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Saturday, August 08, 2015

"Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions" Symposium at York University

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TONY BURKE: 2015 YORK CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA SYMPOSIUM UPDATES . I noted the symposium already back in May, but Tony's latest posts has so...

Taylor (ed.), Jesus and Brian

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY T&T CLARK: Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and His Times Via Monty Python's Life of Brian ...

Biblical Studies Carnival

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AT MY DIGITAL SEMINARY: JULY BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL (Lindsay Kennedy).

Review of Upson-Saia et al. (eds.), Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEWS: Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten (ed.), Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity . ...

Royalty on ancient heresy

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Heresy in Earliest Christianity In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul faces disagreements on a wide r...
Friday, August 07, 2015

Shanks, paleographers, and the James Ossuary

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JAMES MCGRATH: Hershel Shanks: The World’s Best Paleographers Will Declare the James Ossuary Authentic . More specifically, the full inscrip...

Annotated Syriac bibliography

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SYRIAC WATCH: syri.ac: An annotated bibliography of Syriac resources online . Scott Johnson has some additional information on the site in a...

Sacred Writings at the Penn Museum

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COMING SOON: Sacred Writings: Extraordinary Texts of the Biblical World . In honor of the first visit by Pope Francis and the World Meeting ...

Interview with a Karaite

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THE KARAITES ARE ALIVE AND WELL: Chatting with the Karaites (Sue Fishkoff, JWeekly.com). You don’t hear much about the Karaites. That despi...

More on those cave wall paintings

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NEWSER: Archaeologists Find Rare Writing, Then It Disappears. INSCRIPTIONS ON PLASTER IN RITUAL BATH HAVE NOW BEEN SEALED (Arden Dier). Th...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Harvard fellowship on "Jews and the Classical World"

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THE APA BLOG: Henry Starr Fellowship: Jews and the Classical World The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Classics Harvard Un...

Incantation bowls in the National Syrian Museum?

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ARAMAIC WATCH: How to stop Daesh from eradicating history? Iraq gets a digital library to preserve artifacts (albabwa.com). This article te...

Yod

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: Yod, yud .

Professorship in Archaeology of Israel at Harvard

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H-JUDAIC: JOB: Harvard University, Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Discussion published by Sarah Imhoff on Wednesday, August 5, 201...

Is Aramaic doomed?

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MODERN ARAMAIC WATCH: The end of Aramaic. Descended from the tongue spoken by Jesus, an ancient language faces extinction as ISIS advances ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Interview with Ken Penner

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CENTER FOR ANCIENT CHRISTIAN STUDIES BLOG: BRIAN W. DAVIDSON INTERVIEWS KEN PENNER ON THE HEBREW OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS . This with referen...

Roman mansion in Jerusalem

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EXCAVATION: UNCC archaeology team in Jerusalem unearths 1st-century mansion (REID CREAGER, Charlotte Observer ) UNC Charlotte team unearth...

British Library's Hebrew manuscripts going online

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DIGITIZATION: World's oldest Hebrew Bibles, prayer books to go online (AP/ Israel HaYom ). Project is part of National Library of Israe...

A report of more Jewish-Temple denial from the PA

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: PA Minister: Israel Steals Muslim Artifacts on Temple Mount. In absurd reversal of fact, religious affairs minister cla...

Ancient ritual bath with inscriptions in Jerusalem

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DISCOVERY: Ancient Mikveh With Rare Inscriptions Found in Jerusalem. Second Temple period ritual bath found during construction of kinderga...