ROME - Archaeologists digging beneath the Roman Forum have discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb that pre-dates the birth of ancient Rome by several hundred years.
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State TV quoted experts as saying the tomb appeared to date to about 1,000 B.C., meaning the people who constructed the necropolis pre-dated the ancient Romans by hundreds of years.
Legend has it […]
What works no longer extant would you like to see recovered? Here is my top 10 list.
The entire Commentary on Matthew by Origen
The Egerton Gospel
Matthew’s Logia of Jesus mentioned by Papias
The complete works of Tacitus
The Yue Jing (樂經)
Any of the original works of either Zeno, Cleanthes, or Chrysippus
The very first letter to the Corinthians by […]
Wieland Willker has his new commentary on the gospels updated. Here’s what he has to say (via textualcriticism):
Changes to the 3rd edition:- Added a short 4 pages general discussion of the so called Western non-interpolations as an extra file.
- Added a short file discussing some smaller important papyri, comparable to the file about the fragmentary […]
Just heard the sad news from Jim Davila… J. T. Milik is no more.
J. T. MILIK, 1922-2006. I regret to inform you that J. T. Milik, one of the original members of the Dead Sea Scrolls editorial team, passed away in Paris yesterday. Eileen Schuller and Eibert Tigchelaar have e-mailed with the information and to […]
I received this in the email:
Please join us Jan. 22-24, 2006 at Princeton University for the three-day colloquium:
Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World.
The colloquium will explore the themes of tradition construction and collective memory amongst Jews, Christians and Pagans from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Nineteen […]
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