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Plumbing the depths of the beauty in the Christian faith.
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Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books
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A weekly round up of the latest Ancient Egypt news that made the headlines, brought to you by Ted Loukes and GnT Tours. Visit these websites for more on books by Ted Loukes or news of our latest tour to Egypt. https://tedloukes.com https://gnttours.co.za Contact us at ted@gnttours.co.za
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This is about several Ancient Egyptians that are being interviewed about Ancient Egypt. Cover art photo provided by AussieActive on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@aussieactive
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Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his intellect by attending lectures from the many thinkers who passed through Athens and toyed with the idea…
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It Sounds Like A Stephen A Smith Rant
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Imagine you are sitting at the bedside of a loved one who is in a coma waiting for them to wake up. That's prayer. Another episode for small group formation and anyone else wanting to dive deeper into prayer.
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Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson
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In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey discusses the past and future of citizenship with David Jacobson, Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida (Tampa). They discuss the origins of the concept of citizenship in the ancient Near East a few thousand years ago and how kinship notions shape the debate on …
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines in the third week in March. Hieroglyphs Step by Step Dr Ramadan Hussein Exhibition in Tahrir Old Kingdom Mastaba in Dashur These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.com/tag/cairo/ http://www…
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Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Shakuntala Gawde's book Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha (Dev Publishers, 2023) presents an analytical study of selected narratives of the tenth skandha of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa with the framework of Narratology. It checks the possibilities of interpretation of some popular narratives from Kṛṣṇa saga. …
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David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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In Memoriam: David Ferry (1924-2023) In this Recall This Book conversation from 2021, poets David Ferry and Roger Reeves talk about lyric, epic, and the underworld. The underworld, that repository of the Shades of the Dead, gets a lot of traffic from heroes (Gilgamesh, Theseus, Odysseus, Aeneas) and poets (Orpheus, Virgil, Dante). Some come down fo…
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Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including R…
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Ancient Egypt News 11 - 17 March 2024
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines in the second week in March. Amenhotep III Workshops in Luxor New Secretary General at SCA Archaeological Awareness at Luxor Museum Ancient Egypt Ravaged by Disease These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https:/…
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Robin Baker, "Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges" (Brill, 2016)
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In Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges (Brill, 2016), Robin Baker provides a masterly reappraisal of Israel's experience during its Settlement of Canaan as narrated in the Book of Judges, which, he argues, subtly encrypts a grim forewarning of Judah's future. In its extensive treatment of otherness, the Bo…
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Youth Ministry Revisioned w/ Annie Grandell
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Every pastor, faith formation director, and youth minister knows that what we have been doing in the area of youth formation has not been working, and all the studies support what they already know! So why do we keep doing the same thing? Is there anything we can do? Is there any hope? Maybe it's easier than we think. Join Fr. Kowalczyk and Annie G…
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I Didn't Know You Could Loan A Car AT Somebody
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Prayer Triangle (Bonus)
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Continuing the theme of prayer, Fr. K discusses the types of prayer and how they relate and build off of each other.
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines in the days leading up to Ramadan. Rameses II Statue Found in Minya Carter Watercolour on Tour Ramesses and the Gold of the Pharaohs in Germany Ramadan Opening Hours These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https:…
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Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a range of such Roman p…
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Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
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There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vast…
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Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified. A favorite subject of sculptors and painters since the Renaissance, his notoriety is equally due to his infamously eccentric behavior, scorn of conventions, and biting aphorisms…
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the beginning of March. Papyri and Wasabi Christie's Auction 26th Dynasty Sarcophagus Uncovered Tomb of Nefertari Closes These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.com/tag/cairo/ http://…
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Hard Meaningful Things w/ Dr. Jim Schroeder
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Dr. James Schroeder joins Fr. K in a discussion on mental health, technology, ultra running, and how it all adds up to living or not living a whole life.For more information on our guest:Jim Schroeder, PhD, is a pediatric psychologist and Vice President of the psychology department at Easterseals Rehabilitation Center in Evansville, Indiana. He res…
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Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To be 'blind' has never referred solely to the inability to see. Instead blindness has been used as shorthand for, among other things, a lack of understanding, immorality, closeness to death, special ins…
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Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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In this highly original book Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veteran…
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Praying the Bible (Bonus)
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Praying the Bible is not an innate talent. It takes work, practice and instruction. In this Bonus episode, specifically made for those walking in parish small groups, Fr. K gives some helpful tips on how to pray––not study, not memorize, not read––but pray the Bible.
