I was pleased to find that my research focus, the “chair of Moses,” has a few mentions in Hobbes’s Leviathan. Rather than just cherry-pick the portions that I need (I’ll do that, too), I’ve decided to re-read it by means of an audiobook. I say “re-read,” though there are sections that I never did read when I went through the Great “Excerpts” Program at St. John’s College. Anyway, the experience of audio-re-reading is great so far. Hobbes starts with one intellectual bang after the next.

I was displeased to find that Oxford University Press would publish a $160 volumed titled Origen and Scripture without adding a index of, yes, Scriptures cited. I guess I’ll just have to read the whole volume.