Tag: Liberal Arts
Learning a Proverb from a Pagan
Earlier this semester in Exploring Religion, we discussed Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods, and one paragraph particularly struck me as an apt illustration of Qoheleth’s advice that עת לחשות ועת לדבר (Eccl 3:7b; there is a time to be silent, and there is a time to speak): When Cotta had spoken, Velleius said, ‘It was indeed…
On the Web (October 7, 2011)
On the web: Larry Hurtado discusses scholarly amnesia in Pauline Studies. Charles Jones mentions Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Digital Medievalist. The Biblical Archaeology Review has launched a new website about the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter (HT: Jim Davila). The…
Perseus Collections in Logos 4
As they have for some others already, most of my Perseus collection downloads for Logos have recently been processed. Below are a few particularly anticipated texts from these collections:
Reengineering Higher Education
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey Selingo discusses what might change in higher education if engineers were assigned to reinvent it from the ground up. Some points that emerged at a recent kick-off event for Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities were: Public research on the common questions. One way for public universities…
Saving Scholarship—One File at a Time
After recently transitioning to Ubuntu, I found that my previous online backup solution had some issues running in Linux, even via a Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox. With some additional research, however, I came across Digital Lifeboat: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0Q1BbMwx8&w=640&h=360] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZmtRFuWQs&w=560&h=315] Digital Lifeboat is still in beta. So, the software has had some hiccups, but…
Cicero on the Earth as Sphere
Jim Davila has picked up a discussion about ancient testimony to the earth’s spherical shape. Cicero also, by way of his Stoic character Balbus, comments to this effect, saying, [T]he sea, which is above the earth, tends still toward the earth’s centre, and so is itself shaped in conformity to the globe of the earth and…