The Iliad
January 22, 2020
Homer, The Iliad Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 1987), lv + 460pp. ISBN:978-0-14-044444-5. Finally I have taken down this epic of Western culture and literature, after its having sat waiting on my shelf for many years, and read it. What a tragic and …
The Lost Letters of Pergamum
January 17, 2020
Longenecker, Bruce W., The Lost Letters of Pergamum (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003). 192pp. ISBN: 0-8010-2607-5. For some reason I was drawn again to this little epistolary novel which the subtitle tells us it is a “story from the New Testament world.” …
As a decade begins
January 01, 2020
With the twenty teens recently ended, I thought I would post a bit of an update about the blog, fill you in on an exciting new venture I am part of, add some reflections about the start of the twenties, and close …