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Saturday, April 04, 2015

Update on the Babylonian Talmud forum etc.

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THE TALMUD BLOG has posted a number of updates to its Babylonian Talmud Forum (noted here ): What is Bavli: Approaching the Bavli’s Contex...

Ogren, Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism That Which is Before and That Which is After Edited by Brian Ogren, Rice Unive...
Friday, April 03, 2015

Passover 2015 and the blood moon tetrad

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HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL THOSE CELEBRATING. The festival begins tonight at sundown. See last year's Passover post for the relevant bibl...

Dig week 5

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KIMBERLY WINSTON: ‘Dig’ turns up a possible messiah complex (RNS). (RNS) This week’s episode of “Dig,” the USA Network’s action-thriller f...

The archaeology of Herod the Great

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DAVID LASKIN EXPLORES Herod the Great’s Israel ( NYT ). Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem may be more transcendent and his mesa-top retreat at Ma...
Thursday, April 02, 2015

Philology challenge for April

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ADAM MCCOLLUM: Reading challenge, April 2015 Here, then, is the challenge for the month: not a contest, but an individual exhortation to pu...

Biblical studies and memory

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BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Memory and the Knowledge of Things Past By Daniel Pioske Georgia Southern University March 2015 Excerpt: Not s...

More on The Dovekeepers

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A FEW RECENT ARTICLES ON THE DOVEKEEPERS and related matters: VIDEO: Cote de Pablo & Diego Boneta Chat Upcoming CBS Mini-Series THE D...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

The Seventh Sentinel and the pseudepigrapha

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Fantasy Novel "The Seventh Sentinel" Wins New Apple Book Award for Excellence in Independent P...

Passover etymologies

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MOSTLY SPECULATIVE: The enigmatic origins of the words of the Passover seder. The origin of the words we use during the Seder can teach a...

Rehearsal sacrifice of the paschal lamb

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(PROSPECTIVE) TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Temple Mount activists slaughter lamb in public 'rehearsal' of Passover sacrifice. Hundreds att...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Support of children etc. in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Would a Jackal Take Better Care of Its Young? For most Jews in Talmudic times,...

More anxious Gnosticism

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PHILIP JENKINS has concluded his series of blog posts on ancient Gnosticism over at The Anxious Bench: Gnostics and Other Christians We sh...

Pseudepigrapha in the news

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Ancient writings shed light on Aseneth, Moses (Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The Herald Sun ). The Jewish ...

William W. Hallo, 1928-2015

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SAD NEWS: In Memoriam: William W. Hallo, expert on ancient Near East (YaleNews). William W. Hallo, the William M. Laffan Professor Emeritu...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Reviews of The Dovekeepers

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THE DOVEKEEPERS MINISERIES is now playing. Early reviews seem less than wildly enthusiastic. Here are a couple: Neil Genzlinger, NYT : ...

Jesus' cross

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EASTER STORIES HAVE STARTED AND THE MEDIA ARE ASKING: Was the cross of Jesus made of olive wood or pine? One of the perplexing realities fo...

Masada date palm update

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METHUSELAH: Extinct Tree Resurrected from Ancient Seeds is now a Dad (April Holloway, Ancient Origins ). Excerpt: The first leaves were pl...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Hashkes, Rabbinic Discourse as a System of Knowledge

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Rabbinic Discourse as a System of Knowledge "The Study of Torah is Equal to them All" By Hannah E. Hashkes...
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 ...