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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Papyrus and the New Testament Epistles

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I came across a reference in the letters of Cicero (54 BCE). He was writing to his brother Quintus, and mentioned, off-hand, that he was goi...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Augustine of Hippo on Greek Accents

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At around 410 CE, Paulinus Bishop of Nola (near Mt. Vesuvius in Italy) wrote a lengthy letter to Augustine Bishop of Hippo asking if the gre...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Three Avenues of Publication in the Roman Era

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Sometime at the end of the first or beginning of the second century CE (AD), the Roman statesman Pliny the Younger wrote to Suetonius urgi...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Teaching Aids for Ancient Christian Readers

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Some of the earliest copies of the New Testament writings were copied in such a way that they aided the reader in their task of deciphering ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Cassiodorus On Papyrus Paper

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  A leaf from P46, an early copy of Paul's epistles on papyrus. During his service as a Praetorian Praefect under Theodoric The G...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Galen's Rules of Textual Alteration

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While reading through Eric W. Scherbenske's " Canonizing Paul: Ancient Editorial Practice and the Corpus Paulinum ," I came a...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Quintilian on The Critical Skills Grammarians Teach (ca. 95 CE)

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While r eading through Eric W. Scherbenske's " Canonizing Paul: Ancient Editorial Practice and the Corpus Paulinum ," I came a...
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