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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
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Download chrysostom_presentation.mp3 On the just passed Friday and Saturday I was delighted to attend the Seventh Saint Andrew's Patristic Symposium at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney. The topic was Chrysostom, and the keynote speakers were Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen. Top class
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This is my introductory paragraph and my written description of contents: The following study compares the exegetical practices of two authors, Basil of Caesarea and Hilary of Poitiers, in two of their most significant works, Contra Eunomium and De Trinitate, in order to demonstrate that one of the features of
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I'm trying to wrap up chapter 8 right now. Here's what's in my thesis (more or less...) an overly long and complicated title: "An analysis and comparison of the exegetical practices of Basil of Caesarea in his Contra Eunomium, and Hilary of Poitiers
Books
On the continual raving of my friend Ryan, I picked up Susanna Elm's book, "Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome", and I thought I'd offer my thoughts as I read through it. The
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Well, July was a busy month, what with Trinity debates all over the internet to keep up with, teaching a Greek intensive on Gregory of Nazianzus' Oration 29 (a lot of fun, though we did not finish the text), and being sick for the last two weeks (an ear
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I was very glad to awake this morning and see that Geoffrey Steadman as returned to his Greek and Latin texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary projects with some very fine new additions. It has reminded me that I do need to return to my inspired-by-the-above Patristic
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One of the interesting things about the intra-Evangelical Complementarian Trinity Debate with a really-long-name, is that people's positions appear to fall out along some very clear party lines. The leading American ERAS/ESS/EFS proponents all come from very particular backgrounds. There's not