http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11314702/The-online-battle-for-papyrus-texts.html

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6766/47/Which-Macarius-.aspx

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/egypt-misunderstood-agony/?pagination=false#.Uix7p2o8duc.facebook

more belly-dancing than pyramids, whatever. Music is strangely hypnotic kraut-rock.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-real-reason-the-nag-hammadi-library-was-buried

My two cents: we can't nail down any definite information about the find before the documents arrived in Cairo. Denzey rightfully argues that the ( Read more... )

http://www.livescience.com/28506-gospel-judas-ink-authenticity.html

"Yeah, I met the pope. Twice!"

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the old story of the discovery of the texts (discredited by some, particularly Denzey Lewis in a forthcoming monograph, both for its accuracy and its orientalism - Quispel congratulating Muhammad Ali is cringeworthy) and their significance (discredited by no one), featuring some of the superstars the field in the 70s: Gilles Quispel (spearheaded ( Read more... )

now with pictures.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1319

I took Coptic with CM in 2005. She was one of the first people I met in graduate school. Even then her relationship with JD was an open secret - at the time she was on some kind of postdoc that would lead to the TT position she has now ( Read more... )