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Nick Nicholas (Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος): Maximus of Gallipoli, Geneva, 1638: Mark 13:1-22

opoudjis — 2010-03-22T02:39:58+00:00

I've been off for a week, and things on this blog have been a little salty-languaged of late (and will get so again: there's a nice list of slang.gr idioms I'm planning on walking through). To offer some respite from all that, I'm posting an excerpt from the translation of the New Testament into Modern Greek by Maximus of Gallipoli (Maximos of Kallipolis), sponsored by Cyril Lucaris and published posthumously in 1638.

The translation itself and its publication history is a fascinating story, but I haven't had the time to go through the secondary literature (including a 1200 pp recent treatise on the translation.) For now, there's an article from the Jehovah's Witnesses comprehensively reviewing past translation efforts, and a glancing mention in a recent article by Paschalis Kitromilides:

I did want to use a passage to illustrate the language of the time; that's always tricky with Bible translation, which tends to linguistic conservatism at the best of times—let alone in Modern Greek, under the heavy shadow of the original. I thought about 1 Cor 13, which aside from being the passage everyone knows contains that delightful crux at verse 3 which gave birth, I have argued, to a brand new tense of Greek.

(Andrew Malone's recent paper on the crux has the incredibly good taste to cite my paper. And/or, Andrew Malone has the incredibly good taste to be a friend of mine...)

But Paul is Paul, whatever language you translate him into, and the translation was as a result too formal to illustrate what I wanted it to. The same goes for the other recommendation I had, Ephesians 3 (which would have had the added advantage of being a shoutout to Mike Aubrey's Ἐν Εφέσῳ blog on New Testament Greek linguistics.)

So I opened up the Gospels volume of the recent edition semi-randomly, and came across the Little Apocalypse in Mark. There's still a fair bit of archaism to be seen still; but not surprisingly, its language was vivid enough to illustrate the grammatical points I was after. I'll post a grammatical analysis as I did with Chantakites; and if anyone's interested, I'll go through the photocopies I have for more information about the translation.

Mark 13:1-22.

1 Και εβγαίνοντας από το ιερόν ο Ιησούς, λέγει τον ένας από τους μαθητάς του: «Διδάσκαλε, για δες, τι λογής πέτρες, και τι λογής οικοδομήματα!»
2 Και απεκρίθη ο Ιησούς και λέγει τον: «Βλέπεις ετούτες τες μεγάλες οικοδομές; Δεν θέλει απομείνει πέτρα απάνου την πέτραν οπού να μην χαλασθεί».
3 Και καθεζόμενος αυτός εις το όρος των Ελαιών, αγνάντια του ιερού, τον ερωτούσαν κατά μόνας, ο Πέτρος και ο Ιάκωβος και ο Ιωάνννης και Ανδρέας:
4 «Διδάσκαλε, ειπέ μας πότε θέλουν γένει ετούτα; και τι είναι το σημάδι όταν μέλλουσιν ετούτα όλα να τελειωθούν;»
5 Και ο Ιησούς, έστοντας να τους αποκριθεί, άρχισε να τους λέγει: «Έχετε τον νούν σας να μην σας πλανέσει κανένας.
6 Διατί πολλοί θέλουσιν έλθει εις το όνομά μου να λέγουν ότι “Εγώ είμαι [ο Χριστός]„, και θέλουν πλανήσει πολλούς.
7 Και όταν ακούσητε πολέμους και ακοάς πολέμων, μην συγχυσθείτε· διατί κάμει χρεία να γενούσιν ετούτα—αμή ακόμη δεν είναι το τέλος.
8 Διατί θέλει σηκωθεί έθνος απάνου εις άλλο έθνος· και βασιλεία απάνου εις άλλην βασιλείαν· και θέλουσι γένει σεισμοί κατά τόπους· και θέλουσι γένει πείναι και σύγχυσες.
9 Ετούτα είναι αρχές των πόνων. Και φυλάγετε εσείς του λόγου σας· διατί θέλουν σας παραδώσει εις τα συνέδρια, και εις τες συναγωγές θέλετε δαρθεί· και θέλουν σας πάγει [42] ομπροστά εις τους αυθεντάδες και βασιλείς δια λόγου μου, εις μαρτυρίαν αναντίαν τους. [43]
[42] ή θέλετε σταθεί
[43] ήγουν να μην ημπορούν να απολογηθούσι
10 Και ανάγκη είναι να κηρυχθεί πρώτον το ευαγγέλιον εις όλα τα έθνη.
11 Και όταν σας υπάγουν να σας παραδώσουν, να μην μεριμνάτε πρωτύτερα τι να ειπείτε, μηδέ μελετάτε· αλλά εκείνο οπού σας δοθεί εκείνην την ώραν, τούτο λαλείτε· διατί δεν θέλετε είσται εσείς οπού λαλείτε, αλλά το Πνεύμα το Άγιον.
12 Και θέλει παραδώσει αδελφός τον αδελφόν εις τον θάνατον· και ο πατέρας το παιδί του· και τα παιδία θέλουν σηκωθεί απάνου εις τους γονείς τους και θέλουν τους θανατώσει.
13 Και θέλετε είσται μισημένοι από όλους δια το όνομά μου· αμή όποιος υπομείναι έως το τέλος, εκείνος θέλει σωθεί.
14 Και όταν ιδείτε το “σίχαμα της ερημώσεως„, εκείνο οπού είπεν ο Δανιήλ ο προφήτης, να στέκει εκεί οπού δεν πρέπει (εκείνος οπού το διαβάζει, ας γρικά), τότε εκείνοι που είναι εις την Ιουδαίαν ας φεύγουσιν εις τα βουνά.
15 Και εκείνος οπού είναι απάνου εις το δώμα, ας μην κατέβει εις το σπίτι του μηδέ να έμπει μέσα να πάρει τίποτες από το σπίτι του.
16 Και εκείνος οπού είναι εις το χωράφι, ας μην γυρίσει οπίσω να πάρει το ρούχον του.
17 Και αλίμονον εις τες εγκαστρωμένες και εκείνες οπού βυζάνονται εκείνες τες ημέρες.
18 Και παρακαλείτε να μην γένει το φευγατίον σας [εις την ώραν] του χειμώνος.
19 Διατί θλίψις έχει να γένει εκείνες τες ημέρες, οπού τέτοια δεν έγινεν από την αρχήν της κτίσεως, την οποίαν έκτισεν ο Θεός, έως τώρα, και μηδέ να γένει.
20 Και εάν ο Κύριος δεν ολιγόστευσε τες ημέρες εκείνες, δεν ήθελε σωθεί καμία σάρξ· αλλά δια τους διαλεμένους τους οποίους εδιάλεξε εκόντεψε τες ημέρες.
21 Και τότε, εάν σας ειπεί κανένας: “Να, εδώ είναι ο Χριστός„ ή “Να, εκεί [είναι]„, μην τον πιστεύσετε.
22 Διατί θέλουσι σηκωθεί ψευδόχριστοι και ψευδοπροφήται και θέλουσι κάμει [44] σημεία και τέρατα, εις το να πλανούν και να σύρουν (αν ήτον δυνατόν) και τους διαλεμένους.»
[44] ήγουν δώσει

Ancient World Bloggers Group: A call for contributions: Reviews of Online Resources

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-21T23:37:46+00:00

Digital Medievalist journal has issued a call for contributions for the next issue:

... As we all know, there are now many scholarly resources which have been published online as websites but which have never been reviewed as scholarly publications. This is a problem both for us as practitioners and for the discipline in general, not least because it can imply that these publications are somehow less scholarly. Furthermore, the career of academics and research departments often depends on having reviewed publications, as a result of which many online publications are inadmissible for tenure, research assessment and the like.
This problem is being addressed by bodies such as the MLA, but still there are relatively few reviews being written. To help encourage this process, the editors at DM have decided to take action and will include as many of these reviews as we can manage in our next issue (and thereafter). We therefore ask (a) for suggestions of resources that should be reviewed, and (b) offers from reviewers. Of course the ideal is to offer both a resource and a review.
As usual, reviews should be approximately 1,500 words and should consider the publication both from the ‘digital’ and ‘medieval/humanities’ standpoints. We are interested primarily in projects on medieval topics, but as always we are open to anything of interest to medievalists. See the journal’s Submission Guidelines for further details (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/).

Please note also that we are thinking specifically of freely available online publications, not printed books, CD-ROM publications or subscription-only resources (although we will of course still consider reviews of these as usual). In particular, this means that we cannot promise reviewers copies of the publication being reviewed, or access to subscription-only sites...

Alun Salt (Archaeoastronomy): Douglas inspires

Alun — 2010-03-21T16:24:09+00:00

Often the delete key is my friend. A thousand word post has disappeared. I was going to post a response to someone else’s post, and use this video of Douglas Adams as an example of positive atheism. I’m tired of yet another post from someone who says “I’m an atheist, but you mustn’t talk about atheism or offend the religious because atheists are nasty.”

Then I thought if that’s the case why bother? The people who tend to write such posts don’t have anything interesting or positive to say apart from scowling at other people who do. Religious people can produce great works, like Handel’s Messiah which has a religious message in it somewhere. Then you get books like Dawkins’ Unweaving the Rainbow, that show the sense of wonder you can have in the workings of the universe. Yet I cannot think of anything remotely inspirational written in the heartfelt belief that compromise is by its nature the goal. No one looks at a beautiful landscape, sighs, and says, “It’d be so much better if there was a small industrial estate in the way. Y’know to balance the environmental and economic needs of society.”

So instead I’ll just put up the video that TED made pick of the week. If you’re intent on some Sunday atheism it’s around 1h 10m in, I think. It’s only a short bit about God. That’s fair enough because it’s a big universe with lots fascinating stuff in it including his Last Chance to See project.

The Stoa Consortium: 2 PhD Positions in Text Analysis and Speech Synthesis, Trinity College Dublin

Dot Porter — 2010-03-21T14:32:11+00:00

Posted on behalf of Carl Vogel at TCD – not a position in classics, but could be interesting for digital classicist types.

[Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.]

2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD.

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/

The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards.

Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions

This innovative project under the theme of “Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records” will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way
people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB01)

Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication

We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB08)

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Closing date for applications:
Friday 9th April 2010

Applications should be made online through www.pac.ie/tcd

Mia Ridge (Open Objects): Some thoughts on linked data and the Science Museum - comments?

Mia — 2010-03-21T14:24:33+00:00

I've been meaning to finish this for ages so I could post it, but then I realised it's more use in public in imperfect form than in private, so here goes - my thoughts on linked data, APIs and the Science Museum on the 'Museums and the machine-processable web' wiki. I'm still trying to find time to finish documenting my thoughts, and I've already had several useful comments that mean I'll need to update it, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, etc.

Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Even more exciting and strangely beautiful flood pictures

William Caraher — 2010-03-21T12:49:52+00:00

I always tell people that the most beautiful thing about Grand Forks is the light. This relatively low-resolution web cam, capture shows just that at about 7:46 am this morning.

The mighty Red River of the North is at 45.99 feet, the 8th highest historic crest.

Here is the river level yesterday, the day before, and the day before

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: Journal of Ancient Fingerprints

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-21T12:46:43+00:00

Journal of Ancient Fingerprints

The Journal of Ancient Fingerprints was initiated in 2005 by the newly formed non-profi organisation The Society of Ancient Fingerprints.

Our Journal is published on the internet and is available for free download.

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): The decline of the legend of the Seven Sages and theosophical prophecies

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-20T19:36:56+00:00

A. Delatte begins his article of the above title with the following words:

Never did anyone prophesy so much, in the special form known as prophecy post eventum, as in the first centuries of Christianity. The rapid conquest of souls by the new ideal and the solid establishment of the Christian churches showed the hand of God, and this transfiguration of the face of the world so stirred some spirits that in order to explain it they felt obliged to fall back on the idea of a preparation stage for the gospel. Similarly some were unable to believe that the brightest and most inspired of the pagans did not have some presentiment or secret revelation of the mystery of the Redemption.

In order to satisfy this longing of faith, some people who were well-intentioned but too little scrupulous of their choice of methods composed new Sybilline oracles, and placed in circulation prophecies that had previously come, so they said, from the sanctuaries of Apollo, announcing the coming of the messiah. They also began to search the books and the biographies of the philosophers for features and doctrines that could easily be misinterpreted as disguised evidence of foreknowledge of the great event.

Did they find them? Some apostles of dissident Christian groups, those whose followers were of limited education and unable to detect the fraud, did not hesitate to resort to the falsification of ancient literary works to nourish the faith of their followers. It might seem, moreover, that this was an excellent means of propaganda among those lingering in paganism, who were not fleeing the embrace of Christianity so much as clinging to the debris of the too mystical teachings of the magi, astrologers, and the theurgists, and were therefore ill-equipped to detect imposters.

Perhaps for Christianity to become universal, it had to appeal to the irrational element in every society, as well as the rational and devout; to the people who waste their time on New Age frauds in our day, as well as to the university-educated who make up most evangelicals in our day. The thought is an interesting one, and the parallel also. But let us return to Delatte, who is not so far footnoting these comments, unfortunately.

But in putting Christianity back among paganism, in making Orpheus, Pindar, Plato, Hermes Trismegistus and many others be Christians before the fact, the Orthodox faith was at great risk of diminishing itself, or even being contaminated. The church was cautious; some of these theologians to the troubled soul learned this to their cost.

A certain Aristocritus (5th century) used all the resources of an uncertain science and the powers of a too supple spirit of conciliation to compose a book entitled Θεοσοφία. He wanted to show that the most eminent souls among the Hebrews and the Greeks had, by the grace of God, the divination of the mysteries and prior knowledge of certain Christian doctrines, but in the opinion of orthodox theologians he only succeeded in demonstrating the identity of the doctrines of Judaism, Hellenism and Christianity, which was a hopeless error. This system of accomodation which resembles the methods practised by the Stoics in handling previous philosophies was not to the liking of the strong-minded and clear-minded. As a result the book of Aristocritus features among the works tainted with the Manichaen heresy which are anathematised in an ancient formula used for renouncing Manichaeism.

Accomodation is indeed the chronic hazard of the apologist; to be coloured by the views of those you oppose, to insensibly move to resist certain views and unknowingly accept others equally fatal to your position.

Delatte then goes on to review the scattered remains of Greek texts which preserve supposed extracts from philosophers predicting the coming of Christ. I won’t repeat all this here, in what is already too long a post. But these texts deserve to be gathered and made more readily available.

Objects-Building-Situations (Kostis Kourelis): Archaeologies and Travelers in Ottoman Lands

KOSTIS KOURELIS — 2010-03-20T19:27:00+00:00

I just finished attending one of the most fascinating conferences, "Recovering the Past: Archaeologies and Travelers in Ottoman Lands." Organized by Renata Holod and Robert Ousterhout at the University of Pennsylvania, "Recovering the Past" is an 18-month long initiative, involving the conference, graduate seminars and exhibitions. Each of the 18 papers in the conference (and Holod's final

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Piles of paper on the side and a rainy day at home

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-20T16:05:54+00:00

I doubt that I am alone in possessing piles of photocopies from books and articles. Like blocks of stone they rise on every side. Made by my own hands, mostly, the photocopies were paid for in time and money. Many a trip to the university library has ended in a session at home reading through the products of my labours with excitement. Then the photocopies were laid aside, as I might want them again, and never seen again.

