THE ETHNIC RELATIONS AND MIGRATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BLOG, run by Philip Harland and collaborators, continues to publish many interesting posts with primary-text excerpts and commentary. They report that there are more than 325 of them. I noted the blog most recently
here.
Some recent posts that deal with matters of interest to PaleoJudaica are as follows, more recent ones first.
Canaanites / non-Judean peoples: The Judean author of Jubilees on the Dinah story and intermarriage (mid-second century BCE)
Egyptians: The Judean tale of Joseph and Aseneth on rejecting Egyptian gods and on intermarriage (ca. first century CE)
Axumite perspectives: Inscription by the king of Axum on the Ethiopian and Arabian peoples he conquered (late-second or early-third century CE)
Ethiopians: Artapanos and Josephos on Moses, intermarriage, and the Kushites (second century BCE-first century CE)
Persians: Acts of Archelaos on Mani’s foreignness (early fourth century CE)
Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phoenicians: Julius Africanus on competitive chronologies (ca. 222 CE)
Persians: Irenaeus on Marcus the Valentinian Magian (late second century CE)
Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros, Pliny and Plutarch on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on)
Judeans: Reliefs on the Arch for Titus depicting temple treasures and defeat (late first century CE)
Judeans: Hekataios, pseudo-Hekataios and Diodoros on Judean origins and migration with the exodus (first century BCE)
Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts, and others: The Cicero brothers on the nature and effectiveness of divination (mid-first century BCE)
Assyrian / Babylonian wisdom: Sibyl of Babylon on the superiority of the Judean people (second century BCE)
Babylonian perspectives: Bel-re’ushu / Berossos on the origins of civilization (late fourth century BCE)
Persians: Heresy-hunters on Simon Magus and other Magians (second-third centuries CE)
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