I learned from the bar of advertisements at the top of this page that a certain R.J.Hoffmann has published a translation of the fragments of Julian the Apostate Against the Galileans (i.e. Christians), through Prometheus Press.
Hoffmann published first a translation of Celsus’ work against the Christians, as reconstructed from the quotations in Origen’s Contra Celsum, […]
I’m going to have a go at learning Syriac. It’s rather a lot of years since I left full-time education, so I face the prospect with trepidation. An academic here in the UK is going to run 4 intensive Saturdays for us, starting in December. The bad news is 5 weeks of homework between the […]
This post is part 4a of my series on ancient canonical lists, and was longer in the making than I had anticipated. Job and family matters have unfortunately been pressing on my blogging time.
The canon of scripture is one of the most pervasive themes in the great history of the church that Eusebius of Caesarea […]
Isn’t the web wonderful? I’ve long wondered why there was no English translation of the work in which Dionysius Exiguus first stated the date using AD and BC. Indeed it should have been translated, surely, as part of the millennium celebrations, I thought. But quite by chance I find that a certain Michael Deckers has […]
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