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Saturday, September 27, 2008

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MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE UPDATE : In an LA Times article on the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance there's this: In Jerusalem, a proposal to b...

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A NEW MAIMONIDES BIOGRAPHY is reviewed by Steven Nadler in the New York Sun : "Maimonides" (Doubleday, 594 pages, $35), Joel Krae...
Friday, September 26, 2008

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Apparently more Jewish-Temple denial from the Palestinian Authority. PA Blindly Bashes Jews' 'Imaginary Temple...

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WHO WROTE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS? The Wall Street Journal has an essay by a lawyer named Jordana Horn, evidently inspired by the new exhibi...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

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PSA FLIGHT 182 crashed thirty years ago today at 9:02 am in North Park, San Diego, after being hit by a Cessna 172. All 137 people on the ...

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THE PERSEPOLIS CUNEIFORM ARCHIVE, and the controversy over whether it should be confiscated by the US Government as compensation for terrori...

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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION coming to the Royal Ontario Museum in June of 2009 has gotten a lot of press today. From the ArtDaily : Pre...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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A NEW BOOK ON THE JEWS OF LEONTOPOLIS is reviewed by David Noy at BMCR: Livia Capponi, Il tempio di Leontopoli in Egitto: Identità politica ...

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CAN'T MAKE IT UP: Christian group building replica of ‘Wailing Wall’ Evangelicals say they hope to show support for Israel September 22,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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IF ONLY.

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MY BOOK, The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha , is reviewed by Kevin P. Edgecomb over at Biblicalia. Thanks Kevin!

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MORE MANUSCRIPT DIGITIZING at the College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University: Fr. Columba Stewart travels the world September 19th, 20...

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ARIEL SABAR, author of My Father's Paradise , about his Aramaic-speaking UCLA-professor father Yona, is interviewed in a Nextbook podca...
Monday, September 22, 2008

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A REVIEW of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Raleigh, NC: History, Mystery Found in caves in an ancient land, Dead Sea Scrolls speak to us...

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BETWEEN INTERNET OUTAGES, a new window being installed at home, and Pre-Sessional Week, I haven't managed to blog today. Maybe later.
Sunday, September 21, 2008

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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION at the New York Jewish Museum opens today. The ArtDaily has an article: The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

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APOCRYPHA WATCH: Review: Judith, Lace Market Theatre Thursday, September 18, 2008, 07:43 (thisisnottingham.ac.uk) IF YOU dislike obscenity, ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

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A GOLEM-RELATED INSTITUTE is opening in Prague, as reported, appropriately enough, by Monsters and Critics: Institute dedicated to legendary...

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RACHEL ELIOR is interviewed in Nextbook about her new book on the dybbuk : Spirits in the Material World Uncovering the legend of the dybbuk...

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DREAMS IN THE TALMUD: World of the Sages: Perchance to dream By LEVI COOPER ( Jerusalem Post ) A significant few pages of Talmud are devoted...