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Brill creates new multi-lingual font

Feb 3rd, 2012

I received this announcement today.

After careful consideration, Brill has taken the initiative of designing a typeface. Named “the Brill”, the new typeface presents complete coverage of the Latin script with the full range of diacritics and linguistics (IPA) characters used to display any language from any period correctly, and Greek and Cyrillic are also covered. There are over 5,100 characters in total, some of which are combining characters, and by using these, myriads of other characters with diacritics can be generated. This indispensable tool for scholars is now freely available for non-commercial use. You can download the font package on brill.nl/brill-typeface after agreeing to the EndUser License Agreement. “The Brill” is available now in roman and italic styles, and bold and bold italic will be released at a later stage. The typeface contains all necessary punctuation marks and a wide assortment of symbols. It will be especially welcomed by humanities scholars quoting from texts in any language, ancient or modern.

“”The Brill” complies with all international and web standards, the most important of which is the Unicode Standard.”

John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks, well-known for his multilingual fonts, is “the Brill”‘s designer.

You can download the font on our website brill.nl/brill-typeface

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Can one be “de-baptized”?

Jan 30th, 2012

by Christian Brady.

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Apparently thousands of French would like to be and one man is taking the Catholic Church to court. This NPR piece is interesting to me not so much for the trends (more people are not just leaving the church but wanting to remove all trace of connections to the church) but for the theological questions it brings up.

“One can’t be de-baptized,” says Rev. Robert Kaslyn, dean of the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America.

Kaslyn says baptism changes one permanently before the church and God.

“One could refuse the grace offered by God, the grace offered by the sacrament, refuse to participate,” he says, “but we would believe the individual has still been marked for God through the sacrament, and that individual at any point could return to the church.”

I am sure my protestant and Catholic friends will debate this far more eloquently than I. If one can “refuse the grace offered by God” then what is the permanent change that Kaslyn believes in? Would this be the case for purgatory, that such an individual is now and forever “marked as one of Christ’s own forever” whether they like it or not? The benefit of baptism would be that they get eternity to “work out their salvation”? Or what? I am beginning to think that I really am more ignorant than I realized regarding the theology of baptism…

Posted in: Anglican, Christianity.
Tagged: Baptism · Catholicism

A tribute to JoePa from Jason O

Jan 26th, 2012

by Christian Brady.

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PSU Scholar alumnus Jason O was moved to write this tribute to our Coach.

I wrote this for Joe Paterno’s family and the Penn State students and alumni. Hoping this music will help you work through the loss. Joe Paterno: you will be missed greatly.

Some say he was more the legend
Some say he was more the man
But the way it feels inside this valley
It’s clear we’ve got a hero on our hands

Goodbye JoePA
Everyone’s chanting your name
They’re waving white and blue
It’ll never be the same

Goodbye JoePa
We had a good run it’s true
And when we’re waving white and blue
We’ll be thinking about you

He’s not a long list of records

He’s not a statue or the buildings that he gave
He’s a whole lot more than an idea
And you can feel it in all the lives that he changed

People lined up on the sidewalks
And they’re crowded out into the streets
Everyone wants to bid farewell
And say “hey coach,
You’ll live on in our memories”

Posted in: PSU, Video.
Tagged: Coach Paterno

International SBL Call for Papers

Jan 23rd, 2012

by Christian Brady.

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I believe I will be able to go this year! There are some very interesting sessions, so be sure to take a look and submit a paper if you can make it.

Dear Member:

This is a friendly reminder that the call for papers period for the 2012 International Meeting will end February 1, 2012. Remember to submit your proposals to the program units listed here. Please note the details about participation, registration, and membership for the meeting, which are available here.

The Universiteit van Amsterdam will host the meeting July 22-26. SBL will organize this meeting in conjunction with the 2012 annual conference of the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) and the triennial joint meeting of the Oudtestamentish Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België (OTW) and the Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS). With delight the organizations herald this congress as a unique opportunity to advance biblical scholarship, to facilitate broad and open dialogue, and to demonstrate the strength of global collegiality.