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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Review of Hoffman, The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor

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JAMES MCGRATH: The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor . Review of Joel M. Hoffman's new book, The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor: The Holy Scriptu...

SBL books

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NEW BOOKS FROM THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE: Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Conversation with Barry ...
Friday, September 12, 2014

National Treasures

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WEBSITE: National Treasures from Israel Antiquities Authority Now Accessible Via Internet. The archeological treasures in the Rockefeller...

Jerusalem of Gold exhibition

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GOLDEN , GET IT, GET IT? Biblical Archaeology Sees Golden Age in Israel, Dark Age in Rest of Middle East (Sean Savage/JNS.org/BreakingIsra...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Another Copper Scroll facsimile

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READER PETER ZAAS E-MAILS: Another copy of the Copper Scroll exists, although I’m not sure exactly where, somewhere in the bowels of the Uni...

Susannah in SF

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APOCRYPHA WATCH: Opera Review: 'Susannah' a marvel too often overlooked (Joshua Kosman, SFGate). Excerpt: This bleak and brillia...

Haircuts, mourning, and theodicy in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Rules for Hair Cutting and Rending Garments—and Exceptions for Newborns. Daf ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

R. Hananiah ben Teradyon

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A MEDITATION ON THE STORY OF THE TEN MARTYRS: For These We Cry: Rabi Chananya ben Teradyon (Libi Astaire, The Jewish Press ). In advance ...

Martínez & de Vaan, Introduction to Avestan

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ARASH ZEINI: Introduction to Avestan . Martínez, Javier & Michiel de Vaan. 2014. Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-...

Unauthorized Mughrabi Bridge construction halted

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: PM orders halt to Temple Mount bridge construction (Shlomo Cesana, Times of Israel ). Two weeks ago, construction work...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Reed lectures on Aramaic 1 Enoch

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ARAMAIC DAY: Annette Yoshiko Reed, “From Didactic List to Long-Duration Literature: The Enochic Astronomical Book and Aramaic Jewish Scriba...

The Zohar meets Daf Yomi

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ARAMAIC DAY: Zohar Ammud Yomi: A Daily Page of Zohar . Daniel Matt on Facebook: As many of you know, there is a custom of studying a dail...

Idumean Aramaic ostraca

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ARAMAIC DAY: Ancient Aramaic Business Records: Fourth-century B.C.E. ostraca from Idumea (Bible History Daily). Robin Ngo summarizes an ...

Syriac in Supernatural

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ARAMAIC DAY: Supernatural Syriac (Exploring Our Matrix). James McGrath noticed that a Syriac manuscript has a cameo in Supernatural and ...

8th World Syriac Conference

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ARAMAIC DAY: I have a huge heap of links from the last week or so, to which I will get as I find time. Today I have gathered up some that ...
Monday, September 08, 2014

Amulet at the Rylands Library, plus news on P52

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MORE FROM MANCHESTER: One of world’s earliest Christian charms found. A 1,500 year old papyrus fragment found in The University of Manches...

Copper Scroll Facsimiles

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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE: Copied copper scroll is one to treasure (Simon Rocker). A couple who have made high-quality facsimiles of illustrated...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

Secunda's stray thoughts

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THE TALMUD BLOG: Stray Thoughts on Art History and Talmudic Philology (Shai Secunda).

New Reviews of the Enoch Seminar

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RECENT REVIEWS AT REVIEWS OF THE ENOCH SEMINAR : John F. Healey reviews Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, Before the God in this Place for Go...

JQR 104.3 TOC

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H-JUDAIC: TOC: Jewish Quarterly Review - ToC Vol. 104.3 Summer 2014 .