It just so happens that the antiquities exhibit at the Getty Villa affords an opportunity to give a photo-by-photo commentary on Apostle Paul’s use of precious materials to describe the building blocks of pastoral ministry….
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Once Again the Brutality of Ancient Boxing: Lessons from the Getty Villa Museum
It’s back to business and the main focus of this blog: interpreting the Apostle Paul in his Greco-Roman context. In the past, I had done a series of posts on athleticism in the Mediterranean world…
Recovering Papyri Fragments from the Wrappings of Mummy Masks
Cartonnage bath to separate out the used papyri from a mummy maskPhoto taken from Emily Teeter’s Ancient Egypt (2003) Prior to my post on the Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, I wrote on the mummy masks…
Mummy Masks and Roman Egyptians
One of the best exhibits at the Getty Villa was the display of mummy masks from Roman Egypt. The use of portaits painted on the head of a mummy is a combination of Egyptian burial…
Walking through a Roman Villa at Getty
During a research trip to the libraries of UCLA and my alma mater Fuller Theological Seminary this past August 2015, I finally got my chance to visit the antiquities exhibit of Greek and Roman artefacts…