen in Spain
From my diary, Michael Bourdeaux, East German anti-Christian policy in 1973, and a Swedish Syriac seminary
From my diary
From my diary
Can this be true?
From my diary
Databases of Greek mss
From my diary
Mithras in Commagene — the hierothesion at Nemrud Dag
Aphrahat in English
From my diary
The discovery of Manichaean literature at Medinat Madu
Dionysius of Alexandria on Gutenberg
Getting a TP-Link wifi router to work with Orange Broadband
Table of contents of Brockelmann’s history of Arabic literature
BBC: Those Christians are out rioting again
From my diary
Death by heatstroke
From my diary
Arrian’s lost work on “After Alexander” and what survives of it
Brockelmann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur and the greed of Brill
Hunain ibn Ishaq on the perils of jealousy at the Abbasid court
Searching for Ibn Abi Useibia’s work on medical writers
Ibn Abi Useibia and his history of medical writers
Eusebius update
British Library to place 250,000 books online — thanks to Google
UK: Harassment of Christians to resume
Book review: After Alexander
A note on Evanthius grammaticus
From my diary
From my diary
A scholion on Lucian about Mithras, and a translation of Theodoret
More on the Eusebius and Hegesippus of Rodosto / Raidestos
Mithras in Tarsus
Is there room for a remake of “Up Pompeii”?
From my diary
I hate Lightning Source
Ambrose of Milan on Mithras
The fate of the manuscripts in Rodosto
A mysterious reference to Theodoret in the NPNF John Damascene
The British Library — whoring the national library?
Manuscripts of Rodosto / Tekirdag
Syriac Wiki locked back down again
How the lost “Peri Alupias” by Galen was found
From my diary
Insomnia, old backups to CD, and books to post off
The sack of Constantinople (part 2)
One evening
Books by the Coptic Pope Shenouda III at Google Books
A list of the new manuscripts online at the British Library site
Obtaining the catalogue of manuscripts of the Vlatadon monastery in Thessalonika
“I have outflanked these miserable insects…”
Papers on Eusebius at the SBL, 2009-11
British Library to digitise all its Greek manuscripts
The Vlatadon library in Thessalonika
Montanus in the Chronicle of Zuqnin
The pagans at Constantinople in the time of Justinian
Paul of Aegina and his medical handbook
R.J.Hoffmann on “Movement humanism”, while Mary Beard writes against attempt to limit smut for kiddies
From my diary
Mithras and 25th December in Franz Cumont, English and French
From my diary
The library at Meshed / Mashhad in Iran — unknown classical texts!
How long were ancient manuscripts used?
Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum vol. 2 now on Archive.org
More on Critoboulos of Imbros
The sack of Constantinople in 1453
Sisters of Sinai, and other snippets
The critical marks of Aristarchus in Andronicus of Alexandria
Books, libraries, codices and punctuation in Rome in Galen’s “Peri Alupias”
Eusebius update
From my diary
Galen, “On my own books” — the translation of Hunain ibn Ishaq
From my diary
From my diary
A newly discovered text by Galen
Greek non-technical works in Arabic
Notes on the transmission of Aeschylus
On the lives of the philosophers
Greek text critical marks as described by Diogenes Laertius
From my diary
More on getting hold of Bar Hebraeus
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
Eusebius update — the proof has been approved
An article on the life and works of the Coptic saint Pisentios
From my diary
Josephus and his assistants
From my diary
Eusebius update
Pythagoras is full of beans!
From my diary
For sale: two slave girls. Slightly used.
What did the Romans eat? – by N. S. Gill
From my diary
From my diary
Stats on the blog
Speaking for others: Cicero and the people he put in his dialogues
A note on “brinking” — how trolling is done in moderated forums
An intelligent question about Mithras
Casaubon and the exposure of the Hermetic corpus
Notes on the works of the alchemist Zosimus of Panopolis
Cyber-attacks on Lacus Curtius
Bettany on Atlantis, yum! yum!
Light on Peregrinus Proteus
The duties of the Flamen Dialis
The tomb of a Greco-Egyptian priest and his papyrus codices
From my diary
More on Persian Christian literature
Persian Christian manuscripts
John the Lydian, ‘March’ from book 4 of “On the months” now online
From my diary
Not talking, not talking, just send me messages
Osama bin Laden dead
Origen update
Publishing Michael the Syrian
The lighthouse at Leptis Magna
Dreaming of Rome
Mithras in the Greek Magical Papyri
A letter of James of Edessa on various issues
Hunain ibn Ishaq from the Encyclopedia of Islam
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd Ed) online at Archive.org?
Eusebius update
Mithras: list of literary testimonia
More on early French travellers to Libya
The harrowing of hell, or the clearing of the inboxes?
Eusebius update
The headline-grabbers of yesterday
Dumping Falco down the charity shop
How to send a bunch of books from the UK to the Czech Republic?
From my diary
From my diary
A Coptic fragment of the Gospel of the Twelve at Sothebys
Montaigne’s tower and other delights
From my diary
A curious quote from one of the Greek magical papyri
Some notes on the Great Paris spell-book
Eusebius update
Did Basil of Caesarea attack science
Did Eusebius attack science?
Life on the edge of the forum
Preisendanz’ edition of the Papyri Graecae Magicae
The demands of the world on the church
From my diary
A letter of St. Pisentios on Islam
An online translation of the Greek magical papyri
A new Coptic nationalist blog
Slightly worrying…
Did the plays of Menander survive to the renaissance
Coptic fragments from Sothebys
Bibliotheca Orientalis online!
Some notes on David Elkington
From my diary
Lead codices are fake
Eusebius update
“According to Realencyclopaedie, the inscription Chrestos is to be seen on a Mithras relief in the Vatican”
Cybele in the fables of Phaedrus
New attacks on Christians in Britain
Eusebius update – the proof copy has arrived
Eusebius update
The anonymous atheist
Arrian “Ars Tactica” on Cybele and Attis at Rome
Origen on unnatural vice
From my diary
Scrolls and lead codices?
A forgotten poet and the limits of the internet
Still more on the collectio avellana
From my diary
Dies sanguinis – what do we know about this?
Macrobius on Dionysius in the Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Angelo Mai’s Nova Patrum Bibliothecae now online complete at Archive.org
The colophon of the Tura papyrus of Origen Contra Celsum
The abolition of the Lupercalia – letter 100 of the Collectio Avellana
The third Vatican mythographer and the resurrection of Dionysus
From my diary
The NIV translators get their just reward
A system of invisible punctuation in papyri and medieval Greek codices
The orations of Himerius and the resurrection of Dionysus
More thought police in Britain
Eusebius update
More sources on the resurrection of Dionysus
Oxford Patristics Conference again
Dionysus in Firmicus Maternus
Religionsgesprach am Hof der Sasaniden (the Legend of Aphroditian) online in English
Fragments of Philip of Side now online
Mithras in Scotland
The Leimonos Monastery manuscripts — online in PDF form!
Online Libanius Translation Project
Difficulties with the Herculaneum rolls
Proclus, Hymn to Minerva, on the resurrection of Dionysus
The third Vatican mythographer on the resurrection of Dionysus
The resurrection of Dionysus every spring?
The abolition of the Lupercalia
Copyright law change: Google “could never have started their company in Britain” says PM
More on the Oxford Patristics Conference
Translation of Didymus the Blind’s commentary on Job from the Tura papyri
The need to uphold biblical inerrancy
Oxford Patristics Conference
A gospel manuscript that depicts the telegraph
From my diary
Clavis to the letters of James of Edessa
Collecting information about the letters of James of Edessa
Eusebius update
Further attack on Christians in Britain
James of Edessa on the Old Testament apocrypha
From my diary
Very bad things happening in Britain to Christians
Eusebius update
WordPress problems with IE
More on the letters of James of Edessa
Letters of James of Edessa
Classicorum auctorum e Vaticanis codicibus editorum – download pdf’s
From my diary
How the text of Nonius Marcellus reaches us
From my diary
New bibliography blog
A gorgeous article at BAR on the Oxyrhynchus papyri
The Archko volume is on the loose again! Everyone under the table!
Eusebius update
James of Edessa (d.708) – letter on the genealogy of the Virgin Mary now online
Greek mechanical typewriter?
Eusebius update
A saying of Musonius, quoted by Aulus Gellius
From my diary
Aulus Gellius thought of his own work as being divided into “chapters”
TLG has a free improved LSJ and click-through to texts
Why the life of men is like a lump of iron, according to Cato “Carmen de Moribus”
From my diary
Secret Mark conference
From my diary
Solon and Lycurgus in the marquis de Sade
A medieval catalogue of classical books at the abbey of Arras
From my diary
Superstition and fraud: the saludadores of early modern Spain
From my diary
From my diary
Did Amr ibn al-As refuse to pray in a church in Jerusalem in case the Moslems seized it?
Letters 97-101 of Isidore of Pelusium
Let’s do that jargon thing, Mr. Porphyry
From my diary
From my diary
Porphyry Ad Gaurum in Festugiere’s translation
More on Severian of Gabala
Severian of Gabala, “Homily on the Seals”
From my diary
Eusebius update 2
Eusebius update
Book cover design with Lightning Source
A description of Alexandria in Achilles Tatius
If only we had a time-machine to take us back to ancient Rome!
