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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Another review of Footnote

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FOOTNOTE is reviewed by Harvey Karten at shockya.com. He gives it an overall mark of B+. Excerpt: With Amit Poznansky’s soundtrack alter...
Friday, February 17, 2012

New on Torleif Elgvin's website

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TORLEIF ELGVIN has made some additions to his website: torleifelgvin.no . These include the full text of his just-published article "...

Shabbetai Zvi

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MICHAL SCHWARTZ has posted a capsule history of the life of Shabbetai Zvi, with more promised on his later reception: Kabbalah: Sabbatai Ze...

Baram's ancient synagogue

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A JERUSALEM POST TRAVEL PIECE by Joe Yudin: Off The Beaten Track: Baram's ancient synagogue By JOE YUDIN 02/16/2012 16:14 Remains of sy...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Codex Climaci Rescriptus update

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ETC: Codex Climaci Rescriptus Collaboration . Regular readers will recall that the Codex Climaci Rescriptus is an important Syriac/Aramaic...

Temple Mount model back from Switzerland

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH (sort of): Tiny model of Temple Mount returns to Jerusalem 140-year-old model on display near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate,...

Interview with James Kugel

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THE JEWISH LEDGER : Q & A with… Prof. James Kugel . Excerpt: Q: How did you develop an interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls and their link...

Isaac Newton and ancient Judaism

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ISAAC NEWTON had other interests besides calculus and gravity: Israeli library uploads Newton's theological texts (AP). Some of this m...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

New book: Obbink & Rutherford, Culture in Pieces

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NEW BOOK: I Rutherford, D. Obbink, Culture In Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons . Not directly relevant to ancien...

Wikipedia photographs and the Israel Museum

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A TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PROBLEM: Wikipedia's archaeology editor slams Israel Museum for prohibiting photography The Israel Museum objects...

DSS and Hubble nuttiness

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ROBERT CARGILL: no, no the dead sea scrolls do not ‘confirm’ the discoveries of the hubble telescope . Indeed. Personally, when I look up ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

A jewish kingdom in late-antique Arabia

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THIS IS NEW TO ME: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Kingdom in Arabia By Glen W. Bowersock (Institute for Advanced Study) In these turbulent t...

A hard story to swallow

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TODD BOLEN takes the IAA to task for its sensationalist coverage of the recent Ashdod discoveries: Iron Age Fortress Excavated in Ashdod . ...

City-of-David-excavation visitors' center approved and work begun

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THAT TOURIST CENTER near the Old City of Jerusalem is going forward apace: Israel approves new East Jerusalem visitors' compound, razes ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Interview of authors of Jewish Annotated New Testament

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MARC BRETTLER AND AMY-JILL LEVINE, the authors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament , are interviewed by Jay Michaelson in The Forward : J...

Back to Oxyrhynchus

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EXCAVATIONS AT OXYRHYNCHUS are resuming: Spain: Catalan archaeological mission returns to Egypt 06 February, 18:36 (ANSAmed) - MADRID, FEBRU...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Queen of Sheba's mines?

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THE QUEEN OF SHEBA is back in archaeological news: Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth A British excavat...

Footnote director interviewed

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JOSEPH CEDAR is interviewed by Daphne Merkin in The Tablet : Writing Footnote: Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Netwo...

Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage

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THE GORGIAS ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF THE SYRIAC HERITAGE is now in print: Brock, Sebastian, Aaron Butts, George Kiraz, and Lucas Van Romp...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

More on the early Mark manuscript

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DR. DANIEL B. WALLACE has posted more information on the (reportedly) first-century manuscript of the Gospel of Mark at the Dallas Theologic...