See this useful discussion of the Tabernacle , with references to an annotated online version of Exodus . A replica of the Tabernacle is des...

Looking ahead to May, when we will read St. Augustine's Confessions , Arline has suggested this Oxford edition . The translation is by H...

Our next session is devoted to Lycurgus , the legendary lawgiver of Sparta. Plutarch's Life, translated by Dryden, is here . As we are i...

On March 29, Mary Rosner will begin our reading of Exodus. The first 20 chapters are filled with narrative action. What is the essential sto...

The Republic begins during a festival at Piraeus in honor of Bendis , a goddess recently imported to Athens from Thrace. The settings of Pl...

For our meetings on March 8th and March 22nd, Pat will take up selections from Plato's Republic . Any edition of the text is fine, sever...

Click on the images for larger versions: Guido Reni, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, c. 1631 Michaelangelo, Jacob Joseph , Sistine ceiling

On Feb. 8 we'll begin the last story of the first book of the Bible, the Joseph story (Gen. 37-50). We'll continue our reading on Fe...

A comprehensive exhibition on the history of the Bible, known as Ink & Blood: Sacred Treasures of the Bible , is on display at Florida I...

Our next meeting will be on January 11. We will be at the North Sarasota Library , a very nice facility on Newtown Blvd. just off 27th Stree...

Two exemplary comparative essays on the literatures of the Greeks and the Hebrews are Matthew Arnold's chapter on "Hebraism and Hel...

Continuing with representations of the patriarchs, here are three images of Jacob's vision by Murillo, Domenico Fetti, and Jusepe de Rib...