The transmission of Aulus Gellius down to our own days
From my diary
Armenian versions of Michael the Syrian
Galen’s preface to Hippocrates “On the workshop/laboratory of a doctor” in English
Notes on the Laus Pisonis
A thought on the end of Juvenal
The manuscripts of Juvenal
The scholia on Juvenal
From my diary
UV light to reveal colours of ancient statuary?
Problems with Eusebius
From my diary
From my diary
Does Royal Mail have a death-wish? Apparently not.
From my diary
Galen on a 300-year old papyrus roll
Translations of ancient Greek literature into Middle Persian
Masses of scholia online at Archive.org
A new nadir in atheist behaviour
Latin scholia
A modern story about Louis Pasteur and the atheist
The origins of scholia
From my diary
Do we find the New Testament church in the Fathers?
Islamic mss now online
From my diary
Handbooks of ancient literature
Cracking down on crime online — or on freedom?
More gay interference with free speech in Britain
More on Antiochus of Athens
Is Christianity actually legal in modern Britain, for practical purposes?
Adonis and the scholia on Theocritus
Serapio’s book of definitions
Porphyry’s introduction to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos
Porphyry, Ad Gaurum
From my diary
A new apocryphal gospel in Coptic
Is there any point in translating ancient texts
Porphyry on astrology
Eusebius project update
From my diary
From my diary
Article wanted
Thinking of Libya
Eusebius update
Classics triennial conference
More Papias fragments
Did the Adonia last two days?
Locating the Golden Bough online
What is Bombycin?
The Lexicon of Photius
More on the scholia on Aristophanes
The scholia on Aristophanes
The Project Hindsight translations of ancient astrological texts
The Realencyclopadie on the festival of the Adonia
From my diary
From my diary
Has Markus Vinzent been abducted by aliens?
More on Anianus of Celeda
The manuscripts of Caesar’s works
A new study on the horrible reality of ancient prostitution
The Serapeum of Alexandria, described by Aphthonius of Alexandria
Vettius Valens translation revised
From my diary
Serapis and Osiris-Apis
From my diary
Serapis, his origins and sources
From my diary
Daryn Lehoux’s thesis on ancient astronomical calendars is online
A new year — looking forward, looking back
Manuscripts of the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
The calendar of Antiochus of Athens as a ‘parapegma’, and an existing translation (!)
December in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
November in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
October in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
September in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
August in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
Syriac manuscript dated 1992 AD
Watching the omissions in a current media story 1
July in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
June in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
More on the “birth of the sun” at Chronicon blog
An interesting current example of mass media deception
May in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
April in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
March in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
Hippolytus, On the anti-Christ
Eusebius update
February in the Calendar of Antiochus of Athens
From my diary
A translation of January in Antiochus’ Calendar
More on the calendar of Antiochus
The opening section of the calendar of Antiochus of Athens
From my diary
First Coptic fragment
All the classical MSS in Florence now online!
How to justify the humanities in a time of cut-backs
The reputation of Amélineau
From my diary
Getting Al-Makin online
From my diary
From my diary
From my diary
More on Macrobius Saturnalia at Chronicon blog
Morphologized Coptic texts?
Cicero: The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled…
The sun as a child at the winter solstice
The Robert Schmidt translations of Roman astrological works
How to do a word search for all uses of Nazaraeus in Latin?
Vettius Valens now online in English
Eusebius update
Lord Macaulay on the unwise extension of copyright
The Mark Riley translation of Vettius Valens
Griechische Kalender: the four calendars published by Franz Boll
Sanity on cuts in the humanities
From my diary
A free speech victory
The Babylonica of Iamblichus the Syrian
Eusebius update
Vettius Valens at Mark T. Riley
Use of “inappropriate force” in schools
More on Antiochus of Athens
Manuscripts of Greek astrological works
The calendar of Antiochus and the new birth of the sun
From my diary
Useless anger, and doing something with it
Why the Wikileaks attack on the US is bad news for free speech
Artemidorus Daldianus and the interpretation of dreams
The festival of Adonis in Alexandria
The Berlin Didymus / Hierocles papyrus
UK internet to be controlled by police
Eusebius update
N. G. Wilson, Scholiasts and commentators
The manuscript of the Chronicle of Zuqnin (Ps.Dionysius of Tel-Mahre)
Coptic in unicode when you don’t know the alphabet
The manuscript of the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Review: The heresy of orthodoxy, part 1
The Revelation of the Magi
Classics for all? Or classics for a few, funded by all?
Searching for Aphroditian
Housekeeping on the Religionsgesprach
Did Hippolytus think Christmas should be on 25th December?
The Chronicle of Zuqnin continues
Continuing the Chronicle of Zuqnin
From my diary
From my diary
SBL Greek New Testament
Memorable history
Not quite the way to do scholarship
The art of cheating in American universities
The heresy of orthodoxy
From my diary
From my diary
Anyone got a PDF of W.G.Kummel, Introduction to the New Testament?
More on chapter titles
From my diary
Ernest Bramah’s “Kai Lung” stories
How not to do atheism
From my diary
14 letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Back to Isidore of Pelusium’s letters
More on the paragraphos mark
Paragraphos and Coronis – the joy of the chase
Abu’l Makarem online?
Chapter divisions in Pliny the Elder
Eusebius update
Letter 133 in the letters of Leo the Great – Proterius on the calculation of Easter
The merriment of devils and the anger of the saints – the NIV saga continues
Copyright claim on all images of Stonehenge ever
Byzantine automata – the emperor is on the throne!
From my diary
How to find a lost manuscript of Eusebius
End-titles in Greek verse
New Mithras frescoes in Syria
Did the Romans believe their myths?
A new harvest of myths
Arabic gospel manuscripts
Eusebius update
The books and the art trade
CSEL online again
Back to the Religionsgesprach
Fame indeed
The things we rely on
You just can’t get the servants
The official 50 funniest jokes
More notes on tables of contents and chapter titles from the Sources Chrétiennes
More on tables of contents and chapters in Irenaeus “Adversus Haereses”
Eusebius update
Tables of contents and chapter divisions in Irenaeus’ “Adversus Haereses”
Saying farewell to Falco
Say No
From my diary
Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel, now published
Tables of contents in Josephus’ “Antiquities”
Where the shoe pinches, there the martyr will be found
Not the best argument against the authenticity of chapter divisions in ancient works
Birt’s revised thoughts in 1923 on ancient chapter titles, divisions, summaries
From my diary
Eusebius update
From my diary
The Roman art of satire
Another source of nonsense about Jesus and Mithras
Timothy I and the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the 9th century AD
P.Oxy.10 – a chapter number in the margin?
T. Birt in 1882 on chapter titles
Trying to deal with Lightning Source
Eusebius update
Ancient Greek civilisation a forgery; and 10 things to do with a female Mossad agent
From my diary
A 12th century trilingual Arabic, Greek and Latin psalter
Bigotry in Colchester?
How ancient writers marked the start of each new book
Eusebius, Gospel problems and solutions update
Book on Syriac historiography
Literary activity of Sir Henry Savile
Digitizing your own library, and how to build your own book scanner
From my diary
More on Polybius and tables of contents
Coptic language course at Cambridge in November
More on chapter titles from Albino’s article
Google translate does Latin?
Polybius on prefaces and summaries for his books
An overview of and introduction to Coptic literature
Chapter titles in the first printed edition of Tertullian’s Apologeticum
Bergk (1872) on chapter titles and divisions in ancient writers
Cyril of Alexandria and chapter divisions in the “Glaphyra”
Early opinions on chapter divisions
From my diary
Some notes on chapter divisions in ancient books
284 Greek manuscripts online at the British Library
A second connection between al-Qifti and Bar Hebraeus
Al-Qifti on the destruction of the library of Alexandria
From my diary
Putting the RealEncyclopadie online
Did you know it was illegal to burn your own copy of the Koran in England?
From my diary
Eusebius update, and other things
Automated Arabic to English translation
The lack of Harnack remedied
Simple Latin required for online project
The risks of snobbery in the classics
Bar Hebraeus on the destruction of the library of Alexandria
Finnish translation of Tertullian’s Apologeticum uses an image from my site?
I’m going to have to stop using Amazon
From my diary
Islamic attack on Livius.org
al-Qifti and the destruction of the library of Alexandria
Let’s just do Bar Hebraeus on the library of Alexandria!
Butler on Bar Hebraeus and the destruction of the library of Alexandria
Gibbon on Bar Hebraeus and the destruction of the Alexandrian library
Bar Hebraeus, Abd al-Latif, and the destruction of the library of Alexandria
Abd al-Latif’s “Account of Egypt” and the destruction of the library of Alexandria
Speculative invoicing for copyright violation
And more from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Back to the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Patristics Conference addendum
Tertullian in Norwegian
Other reports on the patristics conference
From my diary
Always practice safe grammar
A lack of Harnack
From my diary
Patristics Conference Diary 4 – Day 3
Patristics Conference Diary 3 – day 2
Patristics Conference Diary 2
Patristics conference diary – day 1
What happens when the state pulls out of Constantine’s deal with the church?
Patristics Conference – a grumble
I’m going to have a Religionsgesprach
Not going to church (even though you want to)
9 literary sources for Tiberius before AD 187?
