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Saturday, May 15, 2004

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GORGIAS PRESS has an interesting profile of reprints of Victorian-era and early twentieth-century works on Syriac, Jewish studies, ancient ...

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SOME DEAD SEA SCROLL FRAGMENTS are on display this weekend in Arizona: 4.Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls are on display today and Satur...

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A CAPSULE HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON: Richard N. Ostling presents one in an A.P. article entitled "'Da Vinci' sparks i...
Friday, May 14, 2004

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PAST VOLUMES of the Zeitschrift f�r Papyrologie und Epigrafik (1991-2000) are available for free online. Many of the articles have to do w...

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A PASTISCHE OF BIBLICAL MYSTERY PLAYS wil be performed at the University of Chicago this weekend. Seth Sanders reports in the University of...
Thursday, May 13, 2004

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JUST GOT THE GOOD NEWS that my paper, "Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha," has been accepted for the Anthropology and the Old ...

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT � "LET IT FALL"? Arutz Sheva has an opinion piece by Joseph Yudin, in which he argues that the Palestinians ha...

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ANOTHER OBITUARY of Samuel Iwry appears in today's Washington Post . It has some interesting information on his research at the time t...

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NEW TEXTUAL CRITICISM LIST: Wieland Willker e-mails: Since the TC-list is now dead, I have set up a (hopefully only) temporal replaceme...
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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IF GOOGLE ETC. DIRECTED YOU HERE (and it seems there are lots of you), I'm afraid PaleoJudaica is not the " arabic� site� showing� ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HEBREW AND UGARITIC GRAMMAR ONLINE: The Oriental Institute Research Archives is pleased to announce the availability on-lin...

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THE SBL FORUM has posted a number of interesting short articles this month, as Mark Goodacre ( here and here and here ) and Torrey Seland...

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SAMUEL IWRY has passed away at age ninety-three: (JTA) - Hebrew scholar dies at 93 Hebrew scholar Samuel Iwry, an authority on the Dead...
Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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JEWISH-TEMPLE DENIAL in the Arab world is laid bare in a new study by Dr. Yitzhak Reiter. This Ha'aretz article summarizes his finding...

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NEW BOOK REVIEWS from the Review of Biblical Literature : Jacobs, Steven Leonard The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll: An Orthogra...
Monday, May 10, 2004

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THE ANCIENT UNIVERSITY OF ALEXANDRIA has been excavated: Archeologists Find Fabled Center of Learning in Egypt ( L.A. Times via Cronaca )...

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A CAPSULE HISTORY of Second Temple Judaism: Rabbi Dennis Sasso provides a good summary in Exploring the Judaism of Jesus' time (Indyst...

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BLOGGER has upgraded its system. The site looks spiffy, but it also makes my Internet Explorer 5.1 crash at random and it refuses to recogn...
Sunday, May 09, 2004

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THE IRAQ MUSEUM in Baghdad now has an official website (via John Simmons on the IraqCrisis list ). Excellent! Now how about a blog to g...

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THE LATEST on the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Ohio, which now seems to be called the Dead Sea Scrolls to America exhibit: Dead Sea Scro...