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The alert reader will know that I have already, last year posted a good deal of material on the massive archaeological dig at Laodicea (while Colossae still remains undug at all) and we have also posted a good deal of info on Hierapolis as well. Here then we will simply give some updates.   Firstly,  the…

Some of you may have heard reports immanating from Rome that the earliest pictures ever of Peter, Paul (and other apostles) have been found in the catacombs. Several things should be said about this: 1) the claim is these images are from the late 4th century.  If that is the claim there are likely earlier…

One of the best Greco-Roman sites in all of Turkey is Aphrodisias, and if you have read the most recent issue of BAR you will know it was not just a site for pagans, but also Jews and Christians lived there as well.  Today one of the great additions to the site is the new…

    It is always difficult to top a classic film like Toy Story, but when you have some of the most talented writers and illustrators at Pixar and some of the most familiar voices (i.e. Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack etc.) in the business, lots of things are possible.  I am on record as saying I…

There is so much to see at Ephesus that even several trips and even with having a trained guide, there are things one misses. Here above is the oden of Domitian today at the upper end of Curetes street. But what would it have looked like in ancient times? And what would the agora across the street…

Here is a very interesting recent clip from the Colbert Report based on Prothero’s recent book entitled God is Not One, the point of which is that those who say all religions are one (and therefore bad, or therefore good, or are all different paths up the same eternal mountain, are simply wrong). The book…

Before the time of Constantine when Christianity became a legal or licit religion, Christians met in private places— homes being the most obvious. But they also met in caves, and turned caves into churches.  This seems to have especially happened in Turkey, and one such example is right in, or better said, above Ephesus.  High…

Ephesus was indeed the city that Paul seems to have spent more time in than any other during his missionary period of life.  He was here for over two years at one stretch and important letters of Paul (such as 1 Corinthians) were likely written from here.  We have done posts before on Ephesus on…

Paul’s speech to the Ephesian elders at Miletus is, interestingly enough, the only full blown speech by Paul in Acts which is addressed to Christians. This speech then, not surprisingly bears the closest resemblance in content to some of the material in Paul’s letters, both early and late. Paul sailed past Ephesus, and met the…

    (Skillet at the 2007 Icthus Festival) I remember 1969 all too well.  I went to N.Y. to Fillmore East with my Methodist Youth Group and we saw Joe Cocker and the Jefferson Airplane.  The first CSN album had just gone on sale at Sam Goody’s. Then we went to New Hampshire, and decided…
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