A soft and rainy day is the perfect day to try to rediscover your furniture. Mine has bowed under the weight of these toppling piles for years. A whim moved me to sort some of them out, and transfer at least some of them to the cupboard, where dust does not darken nor the cleaners condemn.

Of course I have these urges every few years. The last time was when I got a fast modern Fujitsu scanner and converted quite a lot into PDF’s. But I couldn’t remember why a certain pile had survived.

Inspection revealed that it contained mostly materials relating to the Eusebius project. As I looked through it, there were print-outs of catalogue entries; books that I had once sought, mostly successfully, sometimes in vain. Cordier’s catena was listed, a reminder that I sat in Duke Humphrey’s Library once and looked through it for Eusebian material. I can remember the hardness of the chair, and getting caught in a rainstorm outside. I had not realised, in truth, how long the Eusebius project has been part of my life and a focus for my efforts. I tend to think that it is only for a year or two; but in truth I have probably spent much of the last decade on it. So our lives slip away, while we play with this or that.

Among the items I found was a copy of A. Delatte, «Le déclin de la Légende des VII Sages et les Prophéties théosophiques», Musée Belge 27 (1923), p. 97-111. I got this when I was looking at material in Arabic derived supposedly from patristic sources. There were all these collections of “Sayings”, often by philosophers or the like, predicting the coming of Christ, or other “wisdom” type sayings. Such collections of sayings were analogous to the volumes of “Wit and Wisdom” that populate shops selling remaindered books. The accuracy of attribution and quotation is probably about the same. These collections are called gnomologia.

Delatte’s article discussed the twilight of the classical tradition of the Seven Sages. In Late Antiquity this unfixed myth was found useful by people such as theosophists to provide a frame for their ideas. Consequently it connects to the idea of “famous sayings of the philosophers.”

Delatte also published in the article one of the texts feeding into this tradition, which was why I got it. No translation, tho. Don’t you hate it when people do that? It’s four and a bit pages of Greek; almost worth commissioning a translation of it and giving it away.

I might try and reacquaint myself with this paper this afternoon. I’ve created a PDF, and run it through the OCR software. My sofa will now help me understand it!

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: Vesuvius Online

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-20T15:15:30+00:00

VESUVIUSonLINE: LA RASSEGNA STAMPA di www.vesuvioweb.com

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Another Flood Picture

William Caraher — 2010-03-20T12:37:59+00:00

It's 7:25 am on a partly cloudy Saturday. Here's what the river is up to from the Grand Fork Herald's Flood Cam.

Have a good Saturday.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Iturbe on Arabic Gospel Catenas

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-20T00:02:19+00:00

I had to scan the introduction to Francisco Javier Caubee Iturbe’s edition of a Christian Arabic catena on the gospel of Matthew. I found myself wondering how well Google translate would handle Spanish. After all, it gives Spanish as the default foreign language, so I hope it might be good! So I experimented a bit.

The following notes are abstracted from Iturbe’s comments. Since both volumes of his work have a 50-page introduction, these are very much short notes! Anyhow, he introduces his edition thus:

Studies and research on gospel catenas – comments by various fathers listed successively around the text of the Gospel – to date have been limited almost exclusively to those conveyed to us in Greek. As regards those preserved in Arabic, we can say that, nothing exists apart from some brief references in a few authors. And yet there are several Arabic manuscript codices containing exegetical catenas on the Gospels, with markedly different characteristics from Greek catenas. The problems that these codices present with regard to their origin, their language, the patristic extracts used, the method and means by which they have been transmitted, and so on, are various, and often difficult. There are some differences, more or less marked, in the text of the comments found in the manuscripts, but fundamentally, at least for the Gospel of Matthew, they are all the same catena, conceived as an organic whole, with proper proportions, in this surpassing many of the Greek catenas, which sometimes comprise lengthy scholia joined with other tiny extracts by many different fathers juxtaposed against the same verse. The copies of almost all these manuscripts were made in Egypt, in the Coptic Monophysite church, and they were long in use, especially in the monasteries of Scetis.

Of all the existing Arabic manuscripts, of which thirteen are known to contain gospel catenas, four are in the Vatican Library, three in Cairo, two in Paris and one in each of the following cities: Strasbourg, Oxford, Gottingen and Baghdad. All have the catena on the Gospel of Matthew, except for one in Cairo and another in Paris.

A description of the manuscripts containing the catena on Matthew is presented in this volume, beginning with the oldest of them, ms. Vatican Arab 452, which is the basis for the text published here; in the notes of the apparatus are the variants of the other manuscripts that rely on the same textual tradition.

He then lists the sigla for his edition. It is interesting to learn of so many manuscripts. M and P belong to a different family to the rest.

B = Ms. Vatican Arab 452.
C = Ms. Arab Cairo 411.
D = Ms. Arab Cairo 195.
G = Ms. Gottingen ar. 103.
K = Ms. karsuni Vatican syr. 541.
L = The catena in the coptic ms. of Curzon, as printed in the edition by P. de Lagarde, Catenae in evangelio aegyptiacae quae supersunt, Gottingae 1886.
M = Ms. Vatican ar. 410.
O = Ms. Arab Bodleian Hunt. 262.
P = Ms. Paris ar. 55.
S = Ms. Arab Strasbourg or. 4315.

The copies all derive from the Coptic catena printed by De Lagarde, which is now sadly missing many of its leaves.

Iturbe begins by describing the first of these. Since Arabic catenas are probably almost unknown to anyone, I think it’s worth translating this as a sample of what the manuscript contains.

MS. VATICAN ARABIC 452 – Siglum B.

1214 AD. Paper, 250 x 165 mm., the written area is 175 x 110 mm., 376 folios, 17 lines per page.

The manuscript is divided now into two volumes, bound in white leather: one has 196 pages and the second 180. The missing folios at the end, probably about thirty-five, are more or less what is needed to complete a version of the Gospel lessons of the holidays, Sundays, Saturdays, and so on, for the whole year, introduced and started on f. 369v at the end of the manuscript; as it currently is, it only goes as far as 4th Hatur, which is the third month of the Coptic calendar.

On the first page, in the center of a large rectangle, to whose sides are attached 16 identical circles, enclosing as many Coptic crosses – four circles with crosses, one on each of the horizontal sides, two on the vertical, four more identical at the corners of the rectangle all drawn in red and black –, the manuscript title is written in black ink, indicating its contents: Book of the Gospels, its explanation and calendar.

On most of the rest of the page, above and below the rectangle, there is a certificate of ownership of the book, dated 55 years after the composition. We will discuss this document later.

A few short sentences in Arabic, which can barely be read — some of which seems to be an essay written by an ignoramus — plus two seals of the Vatican Library and the indication “452 Arabic”, occupy the remaining free space on the page, which because of that, plus humidity and other stains, presents a sorry state, which is felt in part on the verso of the same folio. This folio 1 is the most deteriorated of the manuscript, except folio 135v. The latter was originally left blank, before the commentary on the Gospel of Mark. But then four lines were written in Karshuni, also repeated in Arabic, which a few illiterates then wrote over and over again like vandals, which, added to the horrendous lines crossing at the top of the page, has completely smeared the page. Something similar on a smaller scale, has occurred in ff. 188v-189, which were almost completely blank between the gospels of Mark and Luke, and on ff. 368v-369, the end of the Gospel of John. Except for these cases and others of less importance, the manuscript has been preserved in good condition.

On ff. 1v-5v, after a preface, the Ammonian sections are arranged in the ten canon tables of Eusebius, and marked by Coptic numerals.
Ff. 6-135 contain the Gospel of St. Matthew with the patristic commentaries.
Ff. 136-188v: Gospel of Mark and their comments.
Ff. 189v-298: Gospel of St. Luke and comments.
Ff. 299-c68: Gospel of St. John and their comments.
Ff. 369v identifies the Coptic gospel lessons for the first part of the year, as I indicated above.

A little further on he adds:

The colophon to the Gospel of Mark says (f. 188v): ‘The text of the Gospel of Mark the Evangelist and the commentary on its meaning is finished with the help of God – may He be exalted! — and by the blessing of His grace, on Wednesday, 6 Tut of the year 921 of the pure Martyrs. May his blessing be with us. Amen’.

The date is 3rd September, 1204 – the same year as the sack of Constantinople by the renegade army hired for the Fourth Crusade, in which so much ancient literature perished.

Iturbe published his edition in two volumes, the first with a preface on the manuscripts and then the Arabic text, the second with a preface on the contents and a Spanish translation. The introduction to the second volume begins as follows:

The patristic catena on the Gospel of St. Matthew in ms. Vatican ar. 452, the text published in Volume I, which we here give in translation, after almost all of the 68 sections into which it divides the Gospel text, has one or more pieces of commentary — scholia — each preceded by a very brief indication - lemma – written in red, which states, most of the time, who is the Father or interpreter who composed it. In total, there are 336 scholia with corresponding lemmas.

But there are 86 lemmas which are no more than the word ‘interpretation’, and we may wonder whether the compiler of the catena – or the copier - meant to assign the scholia which immediately follow to the named author of the preceding passage. That certainly agrees with the reading of the Coptic manuscript of Curzon and other similar Arabic manuscripts, and in a comparative study of them all we find that of the 86 scholia, 82 belong to the author last named in a lemma; 3 to a different author than the one listed in B above, and only 1 of them is unknown.

Having clarified the previous difficulty, and incidentally shedding light on other such mss, Coptic and Arabic, we have 113 which are scholia by St. Cyril of Alexandria and 109 of St. John Chrysostom. The two great Eastern doctors thus cover two thirds of all the commentary of St. Matthew in the catena. Then comes Severus of Antioch, with 53 glosses. And then, with a much smaller number, the other contributors. The list of all those in B, with the number of scholia that each must be awarded is as follows:

Cyril of Alexandria = 113
John Chrysostom = 109
Severus of Antioch = 53
Hippolytus of Rome = 15
Gregory the Theologian = 8
Gregory Thaumaturgus = 6
Epiphanius = 5
Eusebius of Caesarea = 5
Clement (Alexandria) = 5
Athanasius = 4
Basil = 4
Severian of Gabala = 2
Simeon the Hermit = 2
Cyril of Jerusalem = 1
Titus (of Bostra ) = 1
Isaiah the Anchorite = 1
An elder of the Desert Fathers [the abbot Ammon] = 1

These, then, are the authors for which we may find textual witnesses in this Arabic catena. Iturbe also states:

On the other hand there are various authors in Greek catenas who do not appear in Coptic-Arabic catenas: Apollinaris, Gregory of Nyssa, Irenaeus, Theodore of Heraclea, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret, etc; and above all Origen, who in almost all Greek catena families has many scholia, such as in the third of type B, where Origen comprises 227 out of the total 874.

There is little point in looking for material by Origen in Coptic or Arabic, it seems.

Back in the first introduction, Iturbe discusses the Coptic catena published by De Lagarde, from which all the Arabic mss. derive.

The Curzon Coptic manuscript catena, siglum L.

In 1886 Paul de Lagarde (P. Boetticher) published the Bohairic text of a manuscript obtained by Robert Curzon in March 1838 in the Monastery of the Syrians, Wadi ‘l-Natrun. Never translated, little use has been made so far in the scholarly field of this good edition of De Lagarde. But for the present study, however, we are particularly interested in this Coptic ms.

It contains a patristic catena on the four gospels – next to the Gospel text – divided into sections, as in B and other Arabic manuscripts. The text of the Gospels has only a short verse or verses, which are generally given before the lemmas and scholia: in this, then, it is similar to M and P. This codex was written in the year 605 of the holy martyrs (888/89 AD), more than three centuries before the oldest of our Arabic mss, codex B, which was written in the year 1214 AD as regards the part of Matthew. Because sixteen folios were lost, the comments on Matt. 2:1-5:5; 5:44-6:3; 7:24-29; 9:27-9:37; 12:48-13:10; 24:16-29 are missing; see the introduction.

All this detail may swamp us; but we need to recall that almost no-one working on New Testament texts or on the patristic comments on them found in catenas — is there anyone working on the latter? — has any awareness of material that has made its way into Arabic.

When my Eusebius volume appears, at least those dealing with the Gospel problems and solutions will be aware that there is material that should be consulted in Christian Arabic.

Ancient World Bloggers Group: Anniversary

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-19T19:44:05+00:00

This is a version of a communication I just posted on IraqCrisis

As of this weekend the United States and the Coalition have been at war in Iraq for seven years.
Millions of people have been forced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced; hundreds of thousands have been killed and basic services remain unattainable for many. Hundreds of thousands of US soldiers have been sent to fight resulting in over 4,000 deaths and many more injured. In addition, the war has cost U.S. taxpayers at least $3 trillion that could have been spent on jobs, healthcare, and schools. There are no winners.

The Library of Congress has undertaken to archive web sites selected by subject specialists to represent web-based information on the Iraq War.

Iraq War, 2003 Web Archive

Scope: On March 20, 2003, the United States initiated offensive military action against Iraq for the stated purpose of deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and preventing his use of suspected nuclear weapons (weapons of mass destruction.) British, Australian, Polish, and Danish forces participated in the invasion. U.S. led forces took control of Baghdad on April 9, 2003. There was both support and opposition to the war.

The war continued with the United States coalition forces facing increased insurgency from Shiite militants, Sunni militants, and terrorists aligned with Al Queda. The United States has had more than 150,000 troops deployed at any one time in Iraq. The Library continued with two more phases of web capturing from December, 2003 to the present. These last two phases are not yet available but will be in the future.

Included in the web archive are U.S. government sites, foreign government sites, public policy and political advocacy groups, educational organizations, religious organizations, support groups for military personnel, anti-war groups, sites that target children, and news sources.

This collection is part of a continuing effort by the Library of Congress to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials for future generations of researchers.

Collection Period: The Iraq War Web-capture has three phases of collection. The first phase, a weekly capture, began on March 13, 2003 with the commencement of the war and ended June 30, 2003.

Phase 1 has been processed and is available from this site.

Phase 2 is a weekly capture and covers December 2003 to December 2004. Phase 3, also a weekly capture, was begun in January 2005 and is ongoing as of January, 2008. Phases 2 and 3 are not yet processed.

Number of Sites: 231 constituting Phase 1.

The Iraq War Web Archive includes two websites under the subject heading "cultural property"

1. Iraq -- The cradle of civilization at risk: H-Museum Current Focus
linking to http://h-net.msu.edu/~museum/iraq.html
2. LOST TREASURES FROM IRAQ
linking to http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html

Almost nothing else in the resource makes reference to archaeology, archaeological sites, museums, or libraries in Iraq. A search for the phrase "stuff happens" yields no results.

