A Resource for the Study of the Corinthia, Greece
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An Account of Travel to the Corinthia: Major Sir Greenville Temple (1836)
While conducting research on the diolkos of Corinth last year, I discovered the enormous corpus of scanned texts in Google Books relating travel accounts to Greece and the Aegean from the late 18th to 20th centuries. These searchable texts offer the researcher an easy way of measuring historical interest in ancient landscapes. I was interested…
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Temple of Apollo Photographs at the Benaki Museum
A recent article from the Greek Reporter highlights the photographic exhibition of James Robertson at the Benaki Museum: James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveler-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled…
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“Letter to the Corinthians – Yes we can”
This Reuters article came through my feed last week describing how the modern village of ancient Corinth is dealing with Greece’s economic crisis. The author seems to me to be painting an overly dramatized view of the drop in tourism in the village. In my 15 summers of visits to the Corinthia, I don’t recall…
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Service Excavations Unearth Corinth City Walls (and other buildings)
Last week the Greek newspaper To Bima released a news article announcing new discoveries from excavations at the northern end of the village of Ancient Corinth. The excavations, carried out by the Greek Archaeological Service in advance of the construction of the new Eleusis-Corinth-Patras highway, revealed part of Corinth’s ancient city wall dating to the Archaic age…
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Corinth in Context at Society of Biblical Literature, London 2011
Last week I spent conferencing in London at the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. With the exception of one rainy day, the weather was cool and beautiful. My own visit was improved by the presence of my wife, Kate, and toddler son James, who ensured that I spent more time at London’s…
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SBL – Day 3-4
More good 1 and 2 corinthians papers today at the SBL International: Kar-Yong Lim, Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, “Paul’s Use of Temple Imagery in the Corinthian Correspondence and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Contextual Reading from the Perspectives of A Chinese Malaysian” Jeremy Punt, Universiteit van Stellenbosch – University of Stellenbosch, “Foolish Rhetoric in 1…
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SBL – Day 1-2
Corinthianmatters is on the road again, this time in London for the Society of Biblical Literature 2011 international meeting. The conference started yesterday with a session called the “Corinthian Correspondence”: Wayne Coppins, University of Georgia, “Paul’s Concern with the Nature and Location of Eating Meat Sacrificed to Idols in 1 Cor 8-10: A Response to…
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Corinthian Scholarship (May-June 2011)
It’s been a couple of months since the last Corinthian Scholarship update, so we have a full list here. The following list compiles the works I happened to see and the (imperfect) results of various google alerts. If you have material to add to these monthly compilations, send to corinthianmatters@gmail.com. As usual, 1 and 2…
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The Feasts of Peter and Paul, Apostles, June 29
Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007) Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007) The troparion and kontakia for June 29 from the website of the Orthodox Church of America: ************** First-enthroned of the apostles,teachers of the universe:Entreat the Master of allto grant peace to the world,and to our souls great mercy! ************** O…
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Touring the Diolkos
In early June, I spent two days in the Corinthia at the diolkos, the excavated limestone portage road. The first of those days I spent with Sophia Loverdou. If you follow Corinthian archaeology and don’t know Sophia’s name, you should. Sophia is the person who has been campaigning for several years to save the diolkos road from…
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