Archaic Christianity

Day 7 was indeed a day of epic proportions. It was our first day off, so the roomie (Garrett) and I jumped in our little car and went on a road trip to Cape Sounion, a place I have wanted to go ever since I saw Buist Fanning's pictures of it several years ago (thanks!).

I mentioned recently that I had been reading a biography of Erasmus. I finished it just now. The printing I have is not available at Amazon proper, though you can get it through their resellers fairly cheaply. A more recent and much more expensive copy is available on Amazon, however.

Biographies of great men are very important. They can inspire us lesser mortals to do greater things; in the very least, if done well, they can inform us historically and we can be less ignorant of the history we have inherited.

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.

It is an interesting story, but the title of it is really quite wrong. This hit a few of the blogs recently and just got posted to the biblicalist, in both places debunked. "The Independent" last month put out an article entitled "Found at Last: The World's Oldest Missing Page." The article is interesting, so give it a read.

So I noticed a link by Jim to Antonio's blog, which led me to an essay on Gnosticism by Gerd Lüdemann. I read it. Here are my thoughts, with snippets.

I finished listening to a podcast series yesterday on Byzantine history through a look at the lives of 12 of their rulers. You can find out more information on the podcast here, and can subscribe through iTunes.