http://neonostalgia.com/weblog For the Discussion of All Things Ancient Mon, 24 May 2010 19:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=558 Today is the birthday of Theodor Mommsen. Read the Wikipedia article if you are unfamiliar with him, as none should be. http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=557 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" ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=556 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, ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=554 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, & ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=555 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, ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=553 John Kloppenborg hypothesizes that Q was composed in three stages (see his Formation of Q or Excavating Q). Brackets indicate that I am unsure this is the first time he proposed such a change. Parentheses indicate Kloppenborg's tentative conclusions. Letters represent blocks of Q material, when in quotes, ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=552 This is a comparison of the Burton L. Mack’s and John Dominic Crossan’s work on Q’s compositional history and the historical Jesus. See previous post for clarification. Of Crossan’s 503 original complexes attributed to Jesus in early Christian writings, Mack declared that less than 10% of them are candidates for authenticity ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=551 Scholars often make minor changes in opinion and are not explicit about it, which can be frustrating to those trying to understand their own position in relation to them. Moreover, scholars often appropriate other work and make minor changes that they are similarly quiet about. Below I have ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=550 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 ... http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=549