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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Tsedaka and Sullivan, The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah

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IN THE MAIL: Benyamim Tsedaka and Sharon Sullivan et al. The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared w...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Consensus

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BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Against Consensus (Joel S. Baden). I note that the author criticizes scholars for appealing to consensus withou...

Pulsa deNura

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THE PULSA DENURA RITE IS BACK IN THE NEWS: Wait…There Are Jewish Death Curses? Naftali Bennett just received one (Adam Chandler, Tablet ...

DSS lecturer

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IAN WERRETT: Saint Martin’s Society Of Fellows Welcomes Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar As Spring Colloquium Speaker . Ian wrote his doctoral the...

Review of Barbour, The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet

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H-JUDAIC REVIEW : Jennifer Barbour. The Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet: Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory. Oxford: Oxford University...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Akitu Festival

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FROM SETH LARKIN SANDERS ON FACEBOOK: 'Today (11 April 2013) at sunset is Babylonian New Year, Day 1 of the Month Nisannu of Year 2324 o...

Lovecraftian ruin

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OBVIOUSLY LEFT BY THE ELDER THINGS: Monumental Cone-Shaped Structure Found in Sea of Galilee . I hope the archaeologists don't go and ...

Oldest Ethiopic manuscript of 1 Enoch

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LOREN STUCKENBRUCK has been photographing the Oldest Known Text of Ethiopic Enoch (Anthony Le Donne). A commenter asks about recent trans...

New JHS articles

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NEW ARTICLES have been posted at the online Journal of Hebrew Scriptures . Click on the link to download the pdf file of the article. Rob...

Do crosses walk, talk, and blog?

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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Peer-reviewed article responding to a blog post: what is the etiquette? (Mark Goodacre). I think the comm...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rollston on lab testing

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CHRISTOPHER ROLLSTON: LABORATORY TESTING OF ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS . In sum, the use of laboratory tests for insc...

How much interpretation is too much?

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Are Truffles Food? As our Talmud column returns, debates over Oral Law range f...

Reflections on the Lod Mosaic

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MORGAN MEIS: Artspotting: Lod Mosaic . "Sometimes a floor is just a floor." Background here and links.

Ancient mikveh in Jerusalem

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DISCOVERY: Mikve from era of Second Temple excavated in J'lem By JPOST.COM STAFF 04/10/2013 10:42 In preparing to build a new highw...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Authenticating the Gospel of Judas

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TESTS: Truth Behind Gospel of Judas Revealed in Ancient Inks Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 08 April 2013 Time: 11:30 ...

Temple treasures in the Vatican?

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REQUEST: Pope Francis, please inventory the spoils of Titus! (Rosie Rosenzweig, The Examiner ). Which brings us to the present with Pope F...
Monday, April 08, 2013

Gannon Archaeology Museum

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IN PENNSYLVANIA: Gannon Opens Archaeology Museum .

Herod in the CSM

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THE HEROD THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN THE ISRAEL MUSEUM is reviewed in the Christian Science Monitor : In the Holy Land's columns, frescoes...
Saturday, April 06, 2013

Tessa Rajak interviewed

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MARGINALIA : Tessa Rajak talks to Michael Law about the Reception of Josephus .
Friday, April 05, 2013

Byzantine-era wine press etc.

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HERE IS THE CHURCH, HERE IS THE STEEPLE ... Discoveries at Hamei Yoav: A 1,500 year old wine press and a ceramic model of a church . JERUSAL...