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Saturday, September 24, 2005

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BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW is the subject of what is evidently a series of critical essays being posted on the Bible and Interpretation w...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Unearthing earthly Jerusalem ( Ha'aretz ) By Meron Rapoport In Jerusalem's Old City, as in Hiroshima, everythin...
Friday, September 23, 2005

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WHY THE JEWS REJECTED JESUS , by David Klinghoffer, is reviewed in the Catholic Explorer . (Via Bible and Interpretation News .)

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KABBALISTIC RAP? Yep.
Thursday, September 22, 2005

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THE HOUSE OF JUDEO-PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS FOUNDATION in Los Angeles is devoted to collecting copies and originals of manuscripts written in Ju...

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"ABACUS" -- A Hebrew word? Philologos has the story. UPDATE: Miriam at Bloghead comments on the Philologos essay: All very bri...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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A BOOK ON GIORDANO BRUNO AND KABBALAH is reviewed in the Commentator : Are Hermes and the Kabbalah Irrelevent? Giordano Bruno and the Kabbal...

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RASHI COMMEMORATIONS: French town tributes Jewish sage By David Dahan Updated: 20/Sep/2005 16:37 ( European Jewish Press , Belgium) The Fr...

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AN IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE EDITION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE has been acquired by the library of Berkeley University: Bancroft Library adds rare Sec...

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DID GOD HAVE A WIFE? . The Mail and Guardian , South Africa, reviews William Dever's new book on the goddess Asherah in ancient Israel.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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QUMRAN SYMPOSIUM : My doctoral student, Ian Werrett, draws my attention to a symposium of the Nordic Network in Qumran Studies which is bei...

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AN ESSAY DEEMED RELIGIOUSLY OFFENSIVE is being removed from an Israeli Defense Force educational booklet: IDF agrees to ban essay that MK sa...

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A BIRD MOSAIC -- also from Byzantine-era Caesarea. (Via Archaeology Magazine news .)

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A BYZANTINE-ERA MANSION IN CAESAREA: Caesarea Byzantine mansion site inaugurated By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ( Jerusalem Post ) The remains of a lavi...

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MANDEANS are suffering persecution in Iraq: Iraq chaos threatens ancient faith Kate Clark By Kate Clark BBC News, Damascus There are fears...
Monday, September 19, 2005

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DIVINATION CONFERENCE: This just in by e-mail from Angela Voss. ‘SEEING WITH DIFFERENT EYES’ A CONFERENCE ON COSMOLOGY AND DIVINATION Unive...

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HERSHEL SHANKS is defending the authenticity of the Ivory Pomegranate inscription in the Jerusalem Post .
Sunday, September 18, 2005

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NOT THE STONE OF JACOB AFTER ALL: Stone’s biblical past is exposed as myth Mark Macaskill and Jason Allardyce (Sunday Times of London) ACCO...

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BOOK REVIEW by Jacob Lassner in the Middle East Quarterly : Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in ...

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A SYRIAC CONFERENCE is to be held at the Catholic University of America in February, 2006: Dorushe Conference on Syriac Pedagogy at CUA The ...