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Saturday, October 08, 2005

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ARAMAIC INFLUENCE ON PORTUGUESE? Yep. Book on Oriental influence on the Portuguese language to be released again (Brazil-Arab News Agency) ...

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ARAMAIC WATCH (also file under "Watcher Watch"): A high-school track and field coach and novelist in Hollister, California, has t...
Friday, October 07, 2005

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ACADEMIC BLOGGING is the subject of a good article ( "The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas" ) by Crooked Timber blogger Henry F...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

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AN ACADEMIC PUBLICATION? This article in the Kentucky Lake-Times refers readers to the Quarterly Journal of Nestorian Studies , which is ...

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MADONNA'S NEXT ALBUM will include a song devoted to pre-eminent Kabbalist Isaac Luria .
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

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AN IMPORTANT NEW RESEARCH INSTITUTE has been founded recently at St. Mary's College and is mentioned by Daniel Driver at Figured Out . ...

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HAROLD BLOOM is interviewed in the Forward about his new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine , in which, it seems, he sets out to off...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

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FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COSMIC SYNCHRONICITIES: This year Rosh HaShanah and Ramadan (in most Arab countries) start in the same twenty-four...

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IRAQ'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION is now being printed and distributed in Arabic, Kurdish, and Aramaic: [U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan] Haq said...

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THE XIVTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES will begin this Monday at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa Univers...
Monday, October 03, 2005

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THE ANCIENT PERSIA EXHIBITION in the British Museum is covered in an article in the Lebanon Daily Star ( "Ancient Persia comes alive i...

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ROSH HASHANAH , the Jewish New Year, begins tonight at sundown. This will be the year 5766. More here . Best wishes for the new year.

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BLOGGER WAS DOWN all morning, but seems to be recovered now.
Sunday, October 02, 2005

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MORE ON THE TIMBUKTU MANUSCRIPTS, which I have already mentioned here and here . The Independent Online , South Africa, has an article ( ...

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PROFESSOR STANISLAV SEGERT, who taught Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics for many years at UCLA, has died at the age of 84. Ed Cook, who ...
Saturday, October 01, 2005

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MORE ON THE VATICAN MANUSCRIPT EXHIBIT at the Israel Museum: Artful mending By NATHAN BURSTEIN ( Jerusalem Post ) Israel and the Vatican en...

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AN EXHIBIT OF ILLUSTRATED RELIGIOUS TEXTS is showing at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. The paintings are by artist Victo...

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GIVEN THIS , these comments by Israeli archaeologist Meir Ben-Dov about the Waqf's excavations at the Temple Mount seem to me to be unf...
Friday, September 30, 2005

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SOME HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE VATICAN are on display in the Israel Museum: Rare manuscripts from Vatican go on display at Israel Museum B...

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SOME SOUTH ARABIAN INSCRIPTIONS are being restored in Yemen: Ancient Inscriptions Receive Expert Attention By [Yemen] Observer Staff Sep 29,...