Archaic Christianity

It is always great news when a new manuscript is found, even if the fragment is as small as this one. We just posted on the CSNTM website a four-leaf fragment from an uncatalogued Greek New Testament Lectionary. There's a pdf description of the manuscript in the same directory that will give you information about contents and provenance.

Just in case you have the desire to do some reading in the Greek New Testament manuscript labeled GA 676, I have a few tips for you. You can find the images on the CSNTM website. All snippets below with one exception are found on image 234.

I am home now. Yay. The first thing I did was to take a shower. The hot water in our camper ran out after about two minutes, so I never felt like I got truly clean. The thing I missed the most, though, was the study. There wasn't a good place to setup there and I didn't get much of a chance to study. I spent a little time in 1 Clement, a little in Pseudo-Apollodorus, and a little with Grant's biography of Constantine. I bet I was the only one at the lake with a hard-copy of LSJ.

Heading out for the weekend to the lake to be with the parents. You know, communing with nature and all that. But don't worry, I'm bringing my copy of 1 Clement along. Perhaps I'll have something for you at the beginning of next week. We shall see...

It doesn't get much fresher than this folks. I just got in from seeing Iron Man. First off, it was a whole lot better than Hancock, which was mediocre. The only annoying thing about the experience were the idiots who were sitting behind me that wouldn't shut up.

I've been meaning to post about this for over a month now, but I forgot. Now that announcements, questions of awesomeness and whatnot for Hancock are coming out, I figured I should get around to doing this. I'm also going to see Iron Man tonight, so I figured I should blog about this one first since I saw it first.

My apologies to those who have tried to comment and have received errors. I've been trying to upgrade the comment form. I forgot to turn off some server-side validation...which was keeping some comments from being posted. My apologies! If you have any other issues, let me know. And Brett, thanks for pointing it out.

As I said the other day, I'm trying to end April with a bang. I've given you a gallery of readers, started and finished a series on how I think readers should work, and I am now giving you part three of my shibang.

This post is for all of you who found the earlier long-winded posts too...well...long-winded. The following are the guidelines we've discussed so far:

Though the content is most important, the physical characteristics of the reader can make a reader better or worse. If you are putting a reader up on the web you don't have to worry about the physical aspects of the book, and many of those will probably be decided by your publisher (I imagine...I've never worked with one). But here we're discussing more than the physicality of the codex form; we're also discussing page layout, font, etc.