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Learning a Proverb from a Pagan
Earlier this semester in Exploring Religion, we discussed Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods, and one paragraph particularly struck me as an apt illustration of Qoheleth’s advice that עת לחשות ועת לדבר (Eccl 3:7b; there is a time to be silent, and there is a time to speak): When Cotta had spoken, Velleius said, ‘It was indeed…
On the Web (October 7, 2011)
On the web: Larry Hurtado discusses scholarly amnesia in Pauline Studies. Charles Jones mentions Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Digital Medievalist. The Biblical Archaeology Review has launched a new website about the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter (HT: Jim Davila). The…
Perseus Collections in Logos 4
As they have for some others already, most of my Perseus collection downloads for Logos have recently been processed. Below are a few particularly anticipated texts from these collections:
Reengineering Higher Education
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey Selingo discusses what might change in higher education if engineers were assigned to reinvent it from the ground up. Some points that emerged at a recent kick-off event for Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities were: Public research on the common questions. One way for public universities…
Saving Scholarship—One File at a Time
After recently transitioning to Ubuntu, I found that my previous online backup solution had some issues running in Linux, even via a Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox. With some additional research, however, I came across Digital Lifeboat: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0Q1BbMwx8&w=640&h=360] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZmtRFuWQs&w=560&h=315] Digital Lifeboat is still in beta. So, the software has had some hiccups, but…
On the Web (September 22, 2011)
On the web: Peter Williams picks up Alin Suciu’s story about the British Library’s Coptic leaf that corresponds to the text of Jer. 21:14–22:20 (LXX). Charles Jones notes the Latin texts and database that the Packard Humanities Institute has newly made available. Michael Bird includes about a 47-minute lecture of N. T. Wright “giv[ing] a…