Thoughts on Antiquity

Dennis over at Campus Mawrtius wonders if dono in Catullus I could possibly be a dative. He writes:
I picked up Catullus today for fun and began at the beginning. It’d been a while since I’d read him, and this time I immediately took the opening words, cui dono, as a double dative, ‘for whom for […]

Titus of Bostra wrote a long work in 4 books against the Manichaeans.  Large parts of the Greek exist, but a complete Syriac version was found in British Library Ms. 12150, brought from Deir al-Suryani (St. Mary Deipara) in the Nitrian desert in Egypt by Archdeacon Henry Tattam in 1842.  This manuscript was written in 411 AD, […]

Princeton is a bad place to be at the moment. This is the third death that Princeton is associated with in some way, though the others are not as easy to untangle…and I’ll spare you the gruesome details. Tragedy seemed to have struck in threes yet again.
Requiescat in pace, magne Bruce Metzger… Here’s an obit…
And […]

I really don’t know how I missed this one coming in, but Judy Redman started a blog last month. Here’s her blurb:
The aim of this blog is to give me a place to post about my PhD research and perhaps to find others working in similar area.
So far, so good. Can’t wait to see where […]

The blogroll should be fully updated. I added several new blogs, so please be sure to check out those with names you don’t recognize. And if I missed any good ones, let me know.
EDIT: I added about 10 more blogs or so, including Jim Davila’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Blog with Grant Macaskill. Looks to be […]

I know it’s getting rather late for this, but thought I’d throw this out there.
Greek and Latin Linguistics
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics
The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics solicits submission of abstracts for its panel session at the Chicago meeting of […]

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Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
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Thanks to Tyler for the heads up. Also, going […]

Welcome, everyone, to the the fourteenth monthly Biblical Studies Carnival! Here is a showcase of the best of January’s posts around the Biblioblog sphere. And trust me, we have plenty of great posts this month.
Biblioblog Scene:
I want to first congratulate James Crossley on being January’s Blogger of the Month. It’s a great interview and one […]