- LXX: πρεσβύτερος in the Septuagint is a word increasingly “imbued with associations of authority and leadership” in Hellenistic Egypt, according to Jewish documentary evidence, argues a new study in JSJ.
- “There are estimated to be more than a million papyrus texts excavated from Egypt in Greek, less than 10 per cent of which have been fully published,” writes James Clackson about a six-volume collection of Latin papyri. It’s unlikely there will be many more remaining in Latin than appear in those volumes.
- LRB has a review by Diarmaid MacCulloch of two books on the end of pagan Europe and the Baltic crusades, e.g., “The Protestant Reformation was the delayed nemesis of the Teutonic Knights after a century of decay.”
- A fragment of Aristotle from a lost work on animals, via a 5th century grammarian?
- The Luddite Club has 30 chapters, Bloomberg says.