The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest

The Ophthalmic Prescriber's Codex

The priest doctors.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Priest doctors As the stream of monks left their foundations at the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century, the society that surrounded them was profoundly affected. While some fought dramatically against closure – even losing their lives – the vast majority of monks went quietly, with pensions, into the sunset. No matter how we...

Psychology and the Parish Priest

Canon Dewar's book is very timely. At the International Congress on Mental Health, held in August, 1948, in London, emphasis was frequently laid on the fact that the parson was a member of the mental health team. The antipathy between the exponent of the young and growing science of human behaviour and authoritarian religion, has prevented the co-operation which would be of mutual benefit to bo...

Eve, a Priest in Eden?

Chapter 2 of Women in Ministry tries to explain why there are no women priests in Israel. Its author, an Old Testament scholar, maintains that the absence of female priests in ancient Israel cannot be used as an argument against women’s ordination. The author states that he approaches the Bible through “exegetical research.” This, he explains, means that he “will not move from a priori definiti...

The Archimedes Codex

We learned, of course, something of the curious story of the oldest (by 400 years) surviving manuscript of some of Arch imedes ’ works, collected in a Byzantine codex that contained the end of Equilibrium of Planes , great parts of The Sphere and the Cylinder and Measurement of the Circle, a sizable portion of On Floating Bodies, one folio of The Stomachion, and a large portion of The Method. T...