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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Maurice Casey - 1942-2014

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SAD NEWS: Word today from Paul Middleton on Facebook via James Crossley that Professor Maurice Casey, Emeritus Professor of New Testament ...

Latest Reviews of the Enoch Seminar

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RECENT REVIEWS AT REVIEWS OF THE ENOCH SEMINAR : 1. Elisa Uusimäki reviews David Andrew Teeter and Bernd U. Schipper, eds., Wisdom and To...
Friday, May 09, 2014

The Talmud as the basis of Israeli law?

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THE TIMES OF ISRAEL : Netanyahu reported to say legal system based on Talmud. Ultra-Orthodox member of the Likud party also says PM told ...

Klaus Beyer - 1929-2014

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SAD NEWS BELATEDLY: It just came to my attention a few days ago, via Jack Sasson, that renowned Aramaist Klaus Beyer of Heidelberg Univers...
Thursday, May 08, 2014

The GJW as a case study

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PETER M. HEAD: Pseudo-Gospel of Jesus Wife as Case Study . Has some useful observations. Background on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife is...

Interview with Shamma Friedman

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THE TALMUD BLOG: An Interview with Shamma Friedman (Yitz Landes) Today, May 6th 2014, Prof. Shamma Friedman of the Jewish Theological Semi...

Suing the Third Temple into existence?

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Lawsuit Demands Bank Loans for 'Building the Third Temple.' Ethiopian immigrant sues Israel's major banks...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Hurtado on GJW latest

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LARRY HURTADO: The “Jesus’ Wife” Controversy: Scholarship, Publicity, and The Issues . Some good commentary on the current state of the qu...

Making women mind (or not) in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Talmudic Rabbis, All Men, Admit They Cannot Bring Women Under Their Power. In...

The ultimate Noah review

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JACK COLLINS: Noah: Hollywood Midrash . This is the best review I have seen of the Noah movie and very likely the best one that has been ...

LMU Research Fellowships

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: Ludwig-Maxilimians-Universität München: 10 Research Fellowships .

More 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra in Syriac

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LIV INGEBORG LIED: 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra: Another Syriac lectionary manuscript .  This is more of interest for specialists in the Syriac lit...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Conference on Rabbis and Other Jews

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AT YALE UNIVERSITY: RABBIS AND OTHER JEWS: Rabbinic Literature and Late Antique Judaism (May 11, 2014). This conference brings together co...

More from Brice C. Jones on the Green Collection

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TWO DISTURBING BLOG POSTS from Brice Jones: More on the Private Collecting of the "Indiana Jones" of Biblical Archaeology The ...

Papyrus forgeries?

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FURTHER TO ROGER BAGNALL'S STATEMENT, "I don’t know of a single verifiable case of somebody producing a papyrus text that purports ...
Monday, May 05, 2014

GJW: Another Goodacre roundup

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MARK GOODACRE: Jesus' Wife Fragment Round-up . The latest news is that the Smithsonian documentary on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife i...

A crucified Hasmonean king?

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HAARETZ : Cold case: Did archaeologists find the last Maccabean king, after all? Crucified remains and a broken jaw have confused scienti...

Has a stone left over from construction of the Second Temple been found?

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: A heart of stone (Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom ). The Antiquities Authority has uncovered some 60 meters of Western Wal...

Taking action on the Iraqi Jewish archive?

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ARUTZ SHEVA : US Lawyer Urges Court Injunction to Save Iraqi Jewish Archive. American attorney says Jewish community does not need to wai...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

Ariel & Fontanille, The Coins of Herod

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Coins of Herod A Modern Analysis and Die Classification Donald T. Ariel & Jean-Philippe Fontanille Herod, ...