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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Ships on ancient coins

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COIN WEEK: Ships on Ancient Coins (Mike Markowitz). Including Noah's Ark on a late-Roman-era Jewish coin from Phrygia. Also, Phoenic...

Asherah treeworks

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JAMES MCGRATH: Mrs. Asherah Yahweh Tree Service . Cross-file under Can't Make It Up.

Burke's course on Gnosticism

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APOCRYPHICITY: Tony Burke has concluded the teaching of his semester-course on Gnosticism at York University, for which he has been posting ...

Counterfeit operation

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FORGERY — ITS NOT ONLY FOR ANTIQUITIES: Police bust massive coin forgery operation. Forgers allegedly planned to flood Israeli market wit...
Friday, April 24, 2015

DABIR

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ARASH ZEINI: A preview of the first issue of DABIR . A new open-access peer-reviewed journal of brief notes and reviews pertaining to pre-m...

Wright on evil spirits

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BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Origin of Evil Spirits in Early Jewish Literature The pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, in particular the Bo...

Dig episode 8

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KIMBERLY WINSTON: Sifting through religious debris in ‘Dig,’ what’s fact and what’s fiction? The site of Qumran made an appearance in this...

Conference on Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts

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H-JUDAIC: Conf: On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts . We are delighted to announce the programme for On the Same Pag...

Hebrew

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ELI KAVON: Lost in translation: Why Hebrew matters ( Jerusalem Post Blog). The writer starts with Philo, the Septuagint, and the Greek-s...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Rollston on the James Ossuary

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CHRISTOPHER ROLLSTON: THE JAMES OSSUARY (YA‘AKOV OSSUARY): BULLET POINT SYNOPSIS ABOUT A PROBABLE MODERN FORGERY . Timely in light of this...

Samaritans in the news

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SIDE BY SIDE: Samaritans Play it Cool with their Jewish Neighbors . The Samaritan enclave of Kiryat Luza stands as one of the last outposts ...

Grounds for divorce in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage, They Go Together Like … If the point of ...

St. George's Day 2015

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TODAY: Saint George’s Day: England’s patron saint celebrated across the country. David Cameron says St George’s day has been overlooked ‘f...

Dig episode 7

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KIMBERLY WINSTON: Secret orders and supposed traitors — TV’s ‘Dig’ and religious history . (RNS) The pieces of the religious puzzle that ma...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

New technology for reading old ostraca

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: A high-tech quest to unlock the secrets of ancient Israelite letters. How upstart mathematicians and archaeologists are ...

No, Muslim authorities have not just carpeted over the Lost Ark

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Have Muslim authorities just carpeted over the Lost Ark? Israeli scholars furious after new flooring is fitted 'beh...

The Shmita and Palestinian produce

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THE SABBATICAL YEAR: How a Biblical Edict Became a Boon for Palestinian Farmers (Naomi Zeveloff, The Forward ). The reason for this transac...

Jewish burial through the ages

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HAARETZ : The history of Jewish burial rites. Jews have been dying ever since there were Jews, but how they are buried has vastly changed...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Israel

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why is Israel called Israel? A brief history of the tribe and of the word 'Israel,' and how the m...

The Cairo Geniza and JTS library renovations

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STORAGE: Say Goodbye to This Treasure Trove of Rare Texts — Until 2018 (Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Forward ). The greatest collection of rare ...