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Archives: 5/2008

The Ecclesiastical Text - Take 2

-- Filed Under: Books, Greek, Textual Criticism, History
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So I finally finished finished Theodore P. Letis' The Ecclesiastical Text, which I commented on a bit ago. As I reported before, I loved the first two chapters of the book. The book is worth a good bit with just those chapters, nevermind the rest of the material (and I only paid $5.98 at Half Price Books!). The rest of the book was generally worth reading, but not as useful as the first two chapters.

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Busy As Always

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Work has been beating me down of late. I have had some time to read and such, but, I must admin, when I am strapped by time and the options are blog or study, study must be my focus. You don't want me posting thoughtless posts, do you?

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The Ecclesiastical Text

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A few weeks ago I picked up a volume entitled The Ecclesiastical Text: Text Criticism, Biblical Authority and the Popular Mind. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it is available at either Eisenbrauns or Amazon. I had no idea if it would be good, but after reading the first two chapters I must say that it is a gem.

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Added Site Dictionary

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I am lazy try to be efficient with my time. So, I created a dictionary to use on the site. This way I can define what I mean once so I don't have to be redundant, be pleonastic, or repeat myself. If you see a term that you think I should define that I haven't yet, please leave me a note. Hope you guys find it useful.

New Lectionary Manuscript at CSNTM

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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.

Yesterday was the first I had heard of it, so it's new for me too. I've spent enough time with it to notice some interesting things, so you can expect some commentary here in the next few days! In the meantime, enjoy the pics!

Home From Fishin'

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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.

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Gone Fishin'

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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...

I Saw Hancock

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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.

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