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Saturday, May 02, 2015

More looting arrests in Israel

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Police arrest alleged antiquities thieves for stealing 2,000-year-old coins. The arrests were part of a joint effort staged by the Border P...

Day on the Serpent in Eden

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BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Serpent in the Garden of Eden and its Background The serpent in the Garden of Eden is popularly equated with...

Judeo-Persian manuscripts

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ADAM MCCOLLUM: Some Judeo-Persian manuscripts at the BnF . The Judeo-Persian (etc.) manuscripts found in a cave in Afghanistan were a bi...

A letter by Schechter on the Cairo Geniza

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (OCTOBER 2014): Add.6463(e)3416: Breathing the 'dust of centuries' (Melonie Schmierer-Lee). This lett...
Friday, May 01, 2015

N=1 classes at Harvard

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SYRIAC WATCH: Center of Attention. Students pursue one-person classes (Lara C. Tang, Harvard Crimson ). Peaking out between the enormous ...

DSS party

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ON ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY: Moving and Shaking: Dead Sea Scrolls, Yom HaAtzmaut and The Women’s Guild (Ryan Torok/Tess Cutler, Jewish Journ...

Dig Episode 9

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KIMBERLY WINSTON: TV’s ‘Dig’ goes to the gates of hell — and hopefully, back . We'll see. For more on the the tradition of the 36 righ...

More on Emek Shaveh vs. Elad

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Archeological activists: Elad must cede control of Temple Mount tunnel. Excavation of the tunnel, which extends from ...

New Hebrew biography of Scholem

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MASTER OF MYSTICISM: Finally, this author puts the great Gershom Scholem in context. A new Hebrew biography of is the first to place the ph...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Ramelli and Perkins (eds.), Early Christian and Jewish Narrative

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Early Christian and Jewish Narrative The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms Ed. by Ilaria Ramelli and...

Incantation Bowls and Jewish practice

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Relics, writings show non-Jewish influences on Jewish practices . Rabbi Josef Davidson launches a homily with the ancient B...

PA TV and The Protocols

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OH DEAR: Palestinian Authority TV Presents Anti-Semitic ‘Protocols’ as True. "Even in their Protocols [of the Elders of Zion] and eve...

Bons and Pouchelle (eds.), The Psalms of Solomon

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NEW BOOK FROM THE SBL: The Psalms of Solomon: Language, History, Theology Eberhard Bons (Editor), Patrick Pouchelle (Editor) ISBN 162...

Easter

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SHORED FRAGMENTS: The name 'Easter' and internet misinformation . My St. Andrews colleague Steven R. Holmes has researched the orig...

Some Armenian Philo

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ADAM MCCOLLUM: The wise king: A passage from Philo’s Questions on Genesis (4.76) in Armenian . Unusually for Philo's Quaestiones in Ge...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Performance of ancient music

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CONCERT IN YORK TONIGHT: Swimming Between Shores & The Flood . Draws on, among other things, late antique Aramaic, Byzantine (Greek?),...

Robo-scribe

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Robot takes on ancient ritual of Torah writing in museum installation (FoxNews.com). I noted this story back in July of...

Qumran video

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ISRAEL TODAY : VIDEO: Israel's Amazing Qumran Caves . An unnarrated flyover video by Amir Aloni. Cool.

AJS paper-proposal deadline looming

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H-JUDAIC: CFP: AJS 47th Annual Conference: Proposal Submission Deadline May 6, 2015 . A reminder that Wednesday, May 6, 2015 is the deadlin...

Honorary doctorate for the other Collins at Zurich

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ADELE YARBRO COLLINS: Ehrenpromotion 2015 der Theologischen Fakultät: Prof. Dr. Adela Yarbro Collins . Die Theologische ...