Homer was also called Melesigenes (son of Mele… 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. ...
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 examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).” ...
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 Plato, and the Antigone. Some texts have been parsed completely; no translations are included, however. ...
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“100” caption=“The Journal of Theological Studies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)”] [/caption] 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 Resurrection: Scribal Hermeneutics in the Longer Ending of Mark” P. Lorraine Buck, “Voluntary Martyrdom Revisited” Geoffrey D. Dunn, “Innocent I’s Letter to Lawrence: Photinians, Bonosians, and the Defensores Ecclesiae” Markus Vinzent, “Questions on the Attributes (of God): Four Rediscovered Parisian Questions of Meister Eckhart” Andrew Ter Ern Loke, “Sanday’s Christology Revisited” ...
Apparently, Michael Kruger, Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, is now blogging at Canon Fodder and tweeting @michaeljkruger (HT: Lane Keister). ...
Although it’s a bit belated, I just noticed this morning that February and March have been the busiest months at New Testament Interpretation to date. Thanks so much to all of you who have been interested in visiting.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“125” caption=“Piazza (Image via Wikipedia)”] [/caption] In his article Sunday in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey Young comments: [Pooja] Sankar, a recent graduate of Stanford University’s M.B.A. program, leads a start-up focused on finding a better way for college students to ask questions about course materials and assignments online. Her company, Piazza, has built an online study hall where professors and teaching assistants can easily monitor questions and encourage students who understand the material to help their peers. ...
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Gerald Bray”] [/caption] Fresh off the presses at Crossway this past month is Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. According to the publisher, While there is no substitute for personal, faithful, and careful Bible reading and prayer, the Bible’s vast size and diversity can make distilling its truth a daunting task. Thus most Christians benefit from supplemental resources to help learn and apply what Scripture teaches. . . . ...
I hadn’t noticed it until now, but Logos Bible Software has a very nicely developed YouTube Channel with a number of helpful videos both about individual resources that they offer and about using the Logos 4 engine (HT: Josh Burdick). ...
This summer: The Oxford Graduate School Society of Scholars is calling for papers related to the following theme: The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century, based on the book of the same title by Jerome Kagan. Papers should specifically relate the role of religion and theology to the scope of the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. For more information and to propose a paper, please see here. ...
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“150” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] LibreOffice 3.5.1 was released earlier this week. The version includes a number of important bug fixes ( RC1 change log, RC2 change log). Enabling experimental features in the 3.5 series, however, can apparently still cause difficulties with Zotero integration. ...
Sadly, Frederick Danker passed away earlier today (HT: Peter Williams, Rod Decker). Danker’s contribution to contemporary New Testament Studies can hardly be overstated; the field will continue to be in his debt.
On the web: Andrew Criddle comments on an excerpt from Ephrem about the Gospels’ composition. Justin Milhoc reviews Andrew Cain’s The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009). Charles Jones notes the Roman Provincial Coinage Online database. Eric Sowell highlights the availability of much of J.-P. Migne’s Patrologia graeca online. Jim Davila mentions a list of biblical verses cited in the Talmud, an update about the Afghanistan manuscripts, Devorah Dimant’s recently released Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective, Lina Broydo’s discussion of the Dead Sea Scrolls online and in Israel. Nijay Gupta briefly reviews Joel Green’s Practicing Theological Interpretation.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“75” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] Theodor Zahn’s Kommentar zum Neuen Testament volume on Romans (1910) is available freely in several formats from Internet Archive, and his volume on Galatians (1905) is available freely in PDF format from Google Books. The bibliographic information for both is available here (BibTeX). ...
On the Web: Alin Suciu provides a PDF of the now public-domain R. Draguet, Julien d’Halicarnasse et sa controverse avec Sévère d’Antioche sur l’incorruptibilité du corps du Christ(Louvain: Smeesters, 1924). The bibliographic entry is available here (BibTeX). Google Books has Adolf Deissman’s Bible Studies(trans. Alexander Grieve; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1903) available for download in PDF format. The bibliographic entry is available here (BibTeX). Logos 4.5 (SR1) is available with some minor bug fixes, and Evernote for Windows gets a major update for its PDF handling. Jim Davila notes a couple updates about recent stories of Jewish manuscript finds in Afghanistan ( 1, 2), as does John Byron. John Byron reflects on a selection from Thomas à Kempis and lectures on rewritten Bible. Marc Cortez discusses “How to Reject a Rejection Letter,” announces a series on the value of blogging, and begins this series by considering how blogging can improve writing. Richard Hays delivers lectures on “Torah Reconfigured: Reading Scripture with Matthew” and “The One Who Redeems Israel: Reading Scripture with Luke” (HT: Kerry Lee). Matthew Montonini notes some new Durham University dissertations that are available and collects links to audio resources by Rikk Watts. Charles Jones mentions the website of the Berliner Papyrusdatenbank, which includes some papyrus images. Robert Woods discusses C. S. Lewis’s “Reading of Old Books.” For links to the essay’s full text, please see here. Larry Hurtado considers “Bousset and ‘Early High Christology.’” Brian LePort notes an interview with Peter Williams on the Gospels’ reliability. Greg Goswell has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “An Early Commentary on the Pauline Corpus: The Capitulation of Codex Vaticanus.” For the full text of the article, please see the JGRChJ’s current volume page.
