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Thursday, February 05, 2026

On Moses' horns, once more

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Horns of Moses (Lee M. Jefferson). The horns of Moses in Jerome’s Vulgate did not initially represent derision or ...

Forthcoming Aitken memorial volume

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN HELLENISTIC JUDAISM . It is with mixed emotions that I announce a new book that...

Review of Felton, The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth . Debbie Felton, The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

On the fall of Cartagena to the Romans

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PUNIC WATCH: Over at the Mainzer Beobachter Blog, Jona Ladering, who recently visited Cartagena, Spain, has blogged about the fall of the c...

"House of David" in the Mesha Stele?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Mesha Stele and King David. Lemaire and Delorme say "House of David" confirmed (Various Authors). I...

The Qumran Restaurant?

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CULINARY REVIEW: Qumran: The magic of Moishik in Tel Aviv - restaurant review. The restaurant is named for the cave where the Dead Sea Scro...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Ancient stone jar display at the Knesset

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EXHIBITION AND POLITICS: Rare 2,000-year-old jar valued by Jewish law on display for Knesset anniversary. The artifact is part of an archae...

When did Torah law become authoritative?

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PROF. THOMAS KAZEN, DR. HILARY LIPKA: Torah Law Wasn’t Originally Authoritative (TheTorah.com). It wasn’t until the late Second Temple peri...

Is the Gospel of John "having a moment?"

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ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: The Gospel of John Is ‘Having a Moment’ (Holly Lebowitz Rossi, Publisher's Weekly). A tide of books about the Gosp...
Monday, February 02, 2026

Jerusalem Pilgrimage Road finally opens to public

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND TOURISM: 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road to Temple Mount opens to public after years of digging. Millennia after being burie...

Aramaic funerary inscription discovered in eastern Türkiye

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Greek Period Aramaic Inscription Reveals Local Elites of Ancient Sophene (Abdul Moeed, Greek Reporter). A rare Greek (Hellen...

Review of Amitay, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history . Ory Amitay, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and hist...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

Tu B'Shevat 2026

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TU B'SHEVAT , the "New Year for Trees," begins this evening at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. Last year...

Strickler, Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Early Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourses Coping with Crises in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries Series: Brill...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Lo Sardo, P Conclusion and Post-P Rearrangements in Exodus 25-31 and Leviticus 8-9 (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Domenico Lo Sardo P Conclusion and Post-P Rearrangements in Exodus 25-31 and Leviticus 8-9 A Textu...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Online course: GEORGIAN JEWS AND THEIR CULTURAL TREASURES

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LIFELONG LEARNING: Georgian Jews and Their Cultural Treasures (Dr. Thea Gomelauri, Times of Israel Blogs). The [six-week] course [at the Si...

Real and fake Greco-Roman-era coins seized in East Jerusalem

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APPREHENDED NUMISMATICS: Ancient Coins Linked to Alexander the Great’s Hellenistic World Seized in Israel (Nisha Zahid, Greek Reporter). In...

Nebuchadnezzar II - restorer or destroyer?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Babylonian Texts Complicate Bible’s Image of Nebuchadnezzar. Was he both destroyer and restorer? (Lauren K. McCormick...