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Saturday, June 20, 2015

SOTS Booklist 2015

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IN THE MAIL: Deborah W. Rook (ed.) with Holly Morse, Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2015 (London: Sage, 2015).

Jenkins on Josephus

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PHILIP JENKINS IS Reading Josephus at the Anxious Bench. The beginning of a new series. The second instalment is here: The Age of Tyrants .

Review of Jenner, The Gold Leaves

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Edward Jenner, The Gold Leaves: (Being an Account and Translation from the Ancient Greek of the so-called ‘Orphi...

Review of Masada Opera 2015

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LITERALLY: Masada opera festival a cultural oasis in the desert: Littler. The sheer improbability of the Israeli Opera’s annual outdoor eve...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Diamond Rose

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ANOTHER SEARCH FOR THOSE TWELVE STONES: Will TV show provide enough reason to 'Dig' up Pnina Feldman's failed venture? (Colin K...

BASOR 373 (May 2015) for free

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AWOL: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 373, May 2015 available without charge, for a limited time . Recently I li...

Antiquities arson in Israel

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TWO RECENT INCIDENTS: Israeli Police Investigate Arson at ‘Loaves and Fishes’ Church By ISABEL KERSHNERJUNE 18, 2015 ( NYT ) JERUSALEM —...

Two jobs in Syriac

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THE HUGOYE LIST: Two jobs in Syriac . These are four-year Research Associate fellowships to work on the Syriac Galen palimpsest at the John...

Discounts at Magnes Press

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MAGNES PRESS: Sale! 40% and "Buy 1 get 1 free" Discounts on most of our books! Some classics are included. For you, special deal!
Thursday, June 18, 2015

New DSS at the Los Angeles exhibition

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PRESS RELEASE: Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition" Unveils New Set of Scrolls. Sold-out Crowds Continue At the California Science Cente...

Those Roman footprints at Hippos-Sussita

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POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY : I Stood Here for Rome. The clear imprints of the soles of Roman soldiers' footwear leave rare personal signatures...

A Canaanite coin? No.

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CONFUSION: Ancient Coin Of The Canaanite Realm (Steve Lipman, The Jewish Week ). This coin probably was not worth very much when it was min...

Frank Moore Cross and Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs

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THE HARVARD CRIMSON : " MIDEAST SCHOLARS AT PEACE . Among the deceased professors recalled in Memorial Minutes read during Faculty of A...

The NYT on the Israel Museum's 50th

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ANNIVERSARY: To Celebrate 50 Years, the Israel Museum Looks Back Much Further (ISABEL KERSHNER, NYT ). JERUSALEM — A softly lit case displa...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture

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AWOL: Open Access Journal: The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture . There's nothing much in the journal on ancient Judaism, b...

Postdoc at the University of Michigan

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THE ANCIENT WORLD PROJECT: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Material Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean (H-Judaic). The desired focus is "the...

More on vows and sex in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Sex: Sin, Obligation, or Pursuit of Pleasure? Discussing vows, Talmudic rabbis...

Report on the Tyre Day Symposium

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Tyre on the Potomac…. (Joe David, Hollywood on the Potomac ). A Recap of Phoenician History: Washington came alive last w...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

"This is how I lost my faith"

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SHULEM DEEN: This is how I lost my faith: Science helped, yes — but finally I accepted the holy texts were written by man. I thought relig...

Maaloula rediviva

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MODERN ARAMAIC WATCH: Virgin Mary Statue Rebuilt in Ancient Syrian Christian Town. Maalula, one of oldest Christian towns in world where Ar...