On the web: Duane Smith repeats Jim Davila’s recent excerpt about the availability of the Babylonian Talmud online ( English, Hebrew-Aramaic). The basic bibliographic entry for the Soncino version is available here ( BibTeX). Jim Davila notes the completion of Sheffield’s Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Daniel Roth highlights five articles about SOPA, including John Gaudiosi’s report of the White House’s disapproval of the bill as it stands. ...
Kerry Lee digests Richard Hays’ lecture, “Unexpected Echoes: Reading Scripture with Mark,” from Tuesday, January 17. Kerry’s previous lecture summary and comment are here.
[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“125” caption=“Image via Wikipedia”] [/caption] This year’s Faith and the Academy conference program is now available. The conference is hosted annually by Faulkner University. This year’s theme is “Money, Morals, and Missions,” and the plenary sessions will feature Shawn Ritenour of Grove City College and Monty Lynn of Abilene Christian University. In the last morning session, I am also privileged to be giving a paper on “Physical Humanities and Lettered Sciences: Thomas Kuhn’s Significance for Contextualizing Biblical Studies.” For more information about the conference and to register, please see here. ...
On the web: Andrew McGowan interacts with N. T. Wright about the nature of the narratives of Jesus’ birth, especially in Matthew. Robert Woods reflects on Desiderius Erasmus and Eva Brann’s Logos of Heraclitus. Chris Brady and Bob Cargill startup “Sacred Techs.” Chris Brady uploads a discussion of footnotes and endnotes. Tim Gombis considers Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. Mark Goodacre notes that The Star of Bethlehem (1912) is available online. Rich Brannan mentions the availability of the Cascadia series’ Syntactic Analysis of the Septuagint on Logos Bible Software’s prepublication program. Joel Willitts comments on “Jewish Identity Markers in the Pre-exilic Period.” Michael Bird ponders the timing of Gal 1:4. John Byron and Jim Davila ( 1, 2) comment on some recent manuscript and archaeological discoveries. Matthew Montonini notes the possibility of a free Ephesians ebook commentary offering on Monday. ...
On the web: Nijay Gupta excerpts Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Advent. Robert Woods reflects on Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Bonaventure, and their relevance for liberal arts education. Jim Davila notes an announcement from the Israel Antiquities Authority about the recent discovery of a Second Temple era purity “voucher,” and John Byron picks up the same story from the Israel National News. Larry Hurtado discusses the dating of early Christian manuscripts. Tony Burke notes a couple recent 60 Minutes specials on Mount Athos and the Vatican Library. Jim Davila notes the availability of a new Talmud index. The index is currently available by subject in both Hebrew and English. Matthew Emadi discusses Augustine’s hermeneutic.
On the web: John Byron passes along some advice for seminary from a graduating seminarian. N. T. Wright reviews Benedict, Casey, and Fisk’s recent works on Jesus (HT: Michael Bird). Dove Booksellers has available, as of this writing, 133 volumes from Richard Longenecker’s library (HT: Michael Bird). Dirk Jongkind comments on Vaticanus’s regular preference for reading “Christ Jesus” rather than “Jesus Christ” in the Pauline letters. Google Books now supports offline reading in Google Chrome. Logos Bible Software adds online resource previews. Robert Woods reflects on Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalicon. ARTStor makes images of Dura-Europos documents available online (HT: Jim Davila). Marc Cortez reflects on Augustine’s comments on “monsters.” Joseph Kelly digests the Hebrew Bible’s references to “extra-biblical literary sources.” Mark Goodacre discusses the Protevangelium of James.
