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PhD Still waiting on examiners' reports. They nominally have 3 months, so I don't expect a result before the start of March anyway. I'm feeling less anxious, mainly because I have other things to worry about. #Jobsearch Totally unsuccessful so far. 7 rejections and 1
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A short foreword: I thought, thanks to a suggestion, that I'd start blogging my way through reviews of introductory materials in Greek and Latin. I don't pretend to thoroughness or rigour, just my thoughts on textbooks and readers I've dealt with in some way
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The other day I mentioned Zuntz, and I realised later that many do not know about this wonderful text. So in this post I'm going to introduce/overview it for you. Günther Zuntz (1902 - 1992) was a phenomenally gifted classical philologist and scholar. You can read about his
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Yesterday I tweeted a quote from the preface to Günther Zuntz's monstrous "A Course in Classical and Post-Classical Greek". It's only monstrous because of its size. Zuntz leaves no stone unturned, not even the tiny crushed ones that were what was left of
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I have a vested interest in this topic, since I’ve just completed a PhD in the field and would like a job in it. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at the place of ECS/ECH (Early Christian Studies/History) in Australian tertiary institutions. By ECS,
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Well, if you didn't hear by other media, I've completed the dissertation and submitted it for examination! Now a few months of waiting semi-anxiously for external examiners to read, digest, and decide my fate. In the meantime I've been applying for jobs, a
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Back at my former blog, I made a list of books for Latin and Greek, generally related to the Direct-Method, Rouse, etc., that it would be good to source. Some of them already exist on google books, or other places, but some of them are proving hard to track
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Recently Charles Lee Irons posted on TGC a defence of the translation of μονογενής in the New Testament as “only-begotten”, instead of the modern consensus that it means “unique” or “one of a kind”. Why? I can only presume, and the article indicates as much, that it’s in
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Recently I came across a project I hadn't heard about before, the Bridge, and a new version of the same. It's a site, and an interface, that lets you build customisable vocabulary lists based on Greek and Latin textbooks and texts. In general, I don'
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I'm not sure I've written about this before, but here's how I prepare a text for a patristic reader (and if I plan to teach it closely). Step 1: I obtain a clean, digitised version of the text. Depending on the text, that changes
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Well the big news is that I'm almost done with the PhD dissertation. I'm sitting on a fairly full draft, a proofreader is working through it, I've had a good friend read the whole thing, and my supervisor is working their way through this
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It's a warm Saturday night and I've just polished off some delicious milo as I type this. In the morning the lords of time and date decree that we will lose an hour to make summer more bearable (they are wise, because I've been