From my diary
Miscellaneous projects update
Freedom of speech ten miles away from me
How to sell your unwanted books online
Sentimental about old technology
More problems for UK Christians
Eusebius book to be delayed
From my diary
Who are the classicists?
How not to evaluate evidence
Notes on Eusebius of Emesa
Eusebius once more
From my diary
Letters of Isidore of Pelusium
British patristic conference, 1st-3rd September 2010
Eusebius update – whole book typeset!
British Patristic Conference – conference schedule
Google books not visible outside the US — people are starting to notice
British Patristics Conference
Eusebius again
On the tombs of the emperors in the Church of the Holy Apostles
Eusebius update
Cyril of Alexandria buys the government
Julian the Apostate on Constantius
Nicolaitans in patristic literature
Gnomologia on the web
Sarcophagi of the Eastern Roman emperors still around?
The letters of Julian the Apostate
What they will not allow you to see online
The morning after the night before
Why we need Akkadian
The felicitous misquotation
From my diary
The chronicler of Zuqnin continues…
From my diary
What’s in that “Eusebius book” I’m commissioning?
Eusebius book again
Cheap flights to Luxor
Would you like to buy some volumes of the Patrologia Graeca?
From my diary
Eusebius update
Lots of UK university theology departments to close?
The plague and famine under Hisham – from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
More from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Eusebius update
A note from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
ISBN for Eusebius book arrives!
The conman and the Jews, in the Chronicle of Zuqnin, part 4
Gregory of Nyssa fails to adapt to then contemporary attitudes on slavery
Quiet flows the Don
Scythians worship Zalmoxis, and serve them right!
Google funding for discovery of ancient texts online — and some unforeseen difficulties
A myth-take about Helice, the earthquake, and Diodorus Siculus
More from the Chronicle of Zuqnin, part 4
Difficult decisions or discrimination at Oxford centre for Jewish studies
More from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Always verify your references
The Chronicle of Zuqnin, part IV — another chunk
Borrowings from Christianity in late paganism
A little light dusting and the Chronicle of Zuqnin
From my diary: Problems with the Nielsen UK ISBN Agency
Religious persecution in Britain today
From my diary
Severian of Gabala, sermon 1 on Genesis online
Yet more Eusebius
Eusebius the liar
From my diary – book completion day
Eusebius again
Laying out facing Greek and English – and being laid out by it
Eusebius once more
He’s getting all Coptic on me
Eusebius update again
Eusebius update
From my diary
From my diary
Eusebius update
English translation of book 15 of John bar Penkaye now online
Should we blame our sins for plague? Or blame God for not preventing it?
Manuscripts of the history of John bar Penkaye
How the works of the elder Seneca get to us
Updates to the list of online CSEL volumes
Wolfenbuttel do something original with manuscripts
Q. Haterius and the “duty” of a freedman
The exegesis of Polychronius
From my diary
More on Eusebius on the Psalms
Sir Henry Savile and the perils of editing Chrysostom
Digging in Pepuza
The end of Montanism
From my diary
The dialogue of a Montanist with an Orthodox
Filing cabinets full of my own past
Downloading the Iliad
Eusebius update
Eusebius on Psalm 51 (52) uploaded in English
Montfaucon on Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms
Don’t let readers photograph rare books – let thieves steal them instead
From my diary
Driving in Rome
Images from the Santa Prisca Mithraeum
More on the ancient Greek and Latin at Google
How not to publish an excavation
Indolence at Cambridge University Library
The nasty side of Roman life
Celsus philosophus and the headbangers
Did victory for the Spartans destroy their state?
Splendid Roman frescoes in the catacomb of Santa Thecla
Greek translations of Latin literature
Choking off non-Americans from Google books?
Philip of Side update
Mischa Hooker’s links – a new incarnation
Chrysostom’s sermon on new year (in kalendas) now online in English
From my diary
Greek and Latin books at Google
From my diary
The manuscripts of Socrates Scholasticus
Translation of Chrysostom “In Kalendas” has arrived
Working on QuickAccents and other things
How do we get people to photograph stuff overseas?
Update on Philip of Side
The Hilaria and the resurrection of Attis
Mister, do my homework for me, huh?
Oxyrhynchus papyri vols 1-14 online at Archive.org
Wikipedia and the British Museum
Stephanos of Alexandria steps out of the shadows
From my diary
More on the Santa Prisca Mithraeum
The Santa Prisca Mithraeum in Rome
From my diary
From my diary
Let us praise the men who burned all the ancient books
Evoe! Evoe! Let the wine flow tonight! (well, the diet coke anyway)
Someone who knows about Coptic writes…
Carmen ad Antonium
More on the Alphabetum font
Have asked Hercules to consider doing a swap
Notes on unicode editing in Coptic
Sympathy for Hercules
More on Coptic unicode fonts
More on the Alphabetum font
Alphabetum – a more “Bohairic” coptic font? Plus notes on Coptic
From my diary
A quotation from Seneca the Elder
Carmen ad Senatorem quendam
Eusebius update
Bohairic unicode font?
Obituary of Mark Ashton in June edition of “Evangelicals Now”
Early French travellers to Libya
From my diary
The book is doomed, and the dataset is coming!
From my diary
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Philip of Side update
Theodore of Mopsuestia on Genesis
Testimonia for Philip of Side
Berthelot’s Greek Alchemical Texts
Carmen adversus paganos
Mark Ashton and the bishop
The Bringel thesis of the Religionsgesprach
Hunting the wild (mis)quotation
The church-historical epitome
From my diary
A list of the fragments of Philip of Side’s “Christian History”
Eusebius update
Obituary of Mark Ashton in the Times
3rd British Patristics Conference in Durham in September 2010
Works of Cyril of Alexandria not present in the TLG
Killing the dipsticks of the world
More on Philip of Side and the Religionsgesprach
Progress on Philip of Side
Thinking about Severian on Genesis
Fancy a scroll of Caesar’s Gallic War?
Burning past the libraries
Gregory of Antioch – a sixth century figure of whom I knew nothing
Mai’s Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticanibus codicibus – online!
Polychronius, Porphyry and Daniel
Sixth century writers of whom I know nothing
Did Eusebius forge the Testimonium Flavianum?
The religious debate at the court of the Sassanids
Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum
Materials on Philip of Side
Mansi and the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
Sorry about the outage
Possible short works to translate from the Greek Fathers
Links to Mark Ashton’s sermons
Still thinking about Mark Ashton
Severian of Gabala, De Pace – translation is go!
More digging in Quasten
Smiling men with bad reputations
Eusebius Update
Mark Ashton, Vicar of St. Andrew the Great, has died
From my diary
A work of Athanasius extant in English, possibly out of copyright
Parker library on the web… or rather, not
The ruins of Salamis in Cyprus
Chrysostom sermons that exist
De ligno vitae – The Tree of Life
Sermons of Chrysostom after his first exile
Quick! Fetch the doctor!
Anianus of Celeda and Chrysostom’s sermons in the West
More on Chrysostom and Bareille
Eusebius, On Easter now in English
Chrysostom’s “First sermon” now online in English
I hope that I am misunderstanding Chrysostom
Were cultists of Mithras marked with a sign on their foreheads?
From my diary
Manuscripts for sale
The commentaries of Theophlyact and their reference to Papias
A passage of Papias in Cramer’s catena
From my diary
Mysterious book – anyone know what it contains?
Chrysostom’s first sermon
The pyramids of Meroe again
Thinking about fonts to use for book
Origen project update
Severian of Gabala and the heavens as a “tent”
Thinking about typesetting
Severian of Gabala in Arabic
Eusebius update – Coptic transcribed
Walking in Syria – a Daily Telegraph article
A volume of papers from a Eusebius conference
From my diary
Eusebius, De sollemnitate paschalis – translation done
Eusebius update 2
Eusebius update
Why Windows Vista was awful
Greek texts from the library of the Patriarch in Jerusalem
Problems with Berchman’s translation of the fragments of Porphyry “Against the Christians”
An opportunity to translate some of Severus Sebokht
Eusebius’ lost work against Porphyry – extant in 1838?
A novel from the Theodosian Code
Jerome’s Commentarioli in Psalmos exists in English
Thinking about Jerome’s “Commentarioli in Psalmos”
A passage in Jerome on Revelation
Latin texts that ought to exist in English
Savile’s edition of Chrysostom
Leontius of Byzantium, “Adversus fraudes Apollinistarum”
Stopped by a PC
Henry Savile and his edition of the works of Chrysostom
Severian of Gabala, Homily 3 on Genesis, chapter 5
Good Friday: evil triumphant
Severian of Gabala on Genesis, sermon 2, chapter 3
Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography, in Wikisource
Armenian sermons of Severian of Gabala … or Eusebius of Emesa?
Chrysostom “In Kalendas” translation progress
Notes on the Theodosian Legal Code (438 AD)
Some remarks about John Chrysostom’s homilies against the Jews
Chrysostom “In kalendas” progress
Why Severian of Gabala is famous
Vatican library to digitise 80,000 mss
‘Severian of Gabala’ on the sufferings and death of our Lord
Never had this problem with clay tablets
No Syria trip for me
Projects progressing, projects new
Preparations for Syria and Lebanon
Eutychius on the events in Egypt in 820-30 AD
Go tell the Spartans: Plutarch’s “Moralia” online
Hunting the wild quote 2: Metrodorus of Chios talks about life on other planets
Some notes on Thomas Gaisford
Yet more treasures at Archive.org
Hunting the wild quote: Xenophanes on gods of different colours
Steven Hijmans on the iconography of Sol
Chronicle of Hippolytus now online!
