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The Legend of St Mena

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Roger Pearse

A wonderful retelling of the Old Nubian legend of St. Mena, published by F. L. Griffith in 1903 in Nubian texts of the Christian period, is given at Suburban Banshee here.  Read and enjoy!  It makes plain why hagiographical texts have an appeal!

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Pyramids of the black pharaohs

Posted on July 13, 2009December 6, 2016 by Roger Pearse

This gorgeous image by Vit Hassan is of Meroe:

Pyramid at Meroe
Pyramid at Meroe

This via Egyptology News.

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    […] started making a translation of the “letter 149” of Jerome, De solemnitate paschae.  I believe that an English translation…

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    Dear Roger, A minor issue, but for some reason your posts, which used to appear in my feed reader (NetNewsWire)…

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    I OCR'd the German translation by Strobel, and I discovered from his introduction that he also thinks that an English…

  4. Roger Pearse on Let’s talk about letter 149 of Jerome, de solemnitate paschae – or rather, about CPL 2278, Pseudo-Jerome on EasterJanuary 19, 2026

    I did run the Latin text through ChatGPT but I couldn't bring myself to do a proper translation. Too sleepy…

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    Nice! Redlining the bad attribution, yeah. Redlining the prayer heading, not a good plan. It's kind of a weird thesis,…

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