Fortunately two other sites remain online.

1. Francis Deblauwe's The Iraq War & Archaeology Blog
2. The IraqCrisis list Archive

I've asked that the Library of Congress include them in the next phases of the Iraq War Web Archive.

IOSA.it - Open Archaeology: The archaeology of open source software in archaeological research

steko — 2010-03-19T16:05:09+00:00

In 2010, using and developing free and open source software for archaeological research is not interesting news: lots of us do that nowadays, and the quality and quantity of available software and programming libraries is something not questionable. But was it the same 5 years ago ? It was very different, believe me. In 2005 the IOSA project was less than one year old, GRASS GIS 6.0 beta was right there and it looked to us like just having a human graphical interface to a free GIS program would help solving any problem. Ubuntu Linux was just a Warty Warthog. But this is history.
What I'm going to write today is instead the archaeology of free and open source software in archaeology. A few weeks ago I found two unrelated items that will fit perfectly in such an archaeological study.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Eusebius update

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-19T16:04:44+00:00

Iturbe’s edition of the Arabic catena containing bits of Eusebius has arrived. There are five fragments. I’ve commissioned a translation of them, and also a transcription; also a transcription of the Syriac text translated earlier.

Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Friday Quick Hits and Varia

William Caraher — 2010-03-19T13:50:51+00:00

Some cool quick hits on a chilly spring Friday morning:

If you haven't tracked it down yet, check out Dan Reetz's home page and blog.
The Electric Archaeologist is experimenting with Vue (Visual Understanding Environment) here and here.
The Iklaina Archaeological Project publishes its final reports online on a fairly nice looking site.
Here's an update on the project sponsored by the University of Bristol to included homeless people in the excavation of an urban site.
Here's a link to a somewhat interesting First Monday article on how students use Wikipedia and an interesting article on how peer governance works on that site.
My lovely wife has offered to get my an iPad for my birthday. At the same time, I've been talking the Scott Moore who recently purchased a Kindle. And now I discover that I can read Kindle books on my Mac in a real mediocre way.
Did I link to this interesting (and sort of long) talk by J. Zittrain on the Historical Record in the Digital Age?
Some of Ryan Stander's work based on his time in Cyprus was recently declared indecent by the good folks at the County of Somerset Culture and Heritage Council.
This is a very funny version of Classics version of Adam Sandler's Hannukah song produced by students at my old stomping ground, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Joel Jonientz, one of our collaborators in the Working Group in Digital and New Media, interviewed Art Spiegelman.
One of the fun things to do during the NCAA tournament is to check Google Trends to see what universities are getting lots of attention for their teams' success during the NCAA Tournament.
For a tiny bit, it looked like New Zealand v. Australia might be interesting, but then folks settled in.
Bristol this week.
And the NCAA Tournament. I broke my own record for how quickly I could lose my NCAA Champion (Georgetown): first day, third session. What was I thinking?

As a point of comparison, I captured this photo at 7:22 am today. Compare it to the capture from 24 hours before.

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Chroniques assyriologiques

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-19T13:22:51+00:00

Chroniques assyriologiques: Le nouveau site des Chroniques

Depuis 2005, le site des Chroniques assyriologiques offre des notes de lectures en assyriologie et hittitologie, principalement à partir des notices publiées dans la Revue Historique de Droit Français et Etranger (=RHD). Ce site a été créé à l’initiative d’Alice Mouton, qui contribuait alors régulièrement à la section « hittitologie » des Chroniques, et de Sophie Démare-Lafont, éditeur en chef des Chroniques assyriologiques de la RHD. Il reprend l’ensemble des notices publiées depuis 1991 et jusqu’à la dernière parution des Chroniques de la RHD en 2004.

Après une période d’inactivité relative principalement due à des difficultés techniques (problèmes de plateforme), le site renaît de ses cendres à cette nouvelle adresse.

Par souci de commodité, ce nouveau site des Chroniques assyriologiques reprend les anciennes notices du précédent site, mais y ajoute de nouvelles notes de lecture. L’ancien site des Chroniques ne sera donc plus mis à jour.
Bonne lecture à tous !

Dr. Alice Mouton, responsable du site internet

Contribuez aux Chroniques assyriologiques !

Avec la création du nouveau site internet des Chroniques, il a été décidé d’ouvrir les notices à l’ensemble des langues de l’assyriologie. Seront dorénavant acceptées les notices en anglais, allemand, italien et français. Autre nouveauté : le nom des auteurs des nouvelles notices sera spécifié, contrairement à l’ancien usage des Chroniques.
Toute notice doit être transmise à Alice Mouton à l’adresse suivante : alice.mouton@misha.fr
Il est rappelé que chaque notice doit comporter entre 5 et 10 lignes maximum.

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Néo-babylonien
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IOSA.it - Open Archaeology: Late Antique Archaeology 2010

steko — 2010-03-19T12:02:56+00:00

These are some rough notes taken last week at Late Antique Archaeology conference 2010 about Local economies? Production & exchange of inland regions, that took place at King's College, London, Friday 12th to Saturday 13th March 2010. Overall, this conference was interesting, and I had a chance to meet lots of nice people working in Late Antique Archaeology. Inspiration for my PhD research was just great.

Contents

Logos Bible Software Blog: Need Help with New Testament Exegesis?

Rick Brannan — 2010-03-19T08:00:01+00:00

A few years back, we published a series of seven books called Guides to New Testament Exegesis. The seven titles are also available individually (links below go to individual volumes), but of course you save by purchasing the collection:

Introducing New Testament Interpretation by Scot McKnight
Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels by Scot McKnight
Interpreting the Gospel of John by Gary M. Burge
Interpreting the Book of Acts by Walter L. Liefeld
Interpreting the Pauline Epistles by Thomas R. Schreiner
Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews by Andrew H. Trotter Jr.
Interpreting the Book of Revelation by J. Ramsey Michaels

These books provide a general introduction (by Scot McKnight, no less!) to the interpretation of the New Testament, as well as genre-specific methods and materials for doing exegesis. One thing I didn't know (but learned from reading the product page on Logos.com — good stuff there!) was that:

The vision for this collection comes from Gordon Fee’s New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors. By developing handbooks for each genre and book collection, this collection operates as an extended treatment of Fee’s narrower scope.

Fee's work is detailed and valuable; to have his methodology distilled and applied to these particular genres is a helpful thing. It's like getting a jump start in New Testament exegesis. And to have it done by folks of the caliber of Scot McKnight, Thomas Schreiner, and Gary Burge? Even better. Check it out.

Speaking of New Testament exegesis, another title that you might find helpful is Donald Hagner's introduction, New Testament Exegesis and Research: A Guide for Seminarians. This is geared toward seminarians, but helpful for everyone. If I understand correctly how the book came about, it is basically the information that Hagner gives incoming seminarians, to get them properly grounded at the start of their seminary career.

Need some more suggestions? I'm out of room here, but you might try I. Howard Marshall's New Testament Interpretation, David Alan Black's Interpreting the New Testament, or perhaps even Katharine Barnwell's Linguistics and New Testament Interpretation. Check 'em out!

Objects-Building-Situations (Kostis Kourelis): Louis Kahn in Corinth

KOSTIS KOURELIS — 2010-03-19T00:57:11+00:00

Michael J. Lewis has published a fascinating little article on Louis Kahn's 1932 entry for a Lenin Memorial. The competition is largely unknown from Kahn's corpus because he intentionally expunged it from his resume in order to save himself from future political embarrassment. Although Michael Lewis had studied a verbal description of the monument (donated to the University of Pennsylvania

Michael E. Smith (Publishing Archaeology): Blogged out

Michael E. Smith — 2010-03-18T21:39:04+00:00

Wow, Publishing Archaeology placed number 33 in the list of "50 Best blogs for archaeology students." What a great finish, something to feel proud of. Or maybe I should be depressed. They do list a bunch of nice blogs, but they leave out the one I have been projecting before class as we get set up: Archaeopop (I put on the music videos filmed at major sites).

Right now, though, this "inspirational" poster on blogging may be more in line with my attitude (thanks to my daughter Heather for pointing out the Demotivators site with many such inspirational posters. My favorite is this one, a materialist manifesto if I ever saw one:

My students prefer the Sacrifice poster, though (check it out at Demotivators).

Time to do some work, enough of this nonsense.

Shawn Graham (Electric Archaeology): More on Vue

Shawn — 2010-03-18T20:52:46+00:00

With Erica’s link, I think I might be able to make some headway on getting Opencontext.org materials into VUE… in the meantime, I thought it might behoove me to start on something more straightforward. So I took the feed from Tom Elliott’s Maia Atlantis feed, to see what’d happen… and I think it might be useful for working out the links of our own little corner of the blogosphere. With a does of network analysis (VUE generates connectivity matrices) it should be able to figure out who are the keyplayers, and other implications for information flow. Hmm!

(I also ran the feed for this blog through it, and discovered just how awful my tagging/categories really are. Great big blocks of unconnected posts – the categories are the links – so I should really try to rationalize all that).

A similar idea – well, standard social network analysis – is being done using VUE with regard to the WWI Poets:

Stuart Lee from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is using VUE to draw out relationships between poets covered in the archive. From his post at the World War One Literature google group:

What I have done, therefore, is take a preliminary stab at showing -
in a mind-map – the relationships between the poets we have
concentrated on in the project (or will be) and show how they might
have known each other, etc. By no means is this complete, but it
begins to show poets who were clearly at the centre of things
(Sassoon, Thomas, Graves, and eventually Owen) and those who were on
the periphery (Leighton, Jones, Brittain).

Check out the map he created:

See the VUE blog, and the original post

Logos Bible Software Blog: What's up on the Mac?

Bob Pritchett — 2010-03-18T20:00:00+00:00

Getting Logos 4 for the Mac finished is one of our top priorities. Recent Alpha releases are in good shape, and offer many of the core features. We're working at top speed to get everything else done, too.

The number one questions, of course, is "When?" And we can't say, because we don't know. We're putting our energy into coding, not estimating. And, because of the unique challenges involved in sharing code between platforms, there are many things we can't predict the time-frame for, even if we tried.

The good news is that the Logos 4 Mac team is seeing success after success. Our shared-code strategy is working, and ensuring compatibility of both content and documents. And as the platform becomes more stable we're seeing increased speed implementing features at the interface layer.

We've been hiring Mac developers for quite a while, and we have even brought some of the Windows development team over to the Mac side. But we couldn't hire enough great Mac developers fast enough here in Bellingham, so we decided to do something even more dramatic: We opened a temporary office in Bellevue, Washington where we could get access to a bigger pool of Mac developers.

We rented an apartment and moved our Mac team lead there for four days a week. He's helping keep the half-dozen programmers there coordinated with the larger team in Bellingham.

The bottom line? Logos 4 Mac is full-speed ahead, and making lots of progress. We can't predict the final ship date, but we're confident we're doing everything possible to make it as soon as possible. And, of course, there's a new Alpha release every two weeks, which many users report is stable and meets their needs on a daily basis.

Want even more updates? Keep an eye on our forums, where you can hear about the latest progress and even interact with the development team.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing, Dublin, Ireland, 28 April 2010

2010-03-18T14:42:14+00:00

In conjunction with the annual meeting of the TEI Council, the Digital Humanities Observatory is sponsoring a Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing. For details, please see the symposium website.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting 2010: Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

2010-03-18T14:40:42+00:00

The 2010 Conference and Members’ Meeting will be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia. Proposals for papers are due by 1 May; proposals for pre-conference workshops are due 31 March. Please see the conference website for details.

Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Spring Thaw and Flood

William Caraher — 2010-03-18T12:52:18+00:00

It's that time of year again: flood season. Since so many of you have asked, I've embedded Grand Forks' flood cam in this post:

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To offer some perspective, I've included a screen grab of the flood cam as of 7:30 am today:

As you can see the bridge is still open and the Mighty Red River of the North is still largely within its banks. The flood obelisk is just to the right of center immediately to the left of the electrical pole on the right side of the bridge. As you can see it's in the water, but that's not too unusual or scary. The crest is predicted for early next week and to be between 47 and 49 feet. Apparently the long, early thaw combined with a snowy winter and relatively damp March has caused the major problems this year. Current predictions put the crest safely inside the to 10 historic crests:

Historic Crests1) 54.35 feet - April 22, 1997
2) 50.20 feet - April 10, 1897
3) 49.34 feet - April 1, 2009
4) 48.81 feet - April 26, 1979
5) 48.00 feet - April 18, 1882
6) 47.93 feet - April 6, 2006
7) 47.41 feet - April 16, 2006
8) 45.93 feet - April 21, 1996
9) 45.73 feet - April 11, 1978
10) 45.69 feet - April 16, 1969
Source: National Weather Service via Grand Forks Herald

I guess there is some worry about ice jams -- or at least that was the topic of conversation last night at dinner. If you want to know as much as we do out here, check out the Grand Forks Herald's flood page. We'll do all we can to stay dry and hope the best for our friends to the south.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Eusebius update

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-18T11:43:57+00:00

I’m still trying to get the manuscript of Eusebius Gospel problems and solutions completed. We’re getting ever closer, tho!

I’ve started working on the text of the Latin fragments myself, faux de mieux, which I will get done by the end of the week.

The two extra Syriac fragments, culled from Severus of Antioch and Ishodad of Merv, will be translated by the same time (I am promised).

I’ve got all the Greek in electronic form. The passages from Cramer’s catena have all been proofed excellently, but I’ve now got a friend looking at the material from Migne: the first three chunks from Nicetas’ catena on Luke are with him.

I’ve heard nothing from the people doing the Coptic for a month, when I last prompted. Time to prompt again.

I’ve also ordered a copy of the Arabic translation of the Coptic catena on Matthew. I need someone with Coptic and Arabic to translate the relevant bits and compare it with the Coptic.

Henriette Roued (e-Doc): Day of Digital Humanities

roued — 2010-03-18T11:12:54+00:00

Follow my Day of DH, an initiative started last year by the University of Alberta, Canada.

“A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a community publication project that will bring together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day, March 18th. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work which will be published online.” (Day of DH)

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Critical edition of the Koran in preparation?

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-18T08:56:50+00:00

Ghost of a flea pointed me to jeff black, berlin, who writes:

A page from a 7th century Sanaa ms.

German researchers preparing “Qur’an: The Critical Edition”

This is a serious business. A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring out the first installment of Corpus Coranicum – which purports to be nothing less than the first critically evaluated text of the Qur’an ever to be produced.

What this means is that the research team is in the process of analysing and transcribing some 12,000 slides of Qur’an mansucripts from the first six centuries of the text’s existence. Once that is complete, the way is open to producing a text that annotates and, presumably, provides some sort of exegesis on the differences found in the early manuscripts.

…

The Potsdam-based team of Corpus Coranicum have so far concentrated on Suras 18 to 20, and are due to produce a first slice of the final product from that in the next few weeks. The whole book is meant to take until around 2025.

