Category Archives: Translation

Papias

I have collected and posted the complete fragments of Papias here. I added a handful of fragments not given by Holmes’ The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations and corrected and updated others. Much thanks and credit is due … Continue reading

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Chronicon rough draft completed

I have completed the rough draft of Hippolytus’ Chronicon and it is now being voluntarily corrected by the kind Yancy Smith.  I hope to have it online for you all in September.

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Hippolytus, Strabo, and Ptolemy

I decided to take the plunge and try to link some of the city’s mentioned in the Hippolytus with those mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy.  The online text for Strabo, both Greek and English, can be found at archive.org the … Continue reading

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Update

Progress on Hippolytus’ Chronicon has been very good the past two weeks.  I am about 650 lines in and have completed the last section in Greek and have now begun the final section, which only survives in an ancient Latin and … Continue reading

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Chronicon Update

The translation has been coming along well, I am about 360 ”verses” into it which is well over half way.  Once I am done I need to revise and correct it.  I have made the decision to only transliterate the names … Continue reading

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Update on the Chronicon of Hippolytus

I have slowly been translating the first 150 lines of Hippolytus’ Chronicon. Work is hard going, mostly because there are hundreds of proper names of people groups in the ancient world. These names are not listed in the principle Greek … Continue reading

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Update on Hippolytus’ Chronicle 5

I just received the updated edition of Hippolytus’ Chronicle. It is in a much nicer format and the end notes have been turned into foot notes. The previous edition appeared to have been a facsimile of a handwritten copy; this … Continue reading

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Update on Hippolytus’ Chronicle 4

    I am about 9% done with the translation.  I found out that GCS (Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller) has published an updated version of this.  I had looked into this but was not able to find any complete list of the … Continue reading

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Update on Hippolytus' Chronicle 3

  I have been busy translating and am about 8% complete.  It seems as though most of the remaining text is a glorified list of place names.  Unfortunately none of the dictionaries that I have access to list many of … Continue reading

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Hippolytus' "Commentary on Daniel" update

It was as I suspected, Hippolytus’ Commentary on Daniel  has not been fully translated into English.  I wonder what kind of gems are hidden away in this work.  Unfortunately the Greek text is about 75 standard pages so translating it … Continue reading

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