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Saturday, September 22, 2007

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NEIL ALTMAN has duped yet another newspaper (the Philadelphia Bulletin ) into taking his ridiculous notions about the Dead Sea Scrolls serio...
Friday, September 21, 2007

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RABBINICS JOB - from Michael V. Fox on the Ioudaios-l list: The University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a full-time, tenure...

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PSCO 45 - This just in: With apologies for the lateness of this information, here is the outline for the new PSCO year, and the announcement...

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MANUSCRIPT BOY reflects on the maturity of magical studies at Hagahot . Excerpt: So I was impressed to find that, in Matthew Morgenstern...

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YOM KIPPUR (THE DAY OF ATONEMENT) begins tonight at sundown. An easy fast to those observing it. The biblical precepts for Yom Kippur app...

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ALAN SEGAL has a long review of Nadia Abu El-Haj's book, Facts on the Ground , in the Columbia Spectator : Some Professional Observation...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Israeli archeologists ordered out of court hearing By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ( Jerusalem Post ) A group of Israeli archeologis...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

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EARLY JUDAISM JOB - Eileen Schuller e-mails the following: The Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University invites applications f...

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THE ARAM SOCIETY has a conference page that lists many interesting upcoming Aram Society conferences through 2014. The two most imminent ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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THE J-2 HAPLOGROUP (billed by National Geographic as a "Phoenician" genetic marker ) is also found among Jews : J2: The J2 linea...

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JUDAISM JOB : Job Title: Assistant Professor Department: Religion and Philosophy Institution: Southwestern University Georgetown, TX...

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MORE FROM THE COLUMBIA SPECTATOR on the controversy over tenure for Nadia Abu El-Haj: On Academic Freedom On Academic Integrity The Troubl...

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THE AKITU FESTIVAL - the ancient Babylonian New Year celebration - and its relation to Jewish tradition is the subject of an article in the ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

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BARNARD PROFESSOR ALAN SEGAL gave a lecture last night contesting the claims of Assistant Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj in her book Facts on th...

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GOLF, THE UNIVERSITY, AND PALEOJUDAICA are all notable features of St. Andrews according to Ferrell's Travel Blog .

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THE MASTER'S THESIS of James Darlack, of the Old in the New blog, is available online for downloading. It's called "Pray for ...

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GET READY TO PARTY! The team Histoire et Archeologie de l'Orient Cunéiforme/Archeologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (HAROC/ArScAn) o...

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ROBERT ALTER is interviewed by NPR's All Things Considered about his new Psalms translation.

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JEWISH STUDIES, AN INTERNET JOURNAL has just published volume 6, which has lots of goodies. The articles are downloadable in PDF or Word f...
Monday, September 17, 2007

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THE PHOENICIAN GENE? In Lebanon DNA may yet heal rifts Mon Sep 10, 8:32 AM ET BYBLOS, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Lebanese scientist following the...