Some Exciting News For This Blog

My whole purpose for establishing this blog was to 'air time' to forgotten faiths (well that's not exactly true - this blog started with an attempt to find somewhere to dump three years of emails because AOL had blocked my account).

Well, AFTER THAT my purpose in establishing this blog was to give 'air time' to forgotten faiths. I have been trying to get Benny Tsadaka, one of the last remaining Samaritans in the world, to write a weekly exposition of the tradition Samaritan exegesis of the Torah drawing from the writings of Marqe.

So far no commitment.

But I have managed to get Dr. Rory Boid of Monash University in Melbourne (I can't remember how to spell his actual first name) to agree to make a number of posts on the Mandaean faith. Here is the email I received from him today:

I can write some things for you after the first review is finished and sent off. For the second review, I will have to sum up the present state of knowledge about the Mandaeans. That should suggest some pieces I could write for you.

This should be exciting and very interesting. I can't wait. Most of the intelligent things said at this blog were written by or with his guidance. Everything stupid belongs to yours truly.

I am still looking for a qualified blogger to write posts about the tradition of the Coptic Church. When I meet with David Trobisch I hope to secure some posts from him about the state of research into Biblical manuscripts and really anything else he would like to post here (we could even do cooking recipes with Trobisch for all I care). I haven't approached him yet but my purpose is as I said 'to give air time' to forgotten faiths.

We already have one unqualified idiot who's prone to shoot his mouth off at this blog so I am not looking for another me. However if you are a 'real scholar' with an 'real academic institution' or one of the last surviving members of a 'forgotten faith' and you are not currently blogging at your own site I would be more than happy to post anything you have to say at this blog.

If all of this works out I will have to do is figure out what to do with this blogs name. I was once given advice that you should make your site name as generic possible so you can change the focus of what you do.

Who'd have thought that I could outgrow stephanhuller.blogspot.com'? ...