New Interview on the work on the scrolls

Thank you again AaronSF! People keep talking about progress over the years, but it seems progress is disappointingly slow. It helps all of us to keep up with the latest news on this issue. (This is from March 16, 2023)

I think we've probably posted this link before, but this is the page for the "Vesuvius Challenge" mentioned in the video.

Vesuvius Challenge

A $1,000,000+ machine learning and computer vision competition

scrollprize.org

It's also interesting that starting around 22 minutes in the video Dr Seales says that a part of his interest is his desire to uncover early Christian material since he is a Christian himself. I wonder if he's read "St Paul and Epicurus."

List of Links from that page:

I would like to read the works that have been recovered from the scrolls so far, where I can I find them?

Most are by Philodemus. This is a list of English translations we have found so far:

• Philodemus: On Anger. (2020), David Armstrong & Michael McOsker. SBL. ISBN 1628372699
• Philodemus: On Death. (2009), W. Benjamin Henry. SBL. ISBN 1-58983-446-1
• Philodemus: On Frank Criticism. (1998), David Konstan, Diskin Clay, Clarence, E. Glad. SBL. ISBN 1-58983-292-2
• Philodemus, On Piety, Part 1. (1996). Critical Text with Commentary by Dirk Obbink. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-815008-3
• Philodemus, On Poems, Book 1. (2001). Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Richard Janko. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-815041-5
• Philodemus, On Poems, Book 2, with the fragments of Heracleodorus and Pausimachus. (2020). Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Richard Janko. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198835080
• Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4, with the Fragments of Aristotle, On Poets. (2010). Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Richard Janko. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-957207-0
• Philodemus, On Property Management. (2013), Voula Tsouna. SBL. ISBN 1-58983-667-7
• Philodemus, On Rhetoric Books 1 and 2: Translation and Exegetical Essays. (2005). Clive Chandler (editor). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-97611-1
• David Sider, (1997), The Epigrams of Philodemos. Introduction, Text, and Commentary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509982-6
• Philodemus: On Methods of Inference. 2nd edition. (1978). Phillip Howard De Lacy, Estelle Allen De Lacy. Bibliopolis.

Ha - Their "over the top" video -