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Saturday, January 17, 2004

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ARAMAIC (?) PUZZLE: Someone has e-mailed me requesting help with a puzzle from the annual MIT Mystery Hunt , which is taking place right ...

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THERES A NEW BOOK ON CAIAPHAS coming out soon, by British New Testament scholar Dr. Helen K. Bond , who has already published a book on Pon...

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TEMPLE ARTIFACTS IN THE VATICAN? That's what the following story, which is all over the news sites, suggests: Pope Meets With Isra...
Friday, January 16, 2004

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AND HERE IS THE WEBSITE OF THE OPEN TEXT PROJECT : The OpenText.org project is a web-based initiative to provide annotated Greek text...

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HERE'S THE WEB PAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SEPTUAGINT AND COGNATE STUDIES . It includes information on their projects (i...

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MORE ON THE MEGASITE CONCEPT : Mark Goodacre continues the discussion . UPDATE (17 January): And Torrey Seland offers final(?) comments...

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"QUMRAN-SCIENCE BY TOPIC." This is a web page by Dr. Jan Gunneweg of the Hebrew University which deals with aspects of archaeolo...

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ARAMAIC POP MUSIC : The Boston Globe reports on Australian singer Lisa Gerrard's newest album. Excerpt: Gerrard's voice is oth...
Thursday, January 15, 2004

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SOME GOOD NEWS ON THE IRAQI ANTIQUTIES FRONT (via Francis Deblauwe's 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology website ): Archeological site pr...

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"I AM WHO I AM" ( 'EHYEH 'ASHER 'EHYEH ): Professor Gary Rendsburg (who, incidentally, is cited in my 1994 piece that...

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MEL GIBSON'S THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST will open next month in America on 2,000 screens , which apparently is a lot for an indy film.

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NEW (OLD) SBL PRESENTATION ADDED TO LINKS: I've just had occasion to dig up and re-read a presentation I made at the SBL conference i...
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

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UPDATE ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENOCH SEMINAR : Gabriele Boccaccini e-mails: Our intention was to post this material on the we...

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HERE'S A GEE-WIZ! TRAVELOGUE OF PETRA from SunSpot.net, Maryland (evidently originating in the Chicago Tribune - here via Archaeologic...

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TORREY SELAND WROTE : Etana turns out to be an excellent site for students of Philo and his social world too. But it makes me think about h...

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ADOLFO ROITMAN, Dead Sea Scrolls curator at the Shrine of the Book (Israel Museum) will be lecturing on ancient Judaism in Billings, Montana...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

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MORE ON THE ANCHOR FROM THE DEAD SEA in the Scotsman (via Archaeologica News ): Could Dead Sea Anchor Be from Herod's Royal Yacht? ...

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MORE ON LILITH from Rebecca Lesses . You can still get Lilith amulets in Jerusalem.

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MORE ON THE JEWISH MANUSCRIPTS discovered in Iraq last May: The Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Report is now available on the website ...

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NEW BOOK REVIEWS FROM THE REVIEW OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE : Fontaine, Carole R. Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical ...