continuing this saga, I think I have some leads on the giver of the bible (I need to confirm via primary sources) but I've got another mystery - something written on the rear endpaper (under a note dated Jan 1942, on the Tomatin)

Simone@simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

I don't know Greek, but I know enough to think this isn't proper Greek - perhaps someone who has learnt Greek and been in the "not knowing enough Greek to be dangerous yet" stage might be able to shed some light on it?

continuing this saga, I think I have some leads on the giver of the bible (I need to confirm via primary sources) but I've got another mystery - something written on the rear endpaper (under a note dated Jan 1942, on the Tomatin)

Simone@simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

Ok guys you don't have to pretend anymore woke two is just modernism again right? You can tell me If not that's ok that'll just be woke 3

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

for people in other timezones, any help with this would be great

Simone@simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

for people in other timezones, any help with this would be great

Simone@simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

I am an English major at heart and have ranted about how Eliot is terrible, and my father also majored in English and, while tipsy, made me rage and rage by saying that when it came down to brass tacks, Ulysses is a book about nothing, and thus the proverbial tale told by an idiot we are

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 2mo ago

people are like "em1ly w1lson went out of her way to be abrasive" but i just don't think that's true. a lot of us are just like this. at one point in his ancient greece lectures donald kagan *just as a random aside* says he thinks rousseau is a "poisoned apple in the history of the human race"

oh the Academics from fields that doesn't involve assessing arts have discovered arts criticism

look, if there's anything to actually complain about regarding the Odyssey movie it has to be that it doesn't open with frying kidneys nor describe the sea as "scrotum-tightening"

hey, this is a friend of mine's mother, if anyone can help out please do gofund.me/301f513fa

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I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsay Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Congratulations to the Society of St Pious X for their victory over GAFCON in the "who will go full schismatic first" bracket

you know what's crazy with how education is headed I can see the emergence of a market at some time in the future consisting of students paying overqualified and underemployed graduates to mark their essays because they want genuine feedback from a real person and their fees don't buy that anymore

Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From an email sent to a large higher ed listserv today:

broke: this woke: wondering how much would have been achieved sooner if the Mongols hadn't ended the Islamicate Golden Age, and how different things would look if that trajectory had continued

🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦@mizati.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist

I'm gei (gay but also kind of rei)?

dr greg is historicising ✍️💫@thewastedworld.bsky.social · 4mo ago

lol lmao

Little owl (Athene noctua) The grumpiest looking owl in the uk #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #birding #owls #littleowls

IF THE KNICKS CAN WIN THEN SO CAN COMMUNISM

I actually kind of want to write this paper Clines is equal parts unbelievably perceptive and frustratingly myopic (the partner essay to this is pretty egregious in places, but to the point of being boring)

Simone@simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A proposal for a paper entirely via the title: "why is There a 'Why is There a Book of Job and What Does it do to You When You Read it?' and What Does it do to You When You Read it?"

Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date or be married to you? (Yes, this is just a random page from Clines' DCH)

A. M. Vincent@vincent.northsky.social · 4mo ago

Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date or be married to you?

Entry: שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת n.f. ear of grain

A proposal for a paper entirely via the title: "why is There a 'Why is There a Book of Job and What Does it do to You When You Read it?' and What Does it do to You When You Read it?"

Red morph eastern screech owl from yesterday #birding #owl #screechowl

at risk of being a boring ass by joining the pile on I think there are two very important things being missed in everyone's responses to this, the first being very basic: if this were true how would we know this? At the very least there would be documents from command saying something like this.

very tempted to quote anyone citing that bit in Galatians in support of James Talarico with the rejoinder that actually the rest of the letter relies on the reality of the insitution of slavery for the whole bit about those who are in slavery and those who are free and inheritance...

Living in New Zealand is a non-stop thrill-ride.

I now have all of Milgrom on Leviticus and no vols match each other The cost one pays for bargain hunting

since there's discourse on bluesky culture vs twitter culture again, I just wanna say that on bluesky I haven't had a bunch of people I was friends with turn on me and call me a "metaphysical zionist" for pointing out that the theological concepts a philosopher was invoking against...

it's cool how bluesky has now (at least for the first time I've noticed) matured enough that the "mistaking a descriptive statement for a prescriptive one" thing is endemic this platform might develop into twitter yet at this rate