UPDATE: The English language site seems to be down but the Google cache contains the following, seemingly from an old update:

Welcome to the Corpus Coranicum

The project “Corpus Coranicum” contains two unworked fields of qur’anic studies: (1) the documentation of the qur’anic text in his handwritten as well as orally transmitted form and (2) a comprehensive commentary which elucidates the text within the framework of its historical process of development.

Because of the ambiguity of the early defective writing system of the Qur’anic manuscripts, a strict separation of the data on the one hand provided by manuscripts and on the other hand transmitted via the tradition of recitation is recommended. The documentation of the Qur’anic text will provide a documentation for both traditions and compare them afterwards.

The planned commentary focuses on a historical perspective, the Qur’an seen as a text which evolved through the period of more than twenty years, thereby getting formal and content-related differences through abrogation and re-definitions within the text. Furthermore, the commentary is based on an inclusion of the judeo-christian intertexts and looks at the Qur’an as a document of the Late Antiquity. “Corpus Coranicum” is in the early stage of its development; the first results are planned to be published online in 2009.

That shows a very sensible approach. You eat an elephant a little at a time. Rather than working on a Koran text as such, work on the early witnesses to the text, the physical remains, the unvocalised scripts, and find out what we actually have from that period and what it says.

Melissa Terras' Blog: Day of DH

Melissa — 2010-03-18T08:21:07+00:00

Today is the day of DH! over 150 people in digital humanities will be blogging throughout the day, saying what they are up to, and showing the diversity of the discipline.

You can see my own mini blog here, although its not going to be the day I thought, for yesterday my dear little laptop keeled over, forever. I am currently typing this on my TV in my living room (thank goodness we have 5 or 6 computers just kicking about, that come in useful in situations like this). But still - I am oddly bereft.

Bereft, but not tearing my hair out. I keep pretty good backups, so think I may have irrecoverably lost about 30 mins of work, and a to do list, so its not the disaster it could have been. But my little machine! my machine!

I'll remember the good times. sniff.

Logos Bible Software Blog: Save up to 75% on 64 Logos Titles

rburns — 2010-03-18T08:00:01+00:00

We've hand-picked 64 titles to compete in the 2010 Logos March Madness tournament and it is up to you to decide which one we should sell at 75% off!

The premise is simple—at www.logosmarchmadness.com we’ve taken 64 titles available in Logos Bible Software and split them into four divisions. You vote for your favorite titles in each division and the ones with the most votes at the end of each of the six rounds advance. Titles that don’t advance are then offered at a discounted rate between 25% and 50% off the retail price. The title that gets crowned the champion will be discounted at 75% off!

Voting is now open for the first round, and will remain open thru March 20th. The complete schedule is as follows:

Round 1: March 18-20
Round 2: March 21-23
Sweet 16: March 24-26
Elite 8: March 27-29
Final 4: March 30 – April 1
Championship: April 2-5
See the full brackets

As I said, the titles that don't get enough votes to advance out of a round will be offered at a discount. Here is how the discounts will break down:

Titles not advancing out of round 1 will be 25% off.
Titles not advancing out of round 2 will be 30% off.
Titles not advancing out of the sweet sixteen will be 35% off.
Titles not advancing out of the elite eight will be 40% off.
Titles not advancing out of the final four will be 45% off.
The second place book in the tournament will be 50% off.
The tournament champion will be 75% off.

So, go check out the full list of titles being offered and vote for your favorites. Of course, if you really want a title to win (so you can get it for 75% off) be sure to spread the word to all your friends and family and tell them to go to www.logosmarchmadness.com and vote for your favorites!

So, what are you waiting for?

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): People with knowledge of Coptic and Arabic

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-18T01:03:48+00:00

A touch of insomnia this evening led me to hunt around the web for native English-speaking academics who know Coptic and Arabic. No luck so far!

Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities: March 23 Digital Dialogue: Beth Bonsignore, “The Design and Use of StoryKit: An Intergenerational Mobile Storytelling App”

admin — 2010-03-17T22:32:51+00:00

A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, March 23rd, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135

“The Design and Use of StoryKit: An Intergenerational Mobile Storytelling App”
by BETH BONSIGNORE

Today’s mobile devices are natively equipped with multimedia means for families to capture and share their daily experiences. However, designing authoring tools that effectively integrate the discrete media-capture components of mobile devices to enable rich expression remains a challenge. This presentation will provide a brief overview of collaborative technologies that support children’s storytelling, with a focus on mobile applications. It will detail a 4-month study on the observed use of StoryKit, a mobile interface that integrates multimodal media-capture tools to support the creation of multimedia stories on an iPhone/iPod Touch. The primary objectives of the study were to explore the ways in which applications like StoryKit enable families to create and share stories; and to investigate how the created stories themselves might inform the design of, and learning potential for mobile storytelling applications. Its results suggest that StoryKit’s relatively simple but well-integrated interface enables the creation of vibrant, varied narratives. Further, its portability supported the complementary co-construction and spontaneous, playful capture of stories by children and their trusted adults.

BETH BONSIGNORE is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland’s iSchool and a graduate research assistant at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI), and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). At MITH, she has enjoyed being a member of the talented Developers’ Cohort guided by MITH Associate Director, Doug Reside, and has been involved in database design for Shakespeare’s Quartos and TheatreFinder, a collaborative interface for scholars and aficionados of historic theatres. Supported by an NSF EAGER grant under the direction of Kari Kraus (iSchool/ARHU) and Derek Hansen (iSchool/CASCI), she is exploring the potential of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) to support the design of collaborative technologies for education. Participatory design work with Allison Druin and the HCIL KidsTeam, a group of children aged 7-12 working to develop new technologies, is an integral part of her research, which lies at the intersection of New Media Literacies studies, technology development for collaborative sensemaking and storytelling, and social analytics for communities of learning.

Coming up @MITH March 30th: Nick Chen and Kari Kraus, “Prototyping a Dual-Display e-Reader in the Literature Classroom”

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Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): The Ancient World in ACLS Humanities E-Book

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-17T20:41:18+00:00

ACLS Humanities E-Book has just added 576 books to its collection, bringing the total to 2790 works across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.

HEB offers access to the collection at competitive rates to subscribing institutions, either directly or through consortia, as well as to individual members of all ACLS constituent societies.

The following list (alphabetical by author name) includes those titles in the collection relating to the ancient world, known by me. If you are within a subscribing domain or proxy server or if you are a subscribing individual you should be able to get access via the links below. If not, you or your institution will need to subscribe. This list has 244 items.

