In search of a methodology

One of the things I’ve found most difficult about my research is settling on a methodology. I’ve never been expected to have a methodology before. In the past, I’ve more or less just read stuff and written about it and while I’ve had some idea of how I was going to tackle my material, I [...]

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Which Church Father are you?

This amazing insight into my character comes from my friend Avril, who got it from her friend Caro. You’re St. Melito of Sardis! You have a great love of history and liturgy. You’re attached to the traditions of the ancients, yet you recognize that the old world — great as it was — is passing [...]

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Reading but not writing

Methods of language learning have always interested me. Recently, I read in Paul Foster’s “Educating Jesus: the Search for a Plausible Context” (Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Vol. 4.1, pp. 7-33), a suggestion that amongst 1st Century Jews, there was a group of who could read but not write Hebrew. He suggests [...]

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First Impressions of Rice

I arrived in Houston at around 6.30 pm on Sunday evening, so I’ve been here nearly five days. Hardly qualifies me as an expert on Houston or Rice, but: Impression #1: Houston is very, very flat unlike Armidale, which is very, very hilly. Impression #2: People in Houston and especially at Rice are very, very [...]

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More on Coptic resources

It occurs to me that there are two other useful on-line Coptic resources that I didn’t mention in my last posting. Both are now linked from my blogroll – Crum’s A Coptic Dictionary and Bill Arnal’s key to the exerices in Lambdin’s Introduction to Sahidic Coptic. I find the electronic form of Crum useful because [...]

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