Archive for March, 2009
The Longest Week – Deleted Scenes
You know those ‘Deleted Scenes’ sections on DVDs? Well, this is the same, only from a book. This is the original version of a section in the book on the sources for a historical study of Jesus’ last week. In the end, due partly to contraints of space and partly to the fact that it [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Longest Week, Stuff.
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Byzantine Church
I’m just on my way back from the wonderful Byzantium exhibition at the Royal Academy. (It was work-related. No, really.) Here’s a bit that struck me about the experience of visiting a Byzantine church: “Processions with crosses, icons, ornamented Gospel-books and portable textiles were a feature of the church’s year. Services were long, the liturgy [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2009 under Stuff.
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The Longest Week Timetable
This is a day by day guide to Holy Week, with the relevant passages from the gospels, and a suggested timetable for reading them. The idea is that you can follow the events of the Longest Week by ‘reading along’ day by day. So, if an event happened early in the morning, that’s when you [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2009 under Longest Week, Stuff.
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