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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Muchnik, The Gender Challenge of Hebrew

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Gender Challenge of Hebrew Malka Muchnik, Bar-Ilan University The Gender Challenge of Hebrew is the first book...
Friday, October 24, 2014

New books on ancient Greek

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TWO IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS ON THE STUDY OF ANCIENT GREEK: First, from Brill: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (3 vols) ...

Woes of smaller museum collections

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IT'S HARD: Biblical-Era Collections Suffer in a New World of Archaeology (Geraldine Fabrikant, NYT ) In recent decades, countries that...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Who wrote the Pentateuch?

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who wrote the Torah? For thousands of years people believed that the five books of the Pentateuch were w...

Obama, Hannibal, etc.

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Obama a modern-day Quintus Fabius Maximus? (Brian Michael Jenkins, Los Angeles Times ). President Obama...

Le Donne on Perrucci

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who is Ignazio Perrucci? (Anthony Le Donne). Background here .
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Hey, another copper scroll!

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ARASH ZEINI: A note on the Schøyen copper scroll . This is a bibliographic note that leads to an article by Étienne de la Vaissière. The ...

Mind-boggling family law in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : The Talmud’s Difficulty Is What Makes the Talmud ‘Talmudic’—And Unlike the Law....

Very small very old coins

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INCLUDING THE "WIDOW'S MITE": Small Change: The Tiniest Ancient Coins (Mike Markowitz, CoinWeek ). In the local coinage of f...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Hadrian inscription in Jerusalem

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NEWS FLASH: WATCH: 2,000-year-old inscription dedicated to Roman emperor unveiled in Jerusalem. Israel Antiquities Authority: This is amo...

Sphinx excavated

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Giant Sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' Film Unearthed (Laura Geggel, LiveScience). Hidden for more than 90 years benea...

Aramaic in Israel and on The Simpsons

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MODERN ARAMAIC WATCH: First Arameam Gets Registered in Israel ( Arutz Sheva ). Background here and links. And on a far less serious no...

The Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting

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NEW JOURNAL: The Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting . Introducing, the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Settin...

SBL blogger events

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IN SAN DIEGO NEXT MONTH: Bibliobloggers’ Gatherings at SBL/AAR (James McGrath). Planning is in progress. I'm not sure what else I ha...
Monday, October 20, 2014

A Cross logion on Hebrew

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HARVARD MAGAZINE publishes an interesting inquiry from an alumnus: Thomas Burrows hopes , after a half-century of searching, that someone ...

Baal sanctuary?

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EXCAVATION: Ancient Cult Complex Discovered in Israel (Owen Jarus, Livescience). A massive cult complex, dating back about 3,300 years, ha...

Bejewelled watchers

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JACK COLLINS: Addendum - to his excellent review of the Noah movie, noted here . So there's precedent after all for the idea of watc...

Gathercole on the Gospels

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BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE 2014 PLENARY LECTURE: Simon Gathercole on the canonical and non-canonical Gospels . Summarized by Steve W...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Some Brill books

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NEW BOOKS FROM BRILL: The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective Edited by Ari Mermelstein and Shalom E. Holtz, Yeshiva University ...
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...