Manzikert to Lepanto: the Byzantine world and the Turks 1071-1571 : papers given at the nineteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1985
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The position of women in Hindu civilization: from prehistoric times to the present day, Altekar, Anant Sadashiv.
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Studies in Byzantine intellectual history, Anastos, Milton V. (Milton Vasil), 1909-
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The New York Cruciform Lectionary, Anderson, Jeffrey C.
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Women and law in late antiquity, Arjava, Antti.
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Frauen in altsumerischer Zeit, Asher-Greve, Julia M.
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Among women: from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world, Auanger, Lisa, 1965-
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World archaeoastronomy: selected papers from the 2nd Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy, held at Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 13-17 January 1986, Aveni, Anthony F.
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Egypt in late antiquity, Bagnall, Roger S.
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Reading papyri, writing ancient history, Bagnall, Roger S.
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Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800, Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis
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The demography of Roman Egypt, Bagnall, Roger S.
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Relations between East and West in the Middle Ages, Baker, Derek, 1931-
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Manuel II Palaeologus (1391-1425): a study in late Byzantine statesmanship, Barker, John W.
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Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion, Bartolʹd, V. V. (Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich), 1869-1930.
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The wonder that was India: a survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims, Basham, A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn)
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Hittite diplomatic texts, Beckman, Gary M.
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The literature of the Old Testament, Bewer, Julius A. (Julius August), 1877-1953.
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Greek sophists in the Roman Empire, Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-
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Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204, Brand, Charles M.
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The magistrates of the Roman Republic, Broughton, T. Robert S. (Thomas Robert Shannon), 1900-
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The magistrates of the Roman Republic, Broughton, T. Robert S. (Thomas Robert Shannon), 1900-
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Anticlassicism in Greek sculpture of the fourth century B.C., Brown, Blanche R.
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Venice & antiquity: the Venetian sense of the past, Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936-
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The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity, Brown, Peter Robert Lamont.
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The making of late antiquity, Brown, Peter Robert Lamont.
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Roman imperial themes, Brunt, P. A.
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The Byzantine monuments and topography of the Pontos, Bryer, Anthony.
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The Byzantine monuments and topography of the Pontos, Bryer, Anthony.
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Peoples and settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus, 800-1900, Bryer, Anthony.
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History of the later Roman Empire: from the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian, Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927.
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History of the later Roman Empire: from the death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian, Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927.
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The imperial administrative system in the ninth century: with a revised text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos, Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927.
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Circus factions: Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium, Cameron, Alan.
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Art, myth, and ritual: the path to political authority in ancient China, Chang, Kwang-chih.
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From hunters to farmers: the causes and consequences of food production in Africa, Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-
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Athenian economy and society: a banking perspective, Cohen, Edward E.
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries : annotated lists and guides, Cranz, F. Edward (Ferdinand Edward)
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Roman Republican coinage, Crawford, Michael H. (Michael Hewson), 1939-
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Roman Republican coinage, Crawford, Michael H. (Michael Hewson), 1939-
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Gymnastics of the mind: Greek education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, Cribiore, Raffaella.
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Writing, teachers, and students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, Cribiore, Raffaella.
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Law and life of Rome, Crook, J. A. (John Anthony)
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The making of the slavs: history and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500-700, Curta, Florin.
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Commerce and social standing in ancient Rome, D'Arms, John H., 1934-
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Beyond illustration: 2d and 3d digital technologies as tools for discovery in archaeology, Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild
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Athenian propertied families, 600-300 B.C., Davies, John Kenyon.
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The cult of Saint Thecla: a tradition of women's piety in late antiquity, Davis, Stephen J.
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Women's bodies in classical Greek science, Dean-Jones, Lesley.
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Birth, death, and motherhood in classical Greece, Demand, Nancy H.
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Byzantine mosaic decoration: aspects of monumental art in Byzantium, Demus, Otto.
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The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts, Der Manuelian, Peter.
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Greek forms of address: from Herodotus to Lucian, Dickey, Eleanor.
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The settlement of the Americas: a new prehistory, Dillehay, Tom D.
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Diodore of Tarsus: commentary on Psalms 1-51, Diodore, of Tarsus, Bishop of Tarsus, d. ca. 392.
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The Roman family, Dixon, Suzanne.
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Greek homosexuality, Dover, Kenneth James.
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Greek popular morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle, Dover, Kenneth James.
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Flinders Petrie: a life in archaeology, Drower, Margaret S.
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Comparative studies in the archaeology of colonialism, Dyson, Stephen L.
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The Origins and diversity of axial age civilizations, Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-
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Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity, Elm, Susanna.
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The classical monument: reflections on the connection between morality and art in Greek and Roman sculpture, Fehl, Philipp P.
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Epicurus and his gods: Épicure et ses dieux, Festugière, A. J. (André Jean), 1898-1982.
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Ancient history: evidence and models, Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986.
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Politics in the ancient world, Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986.
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The ancient economy, Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986.
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The Nazareth capitals and the Crusader Shrine of the Annunciation, Folda, Jaroslav.
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Late antiquity, A.D. 267-700, Frantz, Alison.
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Landlords and tenants in imperial Rome, Frier, Bruce W., 1943-
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The Horace's Villa Project, 1997-2003, Bernard Frischer, Jane Crawford, and Monica De Simone
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The sculpted word: epicureanism and philosophical recruitment in ancient Greece, Bernard Frischer
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Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt, Frood, Elizabeth.
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Republican Rome, the army, and the allies, Gabba, Emilio.
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Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world: responses to risk and crisis, Garnsey, Peter.
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The Roman nobility, Gelzer, Matthias, 1886-1974.
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The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature, Gerardi, Pamela, 1956-
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Beholding the sacred mysteries: programs of the Byzantine sanctuary, Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
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The Bible in the Latin West, Gibson, Margaret T.
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Mesopotamian chronicles, Glassner, Jean-Jacques.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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A Mediterranean society: the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, Goitein, S. D., 1900-1985.
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L'empereur dans l'art byzantin: recherches sur l'art officiel de l'empire d'Orient, Grabar, André, 1896-1990.
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Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa: testimonies against the Jews, Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, ca. 335-ca. 394.
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Byzantium in the seventh century: the transformation of a culture, Haldon, John F.
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The acts of Mār Māri the apostle, Harrak, Amir.
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Ancient literacy, Harris, William V. (William Vernon)
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Restraining rage: the ideology of anger control in classical antiquity, Harris, William V. (William Vernon)
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War and imperialism in Republican Rome, 327-70 B.C., Harris, William V. (William Vernon)
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Land and politics in the Valley of Mexico: a two thousand-year perspective, Harvey, H. R., 1931-
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Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico, Hassig, Ross, 1945-
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Ancient Panama: chiefs in search of power, Helms, Mary W.
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Heraclitus: Homeric problems, Heraclitus, 1st cent.
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Invention and method: two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus, Hermogenes, 2nd cent.
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Women in purple: rulers of medieval Byzantium, Herrin, Judith.
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4 Baruch (Paraleipomena Jeremiou), Herzer, Jens.
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The chreia and ancient rhetoric: classroom exercises, Hock, Ronald F., 1944-
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Hittite myths, Hoffner, Harry A.
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Hymns, prayers, and songs: an anthology of ancient Egyptian lyric poetry, Hollis, Susan T.
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Theodosian empresses: women and imperial dominion in late antiquity, Holum, Kenneth G.
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The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Hussey, J. M. (Joan Mervyn)
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Inka settlement planning, Hyslop, John, 1945-1993.
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The limits of empire: the Roman army in the East, Isaac, Benjamin H.
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Studies on Byzantine history of the 9th and 10th centuries, Jenkins, Romilly James Heald.
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The lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus, John Rufus, Bishop of Maiuma, fl. 476-518.
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Byzantine military unrest, 471-843: an interpretation, Kaegi, Walter Emil.
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Byzantium and the decline of Rome, Kaegi, Walter Emil.
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Some thoughts on Byzantine military strategy, Kaegi, Walter Emil.
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Progymnasmata: Greek textbooks of prose composition and rhetoric, Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-
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Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, Kinnamos, Iōannēs, b. ca. 1143.
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Byzantine art in the making: main lines of stylistic development in Mediterranean art, 3rd-7th century, Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-
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Caesarius of Arles: the making of a Christian community in late antique Gaul, Klingshirn, William E.
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Shenoute & the women of the White Monastery: Egyptian monasticism in late antiquity, Krawiec, Rebecca.
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Puritans in Babylon: the ancient Near East and American intellectual life, 1880-1930, Kuklick, Bruce, 1941-
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The expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine, Kuriyama, Shigehisa, 1954-
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Constantinople and the Latins: the foreign policy of Andronicus II, 1282-1328, Laiou, Angeliki E.
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Women's earliest records: from ancient Egypt and western Asia, Lesko, Barbara S.
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"Women like this": new perspectives on Jewish women in the Greco-Roman world, Levine, Amy-Jill, 1956-
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Ancient Ghana and Mali, Levtzion, Nehemia.
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Libanius's Progymnasmata: model exercises in Greek prose composition and rhetoric, Libanius.
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Barbarians and bishops: army, church, and state in the age of Arcadius and Chrysostom, Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon)
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Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204, Lilie, Ralph-Johannes.
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Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew letters, Lindenberger, James M.
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Crusaders as conquerors: the Chronicle of Morea, Lurier, Harold E.
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Art and ceremony in late antiquity, MacCormack, Sabine.
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On the wings of time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, MacCormack, Sabine.
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Religion in the Andes: vision and imagination in early colonial Peru, MacCormack, Sabine.
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Changes in the Roman empire: essays in the ordinary, MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-
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Enemies of the Roman order: treason, unrest, and alienation in the Empire, MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-
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Philostratus's Heroikos: religion and cultural identity in the third century C.E., Maclean, Jennifer K. Berenson, 1963-
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Art and eloquence in Byzantium, Maguire, Henry, 1943-
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Earth and ocean: the terrestrial world in early Byzantine art, Maguire, Henry, 1943-
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The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, Makk, Ferenc.
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The Byzantine provincial administration under the Palaiologoi, Maksimović, Ljubomir.
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Ancient epistolary theorists, Malherbe, Abraham J.
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Down from Olympus: archaeology and philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970, Marchand, Suzanne L., 1961-
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Authority and tradition in ancient historiography, Marincola, John.
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Apollo's lyre: Greek music and music theory in antiquity and the Middle Ages, Mathiesen, Thomas J.
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First converts: rich pagan women and the rhetoric of mission in early Judaism and Christianity, Matthews, Shelly.
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The Uses of literacy in early medieval Europe, McKitterick, Rosamond.
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The Greek peasant, McNall, Scott G.
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Roman Ostia, Meiggs, Russell.
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Texts from the Amarna period in Egypt, Meltzer, Edmund S.
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Discovering Eve: ancient Israelite women in context, Meyers, Carol L.
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The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.-A.D. 337, Millar, Fergus.
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Imperial Constantinople, Miller, Dean A.
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The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine Empire, Miller, Timothy S.
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Iraq after the Muslim conquest, Morony, Michael G., 1939-
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Burial and ancient society: the rise of the Greek city-state, Morris, Ian, 1960-
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Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age, Musto, Ronald G.
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Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe, Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942-
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The iconography of preface and miniature in the Byzantine Gospel book, Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
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The immortal emperor: the life and legend of Constantine Palaiologos, last emperor of the Romans, Nicol, Donald MacGillivray.
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Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people, Ober, Josiah.
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The Byzantine commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453, Obolensky, Dimitri, 1918-
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Seven books of history against the pagans: the apology of Paulus Orosius, Orosius, Paulus.
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Classical landscape with figures: the ancient Greek city and its countryside, Osborne, Robin, 1957-
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Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis, Osborne, Robin, 1957-
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And Sarah laughed: the status of woman in the Old Testament, Otwell, John H.
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Ritual and cult at Ugarit, Pardee, Dennis.
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Ugaritic narrative poetry, Parker, Simon B.
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Demography and Roman society, Parkin, Tim G.
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Pauvreté économique et pauvreté sociale à Byzance, 4e-7e siècles, Patlagean, Evelyne.
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Structure sociale, famille, chrétienté à Byzance: IVe-XIe siècle, Patlagean, Evelyne.
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Roman images, Patterson, Annabel M.
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Man in the middle voice: name and narration in the Odyssey, Peradotto, John, 1933-
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Women in the ancient world: the Arethusa papers, Peradotto, John, 1933-
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Pavimente und Figürliche mosaiken, Pernice, Erich, 1864-1945.
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Arabia of the Wahhabis, Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885-1960.
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Philostorgius: church history, Philostorgius.
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Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos, Philostratus, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent.
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On heroes, Philostratus, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent.
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Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves: women in classical antiquity, Pomeroy, Sarah B.
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Women in Hellenistic Egypt: from Alexander to Cleopatra, Pomeroy, Sarah B.
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The romance of Alexander the Great, Pseudo-Callisthenes.
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The influence of prophecy in the later Middle Ages: a study in Joachimism, Reeves, Marjorie.
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Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I, Donald Malcolm Reid
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Letters from early Mesopotamia, Reiner, Erica, 1926-
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Precious metals in the later medieval and early modern worlds, Richards, John F.
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Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance, Riddle, John M.
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The social and economic history of the Roman Empire, Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, 1870-1952.
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The social and economic history of the Roman Empire, Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, 1870-1952.
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Law collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, Roth, Martha Tobi.
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Il metodo degli umanisti, Sabbadini, Remigio, 1850-1934.
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A history of Arabia, Salibi, Kamal S. (Kamal Suleiman), 1929-
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Economic rights of women in ancient Greece, Schaps, David M.
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The world of thought in ancient China, Schwartz, Benjamin Isadore, 1916-
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Hitler's state architecture: the impact of classical antiquity, Scobie, Alexander.
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The literature of the New Testament, Scott, Ernest Findlay, 1868-
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Athens in the Middle Ages, Setton, Kenneth Meyer, 1914-
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The Roman citizenship, Sherwin-White, A. N. (Adrian Nicholas)
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Between past and present: archaeology, ideology, and nationalism in the modern Middle East, Silberman, Neil Asher, 1950-
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Records of the grand historian of China, Sima, Qian, ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.
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Hittite prayers, Singer, Itamar.
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The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, Smalley, Beryl.
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Byzantium's Balkan frontier: a political study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, Paul Stephenson
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Byzantium's Balkan frontier: a political study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204, Stephenson, Paul.
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Humanism and the church fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian antiquity in the Italian Renaissance, Stinger, Charles L., 1944-
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Texts from the pyramid age, Strudwick, Nigel.
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Pan Chao, foremost woman scholar of China, first century A.D.: background, ancestry, life, and writings of the most celebrated Chinese woman of letters, Swann, Nancy Lee, 1881-1966.
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The Roman revolution, Syme, Ronald, 1903-1989.
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Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentary on Psalms 1-81, Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, ca. 350-428 or 9.
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Theodoret of Cyrus: commentary on Daniel, Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus.
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The Agora of Athens: the history, shape and uses of an ancient city center, Thompson, Homer A.
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The Byzantine revival, 780-842, Treadgold, Warren T.
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Byzantium and its army, 284-1081, Treadgold, Warren T.
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A history of the Byzantine state and society, Treadgold, Warren T.
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Roman marriage: iusti coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian, Treggiari, Susan.
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Greek papyri: an introduction, Turner, E. G. (Eric Gardner), 1911-1983.
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The Syrian princesses: the women who ruled Rome, AD 193-235, Godfrey Turton
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The Syrian princesses: the women who ruled Rome, AD 193-235, Turton, Godfrey Edmund.
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Ancient writing and its influence, Ullman, B. L. (Berthold Louis), 1882-1965.
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The origin and development of humanistic script, Ullman, B. L. (Berthold Louis), 1882-1965.
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The Huarochirí manuscript: a testament of ancient and colonial Andean religion, Urioste, Jorge.
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Leadership and community in late antique Gaul, Van Dam, Raymond.
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In search of history: historiography in the ancient world and the origins of Biblical history, Van Seters, John.
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Epics of Sumerian kings: the matter of Aratta, Vanstiphout, H. L. J. (Herman L. J.)
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Byzance et les Arabes, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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Byzance et les Arabes, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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Byzance et les Arabes, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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Byzance et les Arabes, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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Justin the First: an introduction to the epoch of Justinian the Great, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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The Russian attack on Constantinople in 860, Vasilʹev, A. A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), b. 1867.
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The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor: and the process of Islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century, Vryonis, Speros, 1928-
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The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity, Weiss, Roberto.
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A history of Byzantine music and hymnography, Wellesz, Egon, 1885-1974.
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The barbarians speak: how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe, Wells, Peter S.
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Letters from ancient Egypt, Wente, Edward Frank, 1930-
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The making of Byzantium, 600-1025, Whittow, Mark, 1957-
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Roman homosexuality: ideologies of masculinity in classical antiquity, Williams, Craig A. (Craig Arthur), 1965-
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New men in the Roman senate, 139 B.C. - A.D. 14, Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter)
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Prolegomena to Homer (1795), Wolf, F. A. (Friedrich August), 1759-1824.
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George Gemistos Plethon: the last of the Hellenes, Woodhouse, C. M. (Christopher Montague), 1917-
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Eneas: a twelfth-century French romance, Yunck, John A.
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Alun Salt (Archaeoastronomy): Monkey business on Mars reveals something nifty

Alun — 2010-03-17T16:28:06+00:00

I went to Skeptics in the Pub last week at Nottingham to hear a talk by Doug Ellison on the exploration of Mars. One of the subjects that came up was the Gorilla. The Sun recently reported that a Mars rover had found evidence of a Silverback gorilla while rambling across the dusty and arid plains of Mars. ‘Enthusiast Nigel Cooper – who has studied thousands of photos taken by Nasa rovers and posted online – said: “It’s definitely a creature of some sort.”‘

I’m rubbish at debunking this kind of thing. Basically I get as far as a lack of bananas and rain forest before yawning. If someone seriously thinks that the governments of the world are conspiring to hide the existence of a lone, and presumably very hungry, gorilla then they have more urgent problems than a lack of basic biology or geology. What is it that makes a global conspiracy to hide evidence of an advanced civilisation on Mars, with pyramids, faces and anomalous gorillas plausible? Unambiguous evidence of life on Mars would be a key to the vaults of any government with a space programme, so why would scientists hide that? You’re not going to answer that question by confirming that what we have is a rock. Still, that’s what Doug Ellison did with the video below. What makes it worth watching isn’t the conclusion but how he got there.

The tool he used in the video is the Midnight Mars Browser, which you can download on Windows or Mac for free. I didn’t know about this. It’s a tool that takes the photos from Spirit and Opportunity and displays them as virtual panoramas. You can follow in the tracks of your favourite rover. The gorilla might be dull, it’s a rock, but the tool for examining it looks brilliant. This is why the talk was so compelling. There’s masses of information about Mars you can access. You can even follow the (delayed) blog of a Mars rover driver at Mars and Me if you want the backseat driver experience.

It’s an example of debunking done well. I doubt that he’ll have converted any die-hards, because simply examining the evidence isn’t going to address their underlying problems. For everyone else he’s not only shown that it’s a not a gorilla, he’s also shown the way to more interesting places that can take our understanding of Mars further. The rest of the talk showed similar insights into the equipment on Mars and how you can use the data coming from there. As for the rest of the solar system, he runs a forum where you can find out more at unmannedspaceflight.com.

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): ZENON - DAI

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-17T15:59:31+00:00

One of the first postings on AWOL was on Open Access Bibiography: Zenon at the DAI.

Via an email with a request to distribute it to colleagues comes a call for feedback on the project:

From: DAI Stephanie Ulmer
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:41:17 -0000
Conversation: Online Umfrage zur Archäologischen Bibliographie, Online Poll concerning the Archaeological Bibliography
Subject: Online Umfrage zur Archäologischen Bibliographie, Online Poll concerning the Archaeological Bibliography

--- English text below ---

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

seit vielen Jahren erarbeitet das Deutsche Archäologische Institut die
Archäologische Bibliographie (http://opac.dainst.org), die sich als
unverzichtbares Rechercheinstrument für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit auf
dem Gebiet der antiken Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes etabliert hat. Seit
2002 ist sie als freies und aktuelles Angebot im Internet verfügbar und
bietet neben den üblichen Abfragemöglichkeiten eine systematische Suche
über einen Thesaurus an. Die Archäologische Bibliographie wird täglich
durch die Abteilungen Rom, Athen, Istanbul und die Zentrale in Berlin
erweitert und enthält den Titelbestand seit 1956 (ca. 400 000
Titelnachweise).

Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut ist ständig bestrebt, seine
Informationsangebote zu verbessern -- dem können wir nur mit Ihrer Hilfe
gerecht werden. Wir wollen die Nutzerwünsche bei der Umsetzung
berücksichtigen und bitten Sie deshalb, Fragen rund um die
Archäologische Bibliographie zu beantworten. Sie finden den Einstieg
unter http://webpoll.dainst.org. Die Umfrage liegt in den Sprachen
Deutsch, Englisch, Griechisch und Italienisch vor und wird anonym
durchgeführt.

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, uns Ihre Meinung, Wünsche und Anregungen
mitzuteilen und möchten Sie darüber hinaus bitten, diese Information an
interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen weiterzureichen.

Mit verbundenem Dank

i. A. Stephanie Ulmer

Dear Sir or Madam,

For many years the German Archaeological Institute has been compiling
the Archaeological Bibliography (http://opac.dainst.org) which has
established itself as an essential research tool in the area of ancient
cultures of the Mediterranean Sea.
Since 2002 it has been freely available on the internet and offers a
thesaurus based systematical search in addition to common search options.
The Archaeological Bibliography is being expanded on a daily basis by
the departments in Rome, Athens, Istanbul and the head office in Berlin
and now comprises approx. 400,000 title references.

The German Archaeological Institute endeavours to enhance its research
and information facilities - a challenge which we can only approach with
your help. Hence, we would like to kindly ask you to participate in our
online poll (http://webpoll.dainst.org), available in Englisch, German,
Greek and Italian. The survey will be evaluated anonymously.

Please, feel welcome to share your thoughts and suggestions and help us
to advance our user oriented research tool.

We would be grateful if you could share this information with your
colleagues.

Kind regards,

Stephanie Ulmer

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Stephanie Ulmer
Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut
Podbielskiallee 69-71
D - 14195 Berlin

Tel: +49-(0)30-187711-131
Fax: +49-(0)30-187711-191
e-mail: su@dainst.de
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Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Medieval and Post Medieval Greece and Dumbarton Oaks

William Caraher — 2010-03-17T13:17:25+00:00

I've just finished reading through John Bintliff and Hanna Stöger's, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: The Corfu Papers (2009). It's an edited volume produced from a conference in Corfu in 1998. The papers, however, have largely been updated and represent a nice cross-section of the kind of work being done in Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The papers focus on ceramic studies, the results of intensive pedestrian survey, studies on settlement patterns, new directions in the study of domestic and monumental architecture, and, finally, discussions of issues of cultural research management in Greece. I found W. Bowden's short analysis of the Christian archaeology in Greece with an emphasis on church in Mastron, Aetolia, which scholars have traditionally dated to the 7th-8th centuries. Bowden suggests that simple stylistic dating based either on decoration or architecture can be misleading especially considering the prevalence of re-use and conscious anachronism in the Middle and Late Byzantine period in the region. Also worthy of note is Platon Petrides short review of Late Antique Delphi, which doesn't say anything new here, but is still a nice overview of post-ancient period at the site. T.Gregory, F. Lang, J. Vroom offer some useful commentary on the use of intensive survey and the study of ceramics in the study of Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece; Gregory's article, which has been substantially up-dated, has a nice critiquing the impact of "second-wave" intensive survey projects on our understanding of Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The final three papers (M. Mouliou, K. Sbonias, and L. Tzortzopoulou-Gregory) deal with issues of cultural resource management in Greece. L. Tzortzopoulou-Gregory's paper provides more useful evidence for the difficult position that foreign (or even just non-local) archaeologists find themselves in when they are placed between the national archaeological bureaucracy, local communities, and non-local/non-national research interests.