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the fourth week of February. El-Anani Candidate for UNESCO Chief Jan Assman The Egyptian Leap Year Solar Alignment at Abu Simbel These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.com/tag/cairo/…
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I Would Perish QuicklyAncient & New által
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T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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"Fascism" is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots in the ancient past or its long, strange evolution to the present. In ancient Rome, the fasces were a bundle of wooden rods bound with a leather cord, in which an axe was placed—in essence, a mobile kit for corporal or capital punishment. Attendants…
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Ancient Egypt News 12 - 18 February 2024
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the third week of February. When Were Hieroglyphs Invented? Menkaure Project Rejected Neferhotep Tomb in Luxor Now Open These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.com/tag/cairo/ http://w…
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Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch" (Cascade Books, 2023)
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The letters of Ignatius of Antioch portray Jesus in terms that are both remarkably exalted and shockingly vulnerable. Jesus is identified as God and is the sole physician and teacher who truly reveals the Father. At the same time, Jesus was born of Mary, suffered, and died. Ignatius asserts both claims about Jesus with minimal attempts to reconcile…
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Sensory Deprivation Booth
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Specifically for the Small Group formation content, this podcast discusses the 5 essential components for starting or restarting a prayer life. You have to determine the following: 1. When are you going to pray? 2. Where are you going to pray? 3. For how long are you going to pray? 4. What are you going to do for prayer? 5. Who is going to keep you…
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Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an anachronism imposed by more recent generations. As Anthony Kaldellis explains in Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Harvard University Press, 2019), this has contributed to the denial of the ethnic identity that most deni…
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the second week of February. GEM and Giza Plateau New Walkway Developing the Area Between Sphinx Intl and Saqqara GEM To Be Ready By End of February 787 Artefacts For Shanghai Exhibition Colossus of Amenhotep III Project Starts at Karnak These news stories are taken from various public internet…
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I'm a Disney Adult And I'm Not Ashamed
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I'm a Disney Adult And I'm Not AshamedAncient & New által
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Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
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Neil Bernstein's The Complete Works of Claudian (Routledge, 2022) offers a modern, accurate, and accessible translation of Claudian's work, published in English for the first time since 1922, and accompanied by detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary. Claudian (active 395-404 CE) was the last of the great classical Latin poets. His best-known w…
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Clare K. Rothschild, "The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary" (Mohr Siebeck, 2022)
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Discovered and published in 1740 by the Ambrosian librarian Ludovico Muratori, the so-called “Muratorian Fragment” has long featured for New Testament scholars as a piece of second-century evidence for a canonical impulse in early Christianity. Challengers to this second-century dating in recent decades have done little to shake a popular conceptio…
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Matt Harold joins Fr. K again to discuss the Church rules on fasting, and why they are so... lame seeming.
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Cosden Leahey joins the podcast to discuss the well known but not well read literary genius Dante Alighieri writer of The Divine Comedy. Here are Anthony Esolen's Audible Lectures referenced in the conversation: https://www.audible.com/series/The-Divine-Comedy-Audiobooks/B07N83XD7P?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Dantes_c1_series_1&pf_rd_p=d…
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Angela Kim Harkins, "An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and Its Role in Moral Formation" (Equinox, 2023)
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Among early Christian books abandoned at the flipside of the canonical boundary, the Shepherd of Hermas is presently undergoing an exciting renaissance of scholarly interest from multiple critical angles. Accepting that the Shepherd was broadly reckoned as a catechetical scripture by early Christians after its composition and dissemination from Rom…
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Ancient Egypt News 29 January - 04 February 2024
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the opening days of February. Karnak's Hypostyle Hall Rheumatoid Arthritis Found in Mummy Menkaure - the Plan Menkaure - the Committee The GEM These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.…
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Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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War is often thought of mainly the concern of professional soldiers and maybe politicians as well. However, philosophers and theorists of varying types have addressed the issue of war in its many aspects. This is because war has numerous political, ethical, philosophical, and even legal elements. When is the right time to go to war? What is a legit…
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Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy abse…
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Is Jude Going To Hogwarts?
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Is Jude Going To Hogwarts?Ancient & New által
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Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
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Why has Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a color-blind society suffered so many recent setbacks? Classical philosopher Andre Archie argues that we need to bring back King's vision, and points to the ways the Classical ideas of virtues can inform our modern understanding of virtue as separate from race. Along the way, the conversation covers recen…
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Ancient Egypt News 22 - 28 January 2024
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the fourth week of January 2024. Predynastic Egypt Rebuilding Menkaure These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.org.eg/Portal/9/Heritage.aspx https://egyptianstreets.com/tag/cairo/ http://www.egyptindependent.com/ http://www.egypttoday.co…
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Jesus Leads to the Eucharist w/ Matt Harold
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Matt Harold joins Fr. K to share his own conversion story growing up as a Protestant who loved the Bible and had a personal relationship with Jesus to the Bible showing him that Jesus was truly present in the Eucharist!
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David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permitted to remarry and were offered two options: a life of seclusion and rigorous asceticism or death on the funeral pyre of a deceased husband. Was this a modern development, or did it date from the classic…
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
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For almost seven centuries, two powers dominated the region we now call the Middle East: Rome and Persia. From the west: The Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, later the Byzantine Empire. From the East: The Parthian Empire, later replaced by the Sasanian Empire. The two ancient superpowers spent centuries fighting for influence, paying each ot…
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Ancient Egypt News 15 - 21 January 2024
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The stories that made the Ancient Egypt headlines over the third week of January 2024. Return of Nefertiti Thwarted by Allies Solar Power at Museums and Archaeological Sites Rameses Exhibition Going to Germany 95% of Karnak's Hypostyle Hall Restored These news stories are taken from various public internet sources including: http://english.ahram.or…
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Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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A proponent of the Madhyamaka tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Candrakīrti wrote several works, one of which, the Madhamakāvatāra, strongly influenced later Tibetan understandings of Madhyamaka. This work is the subject of Jan Westerhoff’s Candrakīrti’s Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2024), part of the Oxford Guide…
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