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Saturday, December 06, 2014

Retro-Talmudic burial?

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A PROPOSAL TO REVIVE A VERY OLD CUSTOM: Rabbi Seeks to Bring Back Cave Burial. Head of Etzion Bloc Religious Council seeks to bring back ...

Bohak, A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic

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NEW BOOK FROM CHERUB PRESS: A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Jewish Magic: MS New York Public Library, Heb. 190 (Formerly Sassoon 56), Intr...
Friday, December 05, 2014

DSS in EABS

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NEW RESEARCH GROUP: The Dead Sea Scrolls (European Association of Biblical Studies). The group also has a call for papers for the EABS me...

Ancient Jew Review

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NEW WEBSITE: ANCIENT JEW REVIEW . The Ancient Jew Review is the one stop for all your Ancient Jewish needs. The site regularly produces or...

The Red Tent

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TELEVISION: Best-selling ‘Red Tent’ to be star-studded miniseries (Phyllis Braun Arizona Jewish Post ). Anita Diamant’s beloved internatio...

Spring 2015 broadcast of The Dovekeepers

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TELEVISION: CBS Miniseries 'The Dovekeepers' to be Broadcast Tuesday March 31 and Wednesday April 1, 2015 . CBS today announced THE...

Enoch as the Son of Man

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which "Son of Man": Christ, Enoch, or Other? A great deal of academic ink has been shed over a ...

Crimea as Temple Mount?

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Putin Says Crimea Is Russia’s “Temple Mount.” That will generate some commentary.
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Cyrus the tolerant?

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What would Cyrus do? Tolerant governments produce societal harmony by winning people’s hearts and minds. ...

"Maccabee on the Mantel"

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HANUKKAH TOY: Maccabee on the Mantel, For Jewish Tyke Who Has Everything (Ed Rampell, The Forward ). Move over “Elf on the Shelf” — the “M...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

“I was shown another calculation.”

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SETH SANDERS: Apocalyptic Science . Strangely, the earliest known Jewish apocalypse is also the earliest known Jewish scientific work. The ...

The Talmud and sexual coercion

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Can a Woman Rape a Man, as Shia LaBoeuf Claimed? The Rabbis Have a Say. This ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Some Hekhalot Rabbati set to music

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MUSIC: Jewish Devotional Songs for the 21st Century (Aromero, World Music Central.org) Pharaoh’s Daughter Dumiyah (Magenta, 2014) Phar...

Syriac manuscripts in Chinese caves

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SYRIAC WATCH: Dunhuang exhibition reveals China's multicultural past. Religious and cultural relics from Dunhuang's ancient grott...

Biblio

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Shine Tom morphs from crook to prof in another fantasy (Radhika C Pillai, The Times of India ). It seems fantasy bug has bi...
Monday, December 01, 2014

Illegitimacy and conversion in the Talmud

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LAST WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Talmudic Rabbis Ponder Sexual Relations That Are Prohibited by Jewish Law. Pl...

Ancient military installation at Netiv Haasarah

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Second Temple Era Military Outpost Discovered, Possibly Destroyed by Alexander the Great ( The Algemeiner ) Archaeological excavations in I...

IAA app

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THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT: New App Puts Dead Scrolls on iPhone and iPad. A new App lets children and adults become virtual archaeologis...

ISIS: UNESCO takes notice

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ARUTZ SHEVA : UNESCO Debates ISIS Erasing of Jewish History. Special Paris session featuring Israeli expert to discuss ways of saving anc...

Back home

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I'M BACK IN ST ANDREWS. Got in last night, after an excellent SBL conference and a nice Thanksgiving holiday. Now back to work.