Unpublished papers by James Miller
Analysis of the impact and non-impact of John Bohannon's faked chocolate study.
In this essay I will explore what role the crowd in attendance at Jesus' trial, as depicted in th... more In this essay I will explore what role the crowd in attendance at Jesus' trial, as depicted in the Gospels, played in His conviction and sentencing. Perhaps the most direct way of framing the query I will make and attempt to answer is, as the title of my essay suggests, whether or not the crowd was complicit in Jesus' sentencing and execution.
Abstract: This article will begin by describing an ancient document that connects the library in ... more Abstract: This article will begin by describing an ancient document that connects the library in ancient Alexandria with the Septuagint. In the process it will outline some of the history reflected in the document and offer clarifications of key terms. After addressing the problem of recovering both the original translation and the source text from which it was made, the article will finally discuss the Septuagint as a translation in comparison to its source text. It will conclude with an example, drawn from the early chapters of the book of Genesis, of how the Greek translation nuances the meaning found in the Hebrew.
For Orthodox Christians familiar with their Bibles and the worship of their Church, the significa... more For Orthodox Christians familiar with their Bibles and the worship of their Church, the significance of the Psalms will be evident--even though these believers may not have devoted a good deal of thought to the matter. In an introductory session for a course on the Psalms I once taught in an Orthodox seminary, I decided a good way to highlight their liturgical significance would be to pose a question to my students: "in which service of the Orthodox Church are Psalms not read?" I asked, allowing a lengthy pause for consideration afterward.
In this article I will offer some suggestions for a minor reform of Orthodox seminary education i... more In this article I will offer some suggestions for a minor reform of Orthodox seminary education in America. A key point I wish to make in this article is that the Master of Divinity degree program--the program into which most seminary students are admitted--is not currently conducted at the relatively more advanced academic level that other master's programs in the humanities in this country are. I will point out, in addition, that the training provided to Orthodox ordinands need be only partly academic: the bulk of the curriculum does not and should not require study at the relatively higher scholarly level the M.Div. title implies. In light of these factors, a central suggestion I will make is that Orthodox seminaries should cease granting the M.Div. degree. Instead, the M.Div. course of study, in more or less its current form, should be lengthened slightly and should culminate in the award of a certificate that carries a different title. Orthodox seminaries would additionally do well, within other degree programs where real master's-level academic study can take place, to offer academic degrees closer in character to those found in other humanities disciplines in this country.
Drafts by James Miller
An investigation, using a couple of key passages, of the character of one of the DSS Isaiah scrol... more An investigation, using a couple of key passages, of the character of one of the DSS Isaiah scrolls and its relation to the Masoretic text and Septuagint translation. Paper written for a graduate school course toward the end of the second milenium.
St. Athanasius' Epistle to Marcellinus in Greek with Latin parallel, excerpted from Migne Patrolo... more St. Athanasius' Epistle to Marcellinus in Greek with Latin parallel, excerpted from Migne Patrologia Graeca, volume 27. Formatting for letter-sized paper applied via pdfjam. Google books scan.
1 DISCLAIMERS: The parallel text below was put together using resources freely available (presuma... more 1 DISCLAIMERS: The parallel text below was put together using resources freely available (presumably in the public domain) on the internet. The English column contains a somewhat dated translation by Herbert T. Andrews while the Greek column offers the critical collation produced by Thackeray in the early twentieth century. I have used the two texts in virtually the same form in which I found them on the web, doing little more than supplying a few spelling and formatting corrections to the English and straightening out the disordered state of the numbering I found in the Andrews text. I assume responsibility for any disharmony that remains between the English and Greek numbering for the text flow, and would be happy for any further corrections readers might offer to it (they may be sent to [email protected]). The text itself is the responsibility of the authors who produced it or those who scanned it to make it available in electronic form, and to them goes both the credit for producing or making it available, as well as responsibility for errors that go beyond certain formatting irregularities or numerical inconsistency. This text can in no way, and is not intended to, compete with the excellent introduction and translation in parallel text with inserted notes of Moses Hadas, available in his Aristeas to Philocrates (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951). The present text is rather an attempt to make a more readilyavailable preliminary resource via the agency of the internet for those who may form an initial interest in this document. Those wanting to study the Letter and its history in greater depth are encouraged to begin their research with a hard copy of Hadas' fine volume. Having put the current document together from freelyavailable resources, I can, of course, place no restrictions on its reproduction. I do, however, wish to assert the following ethical injunction: if you reproduce this text, please include in your reproduction some notice offering credit to those who have given of their time and expertise to make it available in its current form. The present document should be considered a work in progress and will be periodically updated. You are reading the 07/17/06 revision.
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Unpublished papers by James Miller
Drafts by James Miller