Thoughts on Antiquity

Last February I noticed that Myungsunn Ryu, also known as Mingshey from Textkit, was discussing drawings he rendered for the Elements of Eucleides (or Euclid as he is more commonly called). I recommended that he self-publish, preferably Lulu (they’re great from what I’ve worked with for small self-publishing stuff).
Today to my […]

Seriously. What is it with all this “new evidence” for things such as the Exodus, Jesus and his wife and kid, Noah’s Ark, not to mention the absolute lunacy of Atlantis…
Now yet again we have another one of these “documentaries”…
Are two of the most famous kings of the Bible - King David and King Solomon […]

As I’ve mentioned, I intend to run an online collaborative translation project to do Book 1 of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Chronicle. I’ve been attempting to find people in the Armenian-speaking world to help, and indeed these links give some ideas.
I’m also writing some software to run on my website to allow us to view […]

Fr. Mathew Koshy, a gentleman in India, has just sent me a transcription of the Syriac text of the Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite, for which we agreed terms last year. This was after I scanned the English translation. This should appear online soon, as a freely available public domain text. He’s willing to do […]

Over at Language Log Eric Bakovic posted about the ambiguities of English, in particular a church sign which reads:
Hurting People Loved Here
I was just thinking to myself why I loved Latin - it’s far less ambiguous than English, and usually when it is ambiguous, the meanings are overlapping instead of being this distinct. And in […]

My eyes usually glossed over all the “unSpun” stuff from Amazon. I usually don’t put so much trust into popularity contests. Although this one is nifty. The skinny:
Best Blogs about Biblical Studies - Out of 122 Biblioblogs, we’re listed 42, right below Jim Tabor’s Jesus Dynasty Blog. Not too shabby, considering that this blog discusses […]

I mentioned in a previous post how the copy of Porphyry’s Letter to Marcella that I obtained proved to be mouldy.  Naturally I returned it, and today got the following rather offensive email from the bookseller, Any Amount of Books.

“We will certainly refund your money. But as nobody can detect any smell from this book […]

This was in my mailbox from the ANCIEN-L list.
Friends and colleagues: The ruins of Pompeii are crumbling, but the digital imaging project known as CyArk is generating a three-dimensional record of the site that will be available for future generations. This part of the ambitious CyArk Project is described in Pompeii: A CyArk Case […]

The interest in ethnic studies in our days is not without advantages for those interested in retrieving material extant in minor languages. It’s possible to get funding from politically correct officials for things that in a saner world would be difficult to access. At one point I was attempting to obtain some money to […]

While following up Rick Brannan’s comment on my last post, and searching for Bedrossian’s dictionary, I came across a marvellous site: the Leiden Armenian Lexical Database. This contains an electronic version of Bedrossian, as well as several other dictionaries, plus some Armenian texts which have been fully morphologised. The whole site is maintained […]