I received my copy of this volume the same week that I was invited (along with many others) to a "conversation" at Dumbarton Oaks on Byzantine Archaeology in North America. While I will not be able to attend, I was invited by the director of Dumbarton Oaks (as I am sure were many of my colleagues) to send along any thoughts I might have about this particular topic. I was struck by how rarely Dumbarton Oaks publications appeared in the bibliographies of the various articles in this volume. The main reason for this absence is because few of the papers showed much concern for the kinds of art historical approaches long favored by Dumbarton Oaks (for this critique see Kostis Kourelis open letter). The approaches favored by Dumbarton Oaks have tended to particularly ill-suited to research in the Greek countryside where textual evidence is relatively scarce, monumental architecture is often in poor condition, representing stylistically "crude" or provincial work, or even "late" by Dumbarton Oaks standards (although DO has contributed significantly to preservation of neglected buildings, the definition of provincial style, and late and post-Byzantine art), and the field techniques and methods require some specialized training to evaluate and critique. Ironically, Dumbarton Oaks' interest in economic history, the history of everyday life (particularly as manifest in realia in saints lives and other Byzantine documents), and the character of "the provincial" in terms of style and influence on the traditional centers of Byzantine society (Constantinople, Thessaloniki, et c.).

The Bintliff and Stöger volume (along with another recent volume focusing on the same period and region) have shown that the tools exist to develop more nuanced interpretations of the Byzantine countryside. And that these analyses have much to offer traditional textual approaches to the history of Byzantium. In fact, one fault I might offer among the articles in the Bintliff volume is the relative lack of attention to questions that extend beyond the national or local boundaries of Medieval (or even post-Medieval) Greece. The transnational approaches fostered by institutions like Dumbarton Oaks could work to counteract a tendency toward studies that emphasize the modern region or nation at the expense of more revealing Medieval concepts of political, economic, and cultural organization. Moreover the relative absence of sustained discussion of texts, urban centers, or elite art in the Bintliff volume is not necessarily a strength. The very areas neglected (to some extent, but not ignored) in the Bintliff and Stöger volume are areas where Dumbarton Oaks could and perhaps even should show the way by showing the value of traditional methods and approaches to contemporary archaeological research.

It seems clear to me that the archaeology of the Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean is at a watershed moment. As Kourelis noted, a generation of pioneers in the field of Byzantine archaeology are approach retirement age. Part of their legacy is there a strong group of ambitious and dedicated young scholars. This informally-defined group seeks not only to push the methods advanced by folks like Tim Gregory, John Bintliff, Jack Davis, and others, in their individual scholarship but to find ways to push institutions like the American School in Athens and Dumbarton Oaks to bring these methods into fold of traditional research on these periods and places. This should not involve rejecting the important traditions of scholarship at these institutions -- after all, hardly a week goes by when I don't consult a publication produced at Dumbarton Oaks and I value the amazing support that I have received from the American School in Athens -- but showing how recent developments in, say, survey archaeology, applied post-modern or post-processural theory, or even kinds of reflective, historical criticism of past and present institutional practices, can enrich the disciplines to which we are all committed.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Interesting article on the preparation of the Sources Chretiennes’ Jerome commentaries

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-17T12:58:21+00:00

A note in LT-ANTIQ drew my attention here. A PDF at the foot of the page not merely lists the manuscripts of some of the commentaries of St. Jerome on scripture but discusses how the editions are being prepared for maximum clarity, what font is used, what forms of quotation marks, etc.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Using Greek Transcoder

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-17T11:30:25+00:00

I’ve been converting a load of Greek text into unicode using Greek transcoder with much success. But I ran across a glitch. Depending on the option chosen, the accents can all end up to one side!

The option responsible is this one, “Use composing characters”.

I checked that, and I should not have done; it caused off-centre accents. But what on earth does it mean?

A hunt around the web reveals that you can do all those accents in one of two ways. Firstly you can use a character that includes them all inside the character. Alternatively you just type ‘alpha’ followed by the accents, and the browser and editor should render them all correctly as one letter with some accents on the top. The former is called “using precomposed characters”; the latter “using composing characters”. The latter does not work very well, as applications don’t support it. This TLG PDF says more.

I’ve also noticed that on XP the WINWORD executable tends to hang around in memory after you exit a document. If you copy the .dot files for Greek Transcoder into the Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup directory, they are only picked up when the WINWORD executable starts, so get ignored in this case. I’ve had to manually terminate it to get the utility to appear.

Once it’s loaded, the buttons appear in Word.

Jo Cook (Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK): WhereCampEU

admin — 2010-03-17T09:55:12+00:00

On Friday and Saturday I attended the inaugural WhereCampEU “un-conference” in London. The short review: if one comes anywhere near you- go for it! It’s well worth it and I enjoyed every minute.

The slightly longer review: since there were no themes or papers organised beforehand, I guess it was a good opportunity to take the temperature of a certain part of the UK/EU geospatial community. So we got lots and lots of OpenStreetMap papers and iPhone apps! Don’t get me wrong, that’s not a bad thing, but personally, the papers that stood out for me were Steven Feldman’s talk on Business Models and how we are all f*cked without one, and, as always, Bob Barr’s talk on the true cost of “Free” data. That particular talk was timely, coming just before the deadline for the consultation on freeing Ordnance Survey data.

On business models- Steven gave the talk twice due to popular request (one advantage to the un-conference format), and got remarkably different responses. The gist was whether you could come up with a one-minute elevator pitch on your business, your customers, and your prices. If you can’t do that, then you should be able to. There was quite a split in the audience. On one hand there were people who are genuinely trying to make a business out of what they do- who have mortgages to pay, employees to pay, and kids to feed, who can see the point in a business model, and on the other hand there were people with well-paid day-jobs and a lucrative sideline in making iPhone apps who couldn’t see the point. That’s an over-generalisation, but I have work to do, so forgive me. I did start musing about doing a 140 character “tweet-pitch” too but maybe that’s just jumping on the bandwagon!

Overall, at the end of the two days I didn’t feel like I’d been at a conference, even though it was just as packed and even more fast-paced than usual. It was just more relaxing and informal, and the lack of corporate salesmen helped too! The venues were fantastic, as was the food, and the evening geo-beer was much appreciated. The team were keen to point out that next year’s “un-conference” (if it happens) should be somewhere else in Europe. At the time there weren’t that many takers, perhaps because there was a UK bias to the attendees, but I’m sure the enthusiasm and positive feedback will percolate around and we’ll get some volunteers.

After that I spent a couple of days being a tourist in London and catching up with old friends. As a test, I did my London navigation with a zoomable paper map, which I can say works very well and is pleasingly analogue (no batteries or data costs). Crikey though- who needs that many Starbucks, Costa and Caffe Neros?

Logos Bible Software Blog: A Few Minutes Could Save You...

anavarrete — 2010-03-17T08:00:01+00:00

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Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Atheist graffito – and comment

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-16T21:05:52+00:00

I was not created!

– Were you found in a doorway instead?

UPDATE:

No, I was found in some bull-rushes!

– Well, if you think you’re Moses, you should start taking tablets.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Copyfraud once more

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-16T21:03:48+00:00

Today I received an email from a Romanian gentleman, asking about the translation of the lost passage by John Chrysostom from Oratio 2 adversus Judaeos, which I commissioned and then gave away recently. He wanted to make a translation into Romanian. So he asked what I paid the journal, in which Wendy Pradels published the Greek text with notes and German translation, for permission to have that English translation made. I replied that I paid them nothing; there was no money in all this, and any claim to own a text by a man dead 16 centuries might be valid in some benighted lands but hardly in the USA.

But it led me to muse on the likelihood that any academic publisher would try to sue out a claim to copyright in such a case. It would hardly be sensible, in my opinion; why sue over what has no commercial value?

While in bath, tho, my sense of humour took hold, and I took to wondering what questions one could ask in court. Copyright only vests in “original, creative works.” So…

“M’Lud, can the plaintiff tell us which specifically which words in the first line are NOT by John Chrysostom?”

“Would you give us a list of the differences between the text printed and the text composed in 400 AD by John Chrysostom? If you cannot list the portions which are an original creative work by yourselves, on what possible grounds can you claim that any of it is by you?”

“Would you tell us what the commercial value of this item was, when you purchased — as you believed — the copyright from the scholarly author? Did you pay any money at all for it?”

And so on.

I suspect, sadly, that courts are unimpressed by rhetoric unless it involves clever points of law. The layman who ventures into these waters does so at his peril, and indeed few of us ever do so unless cornered. As Auberon Waugh remarked, from bitter experience, “He who goes to court places himself in the hands of a ring of grinning rascals who will all run up costs as fast as they can until somebody has to pay.”

It’s probably easier and safer just to meet the plaintiff, shake hands with him, and then pitch him head first out of his office window, “accidental-like”. Would the fines for so doing be at all likely to reach the charges that any law firm would demand?

The serious point behind all this is that the relentless march of commercial interests taking a yard where the law granted an inch has reached the point of absurdity. Only the common sense exercised by publishers in the anglophone world is restraining them from foolishness of the sort feared by our Romanian friend; and outside that sunlit circle of generosity and mutual respect, there have been many examples of insane greed. We need to push back.

Genuine creative work should be protected by copyright, for the benefit of us all. Attempts to own the work of the ancients, by one subterfuge or another, should not exist in a civilised land.

Ancient World Bloggers Group: Heroic football

David Gill — 2010-03-16T17:59:28+00:00

The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has written a classicising poem in praise of England's wounded footballing star. Duffy was interviewed on BBC Radio 4: David Beckham "is almost a mythical figure himself, in popular culture".

Objects-Building-Situations (Kostis Kourelis): Ruins: Feedback

KOSTIS KOURELIS — 2010-03-16T14:51:41+00:00

The last couple of postings on punk archaeology have produced some wonderful comments on Facebook that I cannot resist from sharing. Thanks to my supportive friends. You make blogging a satisfying endeavor (one always wonder if anyone is reading out there).STEPHENNIE MULDER"Kostis, hard to put into words the emotions this evoked for me, especially since I spent my teenage years running around

Shawn Graham (Electric Archaeology): VUE + OpenContext.org: quickly visualizing relationships in data

Shawn — 2010-03-16T14:19:25+00:00

Archaeology is about context, about understanding relationships, about looking at the spaces between datapoints, as much as it is about the points themselves.

I’ve been experimenting with VUE, mostly as a way of organizing my Zotero libraries, and to help in the planning of a digital history course I really would like to teach next year. So far, it’s been great. But this morning, while watching some of the how-to videos, I started thinking about how VUE could be used to represent archaeological data.

Here’s the video:

So: import data from an RSS feed, along with its metadata…. Hmmm. I tried it with the atom feed from OpenContext.org, regarding the Presidio of San Francisco feed.

I’ve goofed it a bit – missed an important step – but I think there’s real potential here… further bulletins as events warrant; I’ve got a couple of training sessions to lead, so I’m off to class.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): Bootlegging the Theodosian code

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-16T13:10:01+00:00

One of the texts that is not online and really should be is the legal compedium assembled in the reign of Theodosius II in 450 AD and known as the Theodosian code or Codex Theodosianus.

The work was compiled from earlier collections of imperial edicts, or rescripts as they were known. These took the form of a letter from the emperor to some official, usually a proconsul or prefect. The compilation provided a systematic list of things proscribed or permitted.

The work was translated by a certain Clyde Pharr back in 1954 for Princeton University Press. That means that it could be out of copyright in the US; unfortunately it is not.

The most interesting portion of the code is the last book. This consists of the rescripts on religious matters issued by Constantine and his successors, which progressively made Christianity a privileged religion, then the state religion, and then prohibited other religions aside from Judaism. The tone of these rescripts is often violent, as is often the case with the edicts of later emperors. Pharr’s introduction points out rescripts which indicate the powerlessness of these emperors, and their repeated and futile attempts by ever heavier penalties to get their will enacted by the imperial bureaucracy.

Such interesting material is always likely to find its way online in unauthorised form. Today I found a site with a substantial chunk of that book 15 here. I’m not sure whether it is complete, tho.

Bill Caraher (The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World): Teaching Tuesday: Readings for History 240: The Historians Craft

William Caraher — 2010-03-16T11:35:48+00:00

Over the past two semesters, I've been teaching a revised version of our department's required undergraduate methods course -- the historian's craft. I split the course into two parts: the first part is a historiographical survey of the development of the discipline. The class time is divided between a formal lecture and readings of primary sources central to the development of history. Fortunately, most of these primary sources are easily found on the interwebs. In fact, I've been able to teach the class without requiring a textbook or a primary source reader.

Here's the basic reading list:

Homer, Iliad, Book 1-2
Herodotus, Book 1
Thucydides, Book 1
Plutarch, Life of Alexander, excerpts
Euseubus, Life of Constantine, excerpts
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England, Book 1, excerpts
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, excerpts
L. Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine, excerpts
L. von Ranke, History of the Reformation, excerpts
T. Mommsen, "Rectoral Address," University of Berlin (1874).
J. Michelet, The People (1846), excerpts
J.B. Bury, "The Science of History" (1903).
E. Emerton, "The Requirements for the Historical Doctorate in America," American Historical Association Annual Report 1893
H.B. Adams, "Special Methods for the Study of History," in G. Stanley Hall ed., Methods of Teaching History. 2nd ed. (1902), 113-148.
C. Beard, "That Noble Dream," AHR 41 (1935), 74-87.
F. Braudel, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II, excerpts.
E. Said, Orientalism, "Introduction" (New York 1978).
H. K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, excerpt.

This past semester, however, I detected some fatigue with the sources. Some were too long and the students did not read them carefully. Others were too difficult to digest during a busy semester. One of the key points of emphasis in our recent revisions of this class is to make it easier for students and more like other 200 level classes. Students were enrolling in the class, finding it difficult, and dropping it and this made it difficult to move our majors through this course in a timely and efficient manner. So, while the subject matter is demanding, we have discovered that the course itself cannot be. As an added benefit to this more "realistic" approach to the course, I've discovered the more non-majors have enrolled and some of these are students who like history, but have been attracted into other majors. In other words, keeping this course accessible has the potential to attract prodigal students who have wandered from their one true love.

