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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

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A CULTURAL CENTER IN THE UAE has arranged to digitize the manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery and to archive copies of them: Centre...

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ISRAEL BOYCOTT UPDATE: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East has posted a petition against the UCU Israel-boycott resolution. The text re...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

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AN ALTERNATE HISTORY of the works of Philo of Alexandria is noted by Torrey Seland. Regular readers will be aware of my interest in altern...

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MORE ON THE CAIRO GENIZA EXODUS FRAGMENT , now on display in the Israel Museum. The Art Daily has an article: Rare 7th-8th C. Scroll Fragm...
Sunday, June 03, 2007

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RISA LEVITT KOHN, curator of the upcoming Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in San Diego, is interviewed by voiceofsandiego.org: Overseeing the Sc...

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MARTIN GOODMAN'S LATEST BOOK is reviewed in the Jerusalem Post : Age of empire By RALPH AMELAN Rome & Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancien...
Friday, June 01, 2007

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ISRAEL BOYCOTT UPDATE: Academics express outrage at Israeli boycott Debbie Andalo Thursday May 31, 2007 EducationGuardian.co.uk Academics a...

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SHABBETAI ZVI'S CHILDHOOD HOME in Turkey is in danger of demolition. The Forward has the story: Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May ...

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HEBREW BIBLE/EARLY JEWISH STUDIES JOB AT EXETER - Louise Lawrence e-mails the following: Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and/or Early Jewish Studie...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

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WHILE WE'RE ON SCI-FI TELEVISION, Ed Cook gives us Lost in Hebrew . And tells us the Hebrew word for "dude." Really.

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DOCTOR WHO as an instance of kenotic Christology : Mark Goodacre gives us the exegesis, along with a YouTube clip of the relevant episode.

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ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL by the major British academic labor union is in the works, right on schedule. British Academics’ Union End...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Jordan: Stop Temple Mount digging By ASSOCIATED PRESS AMMAN, Jordan A Jordanian official called on Israel Wednesday to s...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

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THE PALEOJUDAICA ARCHIVE IS BACK. (See the bottom of the links bar to the right.) I'm still trying to sort out the search engine just ...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Dichter rules area near Temple Mount off-limits to Muslim burial By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent Police have pre...

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INTERESTING SEALS AND FISH BONES from the early Iron Age II period have been excavated in the fill under a house that was build in a derelic...

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HEROD'S TOMB (if that's what it is) is used in an L.A. Times essay as a launching point for an essay on archaeology and modern Isra...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

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THE AUTHOR OF RASHI'S DAUGHTERS is interviewed by the Cleveland Jewish News : Rashi becomes real for novelist Anton By SORIYA DANIELS, ...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

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A NEW INTRODUCTION TO THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS is coming out, authored by a Comparative Lit professor at Arizona Western College (Pam Kuhlken) ...

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THE CAIRO GENIZA gets a nice little profile in the Canadian Jewish News . Excerpt: As with other major discoveries discussed in this colum...