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Saturday, July 03, 2004

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"PEELING THE LAYERS OFF THE MASADA MYTH" : Dr. Tamar Landau reviews "Ani, Shalom Bat Shmuel" ("I Am Shalom Bat Shm...
Friday, July 02, 2004

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EXCITING NEWS ABOUT THE COPTIC GOSPEL OF JUDAS � Pierluigi Piovanelli ( University of Ottawa ) e-mails the following: . . . I attended th...
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WHEN SCRIPTS DIE: Science Magazine has a report on an Oxford conference that explored the reasons why ancient scripts vanished. The Slow ...
Thursday, July 01, 2004

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PHILOLOGOS picks up the thread from last week on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (in the Forward ) and concludes that the Arabic was botche...

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HERE'S AN IRAQI JEWISH ARCHIVE UPDATE from the Forward (requires free registration to access): Fate of Rare Document Trove Remains U...
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

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THE ST. ANDREWS CONFERENCE ON OLD TESTAMENT INTERPRETATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, held by my colleague Professor Philip Esler , begins thi...

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NEW BOOK REVIEWS from the Review of Biblical Literature : Cazeaux, Jacques Sa�l, David, Salomon: Le Royaut� et le destin d'Isra�l ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

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BUDGET CUTS for the Israel Antiquities Authority are leading to layoffs at the Beit She'an and Ad Halom excavations. But President Ka...

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WHOLLY MOSES , the 1980 biblical spoof, is now available on DVD. Quote from the DVD Talk review: "No collection of the unfunniest co...
Monday, June 28, 2004

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JEWISH SCHOLARS IN IRAQ: I've posted the following e-mail to the IraqCrisis list. I am surprised and rather concerned that there has...

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HOW EVIL WAS PONTIUS PILATE? This brief Associated Press article, "�Passion� sparks new Pilate debate" summarizes a Bible Review...

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ALEXANDER H. JOFFE has just published two articles online that ought to generate some controversy. One, "Are Fakes So Bad?" has...
Sunday, June 27, 2004

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FORMAT CHANGES: I've made two format changes to PaleoJudaica. The first is that the archive is now posted by month rather than by week...
Saturday, June 26, 2004

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MORE ON THE POOL OF SILOAM DISCOVERY from the Jerusalem Post : History unearthed By MARION FISCHEL An archeological discovery sheds ...

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THE VIRTUAL TEMPLE PROJECT is the subject of an article in the Jerusalem Post : Maverick visionary or eccentric academic? By DANIEL BEN-...
Friday, June 25, 2004

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THE JORDAN CHURCH MYSTERY has been solved by observant reader Stephen Goranson. Xinhuanet picked up the story from Tuesday's Jordan Ti...

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HERE IS AN OBITUARY of Ya'akov Meshorer, who, as reported here yesterday, died on Wednesday: Pioneer numismatist Ya'acov Meshorer d...

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SOME HEBREW, SOME ARABIC, BUT . . . "No Sex with Buildings." Philologos reviews Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in the Forward . Exc...
Thursday, June 24, 2004

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THE VILNA EDITION of the Babylonian Talmud is available here in .gif format (via Rebecca Lesses at Mystical Politics ).

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TOM HARPUR'S bogus Egyptology and other problems with his latest book, which claims Jesus is a mythical figure who never actually lived...