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Hi, I'm Seumas and I'm a chronic codeswitcher. Code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages or language varieties in a single discourse event. It's not a bad thing necessarily, indeed when I was in Mongolia and speaking with competent
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This past week I’ve been leading a small group (quite small!) through the 2nd century text, ‘The Acts of Paul and Thecla’. It’s a very interesting text which relates the story of how a young betrothed woman in Iconium meets Paul, becomes entranced by the teaching of Christ,
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Perhaps not the most common myths about Christmas, but these are the ones I regularly have to interact with online. 1. Christmas is a Christianisation of celebrations for Sol Invictus Given that the first indisputable dating for Christmas to Dec 25th is the same document (the Chronicon of 354) that
Greek
Here's the shortest case I can make. There are, depending on edition, 138,020 Greek words in the New Testament canon. Here are some comparable English works: 134,462 - The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien 134,710 - Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally 135,420
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Patristic Readers At the start of November I published the first volume, the Martyrdoms of Polycarp and Perpetua (Available now at createspace, and Amazon). This month I've been doing three things: I've just finished proofing the third Gregory text, and started compiling the vocabulary. I also
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Well, I'm wrapping up from the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2015, and thought I'd compile some thoughts from it. Travel to/from Since I had to foot the bill for my own flights, I flew Korean Air from Sydney to
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This Thursday I'm off to SBL Annual in Atlanta. I'll be presenting in the Development of Early Christian Theology section on the Saturday at 4pm. Feel free to come along if you like hearing about exegesis in Basil. It's been 13 years since I
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October went by too quickly, in my opinion. I delayed this post a few days to get some important things done: Patristic Readers The great news is that a few minutes ago I approved the final proof and now you can purchase a print copy of the Martyrdoms of Polycarp
Thesis
Or, 'what I think my thesis is actually about'. I don’t post much about my thesis work, for a few different reasons, but here’s part of a draft introduction that I can pretty safely share. If you’d like to read some portions of my thesis
Thesis
There are two types of people in this world: those who dichotomise everything, and those that don't. Back when you took Church History 101 (You did take Church History 101??) you were told a story. It was a lying lie of a story in which the Orthodox were
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This week we’re going to talk about voice in Greek and ‘deponency’. In some ways this is the most radical element of the new understandings, for those training in a traditional scheme. And yet, on the other hand, it is one of the elements about which there is the
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I’m going to have a second go at talking about Aktionsart. I would begin by saying Aktionsart is simply a way of describing the type of action indicated by a predicate. As such ‘Aktionsart’ is a very wide-open term, no doubt contributing to its ambiguity. We might talk