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Saturday, December 27, 2003

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UPDATE ON THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI that Colgate Rochester Divinity School in New York auctioned off in June : Opening a letter from antiquity...

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THE HISTORY OF THE ALPHABET: John Mullan reviews David Sacks, The Alphabet , for the Guardian . Excerpts: His book sets out to show h...

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BIBICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW now has its January/February 2004 issue online. However, their new system is to give you the first couple of pa...
Friday, December 26, 2003

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WHICH ANCIENT HISTORIAN ARE YOU? (Via Rogue Classicism ). It's a pretty lame quiz, but here is my result: You're Herodotus! F...

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SOME ARTIFACTS from the second temple period have been found outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem ( Jerusalem Post via Archaeolo...

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REMINDER: If you're a specialist in second temple Judaism or something reasonably close and you watched the History Channel's Banne...

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FURTHER TO MY HANUKKAH POST : Menachem Brody e-mails to point out that the story about the oil lamp and the eight days appears first in the...
Thursday, December 25, 2003

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GEZA VERMES'S NEW BOOK is reviewed by Damian Thompson in the Telegraph .

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JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN reflects in Beliefnet on Matthew's birth story in its ancient literary context .

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CHRISTMAS is a festival celebrating the traditional birth date of a first-century, Aramaic-speaking, Galilean charismatic preacher named Yes...
Wednesday, December 24, 2003

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FOR THE CUM GRANO SALIS FILE: FOLLOWING THE WISE MEN ( New York Post ) By JOHN J. MILLER December 23, 2003 -- FOR a few minutes ...

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DAVID MEADOWS posts an image of a remarkable ancient artifact .

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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO LOUISA NISHIMURA !

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WHO SAYS ARAMAIC IS A DEAD LANGUAGE? Where the language of Christ lives Aramaic suffers slow demise despite best efforts to save it. Sy...

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LINKS UPDATE: I've just overhauled PaleoJudaica's links page, adding nearly 60 new links (with a total now of more than 240), inclu...

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NEW BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE REVIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE : The JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: Electronic Version Reviewed by Ehud Ben Zvi ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2003

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��MEL GIBSON'S�������� THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST now has a distributor in Canada: Equinoxe Films . It is to be released in Canada on ...
Monday, December 22, 2003

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MORE ON THE "JAMES OSSUARY" INSCRIPTION: Stephen C. Carlson analyses the latest challenge to the IAA's report, which challen...

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TEL DOR is looking for volunteers for the summer 2004 excavation season. I dug at Dor in 1984 and 1985 and have many good memories from my...

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS is now providing the full text of some of its books online on its Oxford Scholarship Online page (as noted last wee...