So, as I look ahead to teaching it next fall and spring, I am wondering whether there are some classics in the European or American historical tradition that are (1) accessible online and (2) easily excerpted into a 10-15 page section appropriate for a lower level history course. The goal of the readings is to spur discussion of principles central to history as a discipline in either the past or present or to show some particular watershed in the development of history as a professional, academic, and intellectual pursuit. Any thoughts?

Archaeolog: RUIN MEMORIES: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

Bjørnar Olsen — 2010-03-16T11:20:33+00:00

Numerous studies have focused on modernity’s destructive effect on traditional life- worlds, the desertion of villages and the ruination of rural areas. However, the fact that the modern condition also produces its own ruined materialities, its own marginalized pasts, is less spoken about. Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and thus cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked when compared to the research and social significance devoted to consumption and production (González-Ruibal 2006, 2008). The outcome is a ruined landscape of derelict factories, closed shopping malls, overgrown bunkers and redundant mining towns; a ghostly world of decaying modern debris normally left out of academic concerns and conventional histories.(1)

This ruin-landscape is the topic of the current research project. Based on selected case studies of industrial ruins, abandoned fishing villages and war remains in Norway, Russia, Iceland and Spain we want to explore how the ruins of modernity are conceived and assigned cultural value in contemporary academic and public discourses. Our research will cover three main themes: the aesthetics of waste and heritage, the materiality of memory, and the significance of things. Through these themes we want to develop theoretical arguments that help to understand why the derelict materiality of the modern to such an extent has been devalued and marginalized, but also to suggest possible means for reaffirming its cultural and historic significance.

The aesthetics of waste and heritage

One outcome of the modern attitude towards things and materiality is an oppositional hierarchy between, on the one hand, functional and/or aesthetically pleasing things and, on the other, waste – all rubbish supposed to be eradicated by increasingly more effective systems of disposal and recycling (Lucas 2002, Shanks et.al. 2004, Scanlan 2005). Heritage practices may at first be seen to be mediating this opposition, reflecting a care for and attentiveness to the useless and stranded. Heritage, however, contains its own regimes of cultural valuing and othering. In the dominant conception ruins are old, they have an “age-value” which is imperative to their legal and cultural-historical appreciation. Judged by this criterion, modern ruins become ambiguous, even anachronistic. In their hybrid or uncanny state they become antonyms of the modern and blur established cultural categories of purity and dirt; in short, they become matter out of place – and out of time.

Of central importance to this project is the study of how these processes of othering reflect aesthetic preferences and values; preferences also articulated by the way “proper” (ancient) ruins are treated and conceived. The “heritage ruin” is often staged, neat and picturesque; providing visitors with a disciplined and purified space (Edensor 2005). Extraneous materials – plants, fauna, debris, modern materials – all pollutants, are to be expunged. Seemingly frozen in time, further decay is staved off through restoration and preservation. Arresting decay, of course, has always been the imperative of modern museums and heritage management. Modern ruins, in contrast, are withering and crumbling; walls and concrete decompose, nature intrudes, mingles and reclaims. They become untimely reminders of ambiguity, death, and decay—conditions conspicuously at odds with the common cultural tropes of purity, sustainability and conservation (Lucas 2002, Shanks et.al. 2004). However, precisely through their alteration and decomposition these remains may be seen as uttering their own resistance and cultural critique. Thus, an important objective of this project is to explore how the ruins of the recent past may fuel a critical discourse on the aesthetics of heritage and materiality. Do the recent claims of a “thing agency” (Gell 1998, Latour 2005) extend to the aesthetic field as well?

The materiality of memory

In cultural and social studies much attention has been devoted to how memory crystallizes into sites or places of memory, locales of collective remembering (Nora 1984, Assman 1992, Eriksen 1999). Memory is here associated with a “re-collective” conception, in other words, with memory as a conscious and willful human process of recalling the past. The materiality of the place is not considered to be decisive (despite the presence of inscribed monuments and memorials); the crucial issue is the past event, a gone past, and the will to remember it through site embodiments. This project, however, is mostly concerned with different kinds of sites, which might be called “places of abjection”—“a no-man’s land too recent, conflicting and repulsive to be shaped as collective memory” (Gonzáles-Ruibal 2008: 256). Such places still contain the material causation for their abjection, and are haunted by a present past too grim or uncanny to be embraced (Domanska 2005). There is, of course, no ontological stability to such places. New historical circumstances and public attention might transform places of abjection into sites of commemoration and collective memory (cf. Runia 2006) —a point which adds a layer of irony to our own investigations.

Places of abjection also relate materially (although ambiguously so) to another type of memory, a habit memory. While re-collective memory implies a conscious gaze directed towards a particular past, habit memory is an implicit act of re-membering embedded in our bodily routines and ways of dealing with things: “it no longer represents our past to us, it acts it” (Bergson 1896/2004:93, cf. Casey 1984, Connerton 1989). In Bergson’s formative conception, habit memory was largely a function of adaptive value: only those aspects of the past that are useful or compatible with our present conducts are habitually remembered. The ruins dealt with here were once useful, and thus embedded in repetitious practice and infused with habit memory. When discarded and outmoded, their habitual mnemonic significance is lost while their physical presence, albeit ruined, continues. As such they survive and gather as the material antonyms to the habitually useful, creating a tension-filled constellation that carries the potential of triggering a particular kind of involuntary memory (Benjamin 1999). Reverberating against the taken- for-granted materiality of habit memory, these ruins become potential agents of disruption and “actualisation”. Precisely by being redundant and discarded they reveal the gaps in the construction of history as progress, as a continuous narrative; they bring forth the abject memories that both the recollective and the habitual have displaced.

The significance of things

A closely related third theme of this project is the significance of things. Our everyday dealings with things mostly take place in a mode of inconspicuous familiarity; unless broken, interrupted or missing, ordinary things often exhibit a kind of shyness. Also in the study of society things seem to have escaped the scholars’ attention, being largely ignored or confined to the margins when the “real” spectacles of life are accounted for in political narratives or sociological analyses.2 What is inevitably also neglected by this omission is the wordless experience of people and the life unfolding outside talkative history and social discourses.

The fate of things (and the disciplines concerned with them) may well exemplify how the assignment of cultural values has caused processes of marginalization which deeply influence even scholarly work. While the causes of this neglect must be scrutinized further (cf. Olsen 2003, 2007), a central concern here is to develop the emerging but still largely unexplored awareness of things’ potential for informing studies of contemporary and recent society. This, of course, is not to dismiss the profound importance of textual or other accounts, but rather to work out how such an archaeology of the recent past may provide alternative stories and alternative modes of historical engagement. Crucial here is, of course, a concern with the way things can mediate or express the “unsayable”, the “ineffable” experience which lies outside, or is neglected in, discourse.

This reassessment includes a consideration of things in their ruination. Decay is usually understood in a negative way; things are degraded and humiliated through material alteration, while the information, knowledge and memory embedded in them becomes lost along the way (DeSilvey 2006). We suggest that things actually may release some of their meaning or generate a different kind of knowledge precisely through processes of decay and ruination (Benjamin 1999, Andersson 2001). In the destruction process new layers of meaning are revealed, meanings that are only possible to grasp at second hand when no longer immersed in their withdrawn and useful reality. Ruination can thus be seen also as a recovery of memory (DeSilvey 2006); a “slow-motion archaeology” that exposes the formerly hidden and black-boxed; it unveils the masked object, inside is turned out, privacy revealed (Edensor 2005).

Aims and objectives

The overall aims of this project are twofold. Firstly, to critically scrutinize the normative categorization of modern ruins and the discourses and practices that may have led to their academic and historical marginalization; secondly, to reassess the cultural and historical value of this “prehistory” and of the role things play in expressing the ineffable. Each of these aims involves more specific objectives (further contextualised in relation to the specific case studies): (i) to investigate to what extent the cultural reception of modern ruins reflects aesthetic preferences that also impinge on academic and public conceptions of heritage; (ii) to identify “effective-historical” traditions and values responsible for their marginalization as well for the silencing of things more generally in social discourses; (iii) to explore how these othered materialities may contribute to a critical aesthetics of things and heritage; (iv) to examine the role things play in upholding the past and thus in enabling various forms of memory; (v) to explore the significance of ruins and things in informing social and historical inquiries; (vi) to explore alternative means of disseminating this significance.

Project Collaborators

Dag Andersson

Elin Andreassen

Hein Bjerck

Caitlin Desilvey

Alfredo Gonzáles-Ruibal

Gavin Lucas

Bjørnar Olsen

and Timothy Webmoor

For more information about the project visit www.ruinmemories.org or email admin@ruinmemories.org.

Notes

1. See, however, studies by Buchli and Lucas (2001), Neville and Villeneuve (2002), Shanks (2004), Elíasson and Sigurðsson (2004), Edensor (2005), Schofield (2005), DeSilvey (2006), Burström (2007), Eikemo (2008), Gonzáles- Ruibal (2008).

2. For criticism of the “thing amnesia” in social science see Miller (1987), Latour (2005), Olsen (2007).

3. This includes a number of studies such as Rathje (1996), Buchli and Lucas (2001), Lucas (2002, 2004), Shanks (2004), Shanks et.al. (2004); Gonzáles-Ruibal (2006, 2008), Burström (2007).

4. See works by Coles and Dion (1999), Pearson and Shanks (2001), Renfrew et.al. (2004); Bailey (2009).

5. Most of these originate from the cities of Tula and Donjetsk, however, a small number of former residents are still working in the only remaining Russian town at Svalbard, Barentsburg.

6. Despite its seven post-Soviet years Piramida is first and foremost a Soviet site. Little was changed after 1991 apart from its economic rationale. The fact that Lenin’s collected works is still on shelf in the director’s office in the administrative building is a little but telling sign of its postponed Soviet identity.

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Center for History and New Media: Bracero History Archive Wins NCHP Outstanding Public History Project Award

sharon-leon — 2010-03-16T10:57:49+00:00

On Saturday, March 13, 2010, the CHNM’s Bracero History Archive <http://braceroarchive.org> received the National Council on Public History’s award for “Outstanding Public History Project.”

The award recognizes excellence in work completed within the previous two calendar years that contributes to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or that serves as a model of professional public history practice. Sharon Leon and other project staff, including Peter Liebhold (NMAH), Kristine Navaro (UTEP), Mireya Loza (Brown), and Alma Carillo (Brown), were on hand to accept the honor from NCPH President Marianne Babal at the annual awards luncheon.

The Bracero History Archive is a landmark venture in collaborative documentation. With major partners at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, and dozens of other small cultural heritage and community organizations around the country, the project has worked to collect and make available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.

The Bracero History Archive is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Preservation and Access division.

Logos Bible Software Blog: Logos 4: Importing Notes and User-Created Content from LDLS3

anavarrete — 2010-03-16T08:00:01+00:00

Yes, the wait is finally over. Yesterday's announcement of Logos Bible Software 4.0b mentioned what many have been waiting for: Support for importing LDLS3 user-created content.

Specifically, Logos 4.0b now supports importing notes, highlighting, favorites, and prayer lists. Along with this release, regardless if you are importing from LDLS3 or not, Notes now allow for user-editable titles, as well as creating Notes for a reference range, not just a single verse.

So without further ado, let's get your notes from Logos 3 to Logos 4.

Since resources have changed over the years because we’ve corrected typos, added new hyperlinks, and made other edits, in certain cases, these changes can prevent Logos 4 from importing notes from Libronix DLS 3 correctly. In order to minimize the likelihood of notes not being transferred, we highly recommend you download the Custom Toolbar for LDLS3 that prepares your notes for importing into Logos 4.

Getting the toolbar:

Download the Custom Toolbar from http://downloads.logos.com/LBS4/LDLS3Import/UpdateNotes.lbxctb and save it to your [MyDocuments]\Libronix DLS\CustomToolbars folder. (See the Special Folder Locations article for OS-specific locations.)

(UPDATE: Please make sure the CustomToolbars folder does not have a space it the title. Use CustomToolbars not Custom Toolbars.)

Run LDLS3, and click the newly added Update Notes Now button.
When Update Notes Now finishes, return to Logos 4.

Now are you ready for this? In Logos 4 type Import All into the Command bar, hit enter, and sit back. You'll then see the “Importing…” status message in the upper-right corner of the main window. That's it.

Content imported into Logos 4 “remembers” that it was imported such that consecutive imports can be run in Logos 4, without adverse effects. Changes to imported content in Logos 4 will clear the link between Logos 4 and LDLS3, so if you edit an imported item in Logos 4, and then re-import, you will see the original item from LDLS3 along with the edited item in Logos 4.This is intentional in order to recover an original note without over writing the new content.

If you no longer want to use some of your user-created content from LDLS3, but want other parts, like your extensive Prayer Lists, there are commands for a more targeted import.

Additional Commands:

Import Notes
Imports only notes from LDLS3

Import Highlighting
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Import Favorites
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Import Prayer Lists
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Import delete (All|Notes|Highlighting|Favorites|Prayer Lists)
Deletes all imported content of the specified type

If you were on the fence about upgrading to Logos 4 because you couldn't transfer your Notes, Highlighting, Favorites, or Prayer Lists, now is a great time to upgrade to Logos 4. Logos 4 is now better than ever, and you can be sure we're already working to add additional features.

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Dan Diffendale (Tria Corda): News for February and March

Dan Diffendale — 2010-03-16T07:41:39+00:00

So much for all that free time... here's a brief rundown of some things that have accumulated lately.

First of all, I've been extremely remiss in neglecting to mention my friend Ross Cowan's blog. Ross is the author of, among others, The Roman Conquests: Italy, and he's been blogging about related topics. Ross has also got an article in the latest issue of the magazine Ancient Warfare, which issue (table of contents) is dedicated to "A multitude of peoples: Before Rome ruled Italy" (you know you've always wanted a two-page spread painting of the Battle of Bovianum!). I also learn that Cambridge will be republishing Salmon's Samnium and the Samnites come April -- mirabile dictu!

Big news this month is the discovery at Gabii of an Archaic tripartite building identified as a regia [La Repubblica - photos; MiBAC].

Twenty Etruscan fossa tombs were discovered at Marina Velka near Tarquinia, two of which were hit by tombaroli, along with Roman habitation [Viterbo Oggi; Viterbo Notizie].

Artifacts from three museums in Castiglion Fiorentino (Arezzo) are on display at Castel Sant' Angelo until April 11.

The Pontecagnano museum has supposedly reopened.

There's a call for papers for an Accordia conference on Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context (22-23 September 2010), deadline April 30.

The X Incontro di Studi su Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria (10-12 September 2010) has as its theme "L’Etruria dal Paleolitico al Primo Ferro. Lo stato delle ricerche". (more)

The latest Journal of Field Archaeology (Vol. 34, issue 4) includes "Remote Sensing and Archaeological Prospection in Apulia , Italy", by S.A. Ross, A. Sobotkova and G.-J. Burgers (pp. 423-438).

