I note what promises to be an intriguing and informative blog, ελληνιστι γινωσκεις; (“Do you know Greek?”). The author, Daniel Phillips, is committed to the study of the Greek New Testament and I look forward to his insights.
Archive for February, 2007
I have been requested to put online an essay examining whether Christians should have anything to do with the medium of film. Do read it, and feel welcome to comment on the essay or to correct me.
It seems unlikely that any author would deny the influence of others on his work. Yet the more the author seeks to identify all his sources, the more he may convey the impression that what is left over, when those sources are accounted for, is indubitably his own. But there is bound to be a moiety that he has not found nor isolated; all writing is filled with what Jonathan Lethem calls “quotations without inverted commas.” Here are a few words from Lethem’s remarkable essay “The Ecstasy of Influence,” which is well worth reading.
Luke 2.29-32, sometimes called the nunc dimittis from its first two words in Latin, is a beautiful piece of poetry with which Simeon greets the baby Jesus.
