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Saturday, March 26, 2005

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HAVEIL HAVELIM #15, THE PURIM CARNIVAL , is now available at Soccer Dad's.

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HERE'S MORE ON NICOLE KIDMAN'S BIBLICAL STUDIES in the Sydney Morning Herald (requires free registration to access). She would li...

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MORE OVERDETERMINATION: Today is both Holy Saturday and the traditional birth date of the Persian prophet Zoroaster .

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BOOK REVIEW ALERT: The following is in today's New York Times : 'Whose Bible Is It?': God Speaks; Man Translates By JAMES KUGEL...

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THE BOOK OF GENESIS is reviewed by E. L. Doctorow in the Guardian . Really.

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THE KETEF HINNOM SILVER AMULETS and the recent confirmation of their date (about 2600 years old) are the subject of a CBS News story .

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PROFESSOR P. KYLE MCCARTER of Johns Hopkins University will be speaking at York College in Pennsylvania on the James Ossuary. The York Dail...
Friday, March 25, 2005

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Far right barred from Temple Mount ( Ynetnews ) Leading activists denied permission to enter holy site; meanwhile, poli...

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PLINY GOES WIRELESS: The Independent reports that some of the original Latin of Pliny the Elder's Natural History will be broadcast i...

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THE KETEF HINNOM SILVER AMULETS are on display in Holland. It sounds as though the exhibition also includes some Elephantine papyri: Ancien...

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BOOK REVIEW ALERT: The Invention Of Racism In Classical Antiquity Posted 3/24/2005 By Ralph Amelan (the Jewish Press ) Title: The Invention ...

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OVERDETERMINED: Today is Purim , Good Friday , the date that the One Ring was cast into the Crack of Doom, and my wife's and my sixtee...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

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THE CODEX SINATICUS DIGITIZATION PROJECT is covered in the current issue of the Economist . Looks like a good article, despite the cutsey ...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PALEOJUDAICA! Today is this blog's second anniversary. This was its very first post and this is my first anniversar...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

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ANOTHER TYNDALE TECH E-MAIL has been published by David Instone-Brewer , this one on Theology Periodicals Online . As usual, it looks astou...

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ISRAEL FORGERY SCANDAL WATCH: Macleans has the most comprehensive article that I've seen up to now ( "Cashbox" ). The autho...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The plan by the Revava group to swarm the Temple Mount on April 10th has been vetoed by the Israeli police: Police to ...

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A SABEAN MANDEAN PSYCHOPOMPIC RITUAL is described in an AFP article in the Peninsula (Qatar): Sabean-Mandeans trying to preserve their trad...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

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THE MINIMALIST-MAXIMALIST DEBATE CONTINUES: Here's an encouragingly irenic essay by V. Philip Long on the Bible and Interpretation webs...
Monday, March 21, 2005

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YOU'VE HEARD OF THE LORD'S PRAYER IN ARAMAIC , but how about the Lord's Prayer in Elvish ? Translated by Tolkien himself: �tare...