Cruising the Logos Bible Software newsgroups this morning (news://news.logos.com) I noticed that a user posted a link to a review of a museum exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit (reviewed by the New York Times) is called Prague: The Crown of Bohemia: 1347-1437.

Diarmaid MacCullough's book The Reformation: A History (listed at Amazon for only $13.98, which is an incredible price for a hardcover book of this nature. I'd highly recommend purchasing if you have any interest in the history of the Reformation!) traces some of the history of Bohemia, so historical names, places and events mentioned in the review are familar to me.

The NYT review is great (though some portions are a bit much) and makes me wish I was there so I could go. Please check it out, and make sure to hit the slideshow for a few images — the badge from the Order of the Dragon is really cool!

Update (2005-09-27): Bob Pritchett, spending some time on holiday on the east coast, just called me to rub it in. He was in New York, wondering what to do for the day, so he decided to take the family to see the exhibit. He said it was pretty cool. But he didn't even get me any gift shop swag as thanks for pointing him there ...

Hi Folks.

You've no doubt noticed that I haven't been blogging much lately. The blogging dearth will continue, I think, until the ETS and AAR/SBL conferences.

That's not to say I won't blog, but I won't be blogging as frequently as I have in the past few months.

I've got a lot of stuff on my plate for the conferences (both for Logos [check it out!] and for myself) so I'll be keeping busy.

By the way, if you read ricoblog, and you'll be at either (or both) of the conferences, feel free to drop by the Logos booth and look for me. Or if you'd like to schedule a meeting, let me know. I'd love talking with you further about any common interests we may have.

Aye, lads & lassies, today be the day ye be talkin' like pirates!

If'n ye don't speak the pirate talk, hearken yer browsers smartly to the starboard and be viewin' the Pirate-speak How-to.

Just checked the referrer logs and noticed that I've been linked to from daveblackonline. Dave has written a lot of cool stuff (check his book list), so I'm happy to find that he's linked here. I'd link back to the exact article, but it has no link anchor. So find the section for September 17, 2005, then find the paragraph that was entered at 7:53 AM. 

Thanks, Dave!

He linked to this entry I wrote about Erasmus' edition of the NT. If you're visiting from Dave's blog (or elsewhere!) and dig that sort of stuff, check out what I've written on Textual Criticism and Greek stuff in general. And be sure to pop ricoblog into your feed reader (use the RSS/ATOM links on the right).

Mark Goodacre (NT Gateway Weblog) posts a press release from Fortress Press about George Nickelsburg's updated book, Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah.

The press release briefly mentions that the book comes with a CDRom containing the material in the book and more stuff.

I'd like to note that the CDRom uses the Libronix Digital Library System and is thus fully Logos Bible Software compatible. You can pick up this product from Fortress Press, in bookstores, or from Logos Bible Software — where we like to think the electronic version comes with a free paperback edition of the book!

For a list of more electronic titles published by Fortress Press that come with a free paperback edition of the book (19 of 'em!) check out this list (they're available in this collected group, or individually).

Some of this stuff is pretty cool: Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament? Danker's Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study? Check out the full list for more gems.

Update (2005-09-22): In the comments, Ben asks about linking within the Logos version of Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah. I don't know if I'm really supposed to do this, but since I have access to a version internally, I took a screen capture. Hopefully this will answer Ben's question:

Through a post on B-Greek, I've become aware of SIL's Journal of Translation. Articles for 2005 (two issues, four articles per issue) are online as PDF files. The Editor's Forward to Issue 1 Notes:

Welcome to the long-awaited launching of SIL’s Journal of Translation. In one sense, this is a replacement for Notes on Translation, as it provides an outlet for academic writing and research in this field. But JOT is truly different. It is a peer-reviewed, academic e-journal which incorporates recent investigations and discoveries not only in translation but also in related areas of study. We initially plan to e-publish the Journal three times a year, April, August, and December.

The site is set up with excellent indexes so that all articles are indexed by title, author and subject. And the content looks pretty good too.

Now, if they just had an RSS feed or email announcements when new issues come out ...

I'll let you decide, but to let you know: In the past month or so, I've noticed some incoming links from Wikipedia here at ricoblog.

I followed the link back to Wikipedia and found out that this blog entry of mine is cited in a "stub" article for Martyrdom of Polycarp, under the heading "analysis".

I'm flattered (really!) but at the same time I wonder if I really want to be part of a club that would have me as a member. There has got to be better, more complete information out there than my off-the-cuff ramblings.

Oh, if you are looking for more of what I've written regarding Polycarp, try this link.

This looks pretty cool.

http://blogsearch.google.com

Info on how it is set up is available too. Looks like it indexes RSS/ATOM with Google's engine. Unsure what it does with categories or "tags". But this is interesting:

What search operators are supported?

All of the standard Google Search operators are supported in Blog Search. These include:

• link:
• site:
• intitle:

Additionally, Blog Search supports the following new operators of its own:

• inblogtitle:
• inposttitle:
• inpostauthor:
• blogurl:

For example, a search such as [mandolin inpostauthor:Graham] will show you posts about mandolins written by people named Graham. Note that you can also use the Advanced Search option to achieve the same effect.

The operators to seach in post title or author could come in handy when trying to remember a post that has slipped from the aggregator (which happens often). Or for a post on a particular blog. Try [Paul inblogtitle:ricoblog inposttitle:corinthians] for some fun. Note that indexing goes back to June 2005.