Posts
- 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
