Two notes: 1. I thoroughly enjoyed how three of my posts on NT backgrounds were cleverly listed in the Biblical Studies Carnival XLVI: “Josh Mann flushed the toilet in his first century apartment next to his household idol.” (Please read the articles for context!) 2. I have enjoyed deepening my participation in the community of… Continue Reading
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Demetrius the Silversmith
About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the crafstmen; these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades , and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.… Continue Reading
Archaeology Magazine Online (Open Access)
AWOL blog reports: …you can find the current issue of Expedition magazine, or browse through the entire run of back issues. Is open access the way of the future? Perhaps. Continue Reading
Brief Summary of The Jesus Paradigm (Giveaway)
Giveaway: to win a free clean copy of The Jesus Paradigm, simply interact with this summary in a meaningful (not necessarily lengthy) way. A comment will be chosen at random (in approx. one wk. Sunday Oct. 4, 11:59pm; announcement Monday), and the author of the comment will be contacted via email to receive the book… Continue Reading
Ancient Boxing and the Apostle Paul
Another Tuesday Time Travel… “So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.” – 1 Corinthians 9:26 Paul, discussing his willingness to yield certain rights for the sake of winning people to Christ, uses athletic imagery to illustrate his point. So what does it mean to land your punches in… Continue Reading
Search Terms
It’s been popular lately for bibliobloggers to share funny search terms by which internet surfers wind up on their blogs. I received a hit today from a search for ‘Roman toilets’. Granted, this exactly reflected a post regarding the subject, but I wonder what the incentive for the search might have been! Continue Reading
Education: Quality not Quantity
As one who has been attending classes every semester since kindergarten (and hopes to teach until death), the topic of education interests me greatly. While I am especially interested in working out theological issues related to education, the following story caught my attention and is relevant to education in general. Apparently, President Obama has suggested… Continue Reading
Learning Greek and Hebrew
Michael Bird was the first to draw my attention to two videos from Elizabeth Groves, one of which I’ve included here: My only clarification to the content of the video is that words do not often carry multiple meanings in one text. Sometimes an author will use a double entendre, but most of the time… Continue Reading
Around the Blogosphere
Steve Runge served up two nice posts, one dealing with NT Discourse (segmentation) and a second dealing more specifically with presuppositions in scholarship. Geoff Carter shares a piece by Tim Holland on the Layouts of Roman Forts. Mark Goodacre discusses the synoptic problem (see the first two posts listed here) when tagged by James McGrath’s post… Continue Reading
More Scholarship Available Online – Epigraphy
Tom Elliot at the Current Epigraphy blog says: This afternoon, Chuck Jones alerts us to the re-appearance of the journal Τεκμήρια (ISSN 1106-661x). It is now operating as “a peer reviewed open access journal” under the auspices of the Ινστιτούτο Eλληνικής και Pωμαϊκής Aρχαιότητος (Κ.Ε.Ρ.Α.). Back issues are available on the site (built with the Open Journal Systems publishing… Continue Reading