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Update

Tom — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:25:24 +0000

Though I have not been blogging lately, I have been very busy. Several months ago I finished translating 39 scholia on the Apocalypse. These are anonymous notes on the Apocalypse in Greek which are found in only one manuscript. Scholars have attributed the scholia to Origen and also to Didymus the Blind. If true this would make the scholia the earliest fragments of any commentaries we have on revelation, especially in Greek. I did some linguistic work with the TLG database to try and hammer down some more evidence about authorship and came up with some favorable matches with Origen and Didymus. No translation into English exists, until now. However I’m going to hold off posting translation online while I look for a publisher.

I have also started a translation of Isho’dad of Merv’s Commentary on Daniel from Syriac. It is very interesting, as his name suggests Isho’dad was originally from Merv which is in modern-day Turkmenistan, and east of modern-day Iran. However he seems to have settled farther west.

Hippolytus' Commentary on Daniel Part 9

Tom — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:37:23 +0000

It has been a while since I have last updated, vacation can sometimes be more busy than regular workweeks. Fortunately I’ve made great progress in the translation and will begin editing the rough draft in a few weeks. Soon I will begin posting some excerpts on how Hippolytus interprets the prophetic dreams of Daniel. For now however I would like to end the first post of the new year with what Hippolytus’ thought concerning the nature of the Church.

For neither is a mere place able to be a called the Church, nor a house which is built with stone and clay, nor a man himself able to call himself the Church. For a house is destroyed and a man dies. And so, what is the Church? The community of saints participating in truth. Therefore unanimity and the way of the saints added together, this becomes the Church the spiritual House of God.

How beautiful and true his words are.

Blog Fixed

Tom — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:12:48 +0000

I finally figured out what was wrong with the blog display, however many of the hyperlinks in my old posts are gone as a result of the fix. But things should be back to normal now.

Blog display errors

Tom — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:42:05 +0000

My blog has some display errors on Internet Explorer. I am working on fixing it but it may take some time.