Updates
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
Greek
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
Greek
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
Greek
This is a relatively short volume from Campbell, which can easily be read in a few days. It is pitched at what I would call the ‘Seminary and Biblical studies’ market. That is, seminarians, pastors, and others involved in biblical studies at a degree level or higher. It generally doesn’
Updates
Wow, September. It went by. Mongolia I spent the first two weeks of the month over in Mongolia. It was a busy trip, though perhaps a little less busy socially than my last one in April. I taught a small Masters’ class, taking them through selected portions of Luke’s
Greek
So last time I talked about the shift from thinking about Greek as tense based/focused to aspect focused. Another term that you can hear a lot about these days is Aktionsart. But what is Aktionsart? The bad news is that people use this term in different ways. The word
Greek
A couple of people asked me how to go about getting up to speed on the ‘newer ways’ of talking about Ancient Greek that have become current in the last few years. In this and subsequent posts I will try my best to provide a relatively accessibly explanation of the
Academics
One of the difficulties of Patristics as a field is that there are not many journals, and it is not necessarily so easy to get a sense of what journals there are. Certainly, compared to say New Testament studies, it is difficult. In this post I have tried to compile
Uncategorized
I see that I haven't written one of these for awhile. Not too much to report just at present. PhD Is going along well, though it could be going moreso. July was a productive month, and the start of August was not bad either, though things became more
Academics
It's blindingly obvious that Academia runs as a microcosmic honour/shame society because the one thing that ranks just below actual scholarship in scholars' concern is prestige or honour as accorded them by their peers. This is what drives almost all academic endeavours (beyond the actual desire