Roger Pearse's Pages (original) (raw)

PROJECTS

• The Tertullian Project - A personal perspective on this ancient Latin writer. Manuscripts, Latin, Rare Books, Lost Works, and other things about one of the funniest writers of antiquity.
• My blog About the ancient world, the fathers, and more.
• QuickLatin. A Latin-to-English Translation Assistant program I've produced to ease the Latin-to-English gap.
• Early Church Fathers - Additional - English translations of the fathers which aren't available elsewhere online, collected. Also a mirror of the now unavailable CCEL Early Church Fathers in the v2 form.
• The Syriac Library - Syriac public domain texts.
• Manuscripts of ancient authors - How did these texts get to us? Here are some notes on what physical remains there are of various authors. Just what manuscripts actually exist, and of what date?
• Eusebius of Caesarea - various pages which I've written or scanned more or less ad hoc. Including:
  • Eusebius the Liar? - An analysis of some common slanders.
  • J.B. Lightfoot on Eusebius' sincerity, often doubted online without much reason.
• The Oriental Fathers - some notes on Syriac, Armenian, Arabic Georgian, Coptic and Ethiopian literature.
• The Library - Things I've scanned which don't belong with Tertullian or the Fathers.
• The Song of the Gnostic Slave - Some verses I posted to usenet, which I place here, now that the Deja archive is no more, because I didn't want to lose them.
• Some PDFs - PDF's of public domain journal articles and books.
• My blog - mostly on things ancient and patristic.
• Mithras: my pages on Mithraic studies.
• The "Body and Blood of Mithras" myth - a strange idea, my research notes

NOTES ABOUT THE ANCIENT WORLD

• "A Lost Gospel" - A manuscript find in Berlin in 1997 of a gnostic gospel, similar to the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. All the real information I can find, and an evaluation of it.
• Did Christian writers of the Second Century believe in the Incarnation? - A question I was asked.
• How well did the pre-Eusebian Fathers know Josephus? - Not very well, seems to be the answer, contrary to common report. I researched it, so here it is.
• Did the ancients believe in a flat earth? - An extract from Pliny the Elder
• The Old Slavonic Josephus - some notes from the Russian
• The Council of Nicaea and the Bible - Did the Council of Nicaea lay down the canon of scripture? With some otherwise unavailable excerpts from:
  • Eusebius_De solemnitate paschalis_
  • Epiphanius_Panarion_
  • Rufinus,HE
  • Philostorgius,HE
• Reviews - Some book reviews I posted on Amazon.
• Photius' Review of the history of Justus of Tiberias - because most people haven't got access to it.
• Lucian of Samosata: Introduction - and MS tradition.
• Lucian of Samosata: The Passing of Peregrinus - English only.
• Lucian of Samosata: Alexander the False Prophet - English only
• Lupus of Ferrières - Letter 5 (To Einhard) - Mentions Uncial letters.
• Hoffmann's Porphyry - a review of a recent translation.
• Hoffmann's Celsus - some errors in translation.
• The Donation of Constantine and the critique of Lorenzo Valla - just why is it a forgery? (It is!)
• The Loeb Classical Library - an introduction from 1912 by James Loeb, explaining the genesis of the collection.
• Joseph Wheless: Forgery in Christianity - How accurate are the quotations in this oft-quoted book?
• George Syncellus: Some excerpts from the Chronography - Much referenced, but little read, so I've put some quotes online.
• An old account of the Strauss controversy - anatomy of a rogue.
• The Notovitch Hoax - contemporary articles on it.
• Implications of P52 for NT dating - some thoughts.
• Barnabas and the Jews - minutes of a meeting
• Sol Invictus - in progress
• Mohammed - Brockelmann's material on the Arabic biographers of Mohammed
• Galen on Jews and Christians - the primary sources in English.
• Books by Michael Bourdeaux - some books in PDF form by the founder of Keston College
• Yeznik of Kolb, Refutation of the Sects -- translated and retold by Thomas Samuelian.
• Bede, on 'Eostre' -- all that is known about this anglo-saxon goddess.
• Attis: The Literary Testimonies

MISCELLANEOUS

• How to get more out of life Getting on for 40? Tired of running on the hamster-wheel? Here are some tentative personal ideas on how to avoid doing nothing with your life.
• How to copy Rare Books and Manuscripts - Some initial notes for those who have to do it but don't know how.
• How to find out about copyrights - if you want to scan something, is it in the public domain?
• A Ramshackle Room - a 1910 poem from Punch.
• Graham Kendrick - some old pages I didn't want to disappear from the web.
• An old account of the Strauss controversy -- an article I thought interesting in the 1864 Journal of Sacred Literature.
• Greek verbs and principal parts -- how to work out the stem for an irregular verb
• Carlson's_The Gospel Hoax_ - a review of this book about Secret Mark.
• Hannam's_God's Philosophers_ - a review of this book about medieval science.
• Mark Ashton's sermons -- links to all the MP3's of his sermons
• Old Paths in Perilous Times -- the manifesto of the CICCU (Cambridge Inter-collegiate Christian Union) in 1932.
• Freelancer on Windows 7 -- how to get the Freelance Mod Manager working.
• Alison Cripps, Derby -- obituary for school-fellow
• Ben David, "Three Letters addressed to the editor of the Quarterly Review, in which is demonstrated the genuineness of the Three Heavenly Witnesses - I John v. 7", London, 1825. -- Now offline, so saved here. Nonsense tho.