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Saturday, August 29, 2015

More evidence that the GJW is a forgery

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NT BLOG: The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: “Patchwork” Forgery in Coptic . . . and English (Guest post by Andrew Bernhard). With the now overwhelm...

McCollum on Judeo-Persian, part two

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: On Judeo-Persian Language and Literature | Part Two: Texts and Bibliography (Adam McCollum). Part one and some backgr...

More on the Egypt After the Pharaohs exhibition

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BROADWAY WORLD : British Museum to Display EGYPT: FAITH AFTER THE PHARAOHS Exhibit, October 29 . I have already mentioned this exhibition i...

The FBI takes an interest in ISIS's looted artifacts

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IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP: FBI: Don't Accidentally Buy Artifacts Stolen By ISIS (Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Gizmodo). But the FBI isn’t just...

Aristophil's manuscripts to be sold

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ALLEGED DSS PONZI SCHEME UPDATE: Rare manuscripts to be sold as world’s largest private collection is liquidated. Bank gets €28m from sale ...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Review of Horsley, Jesus and Magic

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DANIEL N. GULLOTTA: Review: Jesus and Magic: Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions (Wipf and Stock, 2014). I haven't ...

Payne, A State of Mixture

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NEW BOOK FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity ...

Review of MacDonald, Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life

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PUNIC WATCH: Hannibal' holds readers' interest (Richard D. Weigel, Bowling Green Daily News ). “Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life,” by E...

Review of Stoneman, Xerxes

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BOOK REVIEW IN THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION : Xerxes: A Persian Life, by Richard Stoneman. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones appreciates a nuanced biogra...

More on Horvat Kur

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A VOLUNTEER AT THE HORVAT KUR EXCAVATION: Moseley can dig that! ( Herald Independent ). NEWBERRY — Newberry native Will Moseley recently to...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

No, no one thinks the Gospel of Jesus' Wife proves that Jesus was married

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TOO MUCH OF THE MEDIA just doesn't get the current scholarly discussion about the Gospel of Jesus' Wife . The issue, insofar as it i...

Palmyra: commentary

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PALMYRA WATCH: no new developments today, but some commentary and background are worth noting. Historical background: How Ancient Palmyra,...

The Codex Sinaiticus is going on display at the BM

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THIS WILL BE WORTH SEEING: British Library will lend world's oldest bible to British Museum. British Museum exhibition, Egypt after the...

DSS coming to children's exhibition

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PRESS RELEASE: National Geographic Partners with The World’s Largest Children’s Museum to Create Sacred Journeys Exhibit . The United States...

About that broken vase ...

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THIS ODD STORY IS NOW ODDER: Israel Museum changes account on broken artifact. After initially claiming girl accidentally smashed ancient g...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Latest on Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: Lots of new articles over the last couple of days. Here is a selection: Witness confirms IS destruction of ancient Syria te...

Lied blog renovation

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LIV INGEBORG LIED is shaping up her blog : Religion - Manuscripts - Media Culture A blog on the transmission, use, and transformation of th...

Not mainly peasants?

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ASOR BLOG: They Were Not Mainly “Peasants.” Towards an Alternative View of Village Life in Greco-Roman Palestine and Egypt (Sharon Lea Mat...

Askeland on the GJW

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CHRISTIAN ASKELAND: The Gospel of Jesus Wife — the saga continues ... (ETC). Excerpt: I have expressed my opinion that the GJW has been so ...

Broken ancient vase better than ever

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OOPS! Young Israeli Girl Breaks 2,000-year-old Vase, Museum Says Thanks. The museum said the object has now been repaired and is in better ...