Jim West shared a request from Joseph Kelly for submissions for this month’s Biblical Studies Carnival. The latter has apparently set up a Google Spreadsheet to expediate the process.

Some (especially those who skipped accents altogether when they first learned Greek) are boung to find them puzzling and wonder what they are useful for. For one answer, visit Suzanne’s Bookshelf, which has a post on the accenting of the name Junia in Romans 16:7 and how it provides indication that, in the period when accents were being added [...]

Here are videos of my son and his teacher playing two Christmas carols as violin duets. The first is “Silent Night” followed by “We Three Kings.” Apologies to those who object to the song’s reference to “3 Kings” because they consider only “1 Kings” and “2 Kings” canonical.