THE MASORAH OF DANIEL AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED. VOLUME 2: EZRA-NEHEMIAH (Gorgias) CROSS-REFERENCE WITH VOL ONE

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THE MASORAH OF DANIEL AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED. VOLUME 2: EZRA-NEHEMIAH
Ezra-Nehemiah

By David Marcus

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Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series) 35
Publication Date: Jun 15,2026
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Page Count: 509v Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4996-0

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Each masoretic note in the books of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah in the Leningrad Codex is transcribed, translated, parsed, and annotated in this user-friendly reference work.

I have just noted Volume 1 (Daniel) here.

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Marcus, THE MASORAH OF DANIEL AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED. VOLUME ONE: DANIEL (Gorgias)

NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS:

THE MASORAH OF DANIEL AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED. VOLUME 1: DANIEL
Daniel

By David Marcus

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Publication Status: In Print
Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series) 34
Publication Date: Jun 15,2026
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Page Count: 365
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4994-6

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This volume represents the first time that the Masorah of the Aramaic sections and the Masorah of the three books of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah in the Leningrad Codex, fully translated and analyzed, will have been presented to an English-speaking public. All biblical words and terms, whether Hebrew or Aramaic, are translated and parsed fully. For comparison purposes, the most authoritative ancient manuscripts (Sassoon 1053; Madrid M1; and Cambridge Additional 1753) and the Second Rabbinic Bible are regularly consulted.

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A children's book series on the Talmud

TALMUD WATCH: Series Makes Talmudic Stories Accessible to Young Children (Jewish Link Staff).

Highlighting: “Stones on the Road: A Story from the Talmud,” by Rabbi Elliot Goldberg. Scribal Scion Kids. November 2026. Paperback: 32 pages. ISBN-13: 979-8886650266.

... In an effort to instill in young Jewish children an interest in Talmudic stories, Scribal Scion Publishing, through its Scribal Scion Kids imprint, has begun a new series of children’s picture books for ages 5 to 8 that will present stories from the Talmud in an accessible manner. The first book in the series, Rabbi Elliot Goldberg’s new book titled “Stones on the Road: A Story from the Talmud,” is based upon a story that appears in Masechet Bava Kamma, page 50b. ...

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Restoration of the Beit Alfa synagogue mosaic

DECORATIVE ART: Preserving an ancient mosaic: Israeli specialists gather to conserve 1,500-year-old synagogue floor. Beit Alfa’s ancient synagogue was built during the Byzantine period, at the end of the fifth century CE, approximately 1,500 years ago. The mosaic floor was discovered in 1928 (Miriam Sela-Eitam, Jerusalem Post).

About 20 Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) conservation specialists gathered at Beit Alfa National Park in northern Israel earlier this week to preserve the 1,500-year-old mosaic floor of the site’s ancient synagogue.

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For more on the Beit Afha synagogue and its zodiac mosaic, see here, here, and here.

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Coptic manuscripts exhibited in Manchester

EXHIBITION: John Rylands Library takes centuries-old Coptic treasures into the heart of the community. More than 400 Coptic Christians examine manuscripts at a Stockport church in rare opportunity to connect with their cultural and religious heritage (University of Manchester).

The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library has taken a selection of its historic Coptic and Ethiopian manuscripts out of the library and into the community, giving hundreds of people the rare opportunity to encounter their heritage first-hand.

The special exhibition - held on 1 November at St Mary & St Mina Coptic Orthodox Church in Stockport - attracted more than 400 visitors and their children, many of whom travelled from across the UK to see manuscripts dating back as far as the tenth century. ...

Among the manuscripts on display were biblical texts, Coptic liturgies and a Holy Week lectionary, alongside two parchment manuscripts from Egypt’s White Monastery containing sermons by St Shenoute of Atripe, a hugely influential fifth-century monastic leader.

Visitors were also able to see fragments of an ancient Coptic translation of the Gospel of Matthew, written on papyrus, and an eighteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript recounting the life and miracles of St George. ...

For more on the work of Sarah Parkhouse, see the links collected here some time ago.

Cross-file under Coptic Watch.

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Review of Schwartz, Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, books 18-20

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, books 18-20.

Daniel R. Schwartz, Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, books 18-20. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 386. ISBN 9789004703681.

Review by Carson Bay, University of Austin. cbay@uaustin.org

... But this work is far, far more than a translation. On many pages, a few lines of text sit above what is effectively a full page of detailed footnotes. For both English translation and interpretation, then, this work is now the standard resource for Books 18–20 of Josephus’ Antiquities, replacing Louis Feldman’s 1965 Loeb volumes.

On the issue of the Testimonium Flavianum, see here most recently and follow the links. For more on Schwartz's book and Schmidt's and how they deal with the TF, see here and here.

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Falla Festschrift (Gorgias)

NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS:

I SAY IT JUST BEGINS TO LIVE THAT DAY
Essays in Honour of Terry Falla

Edited by Charbel El-Khaissi, Janet Dyk & Daniel King

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4992-2

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Series: Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages18
Publication Date: Sep 22,2026
Interior Color: Color
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Page Count: 503
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4992-2

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This Festschrift is published in honour of Professor Terry C. Falla on the occasion of his 86th birthday. A Founding Professor of the University of Divinity, Falla is widely known in Australia for his devotional best-seller, Be Our Freedom, Lord (1982), and internationally for his pioneering work on A Key to the Peshitta Gospels (KPG). He is co-founder with Beryl Turner of the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP), an international, interdisciplinary research group that has been advancing the study of ancient-language lexicography and linguistics for over two decades.

Celebrating the breadth of Falla’s intellectual interests, this collection includes twenty original essays by scholars around the world on topics of lexicography, linguistics, textual analysis in Syriac, Greek, and Hebrew, and theology. The Festschrift features a sugitho (Syriac poem) recounting Falla’s life and work, a photo section documenting his scholarly journey since the 1980s and a special foreword by his right hand and decades-long collaborator, Beryl Turner. The volume is edited by Charbel El-Khaissi, former Syriac student of Falla’s at the University of Melbourne, Janet W. Dyk, a founding member of the ISLP, and Daniel King, Series Editor of the ISLP’s Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages series.

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