More on QuickGreek
Bettany Hughes on the history of Alexandria tonight on More4
‘Ancient’ texts composed in modern times
When will the police come for me?
An algorithm for matching ancient Greek despite the accents?
Notes on Severian of Gabala
Festival of Cybele today?
Updates on various projects
The decline of the legend of the Seven Sages and theosophical prophecies
Piles of paper on the side and a rainy day at home
Iturbe on Arabic Gospel Catenas
Eusebius update
Eusebius update
People with knowledge of Coptic and Arabic
Critical edition of the Koran in preparation?
Interesting article on the preparation of the Sources Chretiennes’ Jerome commentaries
Using Greek Transcoder
Copyfraud once more
Bootlegging the Theodosian code
When did the Christians start to reuse the temples?
Atheist graffito – and comment
Grafton & Williams on Origen, Eusebius and the library of Caesarea
Dancing with the Greek
From my diary – Chrysostom and Eusebius
Chrysostom, Against the Jews homily 2 (missing part) is now in English!
Note on Google Street View and maps
Typing in unicode Greek
Recent studies on the Coptic catena of de Lagarde?
More on Abu’l Makarim
Chrysostom against the Jews — online copies
Google goes to Rome
Greek.ttf – the curse of pre-unicode Greek fonts
On the spend in Syria
Dreaming of Chrysostom and his works
Really Important: tell the British Library which manuscripts you want to see online
A.L.Williams, “Adversus Judaeos” (1935)
Curious QuarkXpress
Update on Chrysostom on the Jews
Forgotten translations of the Fathers
Militant atheist and free speech
Thinking ahead to Syria
Eusebius in Syriac, in a literal German version
Notes from Devreesse on catenas on Luke
Severian of Gabala
Who needs Stargate-SG1 when we have Meroe?
Palimpsest ms image of Severus of Antioch
Devreesse, Eusebius and the catenas on Luke
An Irenaeus at Lulu
Greek mss at the British Library
Never mind the New Testament – digital mss at the British Library
Digitised mss at the British Library
Classical Text Editor – useful?
Theodore of Mopsuestia on Genesis
Origen problem
Eusebius update
Two more Syriac fragments of Eusebius “Gospel problems and solutions”
Getting hold of books
Devreesse: catenas on Mark
A curious copyright consideration on commissioned work
Editions of Chrysostom “Against the Jews”
The price of being disorganized
Eusebius update
Devreesse – introductory notes on catenas on Matthew
Devreesse on the fragments of Eusebius in the catena on Matthew
Lemma-out of here!
Devreesse on the extracts of Origen on Ezekiel in the catenas
Devreesse on quotations from Eusebius in catenas in John
Styles of translation – an example from Isidore of Pelusium
Doing it right – an new edition and Italian translation of a work by Hunain ibn Ishaq
Possible outages ahead
Josephus in the catenas
The external appearance of catenas
Intellect and its opposite
Self-service photographing of manuscripts at Leiden
Photius online in Greek and French
Stobaeus, Florilegium
Snow falling in Rome
Harnack’s Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur online
Testing the catenas – Carmelo Curti on Eusebius on the Psalms
Keyser’s “Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists”
An afternoon with the scanner
Dark ages, middle ages, and how it’s all the fault of the Christians
More on the lost manuscript of Eusebius’ “Quaestiones” and the deeds of Cardinal Sirleto
Why was Domitian unpopular?
My life as a television series
Origen update
The winter of 2009-10
Graf on Arabic translations of Eusebius
From my diary
From my diary
The lives of the Coptic Patriarch Isaac
Abu’l Barakat’s Catalogue of Christian Literature in Arabic now online
2011 Patristics Conference, Oxford
From my diary
The Latin introduction to the Coptic catena published by Paul de Lagarde
Origen update
Working on Eusebius
Albocicade at Archive.org
Armenian bibliography of bible commentaries/catenas
An Armenian catena on the Catholic epistles
Manuscripts of Eusebius’ “Vita Constantini”
More Armenian info
An email from Turkey
The lost manuscripts of Seert – a clue?
A fragment of the Didache in De Lagarde’s Coptic catena?
Eusebius update
The hecastylon in Rome
Patristics Carnival XXXI
How not to do it; AbdulHaq’s “Before Nicea”
Catenas on the Psalms: the “Palestinian catena”
Catenas on the Psalms in print
The sources for the downfall of Majorian
Lost Roman legal text found
A sad sidelight on academia
Anthony McRoy responds to “SeismicShock”
Last section of Abu’l Barakat
How do you solve a problem like… Karo and Lietzmann?
Catalogue of catenas
What is a catena?
Cerf’s up!
Codex Aesinas of Tacitus
No danger to free speech? the “Seismic shock” incident
In praise of footnotes
The Armenian manuscripts of the French National Library
Finding Armenian resources
The gospel of Judas saga continues
New Czech site on Tertullian and Perpetua
Another chunk of Abu’l Barakat
How the first Loebs were translated
Dreaming of Marius Maximus
A quick quiz on evolution at Quodlibeta
Doing the numbers
Oriens Christianus come up trumps
Typing up Origen
The CCSG edition of Anastasius of Sinai’s “Questions”
After the New Testament – the Early Christians on CDROM
Translating Anastasius of Sinai
Still cursing copyright
Transcribing Eusebius’ Greek
More copyright, curses curses
Gospel catenas – from Harnack
TLG Selecta in Ezechielem
How big is my Migne, part 2?
Armenian fragments of Eusebius on the Gospels?
Copyright, curses curses
Loebs online
Abu’l Barakat update
The text tradition of Hippolytus “Commentary on Daniel”
A book on catenas which I can’t find
From my diary
Eusebius book news
Medieval mss from Switzerland online?
An introduction to Old Slavonic literature?
BBKL article on Ibn al-Tayyib
Old Slavonic manuscripts online
From my diary
Supposed quotation by Hypatia
Fathers in Old Slavonic – 2
Patristic literature in Old Slavonic – 1
The last Byzantine ecclesiastical historian
How different is a critical text from a pre-critical text?
Critical editions of the fragments of Eusebius
Sources Chretiennes very quick on the draw
Printing the Greek text of Eusebius
The Sunday Sermons of John Xiphilinus
Scanty referencing in older sources
Still asking for those strenae at New Year?
How do I find out how to sell my book online
Review: The Goodspeed Syriac fragments
Another new year
The perils of translating from old editions
Angelo Mai comments on a catena fragment of Eusebius
More on “Greek without Tears”
Pseudonymous emails
End of volume three
Editing Eusebius
Back to Eusebius
More on the Collected Letters of C.S.Lewis
C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters volume 3
Christmas day on the winter solstice?
The Christian-baiting season is now open!
Off to Syria and Lebanon in the spring
Augustine on pagans at Christmas
‘Twas Christmas Eve in the workhouse…
The calendar of Polemius Silvius
What to do on Christmas day when there’s only one of you
Abu’l Barakat part 2 has arrived
A note on Hemitheon of Sybaris
Another bit of Sbath commissioned
A review of Crawford on the Bruma and Brumalia
The joy of windows
Death, mutilation, castration, blinding, fun!
A translation of John the Lydian, “De Mensibus” 4.158 (on December)
Historia Augusta on Hadrian
Abbyy Finereader 10 upgrade now out
Daremberg and Saglio’s “Le Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines”
Authorities for the Julian year
From my diary
“Killer” Carlson unmasks another fraud
The copyright status of Liddell and Scott
Ancient medicine online
Origen on Ezekiel; update
Roman calendars online
A 7th century Syriac mathematician
Someone to work on Severus Sebokht?
Paulinus of Nola
Censorinus and the secular games
Too much data to find out what “bruma” means
Searching classical authors in Latin
More sources for the meaning of “bruma”; winter solstice? midwinter? etc
Is there an English translation of Varro’s “De lingua latina”?
More on Choricius of Gaza
Was the winter solstice on 25 December in the Julian calendar
Choricius of Gaza, the Suda on the “brumalia”
On “bruma” and “brumalia” in ancient Rome, as found in the OLD
Ancient wargaming figures
Glad I didn’t go to Egypt this Christmas
New forms of devotion in Firmicus Maternus? Or possibly not…
The transmission of the Blessing of Isaac, Jacob and Moses by Hippolytus
That which we are not allowed to hear
The “Mithras was born on 25th December! Tee hee” myth
More on the Septizodium
A new blog on fragmentary texts
Why I don’t believe that NT studies is an academic discipline
Abu’l Barakat’s catalogue of patristic books is underway!
