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Saturday, August 18, 2007

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A BOOK ON MANDAEAN (MANDEAN) HISTORY is reviewed by April DeConick at the Forbidden Gospels blog. Gorgias Press released in 2005 a book by ...

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IS THIS TRUE? The Iberian lynx is a specialist carnivore that subsists almost exclusively on rabbits. An adult male requires one rabbit a d...

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THE HORRENDOUS BOMBING OF THE YAZIDIS is bad news for ethnic minorities in Iraq. April DeConick has some reflections on the Yazidis and t...
Friday, August 17, 2007

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THE GNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE SIMULATION ARGUMENT, which I noted here in response to the recent NYT article, are not going unnoticed els...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

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TARGUM NEWS from Ed Cook over at Ralph.

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MORE ON THE BARNARD TENURE CONTROVERSY: Two items deal with the petition against granting tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj. From John Gravois at...

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THERE'S A BIBLICAL BOARD OF TRADE ? According to this press release, they're giving away free tickets to the San Diego Dead Sea Scr...

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A PHOTO ESSAY ON THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS has been published by About.com: Archaeology.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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THE MINGANA COLLECTION of Syriac, Arabic, etc. manuscripts at the University of Birmingham gets a bad report over at Thoughts on Antiquity...

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THE ARCHIMEDES CODEX AND A CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA PALIMPSEST - Tony Chartrand-Burke has the story over at Apocryphicity.

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THE GREEK GEEK pans the Lammas Fair in St. Andrews. Well, to appreciate it you have to have kids. I actually went on this ride , which is...

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THE NEW TESTAMENT GATEWAY 2.0 , BETA VERSION.

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FOOTPRINT AS ARTIFACT: Following the footsteps of a Roman soldier By Ofri Ilani ( Haaretz ) Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

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THE DEMIURGE is alive and well and is running our universe as a computer simulation . The link is to an article in the New York Times whi...

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BARNARD PETITION: This is the first I recall hearing about a petition about Nadia Abu El-Haj's tenure at Barnard. Bid to deny tenure to...

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MODERN CHRISTENDOM AS LATE-ANTIQUE BYZANTIUM? Perspectives The Seventh-Century Christian Obsession with the Jews: A Historical Parallel for ...
Monday, August 13, 2007

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THE MANDAEANS are once again on April DeConick's radar . Good for her. For more on the Mandaeans (Mandeans) see here and here . And s...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

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ROGUE FRAGMENTS of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display in a church in Florida? Ancient items, modern wonder A display includes pieces of the...

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HANAN ESHEL, his Leviticus scroll find, and the conflicts with the IAA are covered in Haaretz ( "Questioning a scientist's true in...

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THE RENEWAL OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is covered in the New York Times : A Museum to Get Lost in, and How Israel Is Fixing It By STEVEN ERLANGER ...