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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Shavuot 2015

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THE FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT (Weeks, Pentecost) begins today at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. Some biblical background is noted...

Review of Secunda, The Iranian Talmud

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Review: The Iranian Talmud . By Geoffrey Herman at AJS Review . Background here and links.

Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?

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ENOCH SEMINAR CONFERENCE: Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? / Fourth Nangeroni Meeting (2015 Milan), conference . It mee...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Summer School on manuscripts, philology, and technology

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DEADLINE LOOMING: manuSciences '15: Franco-German Summer School : Interdisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies combining philology...

Corpus Avesticum conference

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Corpus Avesticum meeting: “Ḫorde Avesta.” A conference in Berlin which starts today, in which a group of specialis...

Latest on Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: I can find no news about what has happened to the antiquities and ruins of Palmyra in the last day, since ISIS captured them....

More archaeological vandalism

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Vandals Paint Palestinian Flags Over Israeli UNESCO World Heritage Site (David Daoud, The Algemeiner ). Inspectors from the Israel Antiquit...

Review of Satlow, How the Bible Became Holy

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BOOK REVIEW: The authority of the written word (Rabbi James B. Rosenberg, The Jewish Voice ). Michael L. Satlow’s “How the Bible Became Ho...

Maggie Anton profiled

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Talmudic temptation (Linda Mothner, Jewish Journal ). From a glass-enclosed cabinet in her Westchester home office, historical novelist Mag...

John Dee and the "Enochian" language

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ENOCH WAS NOT JUST FOR THE SECOND TEMPLE ERA: Enochian: The Mysterious Lost Language of Angels (Bryan Hilliard, Ancient Origins ). In the y...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Palmyra falls

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DISASTER: ISIS Fighters Seize Control of Syrian City of Palmyra, and Ancient Ruins (Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, NYT ). BEIRUT, Lebanon — ...

Watermelon

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: avaTiyyiaH: אבטיח .

Aqueduct discovered in Jerusalem

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EXCAVATION: Section of Ancient Jerusalem’s Lower Aqueduct Discovered (Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Jewish Press ). A section of Jerusalem’s Lower Aq...

Dig wrap-up

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INTERVIEW: Homeland creator Gideon Raff talks Dig (Michael Idato, Sydney Morning Herald ). The series was created by Heroes writer Tim Kri...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Source criticism vindicated

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REMNANT OF GIANTS: Illustrating The Benefits of Pentateuchal Literary Criticism: The David and Goliath Story . This is indeed a really str...

Review of del Olmo Lete, Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEWS: Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Rec...

Everett Fox profiled

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BIBLE TRANSLATOR: Tinkering With the Word of God (Avi Steinberg, The New Yorker ). [Everett] Fox has dedicated his life to giving the Angl...

Palmyra update

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STILL IN PERIL: ISIS Attacks Druze Village, Aims for 'Victory Against the World.' Islamic State attacks Syria's Druze heartland...

Western Wall upgrade

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Israel’s 5-Year Upgrade Plan for Western Wall. Israel's new government has approved a five-year plan to upgrade an...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Widows in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : For Jewish Widows, Like Modern Drug Offenders, Just How Much Matters. Why Talm...