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Saturday, April 11, 2009

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Where the language of Jesus stars on football field Sheera Frenkel in Jish (London Times ) In a small church north of Nazaret...
Friday, April 10, 2009

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MORE ON PALESTINIAN OBJECTIONS to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum: Tories mum in dispute on Dead Sea Scrolls Apr...

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WRONG-WAY STREET? The Daily Mail gleefully reports that the pilgrim route on the Via Dolorossa in Jerusalem may go in the wrong direction...

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ST. JEROME is profiled in the Catholic Star Herald . Not sure why, since his feast day is 30 September . But always happy to give him som...

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TODAY IS GOOD FRIDAY . Best wishes to all observing it.
Thursday, April 09, 2009

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2 ENOCH IN COPTIC! The book of 2 Enoch , previously known only in versions in Old Church Slavonic, has now been partly recovered in an ear...

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PUNIC WATCH: Remembering Hannibal in the Alps. Hannibal In Sölden Thursday, April 9th, 2009 (Fast Track Ski Holidays) Austrian glacier reso...

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A NEW DEAD SEA SCROLLS CONTROVERSY! We've gone a week or two without one, so I guess it's time. Dead Sea Scrolls stir storm at ROM ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

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PASSOVER begins this evening at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating.

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AN IRON-AGE-II LAPIDARY INSCRIPTION IN HEBREW has been discovered, alas in a very fragmentary state, in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The Art ...

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GEZA VERMES has an Easter piece in the London Times - "Myth or history: the hard facts of the Resurrection" - in which he summar...

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ZAHI HAWASS UPDATE: Further to my comments on Dr. Hawass's unfortunate statement about Jewish history in an Egyptian TV interview, he ...
Monday, April 06, 2009

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TUDOR PARFITT'S SUPPOSED ARK OF THE COVENANT may have been nicked by Robert Mugabe's family - this according to the Daily Express :...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Israeli archaeologists revive Western Wall By AP Tags: Israel News, Temple Mount Israeli archaeologists are inspecting t...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

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WE'RE IN SAN DIEGO. Just got in. More tomorrow.

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I'M OFF TO SUNNY SAN DIEGO for a fortnight's holiday. I should have Internet access and blogging should continue more or less norma...
Friday, April 03, 2009

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SBL PAPER: Recently got the good news that my paper proposal for the November 2009 Society of Biblical Literature meeting in New Orleans ha...

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MORE ON THE KHIRBET QEIYAFA INSCRIPTION: Aren Maier was at the 35th archaeological congress in Jerusalem and noted the following on the Te...

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A HELLENISTIC-ERA PIER IN ACCO: A Pier from the Hellenistic Period was Discovered in Akko (2/4/09) Archaeological discoveries shed new ligh...

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THE CITY OF TEL AVIV is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its founding this year. Michael Handelzalts in Haaretz mentions a fun fa...