Tag: ΠΑΡΑΛΕΙΠΟΜΕΝΑ
rollApp = OpenDocument Support for iOS
For iOS users, rollApp has now graduated into public Beta and is offering iOS-compatible versions of OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice) and LibreOffice. The LibreOffice app seems to have a bit of difficulty opening files stored on Dropbox, but my own tests thus far with the OpenOffice.org app seem to have worked quite well. Although these apps run…
Hurtado on Jesus’ Ascension
From Larry Hurtado: [A]nother dreadful “thought for today” on Radio 4 this a.m., this one ostensibly taking as its pre-text (and I use the word advisedly) that today is Ascension Day, and opining that Jesus’ Ascension (portrayed solely in Luke-Acts in the NT) means that Jesus has deaked out and we’re on our own! So,…
Homer and the Papyri
Charles Jones notes that Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is . . . published [online] in a second electronic edition. The new edition consists of a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri. For more details and to access the Homeric papyri database, please…
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
It seems like I’ve seen the site before, but Gideon Burton at Brigham Young University has digested a good deal of information about classical and Renaissance rhetoric at Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric. The site “is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and…
iPad App for Greek Literature
There is now an iPad app for introductory and intermediate Greek readers. Its name is Attikos and it includes a selection of familiar texts, including morphological information. The author is Josh Day, himself recently an intermediate Greek student. Link to the app store page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/attikos/id522497233?mt=8 . . . Texts include the Iliad, some Lysias and…
Journal of Theological Studies 63, no. 1
The latest issue of the Journal of Theological Studies includes: Joanna Collicutt, “Bringing the Academic Discipline of Psychology to Bear on the Study of the Bible” Charlotte Hempel, “Who Is Making Dinner at Qumran?” Jonathan Knight, “The Origin and Significance of the Angelomorphic Christology in the Ascension of Isaiah” Suzanne Watts Henderson, “Discipleship after the…