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Saturday, October 3rd, 2026
Nature of the Hoard
972 manuscripts
In the form of scrolls or fragments of scrolls
The fragments in Cave 4 are in >15,000 pieces
Mostly parchment, some papyrus, and one of copper
Written mostly in Hebrew, about 15% in Aramaic, and a few in Greek
Dated 3rd C BC – ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Nature of the Hoard
12 codices
Contain 52 tractates (51 bound and one unbound)
The unbound tractate, formerly ‘Codex XIII,’ was found inside the front cover of Codex VI
Comprise at least parts of 1139 pages of text
Written in Coptic.
Dated to the 4th C AD.
Principally gnostic – ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
According to the poetic corpus itself, poems such as Beowulf were typically performed in front of the lord in his feasting hall by a scop, roughly equivalent to the ON skald. There are those who doubt the reality outside literature of this class of persons, but the evidence of all ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2026
According to Pope[1] the verses of OE poetry should be read so that one can beat time to the stresses in the same way that one can beat time to music. To emphasize this he uses musical notation to guide the reading of each syllable. He then proposes that the ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2026
As part of my effort to create a performance-oriented version of Beowulf, I had to look into the proposed theories of metre for Old English. I thought I might as well put the summaries of what I found here.
From a study of old Germanic and Scandinavian poetic metres, Eduard Sievers[1] derived ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2015
The Thread in the Labyrinth
One fine July morning, under a pounding sun, I began to wonder where we had come from, where we were going, and what we were doing on this Earth.
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