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.

PRACTICAL TIPS ON HOUSEHOLD THINGS

• Bookcases - How to alter MFI chipboard bookcases, and indeed make your own. DIY for the tired office worker.

• Gas Central Heating: Is your central heating doing its job?  How to calculate this.

• Gas Central Heating: Pump overruns.  What does it mean if the pump keeps running on and on.

COMPUTER-RELATED TIPS

• FrontPage 2000 Locks Up! - and some ideas to unlock it again.

• FrontPage 2000 and Office Proofing Tools - Want to spell-check foreign-language web pages?  Fat chance!  But here's a way to do it.

• FrontPage 2000 Macros - How to get started.

• FrontPage 2000 Macros - How to make a toolbar icon and a keyboard short-cut.

• Dreamweaver Macros - How to get started.

• Scanning for OCR - How I do my OCR for the Tertullian Project.

• Scanning black-and-white text, not for OCR - settings needed for small images.

• Using unicode in webpages for ancient Greek and Syriac - how I now write my webpages.

• Upgrading the Compaq Armada 1130T - what happened when my old laptop got a flat CMOS battery (and needed a bigger hard disk).

• Visual Basic and Real Basic - some notes, until I stopped working on this.

• Using ADA code with Visual Basic - creating an Ada DLL.  The story until I abandoned the idea...  More  info now.

• GNAT Studio - How to use the Debugger - Debugging Ada code.

• How to import legacy Ada code into GNAT Studio - Because GNAT Studio doesn't have an "import" menu option.

• Getting Subversion and Subclipse running on Windows XP - working on your PC with subclipse and subversion.

• C++ Notes - links etc

• Coding for Right-To-Left text in DotNet (using VB.NET and Syriac) - pretty awful if you come to it for the first time.

• Syriac Peshitta resources - a fully vocalised text

• Blackplayer : Create a playlist from a folder using PC

• Using VB.NET with nUnit - getting setup

• CXXTest with Visual C++ (VC6 and VC7) - makefiles etc

• Technical Notes on Windows Vista &c. - copy pro. etc.

• Installing Visual Basic 6 on Windows 10

• VB.Net Tips

• VB.Net with Moq - mocking in unit tests with Visual Basic