An atheist guide to ancient Rome
Images of the Septizonium from the renaissance
The marble map of Rome
The administration of Roman libraries
The Hypotyposes (Outlines) of Clement of Alexandria
Some notes on Jupiter Dolichenus
Generosity is its own… punishment
Petition against Islamic attacks on Copts
Ibn al-Tayyib, Commentary on the whole bible
Mithras, “protector of the empire”
Leo I and sun-worshippers at Christmas
The anniversary of the death of C.S.Lewis
Linking Egyptian and Babylonian chronology
Origen update
New blog from Charles Sullivan
An interesting online colour image of Mithras killing the bull
Last ancient reference to the temple of Sol
The rule of experts
Update on Abu’l Barakat
Troubles at Documenta Catholica Omnia
Pythagoras in India?
From my diary
CCEL Mirror of Additional Fathers collection updated
Books to read when you have a cold
Origen and “Buddhism in Britain”
Hannibal and king Antiochus – a story from Macrobius
Extra French translations of classical texts
Finereader 10 is out – dedicated users must wait until December
Cumont on the end of the cult of Mithras
What did Late Roman senators wear to the senate?
Still thinking about archaeology online
Light from the ancient East
How do we put archaeology online?
The spirit of persecution in Firmicus Maternus
All the PDF’s for the Patrologia Graeca online
The Paris magical codex
All the PDF’s for the Patrologia Latina
Virgin birth of Mitra from Anahita?
The evil bishop of Amida, Abraham bar Kaili
More from the Chronicle of Zuqnin
Eusebius update
Syriac tablet found at Edessa in Turkey
New online Syriac manuscripts, catalogues of Cairo mss
Books of my childhood
Origen on the gift of tongues
The Chronicle of Zuqnin (ps.Dionysius of Tell-Mahre)
James of Edessa, Chronicle now online
From my diary
Where misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn
Michael the Syrian quotes Theodosius of Edessa on James of Edessa
More Origen and James of Edessa
James of Edessa: update
Olympiads in the 6th century AD
Updates on Origen, and Stephanos of Alexandria
16 pages of James to go
Back to James of Edessa
Quiet flows the don…
GCS electronic texts for free download
Is the Patrologia Graeca bed-time reading, and should it be?
Hippolytus “Commentary on Daniel”
Reference for the claim that only 1% of ancient literature survives
Obscure material
Demonax and the trolls, and other snippets from Lucian
What percentage of ancient literature survives: some data
List of CSEL volumes at Google Books
Doubts about the discovery at Nag Hammadi, and some comments on papyrology
Lying awake and thinking about Eusebius
Sisyphus and Wikipedia
Stephen of Alexandria’s fourth lecture on alchemy before the emperor Heraclius
Ever heard of the Cyranides?
Ancient references to Montanism
The Stapleton manuscripts in Oxford
Patrologia Graeca online
On Martial’s flattery of Domitian
A bunch of manuscripts online from the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem
Stephen of Alexandria
Patristics carnival 28
From my diary
Anthon’s “Manual of Greek literature from the earliest authentic periods to the close of the Byzantine era”
Daily Mail article about extant speeches on the Catiline conspiracy
Revue de l’Orient Chretien online; list of Syriac-related articles and links
Eusebius, “Tough questions on the gospels” more or less done
Origen Homily 12 on Ezekiel
Nero’s revolving dining room
Why do we allow Russia on the internet at all?
More on Eusebius on the Psalms
A stray quotation from Eusebius, “Commentary on the Psalms”
Christian sympathy for sun worship in late antiquity
Serious excitement – copies of British Library Arabic manuscripts for less than $1?
More on Firmicus Maternus
Working on Mithras on Wikipedia
Chrysostom on corrupt priests – part 2
Back to normality
Chrysostom on the fewness of those who will be saved
Anonymi Oeconomica?
Why miracles are less important than reason – an 11th century Nestorian comments
Five 10th century Arabic Christian treatises now online
A bunch of online Oriental books – Bibliothek Goussen
Samuel al-Suryani
Chrysostom project dead
More project news
Cortez would have agreed
State of the al-Makin project
So who is Theo of Smyrna? (or even Theon of Smyrna)
Zenobius on Mithras
Burning the Arian books after Nicaea
Revising the Wikipedia Mithras article
Notes on progress
Lots of progress
History is not the property of any elite
Hunain ibn Ishaq – update
UK law to change on internet — in a small but beneficial direction?
Philosophers did not philosophize for free
Greek wit
The orator Scopelian and his trademark gestures
Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on John, vol. 2 now on Archive.org
Fragments of Eusebius in the Mingana collection
Eusebius “Quaestiones” Syriac fragments all now translated
Isidore of Pelusium did not pirate Eusebius
Isidore of Pelusium on Romans 1:28-29
Jona Lendering is holding a dagger under his myrtle-branch
Symmachus, letter to Ausonius, now online
Birmingham Special Collections goes over to the Dark Side (a bit)
The Combefis publication containing a Eusebius fragment
Andrew of Caesarea, Commentary on Revelation online
Patristic witnesses to speaking in tongues
A missing manuscript
Antiochepedia
Typesetting and other evils
British Library FoI: how much do they make from reproduction of mss images?
C.H.Turner on Origen’s Commentary on 1 Corinthians
Origen on 1 Corinthians
John Damascene: “On the Orthodox Faith”
Is this the title page of Abu’l Makarem?
Coptic pilgrimage in BBC2 “The Frankincense Trail” programme
The authority of the early Christian writers today
Another homily of Origen on Ezekiel
More people translating the Fathers
More from Eutychius
Patristics Carnival 27 is here
Finding books at Archive.org
Some entries from the annals of Euthyius of Alexandria
Origen updates, and more
New NIV to be released in 2011
Fragments of Eusebius in a Coptic catena
How big is my Migne?
Origen’s “Selecta” and Tammuz
More on the “Selecta” of Origen in the Migne edition
Origen, Selecta in Ezechielem
Origen on Ezekiel homily 7
I would like to go to bed tonight…
Nabateans in Saudi Arabia
Another Classical Armenian history goes online
Update on Chrysostom Project
More on Eutychius
Deviations in my copies of the Annals of Eutychius (ca. 900)
No Eustathius at the BN in Naples
Sbath project – sample of Hunain gets the raspberry
Hunain ibn Ishaq translation now underway
If a scribe has two copies of a text in different bookhands, which will he copy?
Another untranslated bit of Greek – Philip of Side
Chrysostom is better in Syriac than in Greek! And what about the Arabs?
If you employed a translator, what conditions would you impose?
PDF files of New LXX translation online
How I met the archbishop
New archaeology at Caistor St Edmund
Undoubtedly the funniest reason to refuse work I ever saw
Caistor St Edmund (Venta Icenorum) from the A140
Untranslated portion of Chrysostom vs Jews – translator found
If you could take 6 months off, what would you do?
From my diary
The lost part of John Chrysostom’s second sermon against the Jews
Thinking about Sbath’s “twenty philosophical and theological treatises”
Eusebius, Eclogae Propheticae – Gaisford edition now online
An old sick man defends himself and gets five years – an interview with Tony Martin
A couple more letters by Isidore of Pelusium
A bit more on the Zosimus affair
Another letter to Zosimus from Isidore of Pelusium
French National Library to work with Google books
Ancient authors who give explicit dates of composition in their works
A gay clergyman in Pelusium
Look again at Google Books; you will find more than you did last time
Knowledge of the fathers before the ANF series began
Review of James Hannam’s “God’s philosophers”
Update on Eusebius
British Library don’t know what “manuscript” means?
Russian site with loads of original language Greek patristic texts
Adamantius, De recta in deum fide
Placing stuff online – how much the British Library make from charging people for this
Medieval library catalogues
Cicero and Caesar in Macrobius
From my diary
Cyril of Alexandria – commentaries on Paul’s letters
The dissolution of Evesham abbey
From my diary
Notes from the 39th century on the perils of partial evidence
First impressions of Hannam’s “God’s philosophers”
The signs of ruin in the Theodosian Code and Novels
Severus Sebokht and “Arabic” numbers
The destruction of the apocryphal Acts of John
Indexes of ROC now online
Nominate Mingana manuscripts for digitisation
From my diary – Cambridge
Digest of Roman Law online in English; and Hadrian on castrating your slaves
Roman attitudes to magic
Norwich and the Roman world
Translating from Arabic into Latin in Medieval Spain
The anathemas against Origen at the 2nd Council of Constantinople
More books in and about Syriac online at BYU
Some answers on the confusing History of Abu al-Makarim / Abu Salih
From my diary – my trip to Oxford
Naked greed at the Bodleian: the August 2009 Bloodsucker award
Bodleian catalogue of Greek manuscripts now online
Housekeeping journal articles; from my diary 2
Eusebius “Quaestiones” in Isidore of Pelusium
A better collection of all the fragments of Papias now online in English
A dull post on a catena published by Combefis
Dionysius Bar Salibi’s “Commentary on the Gospels”, Papias and Eusebius
More on remacle.org
From my diary
Update on Origen Project
Copts in literature from ancient times to the present
Selling patristics books
English translation of the Coptic history of Al-Makarim?
Ve hav vays of making you NOT talk
How the Moslems handled the defeated Franks
More on Greek translator
Euthymius Zigabenus and the Pericope Adulterae
A Coptic fragment of Eusebius
Manuel Paleologus, Dialogue with a Learned Persian, uploaded
Papias on Judas Iscariot, as reported by Apollinaris of Laodicea
Michael the Syrian, vol. 3 of the French translation now online
Michael the Syrian part 3 – progress report
Chrysostom on marriage
Letter of Latino Latini completed
Discussion on Armenian version of Michael the Syrian
Still scanning Michael the Syrian part 3
Jerome, Letter to Hedibia, complete online
Abu al-Fida, Historia ante-Islamica online
Michael the Syrian, book 12, chapter 1 — have a quick translation!
