C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters volume 3
The third and last volume of the Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis is out, and available here from Amazon.com. Santa brought me a copy of the UK edition (with rather nicer cover) for Christmas. I’ve...
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I’ve been reading the massive 2,000 page third volume of the Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis (available here). It must be one of the very few books of which I can say, “I’ve only read 700 pages so...
View ArticleBack to Eusebius
The Tough Questions on the Gospel by Eusebius of Caesarea has been sitting on my hard disk for a few weeks now, awaiting some editing. On Boxing Day I went out and bought a laser printer. I can’t...
View ArticleEditing Eusebius
I’ve spent the day working on the Word documents that contain the new translation of Eusebius’ Tough Questions on the Gospels. It’s been about turning the notes into Word footnotes, correcting the...
View ArticleEnd of volume three
I have now reached the end of the monster, 2,000 page, volume three of the collected letters of C. S. Lewis. I seem to have averaged around 300 letters a day. It is quite a testimony to the charm of...
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Pseudonymous emails
I received a delightful email today from someone calling themselves Pseudonymous. I can’t ask his permission to post it, since he gave no valid email address. But I would like to reply, and this...
View ArticleMore on “Greek without Tears”
I’ve been in correspondence with Dr Flynn, the author of the package Greek without tears. This is essentially a keyboard for polytonic Greek, at a pretty cheap price. My translator used it to enter...
View ArticleAngelo Mai comments on a catena fragment of Eusebius
In the fragments of Eusebius, Mai added this note. It was translated for me by the translator, but has no place in the book, so I give it here. Another delightful thing has happened to me. While I...
View ArticleThe perils of translating from old editions
I’m still working on editing the translation of the Gospel Problems and Solutions by Eusebius of Caesarea. The fragments of catenas and the like are all printed by Angelo Mai in the early 19th...
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Another new year
Palm trees and coral sands Now is the time of year to see where we’re going. After all, just like a sailing ship on the ocean, if we don’t check our course periodically, we will drift. And this...
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