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Saturday, June 30, 2007

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IN THE MAIL: Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Eerdmans, 2007)
Thursday, June 28, 2007

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THE SAN DIEGO DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT OPENS TOMORROW. Here is yet another advance review: Dead Sea Scrolls: Long-awaited exhibit offers si...

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GOSPEL OF JUDAS WATCH: Another review of Reading Judas by King and Pagels has come out, this one by Stephen Prothero in the New York Tim...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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THE RENEWAL OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is now getting underway: Israel Museum starts $80 million renewal project By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ( Jerusalem P...

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GOSPEL OF JUDAS WATCH: Reading Judas , by Karen King and Elaine Pagels, is reviewed in the New York Sun by Bruce Chilton. Excerpt: Read...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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MY MASADA SKELETONS POST from a couple of days ago has been updated.

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NOMINATIONS ARE REQUESTED for Biblical Studies Carnival 19. Stephen Cook e-mails: Dear Colleagues, Good morning, and please excuse this mas...

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PETER SCHÄFER'S BOOK , JESUS IN THE TALMUD , is reviewed in the Jerusalem Post , by Gershom Gale, editor of The Jerusalem Post Christia...

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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION IN SAN DIEGO, which opens on Friday, is covered once again, this time in the LA Times . It notes that Norma...

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BREVARD CHILDS is dead at the age of 83. The Yale Divinity School has an obituary: Brevard S. Childs, an iconic figure in biblical scholars...
Monday, June 25, 2007

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JEWISH MAGIC makes an appearance in a conference on health in the Middle Ages at the University of Nottingham: Demonic Possession And Miracu...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

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SOME FAMOUS SKELETONS FROM MASADA are being given a new interpretation: Researchers claim to have solved mystery of Masada remains ( The Sc...
Friday, June 22, 2007

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THE HOLY GRAIL is in the news. Science Daily has the following: Archeologist says Holy Grail is in Rome ROME, June 21 (UPI) -- An Italian a...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

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THE JERUSALEM FORGERY CONFERENCE, convened by the Biblical Archaeology Society in January of this year, is the subject of a special report ...

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HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE to all those celebrating .
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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AN EGYPTIAN JEWISH MUSEUM? An outfit I don't know called "AME Info" has the following interesting brief item: Egypt resisting...
Monday, June 18, 2007

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THIS WEEK I have to attend seven graduation ceremonies (plus a rehearsal), four lunches, and two dinners as Principal of St. Mary's Coll...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

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THE MODERN HISTORY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, with special reference to the controvery about access to them up to 1991, is surveyed in an art...

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A DEAD SEA SCROLL and some other ancient manuscripts are on display next week at ACTS Bible College in Minnesota: A manuscript fragment in ...

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SOME OF NEWTON'S THEOLOGICAL AND APOCALYPTIC WRITINGS are on display at the Hebrew University's National Library: Father of modern s...