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Yesterday (well, today if you're living in the past like the USA) is/was International Mother Language Day, and I thought I'd write some thoughts about it. My mother tongue is English. I sometimes wish it wasn't, but it is just an accidence [sic]
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A few days ago this post appeared highlighting a new feature for Logos users, at least those on the subscription Logos Now model (which I am not). As a big advocate of reader's editions for students to move into more fluent and extended reading, I was pleased to
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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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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
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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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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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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
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The other day I was riding the bus to university and happened to be on the same bus as a fellow member of my church. They were expressing a typical sentiment about full-time research students: that they ought to be ‘incredibly disciplined’ since there are very few external constraitns
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Welcome to The Patrologist. Why a new blog? Why this one? What's different? Why now? I have been blogging now for many years, in various places. Lately I have been blogging very consistently and with some modicum of engagement on the interrelated topics of Greek, Latin, Classical language