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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Batten on Galilean fishing economy

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ALICIA J. BATTEN: Fishing Economy in the Sea of Galilee (Bible Oddyssey). HT AJR .

Rabbula Gospels

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SYRIAC WATCH: Rabbula Gospels online! (Adam McCollum, hmmlorientalia blog).

e-ktobe

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PETER J. GURRY (ETC): Online Database of Syriac Manuscripts . The e-ktobe site was also noted here a few years ago.

Miller, At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds

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NEW BOOK FROM VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT: Stuart S. Miller At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, a...

One God, One Lord, 3rd edition

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LARRY HURTADO: One God, One Lord”: Third Edition Forthcoming . I read the first edition back around 1991 or 1992, when the SBL Divine Mediat...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Swenne, Démons iraniens

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: . A notice of a new book: Swennen, Philippe (ed.). 2015. Démons iraniens: actes du colloque international organisé à ...

The Story of Melchizedek

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THE STORY OF MELCHIZEDEK, translated recently in Bauckham, Davila, Panayotov (eds.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptu...

Penn, Envisioning Islam

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NEW BOOK FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS: Envisioning Islam Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World Michael Philip Penn 3...

Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism

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NEW BOOK FROM CUP: The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism AUTHOR: Gregg E. Gardner DATE PUBLISHED: June 2015 AVAILABILIT...

Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation series

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JAMES MCGRATH: Mandaean Contributions to Islamic Civilization . James says: I received word about the new book series below, and wanted to s...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Lamp workshop at Shikhin

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: An Ancient Jewish Lamp Workshop in the Galilee .

GSI Greek Psalter Project

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TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY: TWU scholar to lead significant Septuagint project . TWU professor and Septuagint scholar Rob Hiebert, Ph. D., h...

Gignoux, Mazdéens et chrétiens en terre d’Iran à l’époque sassanide

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Zoroastrians and Christians in Sasanian Iran . Notice of a new book: Gignoux, Philippe. 2014. Mazdéens et chrétiens e...

Judean Desert flyover video

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JAMES MCGRATH: Dead Sea Drone . Amir Aloni presents us with another of his excellent, unnarrated flyover videos, this one including the Dead...

Ellis, The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing Cosmic Trials and Biblical Interpretation in the Epistle of James and Other ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

R.J. Zwi Werblowsky 1924-2015

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SAD NEWS FROM H-JUDAIC: Obituary: Prof. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky . H-Judaic is greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. R.J.Zwi Werblows...

Parchments from Oxyrhynchus

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BRICE C. JONES: Parchment Manuscripts Discovered at Oxyrhynchus . Most of the Oxyrhynchus texts are papyri (i.e., paper made from reeds), bu...

The Temple Institute and the red heifer

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CROWDSOURCING THE RED HEIFER: Raise a Red Heifer in Israel . The Temple Institute has set up an Indiegogo project for producing a herd of re...

Isbell, "Emic or Etic?"

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Emic or Etic? Interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures A tangential issue that must be addressed is the idea that...

Holiday

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I'M TAKING THE REST OF THE WEEK OFF to get out of St. Andrews, both to escape the British Open and to get some rest. I don't intend...