Proper pronunciation and inflection in reading ancient texts was very important for the listeners to understand the meaning. Lucian, a secon...

As already discussed in the previous post, the public reading of scripture was a needed, intricate part of early Christian worship. The evid...

The ability to read and write are much more widespread and common place today than they were in antiquity. The population of Rome during the...

It can be difficult to imagine the writings of Paul as individual letters, unbound and separate from the contents pages of our modern Bibles...

    When reading through the  New Testament I often think about the early Christian communities who first received Paul's letters and I ...

Gladiator games were a morbid and grotesque aspect of ancient Roman culture. Most of the gladiatorial games were sponsored by rich patrons ...

Temple of Apollo, Corinth (Wikimedia) I have been working on the AS350 Helicopter now for over six years. In this time I have had the ...