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Saturday, September 13, 2003

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HANAN ESHEL reports that he may have found a Qumran text that tells a different version of the Aqedah (Genesis 22, the binding of Isaac), on...

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TWO NEW SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS reviewed in the Guardian have ancient classical themes. One, Roma Eterna , by Robert Silverberg, explores ...
Friday, September 12, 2003

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ANDERS BELL at Phluzein asks whether the LarkNews website, which currently has this article on the "discovery" of Proverbs chapt...

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THE SIEGFRIED H. HORN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM at Andrews University in Michigan (not to be confused with the University of St. Andrews in Sco...

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A CATHOLIC SCHOLAR will lecture in a synagogue on Mel Gibson's The Passion . Whatever the movie's problems, it's good that it...

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KABBALAH FOR KIDS from the Material Girl : The English Roses . Excerpts from the NY Daily News article: The book, inspired by the kaba...

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PREMIERE MAGAZINE reviews The Order and isn't much impressed. Excerpts: Now, these aren't your average priests. Fathers Alex (...

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THEY'RE SERIOUS! The proposed Egyptian lawsuit against the Jews for reparations for the plunder they took during the Exodus is "u...
Thursday, September 11, 2003

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"THE ORDER OF NAZOREAN ESSENES, a Buddhist Branch of Original Christianity" is a modern Gnostic group with a large website. Despi...

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FUN FACTS about the Ten Commandments , mainly things people think they know which aren't so. This stuff probably isn't news to most...

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JIM WEST replies to Bruce Chilton on the "James Ossuary" in Bible and Interpretation News .

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DAVID NISHIMURA at Cronaca comments on the BBC's coverage of the new evidence for dating Hezekiah's Tunnel . The findings are being...

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

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ST. ANDREWS AND ANCIENT TIBERIAS are not the only places with a problem with corpse impurity. But in Israel today, a solution is demanded,...

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BLOGI ANTIQUITATIS: David Meadows at Rogue Classicism has a roundup of blogs having to do with the ancient world, a number of which I me...

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MARY MAGDALENE IN THE MEDIA: First, a new essay (via Bible and Interpretation News ), which I find irritating not so much for what it say...

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NEW CONFIRMATION of the dating of Hezekiah's Tunnel and the Siloam Inscription which, surprisingly, is covered by the press only (so fa...

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�����NEW EVIDENCE FOR CALIGULA'S "GOD COMPLEX," : excavations this summer indicate he may have connected his palace to a temp...

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"HEBREW AND KONKANI" : a linguistic sideline to the current closer relationship between Israel and India. This article compares ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2003

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KFAR KEDEM - another living history project. I've already blogged on Nazareth Village . Kfar Kedem (which means roughly, "villag...