Thoughts on Antiquity

Last year I got the idea to apply Roger S. Bagnall’s onomastic approach in “Religious Conversion and Onomastic Change in Early Byzantine Egypt,” BASP 19 (1982) to Christian magical texts. For those of you not familiar with that paper, Bagnall took the names from village registers and classified them into “Christian”, “pagan” and “not-assigned.” Then, […]

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. ed. by Roger D. Woodward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Corrected edition 2008.
As both a glossophile and a student of the ancient world, this is really a dream book. I heartily recommend it to all language-enthusiasts and scholars interested in a glimpse and a starting bibliography for […]

This post is part 13 of my series on ancient canonical lists. It is also the last part that I intend to post, with the exception of a brief conclusion to the entire series.
Nicephorus was the patriarch of Constantinople very early in century IX. To the end of his Chronography of world history from Adam […]

“One of the UK’s largest hauls of Iron Age gold coins has been found in Suffolk.

The 824 so-called staters were found in a broken pottery jar buried in a field near Wickham Market using a metal detector.
Jude Plouviez, of the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, said the coins dated from 40BC to AD15.
They are thought […]

Just a heads up: my cannibalism paper will be delivered at the Central States ASOR/SBL regional meeeting this March 29-30 under the ASOR section. It will be held at the St. Louis Marriott West. For fellow Matthean enthusiasts/scholars, Dale C. Allison will be the plenary speaking, surely a quite exciting time. I don’t have a […]