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Given his influence over ANE studies!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/08/best-physical-evidence-of-roman-crucifixion-found-in-cambridgeshire

Interesting points - the body was brought back and buried.

Linky

Like him or not, he was a major player both in terms of the DSS and as a populariser of biblical^1 archaeology through BAR, which held many of the tempestuous Minimalism/Maximalism debates in the 1990s.

^1 Yes, yes, I know.

(In two parts, as I've gone past the 10k limit).

While procrastinating cutting the grass, I came across this TIL thread, where I was rather shocked and surprised by someone with a completely accurate name to learn that the English Reformation was responsible for the burning of Old English manuscripts and that's why we don't many. Surprised - because I teach both Anglo-Saxon history and Reformation History, I don't recall this ever being mentioned in my reading -shocked, at the horrifying number of upvotes. So did we lose lots of Old English manuscripts in the Reformation?

There's a coupl

St Mary's Twickenham has been running a series of videos over the last few months where they've been doing interviews with a number of various luminaries. It's mostly hosted by Chris Keith interviewing (so far), James Crossley, Helen Bond, Mark Goodacre, and this Monday, John Kloppenborg.

It's facebook only (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2616312148653306&id=1694989930785537) but it's realtime so you can ask questions in the comment section and they'll respond in video.

It's fairly hilarious at times, but it's a good introduction to a couple of new books coming out and some general chitchat about contemporary topics. You can watch all the previous episodes too.

We have a number of agreements with foreign universities who send us students, and as they come from a number of different disciplines, they're used to their specific citation systems from their home countries/majors. We're discussing whether they should be able to continue using their 'most' familiar citation system, or whether they should be forced into using our system (that they may not be familiar with and would probably not use going back to their own countries), eg: many use MLA/APA/Harvard, but we use MHRA^1

We offer tutorials in Zotero which pretty much eliminates the need to learn anything for the students, but the counter is that they'd have to learn a system for one or two se

Just kidding! As you all remember a couple of years ago (naturally), I mentioned I'd like to graph everyone mentioned in the sub as I reckoned Ehrman would be the top name mentioned. More recently we had this thread which prompted me to actually get on with it, because by golly, the love affair with Ehrman seems overwhelming. Is it?

[Narrator: He was right]

There are 3 ways of getting data from Reddit (if you care): the first is to go via [pushshift](https://files.