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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Elior's Hekhalot Zutarti now an eBook

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MAGNES PRESS has just announced that some of its older publications are now being re-released as eBooks. Prominent among them is: HEKHALOT ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Has Dig been reading The Treatise of the Vessels?

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TELEVISION: TV’s ‘Dig’ unrolls a Dead Sea Scroll to unravel a conspiracy (Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service). Key to the advancing of...

Another looting arrest in Israel

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CAVE RAIDER: Man arrested for attempting to loot antiquities from northern underground cave. Extensive, irreversible damage caused to site...

R.I.P. His Holiness Khanania Dinkha IV, 1935-2015

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SAD NEWS: Assyrian Patriarch Passes Away (AINA). Chicago (AINA) -- The Patriarch of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the Eas...

What was the afikoman originally?

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS (PASSOVER EDITION): Where does the afikoman come from? Surprisingly to modern Jews who assume it's a h...

Tunisian museum reopens

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NOT LETTING THE TERRORISTS WIN: Why Terrorists Attacked Tunisia’s Museum Extremists are afraid of the country’s democracy (Yassine Brahim,...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Agade List archive

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AWOL: Agade List Archive at the SBL . The posts in Jack Sasson's prolific Agade e-mail list are being collected and archived by the So...

More on the Temple Institute's altar

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BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS : New Details Emerge on Rebuilt Altar of Jewish Holy Temple [PHOTOS] (Ahuva Balofsky). Some additions and corrections...

The Index of Bibliographic References to Talmudic Literature

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H-JUDAIC: Internet Resource: Index of Bibliographic References to Talmudic Literature . The Index is a comprehensive online research tool d...

Gnostic Countercultures

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EXPLORING OUR MATRIX: Redeeming Gnosticism . James McGrath notes the "Gnostic Countercultures: Intrigue and Terror" conference at...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Patriarchal injustice in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : When Jews Were Like ISIS. We, too, stoned our women for infidelity. Patriarch...

Congratulations to AJR

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: AJR receives American Academy for Jewish Research Grant .

Porcupine archaeology

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EXCAVATION: Porcupine unearths 1,400 year old oil lamp at archaeological site in Emek Hefer ( Jerusalem Post ). Archaeologists with the Is...

The BBC, Jubilees, and Noah's wife

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: David Threlfall's Noah Begs Modern Questions (Jonathan Romain, Huffington Post). It seems the BBC ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Twelfth anniversary

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HAPPY TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY TO PALEOJUDAICA! Below is a list of my favorite PaleoJudaica posts from the last twelve months. Some are just not...

Pardes

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: Pardes ( Jewish Journal ). The Hebrew word pardes has come up in PaleoJudaica off and on with refe...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Kolbet and Daley (eds.), The Harp of Prophecy

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NEW BOOK: The Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms Edited by Paul R. Kolbet, lecturer in Early Christianity , an...

Workshop on Studying Ancient Magic

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IN OSLO IN JUNE: STUDYING ANCIENT MAGIC: Categorisation – Comparison - Materiality . Follow the link for a call for papers.
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Reviewlet of Würthwein, The Text of the Old Testament (3rd ed.)

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EUANGELION: Book Notice: The Text of the OT . Ernst Würthwein The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica . 3rd ...

Jealous girlfriend erases Metatron

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ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: Jealous girlfriend erases game from boyfriend’s phone, destroys relationship in process (Evie Lund, RocketNews24...