Thoughts on Antiquity

Hello everyone. It’s almost January’s close, which means that it’s almost time for the monthly biblioblogger carnival extravaganza! This month, I’ll be hosting the best of the best around the biblioblogdom, but, citing precedent set by Kevin Edgecomb’s carnival when he hosted it on Biblicalia, it’ll be expanded to beyond matters Biblical, meaning it’ll include […]

Hello all! I have a question by someone on my forum, and wanted to direct attention that way. Essentially, “[I]s there any primary source material (Tertullian, Ambrose, Augustine, anybody) that states that it is preferable to be close to the altar, or was it just a practice which developed organically out of historic practices?” Anyone […]

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This post is part 4b of my series on ancient canonical lists.
Eusebius writes in History of the Church 3.25.1-7:
Ευλογον δ ενταυθα γενομενους ανακεφαλαιωσασθαι τας δηλωθεισας της καινης διαθηκης γραφας.
At this point it seems reasonable to summarize the writings of the New Testament which have been cited.
Και δη τακτεον εν πρωτοις την αγιαν των ευαγγελιων τετρακτυν, […]

Something I came across today.
ATHENS, Greece - Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd. But the barren islet was of major importance to the mysterious Cycladic people, a sophisticated pre-Greek civilization with no written language that flourished 4,500 years ago and produced […]