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The proceedings of last project EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy) conference from 2016 are openly accessible.
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The Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society has an online, freely accessible archive of manuscripts and transcriptions from the Cairo Geniza.
Timo Paananen has had is doctoral dissertation accepted at the University of Helsinki. The project is “A Study in Authenticity: Admissible Concealed Indicators of Authority and Other Features of Forgeries—A Case Study on Clement of Alexandria, Letter to Theodore, and the Longer Gospel of Mark.” The project is openly available online.
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Mike Aubrey compares Brill’s new Dictionary of Ancient Greek with LSJ. Mike concludes:
Brill’s Dictionary of Ancient Greek makes major improvements over LSJM. If you’re a Greek student and find yourself wondering how a word is used beyond the New Testament and what BDAG provides, Brill GE is the best choice. It has excellent coverage, is easy to use, provides accessible citations and translation, and is generally far more usable.
For the full discussion including several helpful details, see the full essay at theLAB.
University College London has posted on YouTube their 1971 documentary Greek Papyri: The Rediscovery of the Ancient World.
HT: Tommy Wasserman
Sean Hadley, one of our current PhD students in Humanities, positively reviews Robbie Castleman, Darian Lockett, and Stephen Presley’s edited volume Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading: Theological, Exegetical, and Reception Historical Perspectives (Pickwick, 2017). Along the way, Sean provides some kind comments about my contribution in the volume.
For Sean’s full review, see the Stone-Campbell Journal’s fall 2018 issue, p.274. For background to the volume and a list of its contents, see “Castleman, Lockett, and Presley, eds., ‘Explorations in interdisciplinary reading’” and “‘Explorations in interdisciplinary reading’ is out.”
Mike Aubrey points to a full set of video recordings of lectures from the recent SEBTS conference on linguistics and NT Greek. I’ve included this playlist below as well. The “hamburger” button in the upper left-hand corner will expand the playlist contents with a list of speakers and their topics.
Larry Hurtado reviews Michael Dormandy’s recent TC essay, “How the Books Became the Bible: The Evidence for Canon Formation From Work-Combination in Manuscripts.”
Mike Aubrey is “rethinking transitivity and the Greek perfect.”
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity provides a database that is
making readily accessible and searchable as much as possible of the early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700), with key texts presented in their original language, all with English translation and brief contextual commentary.
Work on the project was set to conclude 31 December 2018 with some minor work continuing into this year.
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Google Books as a combined full-text PDF of K. W. Krüger’s Griechische sprachlehre für Schulen (1861). The two tomes make for a combined PDF of just over 1100 pages.