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Saturday, July 26, 2003

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ODED GOLAN HAS BEEN RELEASED UNCHARGED. Forgery mystery creates a Pandora's Box (The Globe and Mail, Canada) [�] The dispute [...

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IN RESPONSE TO MY CONFERENCE PAPER , Meredith Scheck writes in the COMMENTS section at the bottom of the following Protocols post : "I...

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"THE JAMES OSSUARY YET AGAIN" ( Bible and Interpretation News ) Eric Meyers told us so! Excerpt: What I would like to reite...

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MORE ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE ZACHARIAH INSCRIPTION on Absalom's Tomb. Jewish Yad Avshalom revealed as a Christian shrine from Byzant...
Friday, July 25, 2003

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I'M HOME! There's a new exhibit of Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts in Fort Worth and then Dallas: ...

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G-MEGILLOT is a new scholarly discussion list on the Dead Sea Scrolls. For more information, follow the link. (Via Jim West on Ioudaios-L...

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MANUSCRIPTS, MANUSCRIPTS, MANUSCRIPTS! Yesterday evening, Dirk Jongkind, a Cambridge doctoral student (who, bless his heart, gave me coffee...
Thursday, July 24, 2003

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OKAY, I LIED. BLogging has not been "very light." But I'm in a hurry tonight: I need to get across town to hear a lecture o...
Wednesday, July 23, 2003

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ODED GOLAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED. Details here. Gotta run to the next paper.

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I REALLY WISH I COULD BLOG AT LENGTH on all the papers I've heard at this conference. But time and energy limits are forcing me to focu...
Tuesday, July 22, 2003

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THE KARAITES ARE ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN LITHUANIA . At least a few of them, according to this article (Radio Free Europe - Czech Repu...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE SABAEAN MANDEANS . But they have a long and rocky road ahead of them in postwar Iraq. UPDATE: Uday and Qusay are ...

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AT 12:48 A.M. LAST NIGHT the fire alarm went off in my hotel. I got up, threw on some clothes, grabbed my wallet and brief case, and got ou...
Monday, July 21, 2003

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INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE MEETS THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS? Would new scanning technology for reconstructing shredded documents help us reconstruct t...

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ARCHAEOLOGY IS GETTING MORE DANGEROUS. Religious and nationalist concerns are leading people to take it personally. The Temple Mount is a...

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HERE I AM IN CAMBRIDGE, blogging from an Intenet Cafe. Only they don't seem to serve coffee. Yesterday in the opening session of the I...
Saturday, July 19, 2003

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I'M OFF TO CAMBRIDGE early tomorrow morning for the International Society of Biblical Literature conference . As promised, I have post...

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ANDREW SULLIVAN IS WONDERING ABOUT THE NAILS IN THE PALMS IN THE TRAILER FOR THE PASSION (scroll up for more). He cites two web pages, one...

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SOME PEOPLE COUNT THE REIGN OF CHARLEMAGNE AS THE END OF ANTIQUITY, so on that theory I'll link to the following story, which involves t...

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PROFESSOR SHMUEL SAFRAI has passed away. (Via H-Judaic Digest ) We are saddened to learn of the passing, in Jerusalem, of Prof. Shmuel...