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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Review of Hasan-Rokem and Gruenwald (eds.) Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews

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BOOK REVIEW IN THE FORWARD : Reconsidering Louis Ginzberg's Legendary 'Legends of the Jews' Enduring Lovability of 6-Volume P...

On the authorship of the Gospels

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are the Gospels Anonymous? (James McGrath). Yes, but ...

Iranica

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ARASH ZEINI has some recent posts of interest: Avestan research 1991–2014 . Links to a helpful article (part 1) by Almut Hintze which sur...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Did Jesus exist?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Did Jesus Exist? Searching for Evidence Beyond the Bible. Lawrence Mykytiuk’s feature article from the January/Febru...

Tenth-century BCE bullae found

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ARTIFACTS: New Finds Suggest Biblical Kings David and Solomon Actually Existed. Six clay seals found at the archaeological site of Khirbe...

Gold in them there caves?

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MORE LOOTERS: Four arrested for attempting to loot ‘hidden treasure’ from ancient West Bank cave. Two Palestinians and 2 Israelis charged...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Harvard Semitic Museum refurbished

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THE HARVARD GAZETTE : The old, made new. Refurbished Semitic Museum celebrates the past while reorienting for the future (Corydon Irelan...

Christmas 2014

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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all those celebrating! Posts of Christmas past are collected here and links. And more recent Christmas-related posts ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Hanukkah menorah bracelet excavated

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COSMIC SYNCHRONICITY WATCH: Archaeologists uncover 1,600-year-old menorah bracelet on Hanukkah. Last day of Mount Carmel excavation tur...

The Tel Dan Stele and "the House of David"

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THE TEL DAN BEYT DAVID INSCRIPTION is another old discovery that has received some new attention recently. The attention is not because of...

Did Jesus preach at Magdala?

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THE DAILY MAIL : Did Jesus preach at this synagogue? Archaeologists excavate 2,000-year-old ruins in ancient town of Magdala where Christ i...

The history of the Hasmoneans

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HAARETZ : Meet the Hasmoneans: A brief history of a violent epoch. Judas Maccabeus' death would mark the end of the Maccabean revolt...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Taylor responds to review and discusses priestly garments

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MARGINALIA : The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement – By Jodi Magness. Jodi Magness on Joan E. Taylor’s The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the ...

Divorce, infertility, and green goo in the Talmud

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LAST WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Only the Wife Knows If the Husband’s ‘Semen Shoots Like an Arrow’ And other p...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Blogging update

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SORRY FOR THE DEARTH OF BLOGGING. I've been down with a cold and such energy as I have has gone to holiday matters. I hope to be back so...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Urgent: Middle Eastern languages at Manchester

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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES has set up a petition to protest the planned elimination of degree-level study of the Persian, Tu...

Charlesworth on The Lost Gospel

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JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH has posted a review of Wilson's and Jacobovici's The Lost Gospel on Academia.edu. You will recall that the b...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Metatron and Mrs. Coulter

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ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: Baddies in books: Mrs Coulter, the mother of all evil. On the surface she’s all glamour and respectability - b...

Hanukkah 2014

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HAPPY HANUKKAH ( CHANUKKAH ) to all those celebrating! The festival begins this evening at sundown. Past Hanukkah-related posts are colle...

Litigation over the Crowns of Damascus

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MANUSCRIPTS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE: Open book: Syrian Jewish bibles might spark ownership dispute (Daniel Estrin, AP). More on the Crowns o...