Greece and Rome (Vol. 57, issue 1: April 1, 2010):
E. Bragg, "Roman Seaborne Raids During the Mid - Republic : Sideshow or Headline Feature ?" (pp. 47-64)

The Classical Review (New Series), Volume 60, Issue 01, April 2010:
• Witcher on Isayev, Inside Ancient Lucania (2007)
• Mattingly on Revell, Roman Imperialism and Local Identities (2009)
• Roth on Wallace-Hadrill, Rome's Cultural Revolution (2008)
• Perfigli on Clark, Divine Qualities. Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007)
• Bücher on Jehne & Pfeilschifter (eds.), Herrschaft ohne Integration? Rom und Italien in Republikanischer Zeit (2006)
• Hogg on Briquel, Mythe et révolution. La Fabrication d'un récit: la naissance de la république à Rome (2007)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review:
• I. Edlund-Berry on Daniele Federico Maras, Il dono votivo: Gli dei e il sacro nelle iscrizioni etrusche di culto.
• eadem on Laura Maniscalco (ed.), Il santuario dei Palici: un centro di culto nella Valle del Margi. Collana d'Area. Quaderno n. 11.
• C. Bailey on Harriet Flower, Roman Republics
• C. Smith on Sinclair Bell & Helen Nagy (eds.), New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome: In Honor of Richard Daniel De Puma
• N. Carayon on Castagnino Berlinghieri, Elena Flavia, Carmelo Monaco, Il sistema portuale di Catania antica: studi interdisciplinari di geo-archeologia marittima.
• G. van Heems on Enrico Benelli (ed.), Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae. I. Indice lessicale. Seconda edizione...

Sebastian Heath (Mediterranean Ceramics): The Relative Value of Oil and Wine in the Talmud

Sebastian Heath — 2010-03-16T04:56:23+00:00

For the last week I've been following Daf Yomi, the 7 year cycle by which Orthodox Jews read the entire Talmud. It's part of my "Echoes of Late Antiquity" hobby and so far I'm having fun. Take this translated quote from Sanhedrin 31a

If one witness attests [the loan of] a barrel of wine, and the other, of a barrel of oil: — such a case happened, and it was brought before R. Ammi, who ordered him [the defendant] to repay a barrel of
wine out of [the value of] the barrel of oil.

So a "barrel" of oil is worth more than the same of wine. That's nice to know. Of course, I'm relying on the translation from halakhah.com and that's always a worry.

FWIW, the legal principle here is that you need two witnesses. Since the value of the oil is higher, there are only two witnesses to the loan of the value of the barrel of wine.

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: Dacia - Revue d'Archeologie et d'Histoire Ancienne

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-15T21:09:45+00:00

Dacia - Revue d'Archeologie et d'Histoire Ancienne
Digitalised Collection 1924-1948

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1925

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1948

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

Roger Pearse (Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, and more): When did the Christians start to reuse the temples?

Roger Pearse — 2010-03-15T21:02:21+00:00

From archaeologist Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani, The destruction of ancient Rome: a sketch of the history of the monuments, p. 36 f. (here):

To what use the temples were put immediately after the expulsion of their gods, we do not know; but it is certain that they were not occupied by Christians, nor turned into places of Christian worship. This change was only to take place two centuries later, when the scruples about the propriety of worshipping the true God in heathen temples had been overcome. In the year 600, Pope Boniface IV asked the Emperor Phocas for the temple which was called Pantheon, and turned it into a church of Mary the Virgin ever blessed.” Two periods, then, may be distinguished in the converting of pagan edifices into places of Christian worship, one anterior to the year 609, the other following that date. During the first, civil edifices alone were transformed, partially or completely, into churches; such were the Record Office, which became the church of SS. Cosmas and Damian, and the round market on the Caelian Hill, now S. Stefano Rotondo. After 609 almost every available building, whether secular or sacred, was made into a church or chapel, until the places of worship seemed to outnumber the houses.

This view, expressed by a 19th century archaeologist, is interesting. But is it true?

Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-15T20:15:28+00:00

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici

The journal Analecta Romana Instituti Danici (ARID) publicerer studier indenfor Instituttets hovedforskningsområder: humanistiske studier (f. eks. antikhistorie, arkæologi kunsthistorie, historie, litteratur, filologi), billedkunst og arkitektur.

ANALECTA ONLINE
Det er besluttet, at ANALECTA fra efteråret 2007 skal udkomme som online-tidsskrift. I første omgang tilgængeligt på institutets hjemmeside og senere i en eller flere af de store, internationale tidsskrift-databaser, som findes på Internettet.
Ved udgangen af hvert kalenderår fremstilles en papir-udgave af de i året indkomne og godkendte artikler, kopieret eller trykt alt efter instituttets økonomiske formåen. Hermed kan man opretholde den særlige tidsskrift-bytteordning, som findes forskningsbibliotekerne imellem til fælles fordel og til fordel for bidragyderne.

The journal Analecta Romana Instituti Danici (ARID) publishes studies within the main range of the Academy’s research activities: the humanities (for instance ancient history, archaeology, art history, history, literature, philology), the fine arts and architecture.

ANALECTA ONLINE
From the autumn 2007 you will find ANALECTA published as an online periodical. The first step will be online at the homepage of the Danish institute, but as soon as possible we will try to enter ANALECTA in one of the worldwide periodical-databases.
At the end of every year we will print or copy in a simple book-form the articles from the actual year for the benefit of the authors, and for the free exchange of periodicals between the research-libraries.

2008 XXXIII

2009 XXXIV

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Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: ADIAS Newsletter

Charles Ellwood Jones — 2010-03-15T20:09:05+00:00

ADIAS Newsletter: Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey

The Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS) was established in 1992 on the instruction of the late President His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, now Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. ADIAS was charged with surveying for, recording and, where appropriate, excavating archaeological sites on the coast and islands of Abu Dhabi. In the years that have followed, ADIAS has identified over a thousand sites or groups of sites on the coast and islands of Abu Dhabi, as well as deep in the deserts of the interior. Among the sites are several of international importance, including the oldest-known settlement in the Emirates, on Marawah island,and major sites in the south-eastern deserts of Abu Dhabi, near Umm az-Zamul, these all being of Late Stone Age date, and the only pre-Islamic Christian monastery yet identified in south-eastern Arabia, on the island of Sir Bani Yas. ADIAS teams have also identified numerous sites of palaeontological importance, with vertebrate fossils from the Late Miocene period, around 6-8 million years ago.

2005-2006 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no,1 - November 2005 * NEW ! *
[ ADIAS to become part of new Abu Dhabi Culture and Heritage Authority - Official Inauguration of ADIAS Fossil Exhibition - Environmental Achievement of the Year Award 2005 - ADIAS website hits - New archaeological work on Sadiyat - More archaeological work planned for Umm az-Zamul and Marawah - Lectures - ADIAS to participate in World Heritage Meeting - Review of ADIAS publication - New Books - Other New Publications ]

2004-2005 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - May 2005
[ "Abu Dhabi 8 million years ago" Exhibition Opens - ADIAS website again has record number of visitors - Visit to GCC team - More work at Umm az-Zamul - OSL dating - New archaeological work at Abu Dhabi Airport - ADIAS Visit to Kuwait - ADIAS to participate in Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management - Lectures - Review of ADIAS publication - New Publications - Forthcoming Publications ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - February 2005
[ DNA, Flints and Fossils - DNA from UAE's First Man - ADIAS website has record number of visitors - 2nd season at Umm az-Zamul - New site at Gabat Rukhna - ADIAS Visit to Kuwait - Fossil Display - Lectures - New Publications - Forthcoming Publication ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 2004
[ ADIAS new season underway - Interesting news about radiocarbon dating of Marawah settlement - Oldest archaeological site in the UAE - Abu Dhabi Police help identify UAE's oldest man - Sabkha experts visit Abu Dhabi- BP helps studies of UAE heritage - ADIAS team visits Dalma - Dilmun Civilisation Celebration in Bahrain - Fossil Display - New fossil site discovered at Ruwais - Shells and Archaeology - Mosques of Abu Dhabi - Lectures - Forthcoming Publications ]

2003-2004 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - May 2004
[ 7000 year old settlement discovered on Marawah Island - New ADIAS book published - Sabkha Workshop - 2nd Archaeology Symposium - Visit to Kuwait - Oman conference - Fossil Display - Help on other Exhibitions - Coastal Survey - Lectures - Forthcoming Papers ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - March 2004
[ Neolithic settlements discovered in SE desert of Abu Dhabi - Bazm al-Gharbi: a first report - Marawah season begins - Visit to Qatar - Zayed Private Academy Talk - Peter Whybrow 1942 to 2004 - Al Ain History Symposium - More support from ADIAS sponsors - NBAD helps ADIAS technology - ABC Recruitment ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - January 2004
[ 7,000 year-old houses discovered on Marawah - New archaeological work planned at Umm az-Zamul - Update on fossils exhibition - Launch of new ADIAS book - Visit to Rumaitha and Ruwais fossil sites - Visit to Jebel Dhanna sulphur mines - Survey carried out on Bazm al-Gharbi - New sponsors of ADIAS ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 2003
[ Survey, Fossils, Lectures and Publications - a busy start to the new season - Surveys of coastal areas in western Abu Dhabi - Success for Mohammed - More help from TAKREER - More work on fossil finds - Lectures and Outreach - Visit to Sultanate of Oman - Books and Publications ]

2002-2003 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - June 2003
[ Dolphin support Fujairah work - Training UAE national - Rachael's find - Zayed University - ADIAS pottery expert receives award - London Seminar for Arabian Studies - New archaeology book - ADIAS website statistics - Support from NBAD ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - March 2003
[ Al Ain Seminar - ERWDA - Jebel Dhanna - Karen Cooper - Marawah - Ruwais ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - December 2002
[ Abu Al-Abyadh - Abu Dhabi airport - Mark Beech - Kuwait - Ruwais - Training UAE nationals ]

2001-2002 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - June 2002
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Dalma - Mark Beech - Mleisa - Ruwais - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - February 2002
[ Dalma - Database - Jebel Dhanna - Marawah Marine Protected Area - Mleisa - Niqqa - Rumaitha - Umm al-Khaber ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 2001
[ Dalma - Dan Hull - Database - Futaisi - Website ]

2000-2001 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - May 2001
[ Al Aryam - Database - Futaisi - Jebel Dhanna - Mleisa - Ra's Ghumeis - UAE archaeology conference ]

Please note that all newsletters prior to May 2001 are saved as Acrobat pdf files. You will need the Acrobat viewer program to view these files, which you can download from the Adobe Acrobat viewer. If you do not have this please visit the Adobe website to obtain this program.

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - February 2001
[ Conference - ERWDA EDB - Jebel Dhanna - Ras Bilyaryar - Rufayq ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 2000
[ Abu Al-Abyadh - ADIAS publication in arabic - Ancient Hearths - Archaeology Conference for Al Ain - Charlotte Stokes wins prize - Coastal Sensitivity Maps and ERWDA - Dalma - Halat Hail - Jebel Dhanna - Khor Al Bazm - Rumaitha ]

1999-2000 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - June 2000
[ Abu Dhabi Golf and Equestrian Club - Medieval occupation of Abu Dhabi - Hamim, Liwa - Marawah radiocarbon dates ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - 2000

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - January 2000
[ Al-Aryam (Bu Khushaishah) - Bahrani - Dabb'iya - Emirates archaeology 2001 Conference - Habshan - Hearths in Qatar - Oldest evidence for eating dugongs - Old shorelines ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - October 1999
[ ADIAS publication in arabic - Ancient FIshing - Ghagha - Jebel Dhanna - London Seminar - Marawah - Operation Ghazal - Qarnein - Ra's Bilyaryar - Yasat al-Ulya ]

1998-1999 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - May 1999
[ Dalma - geology - Ghagha' - Lime kilns - Marawah - water catchment system ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - February 1999
[ Bab - Balghelam - Bu Sharah - Dabb'iya - Marawah - Ostrich eggshell - Qusabi - Rufayq ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 1998
[ Abu Al Abyadh - ADCO oilfields - Dabb'ya - Mantiqa al-Sirra - Marawah - Ras Farda - Rumaitha - Shanayel ]

1997-1998 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - May 1998
[ Dalma - Geology - Marawah - Publications - Qarnein ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - February 1998
[ Dalma - ERWDA - Lisbon EXPO - Marawah ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - December 1997
[ Dabb'iya - Fish study - GIS - Marawah ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - September 1997
[ Qarnein - Ras Sadr - Taweela - Tawi Beduwa Shwaiba ]

1996-1997 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - June 1997
[ Sharjah Symposium - Shuweihat ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - April 1997
[ Balghelam - Fish study - Mantiqa As'sirra - Marawah ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - December 1996
[ Balghelam - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - November 1996
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Sir Bani Yas ]

1995-1996 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.7 - June 1996
[ Sheikh Shakhbut house - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.6 - April 1996
[ Al F'zaiyyah - Bida al Mutawa - Futaisi - Ghagha' - Jebel Dhanna - Sir Bani Yas - Yasat al Ulya - Yasat Sufla ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.5 - March 1996
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - February 1996
[ Balghelam - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - December 1995
[ Balghelam - Qusabi - Sheleala ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - October 1995
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Environmental - Geology ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - July 1995
[ Abu Dhabi airport ]

1994-1995 season:

ADIAS Newsletter no.6 - June 1995
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Sheleala - Sir Bani Yas - Umm Amim ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.5 - April 1995
[ Al F'zaiyyah - Ghagha' - Hamr - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.4 - March 1995
[ Abu Dhabi airport - Abu Dhabi island - Jubayl - Ras Bilyaryar - Sila - Sir Bani Yas ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.3 - February 1995
[ Arzanah - Jubayl - Marawah - South Muhayimat - Zirku ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.2 - January 1995
[ Balghelam - Bu Khushaisah - Fiyya - Marawah ]

ADIAS Newsletter no.1 - December 1994
[ Balghelam - Fiyya - Marawah ]

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Charles Ellwood Jones (AWOL: The Ancient World Online): Open Access Journal: Nouvelles de Jérusalem

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Nouvelles de Jérusalem, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem (EBAF)

Publication annuelle, paraissant en début d’année en anglais et en français, rappelant tous les grands et petits événements, donnant des nouvelles des anciens, listant les publications, elle constitue comme la mémoire de l’École.

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Samuel Fee (Arranged Delerium): A Professor’s Life

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As a graduate student, I promised myself that I would never be one of those professor’s that was always so busy they were always working and never seemed to have time for anyone. With practice, I’ve learned that any professor (today) that is actively doing their job will be considerably overextended. The result is that I am always running from meeting to class, or trying to fit student consultation in between various other things. But with the addition of baby #2, I find myself running late more than usual (which is saying something because I’m typically running late - that’s OK: time is cyclical, right?). I do feel bad about being late for class though, and I usually do everything in my power to avoid it. And, I have a number of students who are similarly respectful. But I also have others that are chronically late. Anyway, The Other Dr. Fee sent me this link to a NYU professor and his response to a specific student situation. It’s funny, and I appreciate much of what he’s saying - even if he’s clearly a jerk.

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