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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Review of Vidas, Tradition and the Formation of The Talmud

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THE TALMUD BLOG: Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky reviews M. Vidas, 'Tradition and the Formation of The Talmud.' In Hebrew! This book...

Newsom, Daniel

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NEW BOOK FROM WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX: Daniel (Book) A Commentary by Carol A. Newsom ISBN: 9780664220808 Trim Size: 5.875 x 8....
Friday, November 21, 2014

Slavonic digitization project.

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SLAVONIC WATCH: Ancient manuscripts get a new lease of life (Georgy Manaev, Russia Beyond the Headlines) A project is underway to digitize...

The monasteries of Wadi Natrun

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ANSAMED: Egypt: Wadi Natrun, the desert of ascetics . Excerpt: 'An oasis of peace, where protection can be sought in these terrible ti...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Anxious conference papers

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Why a Conference Paper is Usually Just a Conference Paper . Some timely advice from Dr. Beth Allison Barr. While we...

SBL 2014

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I'M OFF TO SAN DIEGO for the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature . This year I am responding to two reviews of my 201...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Saving Iraqi manuscripts

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RESCUE OPERATION: Unique Christian Manuscripts Safeguarded in Kurdistan (Sharmila Devi, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, reposted by AINA)...

Levirate marriage - it's even more complicated

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Brother’s Wife. Unless He Dies. Then—Well, Here’s the ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

More on the Shmita

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ART: Israel’s Shmitta Year: From The Perspective of Artists (Eva L. Weiss, The Jewish Week ). The works are meant to evoke artists’ concep...

The story of the GJW

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JOEL BADEN AND CANDIDA MOSS: The Curious Case of Jesus’s Wife. Lab tests have suggested that a papyrus scrap mentioning Jesus's wife ...

Burke on translating Syriac Joseph and Aseneth

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TONY BURKE: Translating Joseph and Aseneth: My Role in Jacobovici and Wilson’s “Lost Gospel.” Background here .
Monday, November 17, 2014

Bible as Notepad Conference

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IN DECEMBER IN OSLO: Bible as Notepad: Bible as Notepad is a conference that gathers an international and interdisciplinary group of sch...

The Shmita

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THIS IS THE SABBATICAL YEAR IN ISRAEL: Israeli farmers observe biblical sabbatical - with a wink and a nudge (Daniel Estrin, AP). Briefly...

Golem terrorizes Portland

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GOLEM WATCH: 'Grimm" Season 4 Episode 4 Spoilers: Jewish Golem Made of Clay Terrorizes Portland [WATCH] (Selena Hill, Latin Post ...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Review of Johnson, Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre

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MARGINALIA : The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity – By Todd Berzon. Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Por...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Anxious revolutionary years

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PHILIP JENKINS has two posts up at the Anxious Bench on the second and third centuries BCE as revolutionary years for ancient Judaism: Rev...

Multilingualism Conference

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JUDAIC STUDIES AT YALE UNIVERSITY: Multilingualism Conference . Over the past 20 years there has been a great deal of new work done on mult...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Sanders on the aporia of the Torah

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SETH SANDERS: The Early History of Scriptural Unreason . Here is where we can grasp Hebrew literature’s original aporia, in the gap between...

On Berlin and Brettler, The Jewish Study Bible, 2nd edition

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INTERVIEW: Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler on the Hebrew Bible (OUP Blog). Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarshi...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

IOSOT Congress volume and Neusner Festschrift

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NEW BOOKS FROM BRILL: Congress Volume Munich 2013 Christl M. Maier, University of Marburg This volume presents the main lectures of the ...