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Saturday, December 15, 2007

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CARTAGENA, Hannibal's home town, is gearing up for the tourist season. So far so good . More on Cartagena here .

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A SCHOLAR OF PHOENICIAN STUDIES has been appointed an honorary member of Malta's National Order of Merit: CLAUDIA SAGONA M.O.M. (in abs...

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MODERN ALEXANDRIA is profiled in a Travel piece in the NYT . Some of its ancient history comes up as well. A City of Legend Embarks on a Ne...

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THE SAN DIEGO DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION has been extended for a week to 6 January. Not surprisingly, attendance has been very high: The ...
Friday, December 14, 2007

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THE 'DE-POSHING' OF LATIN. Bring it on!

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ANOTHER OBITUARY FOR JOHN STRUGNELL, this one in the LA Times : John Strugnell, 1930 - 2007 Dead Sea Scrolls project editor lost post after ...

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BLOGGING ARCHAEOLOGY : Bill Caraher gives us an overview at the Ancient World Bloggers Group blog.
Thursday, December 13, 2007

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A NEW COPTIC TV CHANNEL in Egypt. UPDATE: More info here . UPDATE: Hmmm ... I guess it doesn't actually say that it's a Coptic la...

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A DEAD SEA SCROLLS CONFERENCE is coming, to be held at the Center for Ancient Studies at NYU. Details are sketchy, but this has been posted...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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MEGILLAT ANTIOCHUS , The Scroll of Antiochus , is noted as relevant to the season in an Arutz Sheva article: The Unknown Megillah of Chanuk...

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A NONCANONICAL PAPYRUS ONLINE: A fragmentary papyrus of the Greek text of the Gospel of Thomas has been posted online by the Houghton Libr...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

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MORE ON THE ALEPPO CODEX and the new effort to recover all surviving bits of it: From Maimonides to Brooklyn: The mystery of the Aleppo Code...

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Support Sought for Temple Mount Synagogue by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Haifa's long-time Chief Rabbi She'ar-...

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A COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT HEBREW: The 9th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (9. MICAH) will take place at Johannes Gutenberg Un...
Monday, December 10, 2007

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ANOTHER JOHN STRUGNELL OBITUARY , this one in the Harvard Crimson , the Harvard student newspaper. It's better and more balanced than a...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

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PRETEND TO BE A TIME TRAVELER DAY was yesterday and I missed it! Just as well, maybe ...

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REBECCA LESSES remembers John Strugnell .

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ANOTHER PETRA TRAVELOGUE. There sure are a lot of these. Following Indy's Footsteps Visit to ancient city of Petra proves to be truly a...

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THIS IS FUNNY: With the Christmas season comes the dreaded Christmas letter . Here's an amusing parody: Others equally haunted by the ...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

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ANOTHER OBITUARY FOR JOHN STRUGNELL, this one in the New York Times . John Strugnell Dies at 77; Scholar Undone by His Slur By JOHN NOBLE WI...