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Saturday, August 01, 2015

Friesen, Reading Dionysus

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: COURTNEY J. P. FRIESEN Reading Dionysus Euripides' Bacchae and the Cultural Contestations of Greeks, Jews,...

Brody, Mishna and Tosefta Ketubbot

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NEW BOOK (IN HEBREW) FROM MAGNES PRESS: Mishna and Tosefta Ketubbot Text, Exegesis and Redaction By Robert Brody Publisher: The Hebrew...

Genz, Jesaja 53 als theologische Mitte der Apostelgeschichte

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: ROUVEN GENZ Jesaja 53 als theologische Mitte der Apostelgeschichte Studien zu ihrer Christologie und Ekklesiol...

Buth and Notley (eds.), The Language Environment of First Century Judaea

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NEW(ISH) BOOK FROM BRILL: The Language Environment of First Century Judaea Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two Edited by...

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Franco Montanari, Genoa. English Edition edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Schro...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Questions for the Early High Christology Club

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Critical Questions for the Early High Christology Club (Michael Kok). Although I am the proud owner of an EHC...

Review of Yohanna, The Gospel of Mark in the Syriac Harklen Version

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SYRIAC WATCH: Book Review: The Gospel of Mark in the Syriac Harklean Version (2015) (Peter J. Gurry, ETC Blog)

Metatron playing in Rio

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ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: Festival Multiplicidade Returns to Rio de Janeiro Starting July 30th. The technology, music, art and design event...

More on the Church of Loaves and Fishes arson arrests

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THE SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN NAMED: Two Jewish extremists indicted for vandalizing ancient church on Sea of Galilee ( Catholic World News ). Two ...

Another looting arrest in Israel

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BUSTED: Antiquities theft thwarted near Beit Shemesh in late night helicopter chase. 63 coins, 2000 years old, recovered (HAYAH GOLDLIST-E...

Review of The Vatican Tapes

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THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN UNDERSTATEMENT: 'The Vatican Tapes' review: The movie could be better (Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Economic Tim...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Another early Qur'an fragment?

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PRESS RELEASE: Koran manuscript from early period of Islam. Tübingen University fragment written 20-40 years after the death of the Prophet...

Report on the Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting

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CONFERENCE: ON JEWISH PAIDEIA IN NAPLES (Elisa Uusimäki, CSTT Blog). Scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia gathered to Naples ...

More on the Talmud and consent

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POLITICS, SEX, AND THE TALMUD: What Michael Cohen Doesn't Understand About Rape — Or the Talmud (Melanie Landau, The Forward ). Now let...

Iudaea recepta coin

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NUMISMATICS: 2,000-Year-Old Coin Sheds Light on Important Role of Judea on Roman Psych (Raphael Poch, Breaking Israel News ). A rare coin m...

Hekhal

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: Hekhal ( Jewish Journal ). It is amazing how a word that signifies “holy of holies of the temple or ta...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Review of Stratton et al. (eds.), Daughters of Hecate

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Kimberly B. Stratton, Dayna S. Kalleres (ed.), Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World. Oxf...

Review of Seland, Reading Philo

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BOOK REVIEW: (Ken Schenck, Common Denominator blog). A review in eight parts of Torrey Seland's Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of A...

Schmidt (ed.), Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings

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NEW BOOK FROM THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE: Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Prod...

Are sources cited in the Hebrew Bible fabricated?

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IT DID HAPPEN SOMETIMES: Ancient Historians Fabricating Sources (Neil Godfrey, Vridar Blog). Just ran across this interesting discussion of...