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Saturday, October 09, 2004

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THE ONLINE CRITICAL PSEUDEPIGRAPHA PROJECT is a new initiative to provide original-language critical texts for the various books of the Old...
Friday, October 08, 2004

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PROFESSOR MICHAEL GRANT - R.I.P.: Professor Michael Grant (The Telegraph ) (Filed: 08/10/2004) Professor Michael Grant, who died on M...

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ARCHAEOLOGIST GABRIEL BARKAY is interviewed about the Temple Mount by Pat Robertson for The 700 Club . Quite a combination.
Thursday, October 07, 2004

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TODAY IS SHEMINI ATZERET and tomorrow (starting at sundown tonight) will be Simhat Torah, except in Israel, where both holidays are today. ...
Wednesday, October 06, 2004

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ANOTHER RITUAL FROM THIRD-TEMPLE RADICALS: Activists reenact Temple ritual to remove Sharon ( Jerusalem Post ) By YAAKOV KATZ A...

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MORE ON THE DISCOVERIES CONCERNING EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS by a medieval Arab alchemist: Carla Sulzbach e-mails to point me to a message by ...
Tuesday, October 05, 2004

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I'M SKEPTICAL, but this is a very interesting story and, if the claims are borne out, it would be an extraordinary discovery: Arab scho...

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TALMUD SCHOLAR YISRAEL TA-SHEMA HAS PASSED AWAY. Ha'aretz has an obituary: Prof. Yisrael Ta-Shema, halakhic scholar, dies at 68 ...
Monday, October 04, 2004

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VERY STRANGE. As noted below, I had great difficulty posting today. Blogger has been doing very odd things to me lately in any case: on m...

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I REGRET TO INFORM YOU OF THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR ERNEST ("PADDY") BEST, who taught New Testament at the University of St. Andrews ...

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"IN THE BEGINNING": In the current issue of the Forward , Philologos discusses Bereshit , the first word in the Hebrew Bible. (C...
Sunday, October 03, 2004

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THERE'S A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE TORAH by biblical scholar Robert Alter: Now a noted literary scholar has produced a fresh translation...
Saturday, October 02, 2004

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ASSIMILATED TO THE BLOGOSPHERE: Peter Kirby, known already for his websites on Early Christian Writings and Early Jewish Writings and t...

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A VOLUNTEER AT THE "JOHN THE BAPTIST CAVE" gives the Asheville Citizen-Times a personal account of the excavation. Excerpts: H...

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MORE ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT AT THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ( Houston Chronicle ), including comments from Professor Mattias Henz...

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ARAMAIC INCANTATION BOWL TO BE REPATRIATED: Ancient bowl heads back to Middle East Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent Saturday October 2...
Friday, October 01, 2004

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TWO NEW TRANSLATIONS OF 1 ENOCH : Gabriele Boccaccini e-mails: Two new English translations of 1 Enoch have been published: (A) George...

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THE FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS TO THE BIBLE EXHIBITION is in Michiana, Elkhart County, Indiana for the month of October. The story is noted...

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FURTHER TO THE SBL-SEMINAR-PAPER CITATION CONTROVERSY , which I started a while ago, I've been meaning to note that Paul Nikkel of Deind...
Thursday, September 30, 2004

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THE EXPOSITORY TIMES is being relaunched in the spring of 2005. Mark Goodacre has details. The press release doesn't mention this, b...