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Saturday, October 27, 2007

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PROSBUL is explained in Balashon -- The Hebrew Language Detective. I believe the prosbul is also mentioned in the epigraphic texts from t...

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WHAT IS IN THE OHIO FRAGMENTS? UPDATE: More here , here , and here . I missed these first time I looked at April's RSS feed. (The wor...

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TWO JOBS IN HEBREW PHILOLOGY at the Catholic University of America: Catholic University of America Department of Semitic and Egyptian Langu...

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THE BARNARD TENURE CONTROVERSY continues to attract attention. The New York Jewish Week takes Paula Stern to task for inaccuracies in her...
Friday, October 26, 2007

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A BIOGRAPHY OF JEZEBEL: "Biography" of Jezebel mixes scripture, history and a vivid imagination "Jezebel: The Untold Story of...

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JIM VANDERKAM is giving a lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls at California Lutheran University.

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THE UCL ARAMAIC INCANTATION BOWLS are the subject of a long article in Science Magazine: ARCHAEOLOGY: University Suppresses Report on Prove...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The former Mufti of Jerusalem is spouting Jewish-Temple denial. Western Wall was never part of temple' By MIKE SEID...

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MARTIN GOODMAN'S BOOK, ROME AND JERUSALEM is reviewed by Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun . Excerpt: Mr. Goodman's analysis of the...

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NORMAN GOLB argues in The Forward that the recently discovered escape tunnel in Jerusalem may have been used to evacuate Dead Sea Scrolls ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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HEBREW BIBLE PROFESSOR: I am very happy to report that our position in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible has been filled. St Mary’s College is ple...

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NEW SBL PUBLICATIONS - e-mailed from the SBL: New Titles from SBL Publications The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology ...

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THE PULSA DE NURA CURSING RITE is back in the news ( Haaretz ), apparently due to the recent publication of a scholarly article on it: Tex...

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AN ARMY OF ASSYRIOLOGISTS . (Via the Agade list.) Similar story here .

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: From the National Geographic Society: Solomon's Temple Artifacts Found by Muslim Workers Mati Milstein in Tel Aviv, ...

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THE SAINT JOHN'S BIBLE IS "NEARLY COMPLETE" and selections are on display in Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Monumental Gath...

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MORE ON THE JEZEBEL SEAL from the Jerusalem Post : Dutch scholar claims ancient seal was Queen Jezebel's By ETGAR LEFKOVITS An ancient s...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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JESUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY , edited by James Charlesworth, is reviewed by Gary M. Burge in Christianity Today . At the turn of the millennium, a...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: MKs want to probe Wakf for Mount dig By DAN IZENBERG ( Jerusalem Post ) The Knesset State Control Committee on Monday de...
Monday, October 22, 2007

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IN THE MAIL: Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) (New York: Putnam, 2007) Woo hoo! Book reviews...