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Saturday, October 18, 2014

On the Punic Wars

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PUNIC WATCH: A number of articles relating to the Punic Wars have been piling up in my inbox. Here they are: First, a series of brief, v...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Friedman, Studies in the Language and Terminology of Talmudic Literature

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NEW BOOK FROM THE ACADEMY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE: Shamma Friedman, Studies in the Language and Terminology of Talmudic Literature . In Heb...

John Dee's library

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COMING EXHIBITION: Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee . January – July 2016 A major exhibition revealing the fasci...

Conference on gynaecological knowledge in late antiquity

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H-JUDAIC: Conf: Female Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World . Berlin, 27.-29....
Thursday, October 16, 2014

TC 18-19

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TC: A JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL TEXTUAL CRITICISM has published a couple of new volumes since I last mentioned it: Volume 18 (2013) Volume ...

ANE Monographs from the SBL

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FOR YOU, SPECIAL DEAL: Free downloadable Ancient Near East Monographs from the Society of Biblical Literature.

The latest on Ezra-Nehemiah and Ugaritic

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TWO FROM THE ASOR BLOG: What’s New with Ezra-Nehemiah (Thomas M. Bolin) The Current State of Ugaritic studies (Gregorio del Olmo Lete)...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

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SHEMINI ATZERET begins this evening at sundown. In Israel, this is also the holiday of Simchat Torah (Simhat Torah). Outside of Israel, tha...

Daf Yomi begins Seder Nashim

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Sex With Your Uncle? OK. Sex With Your Widowed Daughter’s Rival? Not OK. When...

Hurtado on the Geniza

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LARRY HURTADO has been blogging about the Cairo Geniza: New Testament Texts in the Cairo Genizah NT Texts in the Cairo Genizah: Bibliograph...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Columbus Day varia

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OH, YES — COLUMBUS DAY: Columbus, the size of the earth, and 4 Ezra . An appropriate post from a few years ago. Also, more recently, this...

Zohar Ammud Yomi

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REMINDER: "Zohar Ammud Yomi (A Daily Page of Zohar) begins at sundown in your location. Monday night, October 13 – Tuesday, October 14...

Roman and Late Antique "Assyrians" and "Syrians"

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THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES has an article on the ancient use of the terms "Assyrian" and "Syri...

Weitzman at Penn

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CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVEN WEITZMAN,* who has just been appointed to a named chair at the University of Pennsylvania. Steven Weitzman, who c...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Virtual Magic Bowl Archive Project relocated

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THE VMBA: VIRTUAL MAGIC BOWL ARCHIVE was noted here back in 2011 when it was a project of Southampton University. The old website is sti...

The "Roman Ascent" to Jerusalem

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RUINS: Ancient road into Jerusalem lies buried under construction debris. Historic pilgrims’ route known as the Roman Ascent now passes t...

Four Who Entered Paradise reloaded

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THE FORWARD : Mysticism, Heresy and Multimedia Art (Michael Kaminer). In the Talmudic legend called “Four Entered the Orchard,” a quartet ...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Jenkins on "the outside books"

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: In Many Tongues . Philip Jenkins comments on Outside the Bible . I hope at some point he will also have a look at Old ...

Yee et al. Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha

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NEW BOOK: Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha by Gale A. Yee (Editor); Hugh R. Page Jr. (Editor); Matthew J....
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Reviews of books on Jewish and Iranian studies

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ARASH ZEINI: Two reviews . The reviews, neither of which is online, are both in Zion and are of Secunda, The Iranian Talmud (background ...