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Saturday, October 02, 2010

Alter's new translation of the wisdom books of the HB

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ROBERT ALTER has published a new translation of the wisdom books in the Hebrew Bible. Nathaniel Stein in The New Yorker looks at its liter...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Golb found guilty

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THAT WAS FAST! The Golb identity-theft case went to the jury yesterday and they promptly came back with a verdict of guilty on 30 of the 31...

Audio files of ancient Akkadian literature

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READINGS FROM ANCIENT AKKADIAN LITERATURE in the original Akkadian have been made available by Cambridge University as online audio files. ...

1 Enoch article in latest JBL

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THE JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE has a new issue out (129.3, downloadable here with subscription). A number of the articles look interes...

Conference on Iran and Israel at YU

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A CONFERENCE at Yeshiva University on 31 October: Iran and Israel: From Cyrus the Great to The Islamic Republic .

Review: Daly (ed.), Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity.

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BMCR REVIEW: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-09-52.html"> Robert J. Daly (ed.), Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity. Holy C...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

iPad May Revolutionize Archaeology

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IPAD MAY REVOLUTIONIZE ARCHAEOLOGY.

Golb trial covered in NYU Local

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THE RAPHAEL GOLB IDENTITY-THEFT TRIAL is taken up by the NYU Local : "‘Academic Crusader’ Charged For Impersonating NYU Professor....

Stuxnet meets ancient Judaism?

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STUXNET meets ancient Judaism? In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue By JOHN MARKOFF and DAVID E. SANGER ( NYT Published: September 2...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

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SHEMINI ATZERET begins this evening at sundown. In Israel, this is also the holiday of Simchat Torah (Simhat Torah). Outside of Israel, tha...

More Golb testimony in DSS identity-theft trial

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MORE ON GOLB'S TESTIMONY in the Dead Sea Scroll identity-theft trial: Dead Sea Scrolls cyber-bully admits lying to authorities By DAVID ...

BMCR Reviews on Sicarii and Hannibal

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TWO MORE BMCR REVIEWS: Mark Andrew Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations. Ear...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Director of El Shaddai interviewed

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ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: The Director of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron comments on the use of the "Book of Enoch" (i.e...

Lod Mosaic on display at the Met

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THE LOD MOSAIC is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Met Unveils Ancient Israeli Mosaic By PIA CATTON ( Wall Street Journal ) In ...

Raphael Golb testifies

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RAPHAEL GOLB is testifying in his own identity-theft trial: A Trial on Identity Theft, With Scholarly Discourse By JOHN ELIGON ( NYT ) Publi...
Monday, September 27, 2010

April DeConick reports on Mellon Seminar

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APRIL DECONICK reports on a Mellon Seminar she held a few weeks ago. The posts, at her Forbidden Gospels blog, in order are: Mellon Seminar...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Review: Boyarin, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

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BMCR REVIEW: Daniel Boyarin, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 388. ISBN 978...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

More on the Cyrus Cylinder in Iran

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MORE ON THE CYRUS CYLINDER IN IRAN: Persian Jews welcome the return of the Cyrus Cylinder home Friday, 24 September 2010 09:47 | PDF Print E...

Lecture: Dobroruka on Zoroastrian-Hellenistic Apocalypses

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LECTURE at SOAS on 14 October: Hesiodic reminiscences in Zoroastrian-Hellenistic apocalypses Professor Vicente Dobroruka (Centre for Jewish-...

Kimberly Stratton interviewed about Satan

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PROFESSOR KIMBERLY STRATTON is interviewed about Satan: Getting reacquainted with Satan By Jennifer Green, The Ottawa Citizen September 25,...