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Shai is using Google Earth<\/a> to map the literature and artifacts of religious groups in Babylonia, including the Mandaeans.<\/p>\n

LacusCurtius and Livius have a blog post about Philemon<\/a> and slavery in the Greco-Roman world.<\/p>\n

Andie Byrnes shares another review<\/a> of Roger Bagnall\u2019s Early Christian Books in Egypt<\/a>\"\"<\/span>.<\/em> She also shares a link<\/a> to an online Coptic library, Coptica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Scientist<\/a> points to a new\u00a0program, \u201cSoftware Muse,\u201d\u00a0developed by IBM<\/a> that enables bloggers to solicit readers\u2019 input about what they should blog about.<\/p>\n

Claude Mariottini shares the fonts<\/a> readers may need in order for Biblical languages to display correctly.<\/p>\n

Nikki Stafford ponders possibilities<\/a> regarding the identity of the blond boy on the last episode of LOST, \u201cThe Substitute.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s Early Christian Books in Egypt. 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