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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Review of Gradel & Pedersen ,The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons

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THE APOCRYPHICITY BLOG: Book Review: The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons (Tony Burke). Gradel and Pedersen have made an important...

The ABCs of West Bank areas

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Explaining the West Bank Map: What Are Areas A, B and C? (Linda Dayan, Haaretz). The fragmented areas were create...

Anything left to say about the Shroud of Turin?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Shroud of Turin: Anything Left to Say? The history of Christianity’s most controversial relic (Andrea Nicolotti)....
Monday, August 10, 2026

Daniel Sivan (1949-2026)

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SAD NEWS: Daniel Sivan, Leading Scholar of Ancient Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Dies at 76 (מילה, That Eric Alper). Daniel Sivan, an Israe...

Daniel's dream portrayed on an ancient Turkish liturgical vessel

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CERAMIC ICONOGRAPHY: Unique 1,500-year-old liturgical vessel depicting Daniel's vision found in Türkiye (Türkiye Today Newsroom). Archa...

No Aramaic in Gibsons "Resurrection of the Christ"

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CINEMA: Mel Gibson Says ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Not in Aramaic Because the Story Is Too “Complex” for Subtitles (Jordan Ruimy, World o...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Carbajosa, A Step Back to the Original Old Testament Peshitta (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: A Step Back to the Original Old Testament Peshitta Textual Development of the Syriac Version in Leviticus, Numbers an...
Saturday, August 08, 2026

Scarlata, Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament Author: Mark Scarlata, St Mell...
Friday, August 07, 2026

On John Dee's Enochian writings

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: The Wizard, The Thief, Their Angels, And The Lost Language (Philip Jenkins). Which takes us back to the question of forg...

Video reconstructions of Herod's Temple courts

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: VISUALIZING THE SPLENDOR: NEW 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT COURTS . Frankie [Snyder] conducted t...

When did Nash buy the papyrus?

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VARIANT READINGS: The Purchase of the Nash Papyrus, Again (Brent Nongbri). I continue to be puzzled by the problem of the purchase of the N...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

The mis-mapping of Solomon's Pools?

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Holy Land battle: Solomon's Pools become flashpoint in fight over Israel's biblical heritage. The ancient...

Orlov, Broken Vessels (SUNY)

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NEW BOOK FROM SUNY PRESS: Broken Vessels Theogonies of the Divine Light in Judaism and Christianity By Andrei A. Orlov Subjects: Kabba...

Variants from the MT in the Great Isaiah Scroll?

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THE OTTC BLOG: How Close is the Great Isaiah Scroll to the Medieval Masoretic Manuscripts? (Drew Longacre). I have addressed this questi...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

A Mithraeum in Spain was really a Roman library?

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BILBIOTHECAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Oldest Known Roman Library in Spain Identified at Ancient Villa (Nisha Zahid, Greek Reporter). Archaeologists hav...

NEH awards to Princeton profs on the Cairo Geniza

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CAIRO GENIZA WATCH: Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Rebekah Schroeder, Princ...