Greece

According to the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University:

The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to announce the 1.0 Release of the Perseus Catalog.

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The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes the following:

• Serge Frolov, “Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges”
• Jason Hood and Matthew Emerson, “Summaries of Israel’s Story: Reviewing a Compositional Category”
• Coleman Baker, “Peter and Paul in Acts and the Construction of Early Christian Identity: A Review of Historical and Literary Approaches”
• Bruce Worthington, “Alternative Perspectives beyond the Perspectives: A Summary of Pauline Studies that has Nothing to Do with Piper or Wright”
• F. S. Naiden, “Recent Study of Greek Religion in the Archaic through Hellenistic Periods”

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“175”] Louis Comfort Tiffany, “Window of St. Augustine” (Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida; photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

Citing Varro as “a most learned man among the [pagans], and [a man] of the weightiest authority” on paganism ( Civ. 4.1 [ NPNF1 2:64]), Augustine summarizes Varro’s account of the naming of Athens ( Civ. 18.9 [ NPNF1 2:365]):

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On the web:

• Randy Kennedy discusses how the current economic crisis in Greece is imperiling local antiquities.
• Matthew Kalman discusses documentary sensationalism and its impact on the status of biblical archaeology.
• Charles Jones highlights resources for Macedonian coinage, the Acta Sanctorum, Augustan Rome’s geography, and the Byzantine scholia on Homer’s Iliad.
• Jim Davila notes Google’s efforts to read unopenable Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Joel Willitts comments on selections from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.
• Robert Woods discusses wisdom from a Thomistic perspective.
• Tokens provides part 3 of a series of YouTube clips series from their October 24, 2011 interview with Walter Brueggemann. See here for parts 1 and 2.