Here I add a fourth installment to previous summaries of reviews of my first monograph: an initial batch (Clark, Phillips, Widdicombe), the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and a third batch (Meiser and Dulaey).
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Vatican III Liturgical Reforms in Light of Qn
A list of topics for our Holy Father and Holy Bishops to consider at their next gathering:
- cease requiring Baptism as a prerequisite for participation in Eucharist
- make the Eucharist an actual food and wealth redistribution event
- give 10% of all donations to a reparation fund for Jews, Blacks, and other historically brutalized populations
- invite Black Christian leaders as homilists to guide you in the practice of Black Oratory
- allow women and LGBTQ persons to be priests and co-officiants
- prioritize Qn in the liturgy as the first gospel reading
Regensburg Conference on the Prehistory of the Byzantine Liturgical Year
In early July 2018 the University of Regensburg is hosting a conference on the Prehistory of the Byzantine Liturgy, and I was delighted to have my presentation accepted.
Read More »More Reviews of My First Book: Meiser and Dulaey
Here I continue the initial summary of reviews of my 2013 monograph, as well as my summary of the review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Again, allow me to provide quotes directly from the reviews in their original languages, along with English translations for those who would prefer them.
Read More »First Book Reviewed in BMCR by Feldmeier
First Book Gets First Reviews: Clark, Phillips, and Widdicombe
While several copies are still out for review in different journals, the first few reviews have started to appear:
Read More »CBP 13 Publication Announcement and Corrigenda
My first monograph went to press early in March:
Mark Glen Bilby, As the bandit will I confess you: Luke 23, 39-43 in early Christian interpretation. Cahiers de Biblia Patristica 13. Strasbourg: University of Strasbourg; Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. [ISBN 978-2-906805-12-5]
Read More »Brepols’ Autumn Publication Brochure
Brepols’ Autumn 2013 list of forthcoming publications includes my first book. I’m getting excited! The Cahiers de Biblia Patristica has a fairly simple cover design and doesn’t include any artwork. This blog seems like a nice place to supplement a piece of art that is discussed in the book. The Rabbula Gospels, composed ca. 586 CE in Syria, contains the earliest extant illustration of the crucifixion. It also seems to convey one of the most notable and influential tropes found in early Christian interpretation, namely, John Chrysostom’s trope that Jesus and the bandit saw each other “with the eyes of faith”. For a detailed exploration of this trope and its afterlife in homilies and art, you’ll have to read the book when it is published this November. In the meantime, I’ll leave it to you to see and decide whether Chrysostom’s trope was in the mind of the artist who gave us this illustration.
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