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Saturday, December 01, 2007

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PROFESSOR JOHN STRUGNELL (1930-2007) Just got word from Eileen Schuller of the sad news that John Strugnell, one of the members of the origi...

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TYLER WILLIAMS needs some emergency help with this month's Biblical Studies Carnival.

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MORE ON THAT WALL that has been associated with the time of Nehemiah. An AP article quotes the views of two other Israeli archaologists: ...

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THE FALLOUT from the Abu El-Haj tenure decision continues: Facts in the air By Bari Weiss ( Haaretz ) Tags: land of israel, Archeology Earl...

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HANUKKAH is coming soon, and so the Jerusalem Post has a tourism-related piece on real and not-so-real archaeological connections etc. with...

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AN ESSAY IN EL AHRAM entitled "Colonising a metaphor," by one Eric Walberg, begins with a reasonably coherent discussion of the ...
Friday, November 30, 2007

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ARAMAIC WATCH: WIKISYR -- a Wikipedia on matters Syriac ("l'encyclopédie électronique de l'Orient Syriaque"). (Via Andre...
Thursday, November 29, 2007

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MORE ON "NEHEMIAH'S" WALL IN JERUSALEM: Nehemiah's wall uncovered By ETGAR LEFKOVITS ( Jerusalem Post ) The remnants of a ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

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VARIOUS ENOCHIC APOCRYPHA seem to be alluded to in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier : JESS NEVINS' "BLACK DOSSIER...

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"PICTURING JERUSALEM" in the 1800s: Nineteenth Century Photographs Of Israel At Yeshiva Museum Nov 27th, 2007 (Antiques and the Ar...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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REPORTER OF THE LOST ARK? A journalist from The Smithsonian traveled to Ethiopia to try to get a glimpse of it. Keepers of the Lost Ark? C...

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RICHARD BAUCKHAM'S BOOK , JESUS AND THE EYEWITNESSES , continues to generate lots of discussion post-SBL. (The time stamp on this post ...
Monday, November 26, 2007

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NEW BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL: THE ORTHODOX CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF BIBLICAL STUDIES (OCABS) is pleased to announce the launching of it...

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CAN'T MAKE IT UP -- Movies on Jesus in India: Hollywood takes action hero Jesus to India Film based on Aquarian Gospel to cover years le...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

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HERE'S MY REPORT ON THE SAN DIEGO DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION, which I visited on Friday. (Click on the images below for larger version...

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I'M BACK IN ST. ANDREWS. The trip was uneventful, apart from when my watch shorted out going through the security scanner at the San Di...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

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ARCHAEOLOGIST AREN MAEIR lectured recently at BYU on "biblical archaeology: Scholar sees change in biblical archaeology Caution replace...

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WHAT I BOUGHT ON E-BAY. Well, not me, but someone. A revelatory dream figures in the story. Get in on eBay: Local man buys ancient Hebrew ...

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I HEAD FOR ST. ANDREWS later today. Busy now, but I'll try to get in some blogging later, maybe at the airport.
Friday, November 23, 2007

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FOR CHILDREN IN NYC: ‘ARCHAEOLOGY ZONE: DISCOVERING TREASURES FROM PLAYGROUNDS TO PALACES’ (Saturday through Thursday) Children will step ...