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Saturday, June 01, 2013

Justin Martyr

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TODAY IS THE FEAST DAY OF ST. JUSTIN MARTYR , a second-century Christian apologist. His Dialogue with Trypho (a probably-fictional Jewish ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Mosaics top 10

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HAARETZ: Top 10 Israeli ancient mosaic discoveries: A fantastic ancient floor found in the Negev is just the latest in a series of disco...

Melkite Syriac script

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JUST SO YOU KNOW: Adam McCollum has some examples of Melkite Syriac script . Cross-file under "Aramaic Watch."

Review of Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

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GOLEM WATCH: Strong fiction debut pairs immigrant Golem, Jinni (Joel Boyce, Winnipeg Free Press). New YORK, 1899. Another boatload of thos...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Hey, another geniza!

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Antique Lands: The Dome of the Treasury and Genizah of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (Adam Blitz, Times of Israel Blog). Excerpts: Paradox...

World's-oldest-Torah-scroll latest

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Hebrew profs weigh in on important 12th century find: The oldest complete Torah scroll is discovered in an Italian university library afte...

Nephilim

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How do the Nephilim fit our theology today? "Living Nephilim-free - that's our challenge today....

More on Slavonic Alphabet Day

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JUST GO WILD: Celebrating Slavic alphabet and culture. The ‘Slavic Bazaar’ festival to mark the day of Slavic writing and culture was hel...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

World's oldest Torah Scroll?

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THE BBC: World's oldest Torah' scroll found at Italy university Torah scroll found in University of Bologna library This Torah scro...

Talmud study in D.C.

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TUESDAY NIGHT IS TALMUD NIGHT IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

More Temple Mount construction woes

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Western Wall project threatens history, archaeologists warn Antiquities authority counters: Construction is done accord...

YU DSS Seminar

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: Top Scholars Present their Work at YU’s Dead Sea Scrolls Conference . Background here .
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

DSS workshop in Groningen

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QUMRAN INSTITUTE: June 18th 2013: "Caves and Collections" 2nd Groningen - Leuven encounter on the Dead Sea Scrolls After our ...

Sorting the Cairo Geniza

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Computer Network Piecing Together a Jigsaw of Jewish Lore By JODI RUDOREN ( NYT ) Published: May 26, 2013 TEL AVIV — ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Reviewlet of Bloom, The Roman-Judaeo War of 66-74 A.D.

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THE STRATEGY PAGE has a brief review by A. A. Nofi of The Roman-Judaeo War of 66-74 A.D.: A Military Analysis , by James Bloom .

WaPo correction

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Kudos to the Washington Post for correcting two errors in an article that involved the ancient Jewish Temples. Natur...

Day of Slavonic Alphabet

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HAPPY (BELATED) DAY OF SLAVONIC ALPHABET (24 May). This is a special anniversary, the 1150th, which merits this commemorative postage stam...

Kando still has DSS for sale

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KANDO the younger, that is, son of the original Kando. Daniel Estrin has published the following AP article: Dead Sea Scroll fragments to ...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Lod Mosaic latest

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THE LOD MOASIC IS NOW ON DISPLAY IN PARIS: From a Lod garbage dump to the Louvre: Spectacular 1,700-year-old mosaic floor is first Israel...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Vermes funeral

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PROFESSOR JOAN TAYLOR posted the following report yesterday on Facebook (now slightly updated) regarding the funeral of Geza Vermes. I repr...