An anecdote of Bishop Warburton
Flushed with success – how to acquire a knowledge of the Latin poets
Michael the Syrian vol. 3 has arrived
Syriac origins for the Gospel of Thomas? Not convinced, I think
Literature searching for a lost manuscript
Cambridge University Library manuscripts department are idiots
More on ps.Eustathius’ Hexameron
Finding collections of Greek manuscripts is less easy than it should be
The Hexameron of Eustathius of Antioch
A lead on the lost manuscript of the full text of Eusebius’ “Diaphonia”
An Arabic Orthodox blog
Patristics Carnival XXV
Eusebius, Cardinal Sirleto, and the letters of Latino Latini
Latinus Latinius (1513-1593) – a long life in Patristics
How much does the BL make by charging websites to display images of mss?
UK Freedom of Information requests
IE8 feature – larger/smaller text
Theophanes in English, on Mohammed
External references to Islam
Theophanes and Mohammed
English translations of the earliest life of Mohammed
Summer reading
UK National Gallery threatens Wikipedia, tries copyfraud tactics
Sources for the Antonine Wall
Tom Lehrer still singing the Vatican rag
The grotto of the Cumaean sybil
Locking up those who say Wrong Things – it begins
Pyramids of the black pharaohs
Still driving on Manuel
Latino Latini, Sirleto, and the last, lost manuscript of Eusebius’ “Gospel Questions”
Causing outrage in Ireland now illegal; who’s first to be jailed?
Massive French site of translations from Latin, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Georgian…
Online version of the Codex Sinaiticus; more manuscripts to follow
Struggling a bit with Manuel Paleologus
Mingana manuscripts ignored, Korans placed online instead
Agapius now online in English
CSCO Agapius NOT the most recent edition!
Searching for books; Origen, Agapius, and the Didache in Shenouda.
Using Google translate on Manuel Paleologus, and contributing as you do
Agapius almost ready
Cambridge University Library – daft admissions policies
How to use Diogenes with the TLG disk (not that any of us have one, oh no)
Vatican ms orders received
Syriac Eusebius “Quaestiones” fragments almost complete
Hippolytus’ Chronicle
Humouring the end of the world
Computer analysis of inscriptions gives authorship
The limitations of PDF textbooks
EThOS – still impressed
Printing the original text of Origen on Ezekiel
New book on Early Christian books in Egypt
Origen update – the ride’s back on
Patristic Greek translation tips
A rival translation of Origen’s Homilies on Ezekiel
Origen, Homily 2 on Ezekiel
Coptic monastic revival – Matta al-Maskeen
Agapius once more
Agapius again
Abu’l Barakat’s catalogue of Arabic Christian literature
Thank you for buying my CDROM
Divus and Deus in Varro and Servius
Magnetic images at Caistor St. Edmunds
Origen; Homily 2 on Ezekiel received
Faulhaber on Roman mss of the catenas of the prophets
Dishonest academic journals and the Elsevier scandal
An new hero takes on the ancient astronomical works
A pause in correspondance
Origen translation: the catena issue
A famous passage of Gregory of Nyssa… but where from?
UK Govt attack on Catholic adoption agency continues
Irving Woodworth Raymond and Orosius
Perseus hopper – 157 downloads
British Library still doesn’t get it
Origen, Homily 1 on Ezekiel now translated
Fresh Cyril of Alexandria
Origen, Homilies on Ezekiel – more progress
British Library to mass-digitize its manuscripts?
Reference to Mithras in the Commentary of Servius?
Stats
Time for something less strenuous
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (GRBS) goes open access
Unicode Greek font and vowel length
Patristics Carnival 24
More progress on translating Origen’s Homilies on Ezekiel
Still thinking of Lebanon
Israelis visiting Petra
Islamic Manuscripts conference, Cambridge
UK: police threaten preacher with arrest for saying homosexuality is a sin (even though he didn’t mention it)
Origen on Ezekiel – thinking about bible versions
Pricing John the Lydian, De Mensibus
Origen on Ezekiel update
Cambridge University Library — no, the incunables are NOT going online
Why do we write accents on our ancient Greek?
Anti-Christian posting and an inscription about Julius Caesar
A day in the life
Syriac Eusebius restarts
Diogenes limitations
Origen: Homilies on Ezekiel translation underway
Old hoaxes; Notovitch, Jacolliot, Jesus and India
Damascius in Photius
Other items in the Sothebys sale
Codex Climaci Rescriptus to be sold at Sothebys
Greek NT manuscript for sale
More on morphology, and on life
Loeb loving on the road to Bilbilis
Germans attack Google books
Writing Greek translation software – searching for meaning
May 2009 Bloodsucker Award – the German Bible Society
More on “copyright” of the Greek New Testament
Flame the German Bible Society
MorphGNT busted by “copyright”
More on John the Lydian
Another Eusebius update
More on the Homilies of Origen
What to do about offline Origen?
LXX text marked up with part of speech, etc
Works of Origen extant in Greek
A thought after reading Martial
More notes on QuickGreek
New Hypatia movie
Eusebius, Quaestiones ad Stephanum/Marinum under way again
Nau’s version of the Syriac life of Shenouda now online
More on Shenouda and the “Two Ways”
The “Two Ways” in the Arabic Life of Shenouda
Notes on John the Lydian, De Mensibus
Changing settings on WordPress
Using X-Rays on the Herculaneum scrolls
Latin translation of John Lydus
All the hot chicks love Indiana Jones
John Lamoreaux’s Adventures in Christian Arabic
Attis – a useful dissertation
Ordering from the Vatican library
Writing a Greek-English translation tool
Augustine on Attis and the Galli
“At least I’ve still got my bus-pass”
Attis Menotyrannus – Lord of the Moon, or Lord of the Months?
Herodotus on Attis?
Catullus on Attis
Sallustius on Attis
The gallos-priests of Attis
Julian on Attis
Let’s demonize all the Catholics
Manuscript digitization in the Wall Street Journal
Was Firmicus Maternus a Christian?
Tell me where to go
More on the Fujitsu Scansnap S300 scanner
How I hate Vista
Articles in Modern Greek of general interest
2,000 year old papyrus roll found in Israel
The Antiquary’s shoebox
Photos of Baalbek
The 1941 discovery of works by Origen and Didymus at Toura in Egypt
Another snippet from Agapius
The anti-pagan legislation of Constantius II
Coptic Museum Library — restoration of mss in progress
Carry your library in your pocket
Sale at Les Belles Lettres
Isidore of Seville’s Chronicle in two versions
A Byzantine exegesis of Paul in the “depth of the sea”
Genre markers in Genesis
More fun with a thesis
Agapius progresses
Manuscript news at Evangelical Textual Criticism
Literary references to the taurobolium
Another text about the taurobolium
Waiting for Menander in the Vatican: 400 verses of Greek comedy discovered in a Syriac palimpsest manuscript
A palimpsest of Menander in the Vatican
Jesus is Horus, yes really
Fun with PhD thesis access
Documentary papyri and inscriptions online
Poem to a senator who has converted from Christianity to the servitude of idols
The Taurobolium
Abby Finereader 9 is really excellent
Did sacred prostitution exist in the classical world, or ancient near-east?
Not that far up the Nile
Back to Agapius
Blogging on the Nile
Throw the photocopies away
ACW translation of Firmicus Maternus on Google books
The machine that can print off a book for you in minutes
The discovery of Firmicus Maternus
Attis 3 – Firmicus Maternus
CSNTM photographing manuscripts in Greece
Mithras and the Taurobolium
Attis, the sources: part 2
Attis and Jesus
Archimedes fire-mirror gets an early bath
Mesmerised by “Hip gnosis” – or maybe not
How to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before
How not to translate the bible
Coptic Paul found!
The Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun – now online
UK copyright law ‘abject failure’ for information access
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
Scribe, take down an apocalypse
Christianity in Iraq VI
Don’t bother with the Cambridge Patristics conference in September
Finding Samuel of Kalamoun on my hard disk
Agapius – three quarters done
End procrastination, but not yet
Jesus Christ is risen – alleluia
Going Dutch for Mithras
Coptic text of 2 Enoch recovered
Good Friday
Cyril project cancelled
Manuscripts online now at the VMR
Give it away and sell more
History and rare events
Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun
Bibliotheque National Francais – more bloodsucking
New Hugoye is out
Gospel of Judas, Coptic Paul, Greek Exodus
Coptic Apocalypse of Daniel – now online
Mass manuscripts online? – The Virtual Manuscripts Room project
More on the Coptic Apocalypse of Daniel
The Coptic apocalypse of Daniel
A couple of interesting Coptic texts
Trouble at Tearfund
Agapius can be tedious
German state archives donate pictures to Wikipedia
Errors in Cramer’s catena publication
Choose your career wisely
Academic books are doomed
Kiss the sword, infidel
New manuscripts blog
Manuscripts of the history of al-Makin
Scum in the church: Isidore comments
Jerome, Chronicle; Oxford facsimile now online
18th century scholars in the 21st century
Some 1843 translations of ancient letters, including Isidore of Pelusium
MIT to make all faculty publications open access
In copyright books for free, more on Ethos
Gifts at Christmas, “strenae” on 1st January
Further letters of Isidore of Pelusium
UK museums get the web: it’s snowball time!
