Day: August 30, 2017

Fourth-century Gospel commentary rediscovered

Cara Modisett | Posted on August 30, 2017 |

The Church Times reports on the rediscovery of a commentary on the Gospels, written by Fortunatianus of Aquileia, a bishop in the fourth century – the rediscovered manuscript is an eighth-century copy of his writings. It predates the Vulgate, and provides new evidence about the earliest form of the Gospels in Latin. Experts knew of […]

The Handmaid’s Tale and the Undocumented

Tricia Gates Brown | Posted on August 30, 2017 |

“Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage. She bore a son, and he named him Gershom [alien]; for he said, ‘I have been an alien residing in a foreign land’” (from today’s lectionary reading in Exodus 2:15-22).

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