With apologies for the S word at the end. But….. he’s right about all this. BW3 Read more
Behold the Mt. Sinai Monastery Library, which holds 4,500 partial or whole ancient manuscripts including a copy of Codex Sinaiticus and an ancient Syriac translation of the Gospels. (These pictures used under the fair use law. I was unable to take my own pictures while I was there). Finally, finally through the auspices of EMEL (the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library) folks, and the library at UCLA, the vast holdings of the Sinai monastery are being digitized. The project could take... Read more
C.J. Sansom is an an accomplished historical novelist, and his latest volume has been nominated for the Sir Walter Scott Prize. It might be better dubbed ‘Tomeland’ as it is a whopping 854 pages long. No quick Ellis Peters or Paulm Doherty medieval read this volume! The volume came out in the States in January of this year, and I have been reading and reading it for weeks. It recounts the events of 1549 in England, specifically the abolition of... Read more
Here’s a helpful article on recent research on sarcophagus paintings of persons who were mummified between about A.D. 100 and 250. See what you think. BW3 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-mummy-portraits/index.html Read more
“The NT is never interested in conduct and behavior in itself. I can go further and say that the NT does not make an appeal for good behavior to anyone but to Christian people. The NT is not interested, as such, in the morality of the world. It tells us quite plainly that you can expect nothing from the world but sin, and that in its fallen condition it is incapable of anything else. In Titus 3.3 Paul tells us... Read more
Here’s a fine article about the sad state of classic rock these days (mostly) characterized by replacement players and replacement body parts. BW3 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/arts/music/band-name-reunions.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage Read more
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