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Thursday, November 21, 2024

SBL 2024 etc.

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SAFE TRAVELS to all those heading for, or already at, the Society Biblical of Literature annual meeting in San Diego and the various associa...

Alphabetic inscriptions from 2,400 BCE?

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NORTHWEST SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY: Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city (Johns Hopkins University via Phys.Org). What appears t...

Review of Sanzo, Ritual boundaries

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ritual boundaries: magic and differentiation in late antique Christianity . Joseph E. Sanzo, Ritual boundaries: ...

More war in Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: Israeli strikes on Syria's Palmyra kill 36, state media say (David Gritten, BBC News). The number of casualties is updat...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

A first-century synagogue in Russia? (updated and bumped)

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeologists reveal what they discovered in first century Russian Jewish quarter. Researchers find the oldest synagogue outs...

More on that Samaritan Decalogue for sale

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EPIGRAPHIC AUCTION: Ten Commandments tablet, up for auction at Sotheby’s, to come with disclaimer. 1,500-year-old Samaritan version of text...

Shokri-Foumeshi, Mani’s Living Gospel and the Ewangelyōnīg Hymns (Brepols)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Mani’s Living Gospel and the Ewangelyōnīg Hymns . Notice of a New Book: Shokri-Foumeshi, Mohammad (ed.). 2025. Mani’...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

DSS anniversary exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Library

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EXHIBITION: Dead Sea Scrolls on Loan to Ronald Reagan Library (Hana Levi Julian, The Jewish Press). For the first time in over a decade, th...

Itamar Gruenwald (1937-2024)

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SAD NEWS: Passing of Prof. Itamar Gruenwald (1937-2024) . H-Judaic is saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Ithamar Gruenwald (1937-2024...
Monday, November 18, 2024

The Coptic Magical Formularies Project

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THE COPTIC MAGICAL PAPYRI BLOG: 2024 Review: The Beginning of the Coptic Magical Formularies Project . Looking forward… The Coptic Magic...

Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus

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THE AWOL BLOG: Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus Projects List . Oracc is a collaborative effort to develop a complete corpu...

Malandra, The Bundahišn

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Bundahišn . Notice of a New Book: Malandra, William W. 2024. The Bundahišn. Translated with Commentary (Monograp...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Buzi& Orlandi (eds.), The Coptic Codices of the Museo Egizio, Turin

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THE AWOL BLOG: The Coptic Codices of the Museo Egizio, Turin . Open access. Edited by Paola Buzi e Tito Orlandi and published in 2023 by Stu...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

... Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit Cambridge Ge...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Fifth-century Solomon amulet excavated at Hadrianopolis

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APOTROPAIC ICONOGRAPHY: 1500-year-old Stunning Pendant Amulet Depicting the Prophet Solomon Spearing the Devil on Horseback Found in Türkiye...

Two-year Rabbinics job at HUC-JIR

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H-JUDAIC: FEATURED JOB: Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Textual Tradition, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religi...

Book launch for The Illustrated Cairo Genizah

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Launching 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' in Cambridge (Melonie Schmierer-Lee). Yesterday evening, Nick ...

AJR is 10!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO AJR: Ancient Jew Review: The First Ten Years (Andrew Jacobs). As I look back over ten years of AJR, I marvel at the ligh...