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Saturday, August 27, 2005

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MOUNTAINS GET YOU HIGH: Does anoxia explain the high-altitude revelations received by Moses, Jesus and his disciples, and Muhammad? Author...

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THE INK AND BLOOD EXHIBITION has done okay in Lexington, but it hasn't been a blockbuster like the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Mobi...

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HERE'S ONE ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN who is adamantly opposed to the Iraqi draft-constitution . He is especially concerned with women's r...

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THE LOST ARK -- Now you can buy the t-shirt .

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A TRAVELOGUE ON JORDAN in the Washington Times opens with the supposed site of the baptisim of Jesus: Jordan's biblical sites By John M...
Friday, August 26, 2005

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THRILLERS INVOLVING ANCIENT BOOKS AND ARTIFACTS is the subject of an interesting post over at Hagahot . I've read and enjoyed Foucault...

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A NEW BOOK by Steven McKenzie is excerpted on the Bible and Interpretation website: Jonah and Genre Readers who have misconstrued th...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

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IRAQ'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION comes in for some heavy criticism from Iraqi secularists, according to "Iraq secularists denounce "...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

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JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE with Bnai Brith International in Washington D.C., with whom I did a radio interview about the More Old Testament Pseu...

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THE SARDIS SYNAGOGUE is also featured in an article in the current issue of the American Journal of Archaeology : The Date of the Sardis Syn...

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THE CASUALTIES OF WAR: The Truth About the Iraq Museum," is a long article by Matthew Bogdanos which gives the definitive account of ...

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THE IRAQI DRAFT CONSTITUTION is excerpted in detail by Reuters . With reference to the issue of Aramaic-speaking Christians , note the foll...

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THE VOLCANO AT VESUVIUS ERUPTED nineteen hundred and twenty-six years ago today. Since the hope of recovering more of the Herculaneum libr...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

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TECHNORATI PROBLEMS: Is it just me, or has Technorati become virtually useless in the last few weeks? I used to check it almost daily to ...

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COPTIC AND ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS have reportedly been recovered by the Egyptian authorities before they could be taken out of the country in a...

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ARAMIAC-SPEAKING IRAQIS continue to lobby the Iraqi government for recognition in the new constitution. As a result we are requesting the i...
Monday, August 22, 2005

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I FINISHED THE RULE OF FOUR last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't notice any obvious historical errors, but most of the histor...

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A SEPTUAGINT INSTITUTE is soon to open at Trinity Western University in Vancouver. TWU is already well known for its Dead Sea Scrolls Insti...

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THE BLACKSMITH SYRIACOLOGIST. Hebraist too. An interesting story about an amateur philologist in the nineteenth century. Worcester once ho...
Sunday, August 21, 2005

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CROSS BONES , a new novel by forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, features a fictionalized Oded Golan, an ancient skeleton from Masada, and...