Category: Teaching Corinth
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Religion for Breakfast
If you are interested in issues of ancient religion and early Christianity, check out Andrew Henry’s YouTube channel “Religion for Breakfast.” Religion for Breakfast is (as the about page notes) an educational video log “dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion. We strive to raise the level of conversation about religion on YouTube by exploring surprising facts about…
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The Outreach Program of the Corinth Excavations
Katherine Petrole’s press release last week at the ASCSA webpage discusses an exciting new educational program for the Corinth Excavations. The program is releasing a series of lesson plans designed for students of different age groups. As the Corinth Excavations Outreach page notes, Since 2007, Corinth Excavations Assistant Director Dr. Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst has been leading outreach efforts on-site in Ancient Corinth, Greece.…
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Corinth Excavations, Places and Monuments
The American School of Classical Studies Excavations at Corinth continues to add digital resources that will be of interest and use to archaeologists, tourists, teachers, preachers, writers, and the broader public. In the past, I’ve covered their Field Trip App, which allows anyone with a mobile phone to take a virtual tour of Ancient Corinth with expert summary descriptions, photos,…
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Digitizing Isthmia with the Archaeological Resource Cataloging System (ARCS)
DKP Introduction: I noted yesterday that the National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded Jon Frey, Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Culture at Michigan State University, a major grant for the digital implementation of an open-source application known as the Archaeological Resource Cataloging System (ARCS). I asked Jon more about what his teams…
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Touring Corinth (virtually) with the Field Trip App
About a month ago, Andrew Reinhard of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announced a new digital tour of Ancient Corinth that accompanies the publication (in press) of Ancient Corinth: A Guide to the Site and Museum. The book, which will hit the market this fall, marks the first guidebook to Corinth published…
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Workshop: Ancient Corinth and Roman City Planning
It’s not often that ancient workshops about Ancient Corinth come to south-central Pennsylvania. If you’re in driving range of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, come out on November 16. I hope to be there myself. Below are details from the Classical Studies Department at Dickinson. *********************************************************** The Dickinson College Department of Classical Studies will sponsor…
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Maps of the Corinthia
I have updated the Maps section of this website as well as the subdirectories for Contours and Maps of the Corinthia. The latter contains a gallery of maps generated for free distribution for educational and research purposes. The maps present the Corinthia at different scales, with 20 meter and 100 meter contours, generated from the…
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Preaching Corinthians from Historical and Archaeological Background: Some Resources
How important is understanding cultural and social background for preaching and teaching on 1 and 2 Corinthians? In late July, I stumbled upon Michael Bird’s post at Evangelion on the importance of understanding background for effective preaching. He comments on video discussion (reposted below) between D.A. Carson and John Piper about whether a pastor whose…
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Corinthiaka (April 2011)
Probably about time to release the few Corinthiaka news and links that have accumulated through Google updates this month. I’ll follow with an April publication / scholarship overview later in the week: Matt Malcolm’s Greek language exercises set in the Corinthian marketplace calls to mind simulation exercises that my colleague, Reta Finger, used to do with…
Corinthian Matters 