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It has been a little quiet around here lately, but it's not been because of inactivity. I've been working on several projects lately, and one of them I was hoping to finish in time to end this month with a bang, but work, sunday school prep and an almost complete inability to keep myself focused on one thing has gotten in the way. So instead of something profound or academic, I offer you something humorous. But don't worry, it is old humor, so it at least fits the theme of the blog a bit.
Over at the website for the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts we've opened up a new section for notes on individual manuscripts. If you are interested, go read the announcement on the homepage, linked to above.
While I was in hurricane land, I did take some time to read. After all, you have to put down the chainsaw every once in a while. I finished Whose Bible Is It?
I've spent the last few days in hurricane-ravished Southeast Texas. I visited family and friends in the Beaumont area to help out. I ended up helping my Dad and Granny out with fallen trees and limbs, which is always fun (okay...not really). I also visited a friend whose house was hit by storm surge. Right outside of Bridge City everything looked fine, but once you got in every yard you looked at had a large pile of sheet-rock, insulation, furniture and various belongings in the front yard. My friend's house had water in it at least four foot high. With the exception of the top four inches, his truck was completely submerged. What a mess.
Today I was searching for the text of the anti-Marcionite prologues for books of the New Testament (surprisingly hard to find) and came upon some interesting things. In my never-ceasing quest to not be completely useless, here are the three things I found:
Two sessions ago I started taking my little Greek reading group through the Protoevangelion of James. So how has it turned out?
Development of the Various Dogmas in Light of the Universal Acceptance of Nicaea
Thursday 9/11/2008 8:39 AM
The title of the post was taken from this post over at godfearin.blogspot.com. It and its comment thread are definitely worth reading...
So I was checking out some of the materials on the most recent patristics carnival over at Hyperekperissou (by the way Phil, are you aware of this other hyperekperissou blog?). As you know I have a keen interest in the development of the canon and other things in early/archaic Christian history, so the the couple articles on the topic caught my eye. One is here and the other is here.
Jim West is distraught over the possibility of the Large Hadron Collider destroying us all. Well, I hope that doesn't happen either! But here is some good news. To keep up with whether or not the LHC has created a black hole that would almost instantly destroy us, a website has been made to keep us updated. It is appropriately entitled "Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth Yet?" Just stay tuned to that web page tomorrow and keep refreshing your browser and you will stay informed :)
FYI, I will occasionally be blogging over on the Spurgeon's Cigar blog and I just posted my first post there. The funny thing is, I don't even really know most of the people blogging there yet, so you never know if I'll agree with what the others are posting. So far the posts have been interesting at least...
Here are some various tidbits, links to things worth looking at new and old.
The review is now posted in my "Reviews" section. You can read it here.
Random interesting stuff for the day:
I've been reading it in spurts for quite some time, but I finally finished Ehrman's Lost Christianities. If you haven't noticed, sometime I have a hard time focusing :). I will be posting the review of it tonight or tomorrow. My own thoughts are pretty well set at this point, but I'm going to take the time to read some other reviews, something I don't normally do. I will, of course, let you know when I have my review posted.
