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Saturday, September 26, 2026

The Book of Numbers (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Book of Numbers Composition, Reception, and Interpretation Series: Formation and Interpretation of Old Testa...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Sukkot 2026

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THE SEVEN-DAY FESTIVAL OF SUKKOT (BOOTHS, TABERNACLES) begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all those observing it. Last year's...

Fake and real DSS fragments isolated in the Schøyen Collection?

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Authentic Fragments Identified in Schøyen Dead Sea Scroll Collection, Among Many Fraudulent Manuscripts (The Center for t...

Data analytics for the Sifting Project

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: DATA ANALYTICS AND THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: RECONSTRUCTING THE TEMPLE MOUNT’S HISTORY . The analytics ...

When did making a Sukkah become compulsory?

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RABBI STEVEN BOB: When Building a Sukkah Became a Commandment (TheTorah.com). Farmers and soldiers built sukkot as temporary shelters, as d...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Temple-pilgrimage ritual baths excavated at the Ophel

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Monumental Ancient Ritual Baths Unearthed at Foot of Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Pilgrims flocking to ancient Jerusalem ...

Understanding the Jewish Calendar

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Understanding the Jewish Calendar. Why Jewish holidays shift each year (Nathan Steinmeyer). This is a useful overv...

On manuscripts of the Alexander Romance

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VARIANT READINGS: Manuscripts of the Alexander Romance (Brent Nongbri). The Alexander Romance (or The Life of Alexander of Macedon or the...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Debunking the Hermetic corpus

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Debunking Sacred Forgeries In The Renaissance (Philip Jenkins). As the Hermetic texts were presented, they contained hug...

Samaritan Yom Kippur and Sukkot

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SAMARITAN WATCH: Ancient faith, modern lives: Samaritans prepare for Yom Kippur and Sukkot. From fruit-laden sukkot to a digital prayer boo...

David W. Suter (1942-2024)

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SAD NEWS, NOTED BELATEDLY: Dr. David W. Suter "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in th...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Prostrating to God, the king, and ... Jesus?

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DR. JAMES F. MCGRATH: Exalting Jesus—Did Early Christians Abandon Monotheism? (TheTorah.com). Paul’s (ca. 5-67 C.E.) portrayal of Jesus as ...

Burning homemade scrolls to help read incinerated Herculaneum papyri

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EVERYONE NEEDS A HOBBY: A Retired Inventor Burned Homemade Scrolls to Help Read 2,000-Year-Old Texts Buried by Mount Vesuvius. Learn how ex...

Tanit's Information Office?

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PUNIC WATCH: Tanit Sanctuary in Ibiza to Get a New Information Office (Diario de Ibiza). Sant Joan has put the construction of a new visito...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Yom Kippur 2026

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YOM KIPPUR , the Day of Atonement, began last night at sundown. An easy and healthy fast to all those observing it. Last year's post ...

Excavations at Leontopolis

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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: Rare ancient tombs uncovered at Egypt’s ‘Mound of the Jews.’ Archaeologists uncover rock-cut tombs and Roman military...

Complaints about West Bank police action

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ALLEGATIONS: Police Officer Tied to Illegal West Bank Antiquities Thefts Also Visited Area B Cave. Meir Rotter, head of the police's ul...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Venturini, A Syriac Patristic Florilegium against Julian of Halicarnassus (Brill, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: A Syriac Patristic Florilegium against Julian of Halicarnassus Critical Edition, Translation, and Study Serie...