Mark Fernandez wasn't there, and Dottie mentioned that he seemed perplexed by what we were talking about - not the Bible, for sure. Next week we do get Psalms 1 and 2 almost verbatim, along with some theology about faith, works, and predestination. I may decide to skep from there to the end, where Justin described church services that sound a lot like ours. We ended up with one of those discussions that develops a life of its own. Mentioning the Septuagint and the Alexandria Library, I mentioned that it was a shame the library burned down - we lost much classical ltierature as well as religious writing. Dottie asked when it burned and by whom, which I don't know (still have to look up). This led me to muse that it couldn't happen now, with all the libraries we have in the world, unless a virus attacked everybody's computer system. That reminded me that the HUD library was dismantled for budget reasons, and that led to a discusson of Alice's dissertation (written in the USDA library - John Hyslop was an agricultural economist). So we got from the Septuagint to the seasonal pattern of wheat production in the U.S. a hundred years ago, in less than five minutes. Incidentally, yesterday's Wall Street Journal has a piece about the King James Bible - 400th anniversary, worth celebrating - bya professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at UC Berkeley who is Jewish (He also has a short piece in the March-April Biblical Archaeology Review).