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Cicero on the Earth as Sphere
Jim Davila has picked up a discussion about ancient testimony to the earth’s spherical shape. Cicero also, by way of his Stoic character Balbus, comments to this effect, saying, [T]he sea, which is above the earth, tends still toward the earth’s centre, and so is itself shaped in conformity to the globe of the earth and…
Smith, The Bible Made Impossible
Via the Brazos website, the introduction and first chapter of Christian Smith’s recent Bible Made Impossible (2011) are available, as is the below interview with Smith about the book. Although Smith’s argument seems, to me at least, to have difficulties in some different places, other parts do offer some helpful thoughts. Among these salutary points are Smith’s…
Resources from Tyndale House
Tyndale House has done some wonderful work making very helpful resources available online, but today, I stumbled upon the following that I had forgotten or not noticed before: The Tyndale Bulletin is available in full-text from volume 1 forward, excepting the last three years’ issues. The Tyndale House library catalog will return search results that…
Logos Bible Software and the Perseus Project
As noted earlier, Logos Bible Software is working on releasing over 3000 texts from the Perseus Project for free to Logos 4 users. Included here is Perseus’s substantive collection of Greek and Latin classics and their translations. This collection also offers access to Perseus’s dictionaries and lexica and integrated searching with the rest of a user’s Logos…
On the Web (September 13, 2011)
On the web: Mel Gibson is apparently planning a movie about Judas Maccabee (HT: John Byron). Google Docs adds a comment-only permission option for document sharing. Alan Bandy discusses the phrase ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν in Rom 1:17 and Augustine’s eschatology.
On the Web (September 10, 2011)
On the web: Daniel Streett comments on Gen 5:21–24. Logos Bible Software will continue Logos 4 upgrade discounts only through the end of this month. Jason Jewell comments on the open-source mindset and the virtue of charity. Larry Hurtado discusses PhD studies in North America and the United Kingdom. Holly pays tribute to Michael Hart,…