Thoughts on Antiquity

In case you haven’t noticed, along the side of this blog, underneath the blogroll, there’s a roll of academic mailing lists which I subscribe to (and very good ones at that!). I just added another one today, Kevin Edgecomb’s bibicalia, a companion list to his website and blog.

The Society of Biblical Literature is calling for papers for their 2006 Annual meeting in Washington D.C.

Thanks to Stephen Carlson for the link:
The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its […]

I went to mention Kevin P. Edgecomb and his new blog biblicalia! So far the posts are most informative. Welcome, Kevin!

This is a sub-series of the Quest for the Historical Jesus series that I introduced earlier.
As Loren Rossen pointed out earlier, as did Ben Smith and others, there is a fair amount of evidence that the earliest Christians were apocalyptic - expecting the end to be near. This may derive from the Messianic expectation of […]

There are several noteworthy books uploaded at Sacred-Texts: Tacitus in Latin, Herodotus in Greek, and the Argonautica in Greek. Sacred-Texts is a great site full of interesting resources. Go check it out if you haven’t already.

Apparently, the IPA has a new symbol - the labiodental flap - the newest letter in twelve years. The New York Times has the story:
The sound, a buzz sometimes capped by a faint pop, is present in more than 70 African languages. It is produced by the lower lip moving back and forward, flapping on […]

This is a sub-series of the Quest for the Historical Jesus series that I introduced earlier.
Mentioned on my forum a while back, I noted that there are only two names in the genealogies of Matthew and Luke that are the same (none are expected, of course, as they go through different lines, one Solomon and […]

>It’s futile. As all historical reconstructionists must needs know, there is never such a thing as absolute certainty. We work with proximity and probability, and what becomes “fact” is merely what has the highest probable chance of having occurred, not necessarily what did. We like to hope that our conclusions are correct, but putting any […]

In Mark Goodacre response he said he felt chastened by my words, and I think Jim Davila also thought I was attacking him. Sincerely sorry to anyone who thought I was being offensive - this was not my intent. It was merely a much-needed (again, in my very humble opinion) closure to the oddly […]