Author Archives: jacobcerone

QOTD: Chrysostom

Posted on December 9, 2013 by jacobcerone

“Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτὸν ἡ ἐλεημοσύνη· οὐκέτι ἐπιθυμεῖ  τῶν τοῦ πλησίον·  πῶς γὰρ, ὁ τὰ αὐτοῦ ἀποκτώμενος, καὶ διδούς; οὐκέτι βασκαίνει τῷ πλουτοῦντι· πῶς γὰρ, ὁ βουλόμενος γενέσθαι πένης;” For almsgiving teaches this: the one who gives no longer desires his neighbor’s … Continue reading →

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Free: Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek

Posted on December 9, 2013 by jacobcerone

Today I will be giving away a free copy of David Alan Blacks’ Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek. If you are a student of New Testament Greek, this resource is a must have. I know that it has been … Continue reading →

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Learning Biblical Greek

Posted on December 6, 2013 by jacobcerone

As a part of my job as Dr. Black’s Research Assistant, I am occasionally asked to respond to emails inquiring about Greek resources and advice on how to further one’s development in the language. Here is a portion of the … Continue reading →

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Progress on Chyrsostom Project

Posted on December 5, 2013 by jacobcerone

Two days ago I introduced my plans to read through Chrysostom in a year. Yesterday, I mentioned the possibility of crowdsourcing the task of morphological tagging the text. I did the first paragraph as an example. For those of you … Continue reading →

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Free Books: IVP Pocket Dictionaries

Posted on December 4, 2013 by jacobcerone

It’s that time of year again. Time for me to go through my library, find duplicates, and give them out to my readers during the Christmas season. It’s my way of saying thanks to everyone that reads the blog, and … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing Chrysosotom

Posted on December 4, 2013 by jacobcerone

For a long time I have thought it would be a great thing to have the Migne Greek Father and Latin Father series digitized, tagged, and translated. It was brought to my attention that Logos plans on releasing the Greek … Continue reading →

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Chrysostom’s Homilies on Philippians in a Year

Posted on December 3, 2013 by jacobcerone

I plan on reading through Chrysostom’s homilies on Philippians in a year. You can join me if you want. Over the next month, I will be hard at work typing up Migne’s text of these homilies, and dividing them up … Continue reading →

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Chrysostom’s Got Style

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jacobcerone

I picked up this volume of John Chrysostom’s homilies on Philippians at SBL this year. The text is a diglot (the original Greek text is on the left page; the English translation is on the right). I recently finished translating … Continue reading →

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Sidewalk Espresso Baltimore

Posted on November 25, 2013 by jacobcerone

Thanks go out to Dr. McKenzie for introducing me to the Sidewalk Espresso Cafe. Now that I am about to leave Baltimore, I can let the secret out of the bag. This is the place to get coffee. Their Ethiopian … Continue reading →

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IOSCS Session 1

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jacobcerone

The first seminar I attended today was the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. I would like to bring your attention to three of the presentations: Miika Tucker, Ben Johnson, and Chris Fresch. Miika Tucker Miika Tucker’s topic for … Continue reading →

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