Thoughts on Antiquity

I recently discovered an apparently unfinished draft of a post listing my most recently finished synopses; it listed the following synopses as new at the time:
The death of John the baptist.
John the baptist risen.
The anointing of Jesus.
Before my father.
Not peace, but a sword.
Take up your cross.
Finding and losing.
Receiving the sender.
Since then, I have also added […]

This post will serve as a conclusion to my series on ancient canonical lists. This series has been a long time in the making; my introductory post and this concluding post are separated by nearly two and a half years.
In this post I intend to do only two things. First, here is an index to […]

This post is part 13 of my series on ancient canonical lists. It is also the last part that I intend to post, with the exception of a brief conclusion to the entire series.
Nicephorus was the patriarch of Constantinople very early in century IX. To the end of his Chronography of world history from Adam […]

Some time ago I announced having found a native Greek site which offered various Greek Migne volumes as PDF files. That site, however, went offline not long after the announcement.
I do not know if any other blogger has pointed this out yet, but some or most of these same PDF files are on offer at […]

This post is part 12 of my series on ancient canonical lists.
Codex Claromontanus, whose siglon in the standard critical texts of the New Testament is the letter D (or the number 06), is an uncial manuscript, containing only the Pauline epistles, dating to century VI. (Knowledgeable readers may recall that codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, which contains […]

I love music. And I love biblical studies.
In this post I intend to list ten of my favorite modern popular songs that employ biblical allusions or echoes. It would be a snap to do this exercise with Christian music, of course (the trick there would be to find songs that do not in any way allude […]

Hodoi Elektronikai is a French site with many ancient Greek texts, including The Rich Man by Clement of Alexandria, the Roman Histories by Dio Cassius, several of the Greek romances, Julian the Apostate, and many more. Most of the texts are of a classical nature, such as Herodotus, Homer, and Hesiod; but many are more obscure, such […]

This post is part 11 of my series on ancient canonical lists.
At long last I continue this survey of canonical lists with that of the third council of Carthage, held in the year 397. Fortunately, this post will be brief, since this council presented exactly the 27 books of the New Testament found in most […]

Over on XTalk, Jim West passes along the following:
Via Robert Kraft
It is with immense sadness, but also with immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well-lived, that I write to inform you that Krister Stendahl, our beloved friend, teacher, colleague, and former Dean, died this morning. A funeral service is planned for Friday morning at […]

A couple of months ago I offered several ancient and medieval passages describing the physical appearance of Jesus, and even more recently I mentioned my uploading of some ancient and medieval passages citing the Testimonium Flavianum. This present post has to do with both topics.
The Latin letter of Lentulus, an ancient or medieval forgery (refer to the Catholic Encyclopedia for more information), […]