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Saturday, November 17, 2007

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SILOAM TUNNEL INSCRIPTION UPDATE: Peres seeks to borrow Siloam Inscription for Israel’s anniversary Israeli President Shimon Peres has asked...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Turkish report on the Mughrabi Gate excavation has reportedly been leaked to a Turkish publication and is highly cr...

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DEAD SEA SCROLLS REPLICAS FOR SOUTH KOREA: The Dead Sea Scrolls...made in St John’s Wood 16/11/2007 ( Jewish Chronicle , UK) By Simon Rocker...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Roman street uncovered in Western Wall tunnels By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ( Jerusalem Post ) The remains of an ancient terraced ...

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I'M AT THE HOTEL and, as you can see from the timestamp, am still on Mid-Atlantic time. I spent yesterday catching up with family and f...
Friday, November 16, 2007

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I'M HERE and waiting for my luggage at the San Diego Airport, which has free Wi-Fi. Most civilized.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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I'M OFF TO SAN DIEGO first thing tomorrow morning for the annual Society of Biblical Literature conference. I'm presenting a paper ...

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Good news for Aramaic , slightly bad news for biblical Hebrew. Against the backdrop of increasing government support for lan...

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IN THE MAIL: April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says (New York/London: Continuum, 2007) A copy fro...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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LOGOS TOO! The Accordance module of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls for the Mac has its parallel in the Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Databas...

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THE TOMB OF EZEKIEL in Kifl, Iraq, was mentioned on PaleoJudaica here several years ago. I doubt that it's Ezekiel's actual tomb, ...
Monday, November 12, 2007

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THE CONTROVERSY OVER NADIA ABU-EL HAJ'S TENURING AT BARNARD contines to generate discussion. Here are some online pieces going back to...

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THE LIFE OF BRIAN is being re-released as a DVD , with a deleted scene re-inserted: Monty Python's Life of Brian continues to inspire a...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS is a new Accordance Bible Software module that will be available at the SBL meetings in San Diego...

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THE SAN DIEGO DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION is reviewed yet again: Dead Sea Scrolls View them and other texts at a one-of-a-kind exhibit in Sa...

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AD INFINITUM: A Biography of Latin , by Nicholas Ostler, is reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer by John Timpane. Excerpt: Today, we sp...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

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ZOMBIE ATTACKS : An occupational hazard for archaeologists. (Via the Agade list etc.)

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NEHEMIAH'S WALL FOUND IN JERUSALEM? Maybe. Todd Bolen has comments on a report in an odd place.

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH -- only not. Yasser Arafat's tomb is getting a more permanent-sounding renovation in Ramallah: The new tomb feature...

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SOMEONE NAMED GABRIEL KHANO, writing an autobiographical piece in Uruknet.info, claims in a brief aside to have been involved in the early ...