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This one is starting to get silly … yesterday we had — from a reliable source, apparently — word that Harvard Theological Review was declining to publish Dr. King’s paper on some fragment of papyrus that’s been in the news of late. Later in the day, however, we were told that that wasn’t true, again…
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A few developments since our last post on the subject (The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife ~ A Rogueclassicist Perspective): Mark Goodacre has augmented Francis Watson’s culled-from-Thomas suggestion by demonstrating that the final line was also from Thomas untimely ripped: Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: the last line is also from Thomas Currently burning through the blogosphere…
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I’m sure most folks have seen all the ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ coverage in the morning Blogosphere posts and perhaps some people were wondering why I hadn’t commented yet. It was mostly a matter of lack of time, but it’s kind of interesting that I couldn’t respond because the story took a couple of interesting…
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This is sort of interesting in a ‘closure of the story’ sort of way but also in a ‘never thought we’d hear him admit it’ sort of way too. Various versions of this one … we’re excerpting the Indian Express: Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted to staging some of his most famous stunts, including…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Ian Spoor for sending this one in from the BBC … I wasn’t aware of this controversy: Every French schoolchild has learned about Alesia. It was the battle in which Julius Caesar beat the Gauls under Vercingetorix, thus bringing France into the Roman world. Had it gone the other way,…
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