MARK GOODACRE has another Talpiot tomb update over at the New Testament Gateway blog. Thanks also to Mark for the blogiversary good wishes.

Also, Mark notes an updated Coptic grammar for those responding to April DeConicks call, as Mark puts it, "for compulsory Coptic for all." My Coptic is rusty these days but, like Mark, I like Lambdin's grammar, which I got back in the 1980s. I'm sorry to hear that it is now hard to find. And a commenter to Mark's post writes plaintively, "By DeConick's reasoning, Latin, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic all need to be compulsory." Well yeah.