A little too much jargon, Yared
News snippet: Wiley overcharging for theology journals?
Patristics and inerrancy
What about “Google manuscript”?
Syriac words in the Koran
Christian literature in Middle Persian
Two snippets
Two maps of ancient Antioch
A little-known find of Coptic books in 1910
Donate to get more NT mss online
Koln archive wins the Darwin award, puts selves in hole
List of CSEL volumes with links to Google books
Michael the Syrian vol. 2 now at Archive.org
Patristics Carnival 21
More on the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Digging in the hole which was once an archive
Why didn’t Buffy the Vampire-slayer study Patristics?
More Michael the Syrian
Isidore the pastor
UK government seeks to kill net neutrality in EU
The EU doesn’t get the internet, it seems
Arabic texts online in Arabic
Arabic manuscripts in the British Library on micro-fiche
Printing banned by Islam?
A few more letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Bergstrasser’s edition and German translation of Hunain ibn Ishaq, on translations of Galen
The March 2009 Bloodsucker award winner — the Bibliothèque Nationale Français
Google to digitize every book in the world
More NT manuscripts from CSNTM
Science and Christianity and myths about the two
Koln archive building falls into large hole in ground
The future of online research
Holy desktop, Batman!
Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum vol. 1 now online
Internet Archive blog
Three Israeli bible mss available for download
Hippolytus, Apostolic tradition now online
The Monte Carlo approach to borrowing books
Uploading to Archive.org
The pain of being Galen; plagiarism in the ancient world
Early Islamic description of Antioch
An open letter to the Ambrosian Library in Milan
Michael the Syrian: preface to his history
Why all journal articles should be composed in Latin
E. W. Brooks and the Chronicle of James of Edessa
Microfilms of the Ambrosian library in the USA
New fragments of the Turin King-list
A curious problem with discussing Islam online
95% of UK ISP’s implementing censorship machinery
Agapius on a boat
New Department of Syriac at Mardin University
Persepolis tablets and US law courts
Biblia Patristica now online
More letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Another letter of Isidore of Pelusium
Interesting letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Asterix, manuscripts, and the Bibliothèque Nationale Français
Recreational use of a nymphaeum in ancient times
Help with some French
Revue de l’Orient Chretien on Google books
Cramer’s Catena online at Archive.org
Abu Al-Majdalus, “Commentary on the Nicene Creed” – now online
Translations that ought to exist
Courting the mystery – a new patristics blog
Patristics Carnival 20
Playing with the Google Greek->English translator
The lost libraries of Timbuktu
More lust for the CPG – works of Eusebius in Armenian and Georgian
The Clavis Patrum Graecorum – what about the workers?!
No free speech online in Australia? – blame the Christians!
Manuscripts online from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Catalogue of digitised medieval manuscripts online
Recipient names in Isidore of Pelusium
The EThOS of the electronic age
Problems with the CSCO edition of Jacob of Edessa’s Chronicle
Free speech in Canada: a commission of enquiry
EthOS – the first useful service from the British Library
Isidore of Pelusium: some more letters
Bringing projects to an end
Cicero at Oxyrhynchus
Egypt has it all blog
Managing my e-mail
UK copyrights everything ever made?
The Suetonius we do not know
More Zenobius
Eusebius project progress
The curse of too much reading
No Zenobius in English?
Project to translate all of Galen into English
Hunain ibn Ishaq, on the works of Galen
Tebtunis temple library
How to do history
The tomb of Alexander the Great
Second UK Patristics Conference
New issue of Shroro online
Britain to criminalise internet use?
A Syriac summary of the Iliad
British Library – taking, not giving
Hunain ibn Ishaq, on text criticism
Online journals for non-subscribers
UK readers: please sign petition to keep our lightbulbs
Ignoring the credit crunch and why I can’t
Agapius and the Syriac Old Testament
More fake relics for sale on eBay!
Galen and his works
Isidore of Pelusium – how to number the letters
Evidence for Allectus
More manuscripts at Deir al-Suryani in the Nitrian desert
Agapius 1.1 online at Archive.org
Isidore of Pelusium: some newly translated letters
Have’s and have-not’s – online dissertations
Byzantium and modern politics
Numbering the letters of Isidore of Pelusium
Thorns from Jesus’ crown available on eBay!
Isidore of Pelusium
New Libanius URL
Rescuing a bit of Eusebius from oblivion
New UK copyright consultation
Patristic carnival XIX
Greek scriptures unearthed in Smyrna?
Eusebius, Agapius project news
BBC4 programme on science and islam
People willing to type up some ancient Greek wanted
Manuscript digitisation gathers pace
It’s raining books!
Greek mercenaries in Egypt used mosquito-nets
Gnomon bibliographic database available for download
Who decided to force us all to say CE rather than AD?
Cyprian Project launched
Eusebius, “Gospel questions”, published in French
Al-Majdalus translation completed
How much is a sestertius?
Eusebius and Islam
Anti-Islamic sites targeted by DoS attack
Getting hold of manuscripts of the Arabic historian Al-Makin
Any glitches?
More notes from Agapius
Coptic monastic revival
Legends about what the Chronicon Pascale says
Legal attack on UK blogger
Computer troubles
Biblical quotations in the Fathers database (BIBLINDEX)
Back from Luxor
Holiday reading while visiting Luxor
GCS volumes online at Archive.org
Treasures of the Kaabah in Mecca?
Should we spit when we say “Abdullah”?
Some snippets from Agapius
Collectio Avellana online
Patristics Carnival 18 now online
A picture of the Lupercal
Another patristics site
Who died and made the “IWF” Pope?
Epiphanius: A new edition of “Panarion” in English; and an old one of “De Gemmis”
The last complete copy of Diodorus Siculus, part 2
The last person to see a complete Diodorus Siculus
Rheinisches Museum 93-147 (1950-2004) now online and free
Visiting Luxor in December
Downloadable dictionaries
Making your own translation tools
Back to Agapius
I am objective, you are biased, he is a fundamentalist bigot; blogs and the SBL
Antioch, Mithras, and Libanius
Agapius translation – great minds think alike
Greek words in the first millennium
Better OCR with Finereader 9
Fixed width Greek unicode fonts
In whom is our salvation…
Harnack talks gospel catena manuscripts – in German
Greek gospel catenas 4: catenas on John
Greek gospel catenas 3: catenas on Luke
Greek gospel catenas 2: catenas on Mark
Greek gospel catenas 1: catenas on Matthew
Greek gospel catenas 0: introduction
Bibliographies of classical Armenian
Libya invites archaeology teams to excavate sites
Theoi texts offline
7,300+ visitors to Tertullian.org last month
Eusebius in Armenian
G.W.H.Lampe’s “Patristic Lexicon” – could we get it electronically?
Linking electronic Greek words to their English meanings
Digitization of the Plutei collection in Florence
Portion of John’s gospel ca. 200 AD for sale
Robert Bedrosian does Eusebius’ Chronicle into English
Erich von Daniken rides again!
If you want to get ahead, get a hat.
A difficult piece of Greek in Eusebius
Does the manuscript of Tacitus say ‘Christian’ or ‘Chrestian’?
Google groups becomes useless
Cyril of Alexandria, Contra Iulianum
Archimedes Palimpsest data set
Some nice pictures of Theodoret’s Cyrrhus
Digitising the manuscripts of St. Gall
Why we care about Nubia
Sudan: the Merowe High Dam project and archaeology
Graf’s Geschichte not to be available in English
Reprinting out-of-print books
The silencing of Michel van Rijn
Jon Lendering in Damascus
More Possidius
Translating Hippolytus – a new blog
More on Libanius; and translating from French
Antioch online and Libanius
Walk like an Egyptian; or, two ways to do the sand-dance
GrkAcca font?
How dare the Christians defend themselves!?!
Timothy I, Dialogue with the Caliph al-Mahdi
Nicaea II and missing books
Ever wanted to own a medieval manuscript?
Courage beyond imagination: scanning Gregory’s Moralia In Job
Possidius, Life of St. Augustine now online
The martyrs of Orissa
Lagarde’s Coptic Gospel Catena
Old posts mirrored here
Feeling the crunch
Do the RC’s and Greek Orthodox own the fathers?
Brepols Patrologia Orientalis reprints
Al-Makin II
CSNTM in Cambridge
New sermons of Augustine
Perseus on a PC?
Raiding the shelves
Al-Makin in Wikipedia
Montfaucon and the manuscripts
“Diarium Italicum” online, or why I love Google Books
Fr. Columba Stewart saves the world (or at least its literature)
Extant ancient writers who get omitted from the handbooks
Mss to go online at Manchester
Elmacin (Al-Makin) 1
Don’t buy that textbook, download it for free
“αιρετικον ανθρωπον” (Titus 3:10)
First English translation of Hippolytus “On the Song of Songs”
Taking my machine translator to Agapius
The September 2008 Bloodsucker Award: the John Rylands Library
Cyril, Apologeticus – first snippet received
Link to Ezra Levant
Eusebius, Quaestiones 1: Summer recess update
Pinakes – Database of Greek Manuscripts online
Manuscript catalogues online at Archive.org
Off-topic: Telling it like it is…
1,000 Arabic Christian Manuscripts destroyed in WW2? Nonsense!
