Isn’t it better to have no possessions at all than to have millions of them and then lose them? According to ancient Cynic philosophy: Absolutely Yes! I’ve been discussing how this view comes to be embodied in Lucian’ of Samosata’s humorous dialogue Downward Journey, about a rich tyrant who abused his power and wealth and then ended up completely miserable in the afterlife. I begin here with the paragraph that ended the last post, to provide a bit of context for the humorous passage that follows. (All this is taken from my book Journeys to Heaven and Hell, with Yale University Press, due out in April) Read by Petra Ortiz
Gold Q&A - March 2023
Ephesians may look like other Pauline letters on the surface, but a closer look raises some serious doubts. Read by Brandon M. Bender
In my last post I started to resume my recollections of my mentor, the great textual scholar Bruce Metzger. In this post I recall...