I’m pleased to say that the new website for the Great Books Honors College at Faulkner University is out of beta. The site has been a work in progress for a while but has, at this point, come together fairly nicely and completely. Of particular interest here is the College’s Christian Institute for the Study of Liberal Arts. At present, the Institute offers an innovative Master of Letters program that heavily utilizes Google Apps for Education and other distance education media to help form students and faculty into a virtual learning community. In coming years, the Institute looks forward to adding Bachelor and Doctor of Letters programs also. ...
On the web: Logos Bible Software is developing their edition of Meyer’s New Testament commentary under development, and releases several plugins for Biblia.com. Robert Holmstedt and John Cook discusses “Genesis 1.1 and Topic-fronting before a Wayyiqtol.” Robert Woods discusses Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake. Larry Hurtado highlights Ragnar Leivestad’s “Exit the Apocalyptic Son of Man,” New Testament Studies 18 (1971), 243–67. Tommy Wasserman discusses the new Parallel Pericopes of the Synoptic Gospels volume in the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior series. Mary Crane and Thomas Chiles consider “Why the Liberal Arts Need the Sciences (and Vice Versa).”
On the Web: Cliff Johnson reproduces, with permission, C. S. Lewis’s keen essay “Meditation in a Toolshed.” The Society of Biblical Literature releases Klaus Wachtel and Michael Holmes, ed., The Textual History of the Greek New Testament: Changing Views in Contemporary Research, about which Tommy Wasserman provides some additional information and links. Andy provides the tables of contents for this year’s Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters ( spring, fall). Courtesy of Broadman and Holman, the Evangelical Theological Society now has its own program apps available in the App Store and Android Market. The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts has released a DVD of the recent Ehrman-Wallace debate (HT: Tommy Wasserman). Jim Davila comments on a recent article about the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project.
On the web: Larry Hurtado discusses historical Jesus research. Brian LePort notes that Kevin Vanhoozer has returned to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Jim Davila highlights a Jerusalem Post article on the significance of the Talmud for liberal arts education. The bibliobloggers decide on a time and place to meet for dinner during the SBL Annual Meeting. Through November 16, the Westminster Bookstore is offering Köstenberger and Patterson’s new Invitation to Biblical Interpretation(Kregel, 2011) for 50% off. A sample PDF containing, the endorsements, the table of contents, the first chapter, and part of the second chapter are available from the book’s product page.
On the web: David Croteau compiles a recent Liberty University symposium on Bible translation, featuring Ray Clendenen (HCSB), Wayne Grudem (ESV), and Douglas Moo (NIV; HT: Rod Decker). Michael Kruger discusses the Gospels’ authorship (HT: Brian LePort). Tim Henderson highlights a new German edition of Hennecke-Schneemelcher’s Christian Apocrypha. Charles Jones reflects on the first year of Ancient World Online.
Earlier today, the Society of Biblical Literature announced that (1) Adele Reinhartz has succeeded James VanderKam’s two-term tenure as the General Editor for the Journal of Biblical Literature and (2) the Annual Meeting app (AM11AAR&SBL) is now available via the App Store and Android Market and will allow attendees “to create and customize their own schedule, make notes about sessions, and share information and their schedule with colleagues and friends via built-in social networking.” ...
On the web: The Nomad Podcast interviews N. T. Wright (HT: Brian LePort). Michael Halcomb discusses “‘Appealing To The Greek’ or ‘How (Not) To Do A Word Study.’” Tommy Wasserman considers Bart Ehrman and intrinsic evidence. Michael Bird highlights a performance of Hebrews. Robert Holmstedt comments on biblical Hebrew diachrony. Charles Jones notes papyri images online at the University of Groningen.
On the web: Matthew Montonini locates an archive of C. K. Barrett lectures at Asbury Seminary. Robert Woods responds to Paul Gottfried, supplementing Jason Jewell’s earlier response. Tommy Wasserman argues for the originality of the phrase υἱοῦ θεοῦ (son of God) in Mark 1:1 (HT: Mark Batluck). Tim Gombis comments on Rom 3:27 as presenting different interpretive options for Torah and follows up by considering how Rom 3:21–31 relates God’s supremacy to the church’s unity. Larry Hurtado freshly commends James Barr’s Semantics of Biblical Language in its 50th anniversary year.
On the web: Larry Hurtado discusses the “staurogram.” Jason Jewell considers Paul Gottfried’s recent article on the “Death of the Classics.” Rod Decker notes an erratum in BDF. Mike Aubrey survey’s G. B. Winer’s Greek Grammar (English trans., 1825). LibreOffice announces a prototype web application version. Amazon releases some key updates for how Kindle 3 and 4 handle personal documents. Matthew Montonini considers some comments from Epictetus on the proper treatment of slaves.