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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Slifkin, The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom

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NEW BOOK: New from OU Press: “The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom” by Rabbi Natan Slifkin . Note that this is the Orthodox Union Pr...

John the Jew conference

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JAMES MCGRATH: John the Jew (2016 Enoch Seminar Conference) . This is the Sixth Nageroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar, with a venue in Camal...

Nelson, The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit, vol. 1

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit Volume 1: The Architecture Michael C. Nelson, Queens College of the City Universi...

Home

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I'M BACK IN ST. ANDREWS. More later.
Friday, June 26, 2015

Pajunen and Tervanotko (eds.), Crossing Imaginary Boundaries.

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NEW BOOK FROM THE FINNISH EXEGETICAL SOCIETY: Pajunen, Mika S. & Hanna Tervanotko (eds.) (2015) Crossing Imaginary Boundaries. The Dead ...

Review of Kosmin, The Land of the Elephant Kings

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Kosmin, The Land of the Elephant Kings. By Nathan Schumer in Book Notes . Excerpt: ... Despite this growing trend, when...

Ein Tzuba

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TRAVEL: Walk through clear water at Tzuba’s ancient underground spring. At kibbutz on outskirts of Jerusalem, a short ladder now leads into...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Conference on the Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library

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JOHN RYLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE CONFERENCE 2016: 'The Other Within' – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library....

Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel Appealing to Monster Theory and the ancient Near Eastern motif of ...

Kiperwasser and Shapira, "Irano-Talmudica III"

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FORTHCOMING ARTICLE: Irano-Talmudica III: Giant Mythological Creatures in Transition from the Avesta to the Babylonian Talmud (Reuven Kipe...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Bond & Hurtado (eds.), Peter in Early Christianity,

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LARRY HURTADO: “Peter in Early Christianity”: Forthcoming Book . The volume contains papers from the 2013 conference on Peter at the Univers...

Psalms and Prayers workshop

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CONFERENCE REPORT: REFLECTIONS ON WORKSHOP “FUNCTIONS OF PSALMS AND PRAYERS IN LATE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD JUDAISM” (COPENHAGEN, MAY 7-9) (Ri...

Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible Eugene Ulrich, University of Notre Dame Eugene ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library

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NOW ONLINE FROM BRILL: Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts Editors: Donald W. Parry and Andrew C. Skinner. In consultatio...

Septimus, On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmu...

Sanders on Aramaic scribal culture

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Beyond Borrowing: Aramaic Scribal Culture and the Creativity of Second Temple Judaism (Seth Sanders, Academia.edu).
Monday, June 22, 2015

Monitoring the DSS in transit

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Protecting ancient artifacts with modern sensors. Fine art shipper tracks temperature and light through the cloud (DCVel...

Paradise in Pennsylvania

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Rodef Shalom’s Biblical Botanical Garden is testament to Jacobs’ love for plants, each other (Toby Tabachnick, The Jewish Chronicle ). The ...

Three new books

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FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Saul Israels König in Tradition, Redaktion und früher Rezeption [Saul. Israel's King in Tradition, Redaction and E...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

HB/OT job at Saint Louis University

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TENURE-TRACK POSITION: The Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University is inviting applicants for a tenure-track position as...