Around the Blogosphere

Shai is using Google Earth to map the literature and artifacts of religious groups in Babylonia, including the Mandaeans.

LacusCurtius and Livius have a blog post about Philemon and slavery in the Greco-Roman world.

Andie Byrnes shares another review of Roger Bagnall’s Early Christian Books in Egypt. She also shares a link to an online Coptic library, Coptica.

New Scientist points to a new program, “Software Muse,” developed by IBM that enables bloggers to solicit readers’ input about what they should blog about.

Claude Mariottini shares the fonts readers may need in order for Biblical languages to display correctly.

Nikki Stafford ponders possibilities regarding the identity of the blond boy on the last episode of LOST, “The Substitute.”