Unreliable English translation of “History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church”?
Cyril of Alexandria, Apologeticus ad imperatorem; about to roll?
Fragments of earlier authors in John Damascene
Google news archive and old patristic translations
Patristics Carnival XV
Head of Marcus Aurelius found
Extant literary texts from AD 30 to AD 100
Possidius, Life of St. Augustine
Evolution Publishing – the Christian Roman Empire series
List of all extant first century writers?
Tertullian.org home page down
Shlomo Pines, Agapius and Elmacin (Al-Makin)
Visit Leptis Magna in Libya using Google Maps
Wit and wisdom in the ancient world
Looking for ancient texts in Arabic
Why don’t the Institutum Augustinianum update Quasten
Fame at last
Cyril of Alexandria and the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum
A. Cleveland Coxe
Errors in the transmission of the Koran
How useful are the scanned books at Archive.org?
Another new blog
Pages from my journal
A passage from Evagrius Scholasticus
Using Lulu.com to get copies of books
Ho ho ho, it’s summer
The Times and the Codex Sinaiticus
Agapius and Archive.org scanned book quality
Should we call for biblical studies to be reformed?
Unsavoury authorities: the corruption of the church started when?
Ancient sayings literature
Cyril of Alexandria and I: Waiting for Nestorius?
J.H.Newman and the Library of the Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria after Ephesus
Euripides lost and found
Learning Greek in later life
Lynne Brindley’s British Library — time for abolition?
How much would it cost to translate all of Migne’s Patrologia Graeca?
A lost English translation of Chrysostom’s Letters?
Corpus Parisinum of the Greek Gnomologia finally published
Another collection of classical texts in English translation
Cramer’s “Catenae in Evangelia S. Matthaei et S. Marci” online
Eusebius “Quaestiones” progress 13
Eusebius Chronicon book 1 now online in English
Eusebius “Quaestiones” progress 12
Latin inscriptions database
Microsoft live books to close?
Eusebius “Quaestiones” progress 11
The shape of the material heaven
Sir Thomas Phillips of Middle Hill, Cheltenham
Eusebius “Quaestiones” progress 10
Ancient obscenity and the world-wide web
Eusebius “Quaestiones” progress 9
Cyril of Alexandria, “Commentary on Luke”, completed and online
Scanning books, and the way forward
More snippets from Cyril of Alexandria
Political expenses, then and now
Some words from Cyril of Alexandria
New work on the “Apocriticus” of Macarius Magnes, Porphyry “Contra Christianos”
Nestorius, 2nd and 3rd letters to Pope Celestine — now online in English
New sermons of St. Augustine found in Erfurt
The rich and the middle classes, in 5th century Alexandria
Eusebius Quaestiones translation: progress 8
Eusebius Quaestiones translation: progress 7
British Library copyright consultation
Eusebius Chronicle book 1
Eusebius Quaestiones translation: progress 6
Eusebius Quaestiones translation: progress 5
Severus of al-Ashmunein, Zoroaster and the “Book of the Councils” 2
Sir Walter Scott, on ancient obscenity
The epigrams of Martial
Severus al-Ashmunein, Zoroaster and the “Book of the Councils”
Eusebius translation: progress 4
New Syriac mss finds in the Nitrian desert
Eusebius translation: progress 3
Eusebius translation: progress 2
Al-Majdalus, “Commentary on the Nicene Creed”; the Bibliotheque orientale in Beirut, etc
Progress on the Eusebius translation
Greed that laughed not, nor with mouth smiled
Eusebius – the feeding frenzy
Microsoft live books now blocked to UK readers
Being my own publisher: translating a work by Eusebius of Caesarea into English
Some online Latin mss from Denmark (Haunienses)
Tertullian.org offline and all my email blocked
Syriac books at lulu.com
Patristic blog
Colour photos of Mingana collection manuscripts
Tertullian.org and QuickLatin.com offline
Back from Luxor
New papyrus codex found in Belgium
New English translations of untranslated ancient texts
Visiting Luxor
Ge’ez using SMS
British Library Readers Forum
Syriac mss in Jerusalem in the Greek Patriarchate
Web hosting?
Reader photography of manuscripts at the Mingana collection (Birmingham Special Collections)
Copyright issues blog
Mss from the Bibliothèque Orientale, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut
Greek texts online complete
Libya visit problems
Coptic Gospel of Judas – critical edition released
Getting reproductions of Mss — the fight goes on
Origins of the ANCL and US piracy of it
Plustek Opticbook 3600 impresses
Manuscript photographing and discoveries
Public domain and lawyers
Graf’s Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Litteratur — where to get it
Chrysostom slapping the Jews
Catalogues of Syriac manuscripts online
Archko forgery ‘fingerprint’
Tertullian.org offline
Bodmer mss 14/15 (P75) sold to private collectors, bought by Vatican
Pre-1800 Church library sold for almost nothing
Libya and Leptis Magna
Vatican Library Syriac manuscripts — quoting and transcribing
More copyright and the web
Kudos to the Academia Belgica in Rome
Egyptian copyright law
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) old issues online
Migne online
Death of the CCEL?
Why there are no useful German internet sites and no German gallica or google books.
Problems with the Mingana manuscripts at Birmingham
XV International conference on patristics studies at Oxford (6-11 Aug. 2007)
15′ statue of Hadrian found in SE Turkey
Quasten’s “Patrology” — new volume available!
Disturbing the sacred dead
Arabic words in the “History of the Coptic Patriarchs of Alexandria”
Harvard Houghton Library Syriac manuscripts
Jacob of Edessa’s continuation of Eusebius’ Chronicle
UK National Archives – how to harness people power
Journal Asiatique now online
CSCO and Peeters of Leuven
Chunk 2 of Eusebius’ Chronicle now up and ready for translation!
Syriac books online
The Testimonium Flavianum in Michael the Syrian, Jacob of Edessa and Eusebius’ Chronicle
More on Michael the Syrian and Phlegon
Microsoft books.live.com – how to access
Phlegon in Michael the Syrian
Armenian discussions in Dutch about Aucher and Eusebius
Eusebius online: problems with numbers
Translating Eusebius’s Chronicle 1 online: why not have a go at a sentence?
The last Roman in London
Oxford Patristics Conference
Oriental Institute publications free online
Mirror of the old v2 CCEL 38-vol. collection of the fathers
How the Chronicle of Eusebius was rediscovered
Preparing for the Eusebius Chronicle translation
Forthcoming English translation of Poggio Bracciolini’s letters
“De duobus montibus Sina et Sion” translated
Marutha of Maiperqat, On the Council of Nicaea
Cato the heavyweight
British Library Readers Group
UK MLA – a white knight for the library user?
Reading pre-WW1 handwriting
GCS Eusebius at Google Books
1/72 Ancient wargaming figures
Obtaining a copy of the Armenian text of Eusebius’ Chronicle
More thoughts on the Armenian of Eusebius
Working with the Armenian text of Eusebius – or not
Anagnostis – OCR for ancient Greek
Herodian now online in English
Gladiator cemetary uncovered at Ephesus
More Old Nubian
Collaborative translation
Syriac texts to place online
Any Amount of Books (but smelly ones)
Texts in Old Nubian
More Classical Armenian
Working with Classical Armenian
Alice Zimmern’s Porphyry: Letter to Marcella
How much can one charge for a photocopy?
More notes from a book hunter
What I did on my Easter holidays IX
What I did on my Easter holidays VIII
What I did on my Easter holidays VII
What I did on my Easter holidays VI
What I did on my Easter holidays V
What I did on my Easter holidays IV
What I did on my Easter holidays III
What I did on my Easter holidays II
What I did on my Easter holidays I
Philip of Side
Finding the Patrologia Graeca at Google Books
Titus of Bostra, “Contra Manichaeos”
Some Syriac books for download in PDF
Copyright and barriers to learning
Learning Syriac — first session
Monumenta Germanica Historica online
Useful books or peddling hate?
Learning Syriac
Dionysius Exiguus and AD/BC
CSCO volumes available in print over the internet
Nestorius, The Bazaar of Heracleides — now online
Medieval manuscripts for sale – part 2: “no, we won’t photograph our collection”
Thefts from the British Library
Medieval manuscripts for sale
Editing old translations
Syriac text of Eusebius “On the star” now online
Programming Right-to-Left Syriac Unicode text on Windows
No copyright on library-made photos of manuscripts
A.G. still being used in 1900 in Iraq
Alqosh monastery bombed?
More on the lost library of Seert
Will JSTOR kill the web?
Getting a copy of a Syriac scientific manuscript
New issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies has appeared
Arabic Christian manuscripts at the BNF
BNF catalogues of manuscripts all online
Nestorius again
When does antiquity end?
Translations of Jerome’s biblical prefaces
Lost Syriac manuscripts found?
Unpublished translation of the “Bazaar of Heracleides”, and copyrights
Porphyry Against the Christians
Syriac Studies

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