Thoughts on Antiquity

From Leonard V. Rutgers, The Jews in Late Ancient Rome:
Studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism or Martin Bernal’s Black Athena have recently illustrated the truism of Croce’s adage referred to above. While Said has argued that nineteenth-century imperialist concerns have affected negatively (and continue to influence negatively) much scholarly work on the cultures of the […]

Today is the birthday of Theodor Mommsen. Read the Wikipedia article if you are unfamiliar with him, as none should be.

I want to personally congratulate my close friend Jason Hood who successfully defended his dissertation “The Story of Israel in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus: With Special Reference to the Function of Biblical Genealogies” at Highland Theological College! Coinciding with this, his paper “Matthew 23-25: The Extent of Jesus’ Fifth Discourse” was released in the most […]

As a fan of Perseus, I was delighted to find out that just two days ago they added some new texts to their collections: “Seneca, Quintilian, Flaccus, Cicero, Aulus Gellius, […]

This is extremely short notice, but may be of interest to those here in Northern California.
http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=20471&date=2009-09-18&tab=all_events
FLESH EATERS: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROMAN SARCOPHAGI
To be held on Friday and Saturday, September 18th and 19th 2009
Organized by T.J. Clark and Chris Hallett
Sponsored by the History of Art Department, the Classics Department, & the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin
This […]

I promised Brandon I’d update this when I got into grad school, so here it goes. This would have been sooner, but with graduating (Magna cum Laude with Honors and Thesis) and moving here to Northern California, I’ve been simply swamped. I got into SFSU Classics program, and so far, it’s not bad at all. […]

About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet.
Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.
Fragments of the 4th Century document - written in Greek on parchment leaves - have been worked on by institutions in the […]

A little while ago I posted on a new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, the Oxford Hebrew Bible. Thanks to Stephen Carlson for pointing out they now have a website.
Go check it out!

Nikolaos Markoulakis asked me to share this:
From here:

Nottingham UK - The Journal of Hellenic Religion’s (JfHR) will proceed shortly to produce the third volume of the Journal, which will be forthcoming in the mid 2010.
The JfHR is a peer-reviewed annual periodical. It has as a main theme the original interdisciplinary study of ancient Greek Religion […]

While Alexander the Great probably has not been found, but perhaps Antony and Cleopatra have:

Archaeologists are to search three sites in Egypt that they say may contain the tomb of doomed lovers Anthony and Cleopatra.
Excavation at the sites, which are near a temple west of the coastal city of Alexandria, is due to begin next […]