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Saturday, May 05, 2012

J. D. G. Dunn reviews The Jewish Annotated New Testament

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ANOTHER REVIEW of Levine and Brettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament , this one by Jimmy Dunn for Bible History Daily: How Jewish Is t...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Stick figures in antiquity?

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ASKING THE OBVIOUS QUESTIONS (the kind we often forget to ask): Jason A. Staples wanted to know if people were ever drawn as stick figures ...

Larry Hurtado on the Septuagint

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LARRY HURTADO has been blogging on the Septuagint and related matters lately: NT Studies and the Septuagint , More on the Septuagint , and ...

Testament of Isaac in Coptic

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PSEUDEPGRAPHA WATCH: Alin Suciu: An Old Testament Pseudepigraphon in Coptic: Yet Another Manuscript from the Sahidic Version of the Testam...

Otto Neugebauer and the higher education bubble

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THIS REVIEW by Anthony Grafton (in The New York Review of Books ) of Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be is worth read...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

News on the Afghan Jewish manuscripts

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SHAUL SHAKED has given a lecture in Jerusalem on the Jewish manuscripts recently recovered in Afghanistan, and Shai Secunda, who was there, ...

Latest Biblical Studies Carnival

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THE APRIL(-ish) BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL has been posted by Jonathan Robinson at ξἐνος.
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Mysterious archaeological discovery

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THIS MYSTERIOUS PRESS RELEASE from the Hebrew University has been circulated by Joseph I. Lauer: DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA RELATIONS M...

Golem responsum

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: May a golem count towards a minyan? It seems there is actually an early modern responsum on this issue. Muc...

New book: Niehoff (ed.), Homer and the Bible

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters Edited by Maren R. Niehoff, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thus...

4 Maccabees in Coptic

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PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Alin Suciu: Guest Post: Ivan Miroshnikov on 4 Maccabees in Coptic .

Matanyahu seal

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IAA PRESS RELEASE: In Archaeological Work the Israel Antiquities Authority is Conducting in the 2,000 Year Old Drainage Channel Remains were...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Review of Stone, Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views

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BOOK REVIEW FROM H-JUDAIC: Michael E. Stone. Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views . Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011. xiv + 24...

Job in ANE History and Aramaic at Chicago University

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THAT JOB in Ancient Near Eastern History with an emphasis in Aramaic is still open. There's an advert in The Chronicle of Higher Educat...

Review of The Jewish Annotated New Testament

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BOOK REVIEW: That most Jewish of books How does the New Testament appear to Jewish eyes? A new scholarly volume provides both close-up and w...

Mughrabi Bridge petition rejected by Supreme Court

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Supreme Court Rejects Mughrabi Bridge Petition The Supreme Court rejected a petition by the Temple Mount Faithful demand...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Samaritan Passover

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SAMARITAN PASSOVER is late this year, because it's a leap year for the Samaritans. Re-enacting Passover Exodus at Mt. Gerazim By GIL ZOH...

More on the DSS in Philly

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THE PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which starts next month, is covered in detail in the Jewish Exponent : And So It Is Wri...

Priestly mikvehs in the Galilee?

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Israeli researcher: Mikvehs show that Galilee cave dwellers were likely kohanim The caves in which the purification baths were ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Mark Goodacre—slanderer?

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MARK GOODACRE: Accused of slander for criticizing the "Jesus Discovery" claims . Mark writes, in part: I was disappointed to see...