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Saturday, July 02, 2005

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WHAT DOES "ISCARIOT" MEAN? More good Aramaic philology from Ed Cook and a good example of why Jastrow's Dictionary must b...

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HOW DO YOU SAY "BLOG" IN LATIN? Find out here .

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THE AFTERLIFE OF THE TEMPLE: Here's an interview with Simon Goldhill, author of The Temple of Jerusalem (Wonders of the World; Harvard...
Friday, July 01, 2005

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"HOW MANY CONSONANTS DID HEBREW HAVE? This is a trick question." -- Seth Sanders at Serving the Word .

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HISTORY CARNIVAL XI is up at the Siris blog. Both PaleoJudaica and Ralph the Sacred River are featured.

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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENOCH SEMINAR have been published by Eerdmans: Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection ...

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MESSIANIC WOES FOR THE LUBAVITCHERS: Lubavitch�s Open Wound At 770 Destroyed plaque honoring rebbe points to new round in battle over messia...

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NEPHILIM IN THE NEWS: Here's a review of The Fallen Ones a made-for-TV movies that was shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in May. Excerpt: ...

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SOME GOOD NEWS on the Israeli/Palestinian archaeology front. The US Department of State has posted the following article: Palestinian, Isra...

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THE DISCOVERY OF THE CHESTER BEATTY PAPYRI: On the Textual Criticism list, Wieland Willker has posted a contemporary account of the discov...

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ELECTRONIC GREEK PHILO: Daniel Foster and Rick Brannan have e-mailed to alert me that Logos Software is offering the Greek text of Philo in...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

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A "BIBLICAL THEME PARK" has just opened in Eilat.

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MORE ON THE RUSSIAN "INVESTIGATION" of Jewish literature as incitement to religious hatred. This week's Forward has a diffe...

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ANOTHER SARNA OBITUARY, this one by his son, Jonathan, in the Forward : Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna, 'Understanding Genesis' Author...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

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BLOG WATCH: Ed Cook critiques one of Maurice Casey's Aramaic retroversions over at Ralph , and at Mystical Politics Rebecca Lesses ale...

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PHILIP DAVIES: "DO WE NEED BIBLICAL SCHOLARS?" An interesting essay on the Bible and Intepretation website. Personally, I thin...

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CORRECTIONS TO NYT SARNA OBITUARY : A post on the H-JUDAIC list by Ellen Frankel, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Socie...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

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THE KITZUR SHULHAN ARUKH -- INCITEMENT TO RELIGIOUS HATRED? Here's an example of what laws against incitement to religious hatred lead...
Monday, June 27, 2005

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SBL BLOGGING: Jeffery Hodges and Tim Bulkeley are in Singapore, blogging the International Society of Biblical Literature conference . T...

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DEAD SEA SCROLLS IN SINGAPORE UPDATE: Reader Coleman Yee e-mails: I just came back from the museum exhibition and am able to confirm that ...