Below is a video a few days ago from CNN where Steve Green informs us that Scott Caroll of Baylor University has apparently uncovered a 2nd century portion of the book of Romans. So far there has been little discussion about this online, only Ken Schenck and John Byron as far as I can see. But Continue Reading

The blogosphere  has become quite active [see Nijay Gupta; Michael Kok; James McGrath; Mark Goodacre] in drawing attention to a conference, and resulting book, that critiques the enthusiasm on the “authenticity criteria” that has guided the search for the historical Jesus over the past century or so. The  introduction by Morna Hooker is now available online and gives a good overview Continue Reading

Unique Roman cavalry helmet pieced together 10 years after discovery Exceptionally early example of Roman helmet to go on display after years of work piecing together thousands of fragments. A silver-gilt Roman cavalry helmet of international importance has been pieced together at the British Museum, from thousands of fragments of corroded metal lifted in a Continue Reading

James McGrath has just included an interesting post on his blog entitled History is to Mythicism and Science is to Creationism as McDonald’s is to… on the parallels between creationism and mythicism [the belief that Jesus never existed as a historial figure]. I actually have a passing interest with mythicism. Although almost every study on Continue Reading

I have just been reading through Jim Stockdale’s “Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’ Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behaviour”. If you don’t know the book, despite the title it is neither a technical look at Epictetian psychology , or a psychologists look at Stoic philosophy. Instead the book puts on paper the thoughts of one of Continue Reading

Following on from my post here where I expressed some cautions over depending upon Jacobovici “the naked archaeologist”, Jim West has announced that Jacobovici is set to sue the archaeologist Joe Zias. Apparently Zias has been talking to  the T.V. channels Jacobivici normally tries to sell his wares and making it clear just what they Continue Reading

Just a note of thanks to those who kept reading the blog during the lull of two months of no posting. I shall return to active blogging  service shortly.Continue Reading

There is nothing new under the sun.  The Huffington Post records that:   Fleming told Jansing that the $6.3 million is “before you pay 500 employees, you pay rent, you pay equipment and food.” “The actual net income of that was a mere fraction of that amount.” “By the time I feed my family, I Continue Reading

Following on from my post here on the Loeb Classical Library, I thought I should note that the Barnes and Nobles blog have an interesting piece from Adam Kirsch marking its 100th anniversary: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, one of the most remarkable publishing projects in modern history. Yet Continue Reading