HAPPY 8TH BLOGIVERSARY TO PALEOJUDAICA!
UPDATE: Last year's anniversary post, with links to earlier ones, is here. The counter stands at 776,772 total individual hits (88,576 unique hits in the last year) and 1,141,800 total page views (we broke a million this year).
Thanks for coming, thanks to all those who send me items of interest, and all of you please keep coming back!
Here are some of my favorite posts from the last year. Follow background links as applicable.
Those lead plates inscribed with Hebrew
The Tomb of Zechariah?
Zodiac Mosaics in ancient synagogues in the Land of Israel
Did the Hekhalot Literature and Kabbalah involve meditation?
Sarah Palin and "blood libel"
The Raphael Golb Dead-Sea-Scrolls identity-theft case
"What Just Happened" (my SBL paper)
Review of Peter Schäfer, The Origins of Jewish Mysticism (my other SBL paper)
UNESCO on Rachel's Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs
The Son of Man (interaction with Mark D. Roberts)
Search engine referrals for the past five years
Why we need Akkadian (and the humanities)
No, this computer didn't decipher Ugaritic
Robert McL. Wilson, R.I.P.
The Iraqi Jewish archive
Israel, Transhumanism, Science Fiction, the Book of Enoch, and Narnia
Pseudepigrapha terrorism