Thoughts on Antiquity

I am mildly stunned and impressed! The Academia Belgica in Rome hold the papers of Franz Cumont. I wrote to them asking whether they had copies of an unpublished Italian translation of part of Ms. Mingana 142, and I got a very nice email back from Dr Pamela Anastasio, the librarian, confirming that […]

In my ongoing effort to upload instances of patristic attestation to our four canonical gospels I was recently reminded of several interrelated passages that compare the four gospels to the cherubim (כרבים in Hebrew) of Ezekiel 1.10 (which are not actually called cherubim until Ezekiel 10.1-22). These creatures bear four faces each, that of a […]

I have online the first 800 years of the History of the Coptic Patriarchs of Alexandria.  But more exists in various publications, and I keep getting emails from Copts about it.  However one version that I know of is of uncertain status, not least because I cannot find out what Egyptian copyright law actually is! 
Now […]

I do not think I have yet mentioned my ongoing (but slow) synoptic project on this weblog. I have been endeavoring for the last three years or so to get a complete set of synopses for the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), as well as John, uploaded onto my site.It is slow going, and […]

From the PAPY-L list I learn of these, at
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/downloads
A number of the articles are in English. Papyrology resources are at
http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/aip/liens.htm

I have just discovered the Documenta Catholica Omnia site.  This seems to contain a very large chunk of materials, including a lot of the Patrologia Latina.  Worth a look, anyhow.

I have today received what is possibly one of the most depressing emails that I have seen in many years.  It’s a threatening email from someone I’ve never heard of. He says that he is the moderator of the CCEL site.  He wants to know why I’m “selling their work” (i.e. including an old public domain version […]

I heard an incredible story from a German scholar while I was at the patristics conference, which may explain why so little German material appears online, compared with the vast collections of English and French scholarship at Gallica.fr or Google books. 
Apparently German publishers have taken on teams of lawyers to scan the internet.  Any time […]

While at the garden party at the Patristics conference in Oxford, I got talking with someone and the subject of the Mingana manuscripts at Birmingham came up.  This collection of Syriac, Arabic and other oriental manuscripts was the property of Alphone Mingana, who left it to the university.
My friend was complaining about difficulty getting a […]

Mischa Hooker, known around the blogosphere for his blog Classics in Contemporary Culture (which is alive and well again) and especially for his excellent compendium of early Jewish and Christian online resources found through the Google Book Search, has been accepted for a post at Loyola University in Chicago, teaching Classics, of course.
Mischa has been […]