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Saturday, November 01, 2014

The Ketef Hinnom amulets

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THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: Artifacts of the Month: Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets (Mike Caba). And they are very cool artifacts, although I don...

Review of Anton, Enchantress

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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE : Heaven sent: Judaism’s magical mystery tour of the Talmud’s sorcery, spells (Toby Tabachnick). The magic conjured u...

Studia Philonica Annual XXVI

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TORREY SELAND: The Studia Philonica Annual XXVI 2014 . It's about to be published. Follow the link for TOC and additional information...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Visiting Fellowships in Oxford: Israel in Egypt / Egypt in Israel

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TIMOTHY MICHAEL LAW: Visiting Fellowships in Oxford: Israel in Egypt / Egypt in Israel: An investigation of the land of Egypt as concept an...

Lindbeck, Elijah and the Rabbis

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TALES RETOLD: Elijah's women (Caren Schnur Neile, Florida Jewish Journal). The Talmud is the written record of the spoken conversation...

Taylor Swift and the DSS

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CULTURAL ICON WATCH: Don't go breaking my heart - Taylor Swift opens up . The Dead Sea Scrolls come up in the most unexpected places:...

Biblica

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THE JOURNAL BIBLICA , a longstanding staple of biblical studies, is online for free (for reading but not downloading) and archived back to 1...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Punic shipwreck

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PUNIC WATCH: Archaeologists Recover Artifacts from 2,200-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck (Sci-News.com). Italian archaeologists and divers from a...

New director of the IAA

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POLITICS: Israel Antiquities Authority taps politician with ties to rightist NGO Kadima’s Israel Hasson has links to Elad, which administ...

DSS replica plus Gabriel Revelation in Hong Kong

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EXHIBITION: Hong Kong to get a glimpse of largest of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls (Elizabeth Cheung, South China Morning Post ). A copy o...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The schools of Hillel and Shammai

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : How To Solve Disputes Between Schools of Jewish Thought? In Private, or Not at ...

Review of Berkowitz, Defining Jewish Difference

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MARGINALIA : Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin. Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiq...

Syriac conference in Oxford

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SYRIAC WATCH: Oxford Syriac Conference Jan 2015: Call for Papers (Peter Head, ETC). Translation, transmission, and influence This confer...

Another SBL events for bloggers (now updated)

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ALIN SUCIU: SBL Coptic Sushi Night . I've never tried Coptic sushi. I wonder if it's good. UPDATE: Another one: SBL ETC Blog...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Cambridge Teachers of Rabbinics

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HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP: Cambridge Teachers of Rabbinics , posted at the Faculty of Divinity website.

Christianity and Judaism in ancient Iran

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ARASH ZEINI notes two recent articles relating to late-antique Iran: The rise of Christianity in Iran ; Iranian Jewry in late antiquity ...

Henoch XXXVI 2014/1

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IN THE MAIL: Henoch XXXVI 2014/1, edited by my St. Andrews colleague William Tooman. Included are the papers on the Temple Scroll presente...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Yale manuscript digitization project

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Experts in New Haven working with ancient texts see modern connections ( New Haven Register ). Excerpt: [Tasha] Dobbin-...

Chinese Hebraist game-show contestant

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MORE CHINESE INTEREST IN JUDAISM: Hebrew U student represents Israel to millions on popular Chinese game show. During Lechao Tang’s scree...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Review of Denzy Lewis, Cosmology and Fate

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REVIEWS OF BIBLICAL AND CHRISTIAN STUDIES: Nicola Denzey Lewis Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless ...