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Friday, June 26, 2026

Ancient Anatolian Mithraeum was closed by Syriac Christians

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ancient Aramaic inscription reveals early Christians sealed Türkiye's Mithras Temple (Türkiye Today). {The decipherer, P...

The recovery of a lost Gnostic poem

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: How We Accidentally Found A Great Gnostic Poem (Philip Jenkins). Hippolytus offers elaborate retellings of Gnostic cele...

Nomination for IAA head rejected by vetting committee

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Vetting panel disqualifies heritage minister’s nominee for Antiquities Authority chief. Esther Schreiber blocked ...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Stoic (?) scroll recovered from Herculaneum

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HERCULANEUM WATCH: AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption. Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling ...

Was Jesus, Son of Panthera, a Christian invention?

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Jesus, the Son of Panthera: The Christian Invention of a “Jewish” Slander The Panthera legend is often treat...

Review of the reopened Bardo Museum

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PUNIC WATCH: The Reopened Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia (Helen Dixon, American Journal of Archaeology 130.3, open access). Abstra...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Archaeomagnetometry, geomagnetic fluctuations, and the Acra Fortress

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Hellenistic Wine Jars from Rhodes Reveal the Secrets of Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Jerusalem of the Maccabees. An int...

Secret Mark—Three times bogus?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: A Third Novel That Proves “Secret Mark” Is A Forgery. And Another Good Reason Why “Secret Mark” is Bogus (Philip Jenkins...

King Tarhaqa and Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: King Taharqa of the Kingdom of Cush. Did Nubian kings save Judah? (Marek Dospěl). This essay summarizes a BAR art...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

On writing The Magi

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: "> Lessons Learned from the Magi (Eric Vanden Eykel). If writing about the Magi taught me anything, it is that ...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Obeid, Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Charlotte Obeid Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira [Metaphorical Language in the ...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Porter & Laird (eds.), The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, Volume: 21 V...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Fraenkel on ... Confrontation Stories among Rabbis in the Babylonian Talmud

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Reading Conflict in the Babylonian Talmud: Behind The Fragility of the Mind (Yuval Fraenkel). A Publication Preview of ...

Hendel, Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible (CUP, temporarily open access)

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NEW (BRIEF) BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTS: Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible Genesis to Kings Published online by Cambridge Univers...

A first-century synagogue at Tel Rekhesh

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Synagogues Jesus and Mary Magdalene Knew. Observing early Judaism at Tel Rekhesh (Lauren K. McCormick). To date, abou...