- JS Bach cantata for Pentecost, O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, O eternal fire, O source of love (BWV 34, Leipzig, 1 June 1727); German-English interlinear; Netherlands Bach Collegium. Opening chorus: O eternal fire, o source of love,
enkindle our hearts and coonsecrate them. / Make heavenly flames penetrate and flow through us, / We wish, o most high Lord, to be your temple, / Ah, make our souls pleasing to you in faith. - One in seven dating, engaged, and married young adults using AI chatbots that simulate a committed romantic partnership: “Using an AI romantic companion on a regular basis was associated with significantly less likelihood of being in a stable relationship and lowered this likelihood by 46 percent,” according to a new study from IFS.
- JPS published a brief flourishing scale by Burns and Crisp; helpful literature review.
- On the professionalization of scholarship in Roman province of Achaia, via JLA: “[S]cholars from Achaia were disproportionately not exceptional individuals but rather members of scholarly families for whom education was a trade, and that peace paradoxically brought with it the decline of these local families as teachers from throughout the eastern Mediterranean increasingly settled in Athens.”
- Josephus’ audience, again: “Josephus implies in Antiquities 1.6 that the laws of Moses lead to the practice of virtues for the Jews, most of all the proper worship of God (eusebeia). In Antiquities 1.14, however, Josephus highlights the benefits of a way of life in line with the Jewish laws and he states that the observance of these laws brings happiness to all. This passage seems to concern a wider audience, Jews as well as non-Jews. Indeed, God’s watchful care (pronoia) over all humans, Jews and non-Jews alike, is an important and consistent theme in Josephus’ narrative and a pivotal point in the moral lessons taught in the Antiquities.” That’s Van Henten in JJS.