Thu 18 May 2006
Travel and Religion Seminar website (and another website coming soon)
Posted by Phil Harland. Categories: Travel and Religion[3] Comments
I have recently updated the Travel and Religion in Antiquity website, which now includes the papers (in pdf) that will be presented this year at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, meeting at York University (soon my home).
I am presently designing another website for the “Meals in the Greco-Roman World” seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature, which will hopefully appear soon.
I’ve been bogged down with family issues for a while, but perhaps these other website updates (as well as an article I’m writing on immigrant groups for the July SBL conference) will be considered a more legitimate excuse for not posting often on the blog. I will be back to the blog in full force eventually. As a friend has warned me, the blog entries falling off may be a sign of imminent death for the blog, but I’m fighting this near-death blogging experience and will succeed!
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May 24th, 2006 at 7:43 am
Greetings Prof. Harland,
This is the first time I have contact with one of your posts. I am a professor of Early Christianity in Brazil and possibly, in the near future, a “troisième cycle” student at Université Laval on christian origins. I am currently leading a christian origins research group at Faculdade Evangelica (Brasilia). I’ve linked your weblog to our yahoogroups’ page and encouraged my students to take a look at your blog.
I have debated with my students in an Early Judaism Seminar about the Synagogues in Palestine. I have posed them Richard Horsley’s proposition that there were not synagogues (as buildings with an enphasis on the teaching of the Torah) in first century A.D. Galilee. As you might remember, Horsley’s point is defended due to the difficulty on finding archeologic remainings of buildings (synagogues) in Palestine before the second half of the third century. Where do you stand on this issue?
I wish that we can extend our dialogue through your weblog or other media. Since we might be “neighbours” (you have mentioned Université York) in the near future, I would enjoy continuing taking a closer look to your research.
Best wishes,
Felipe
May 25th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Hey Phil,
Hang in there! I’m looking forward to seeing you in Toronto. I hope you know I snore… so bring your earplugs! :-)
May 30th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Loud snoring indeed. You and Keir are close competitors for that. As you may or may not have noticed, I sometimes yell in my sleep, which can be somewhat startling. It was a good time at the conference, and thanks for the encouragement. Phil