Can anyone help me understand Ephraim Radner?
While I’m on the twofold subject of (a) reading outside my speciality and (b) asking for help, I want to say...
Tag: Reading
187 Results
book fetishism
Here’s a passage from an essay in the Guardian about the decline of e-books and the revival of the book’s fortunes:...
a word of exhortation
This morning, for the first time in a few weeks, I checked Twitter. I thought I should see if anyone had sent me a...
building
A book that I have returned to often over the years is Gabriel Josipovici’s The Book of God. Josipovici is an...
books on The Good Book
The Wall Street Journal commissioned this review but in the end didn’t find space for it. Which is cool,...
this reader’s update
It’s been widely reported that in the past couple of years e-book sales have leveled off. Barring some currently...
synopsis of Cochrane’s Christianity and Classical Culture
Augustus, by uniting virtue and fortune in himself (viii, 174), established “the final triumph of creative...
Virgil and adversarial subtlety
So, back to Virgil … (Sorry about the spelling, Professor Roberts.) What do we know about Virgil’s reputation...
a small crisis in my life as a reader
I mentioned in my previous post that I’ve been re-reading Charles Norris Cochrane’s Christianity and...