It has now come to my attention that Joe Zias, the renowned archaeology whom Hershel Shanks fingered as the one who says he saw the so-called James Ossuary without part of the inscription, has a web page: JoeZias.com. Thanks to Mark Goodacre at NT Gateway Weblog and ultimately Jim West on Xtalk for the link.

On the PAPY list, there has been announced a new site by the bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève (Public and University Library of Geneva) of its collection of papyri: Découverte des papyrus de la BPU de Genève. Currently the site is in French.

A new issue of the Journal of Theological Studies is out (April 2004). The following articles in particular look interesting to me:

• Simon Gathercole, "On the alleged Aramaic idiom behind the synoptic ἦλθον-sayings," pp. 84-91
• Maurice Casey, "The Aramaic background of Mark 9:11: A response to J. K. Aitken," pp. 92-102
• D. C. Parker and J. Neville Birdsall, "The date of Codex Zacynthius (Ξ): A new proposal," pp. 117-131
• Stuart G. Hall, "The versions of Cyprian, De Unitate, 4-5. Bévenot's dating revisited," pp. 138-146

For those interested in background about the ancient world, a copy of the Pliny the Elder's Natural History is available in Latin at LacusCurtius � Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Unfortunately, the site does not point to any modern language translations.