The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) – chapter 1 (part 8)
We now reach the days of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. And … this is the very last chunk of Eutychius! We’ve now read through the lot. What now remains is to gather all the pieces together, revise...
View ArticleRichard McCambly, Lectio Divina, and Gregory of Nyssa
An email arrives from Richard McCambly, with news that he has created a website for the practice of “lectio divina”. It’s at http://www.lectio-divina.org/. Dr McCambly’s site also contains his own...
View ArticleEusebius of Caesarea, Six extracts from the Commentary on the Psalms, in English
Last year I gave a list of passages from Eusebius’ massive Commentary on the Psalms which deserved to be read in English. Thankfully Fr. Alban Justinus stepped up and translated six of these for us,...
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The domes of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
By accident I came across an old exchange on Twitter, criticising a reconstruction of the vanished church of the holy apostles in Constantinople. The church was demolished by the invading Ottomans....
View ArticleDid King James issue instructions to the bible translators to change the text...
An interesting discussion on twitter led me to a man who roundly asserted that King James I issued a list of instructions to the translators of the King James version of the bible, with an eye to...
View ArticleBanishing the letter “v” from the Latin alphabet
I was looking at James Morwood’s A Latin Grammar (Oxford), when I espied at the foot of the introduction (p. vii) the following words: I am delighted to have compiled the first Latin grammar in English...
View ArticleTertullian and British Israelitism
A correspondent wrote to me, in search of a quotation: In McBirnie (1973,227) writing about the 12 apostles I found a quote he states is from Tertullian. He cites Lionel Smithett Lewis ( 1955, 129) who...
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The Lysippus bust of Alexander the Great
The majority of ancient depictions of Alexander the Great show a rather effeminate-looking youth. However there is another portrait which is said to be a Roman copy of a bronze made by Lysippus,...
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Theophanes III of Nicaea and the light of God as the fire of hell for those...
The Wikipedia article on the “Light of Tabor” – the divine light seen by the disciples on Mount Tabor – mentions that “Theophanes of Nicaea” believed that “the divine light will be perceived as the...
View ArticleFrom my diary
I made a trip to Cambridge University Library on Tuesday, to look at a couple of books on Theophanes of Nicaea, rather than waiting several weeks. I was glad to find some money still on my university...
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