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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Lyon, Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood

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NEW BOOK FROM WIPF AND STOCK: Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood BY Jeremy D. Lyon About The Dead Sea Scrolls have opened up fo...

That menorah mosaic at Horvat Kur

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Magnificent Menorah Mosaic Found in Galilee (Megan Sauter). Background on the excavation at Horvat Kur and the recen...

Aviam on that "unique mikveh"

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JIM WEST: A Critical Respond to: “A Unique Miqveh in Upper Galilee” (by Eldad Keynan) – A Guest Post by Mordechai Aviam . The critiqued essa...

Published and unpublished homilies of Jacob of Serugh

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SYRIAC WATCH: Four unpublished homilies of Jacob of Serugh, with a 19th-cent. image of the Golden Horn (Adam McCollum, hmmlorientalia blog)...

Anxious prophecy

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Prophecy Without End? Philip Jenkins takes up the question of why, if prophecy ended with the prophets of the Hebrew Bib...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Destroying a manuscript to save manuscripts?

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LET'S NOT MAKE A HABIT OF THIS: Destroying a Manuscript to Test Multispectral Imaging (Peter J. Gurry, ETC). I get why they did this an...

The International Qur'anic Studies Association

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A NEW ACADEMIC SOCIETY: The International Qur'anic Studies Association . John F. Kutsko, Executive Director of the Society of Biblical L...

Lieu on Marcion

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Marcion and the Idea of Heresy Is not the task of the historian to judge whether certain views were or were ...

Patmore, The Transmission of Targum Jonathan in the West

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NEW BOOK FROM OUP: The Transmission of Targum Jonathan in the West: A Study of Italian and Ashkenazi Manuscripts of the Targum to Samuel (Jo...

Review of Briant, Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Pierre Briant, Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (translated by Jane Marie Todd; first published in French 2003)...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Review of Magness, Archaeology of the Holy Land

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note: Magness, Archaeology of the Holy Land (Brian Leport). I noted the book here back in 2012 when it was publis...

Anxious Zechariah

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PHILIP JENKINS has been posting lots of interesting things in recent months over at The Anxious Bench and I have fallen far behind in noting...

Archaeology at Cartagena

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PUNIC WATCH: Archaeologists unearth more of the history of Cartagena. Cartagena may have been a large Roman weapons factory ( Murcia Today...

The birthday of the world

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SEDER OLAM RABBA : This Day in Jewish History, 3761 BCE The World Is Created, According to the Hebrew Calendar and an Obscure Sage. Basing ...

The other Queen Helena

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THE JERUSALEM POST : The Queen who Built a Palace in Jerusalem (ELAINE ROSE GLICKMAN, The Streets of Jerusalem Blog). Actually, there are t...
Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Witte, Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira und zur frühjüdischen Weisheit [Texts and C...

Religious appropriation of Cyrus the Great

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Religious Appropriation of National Symbols in Iran: Searching for Cyrus the Great . An article by Menahem Merhavy pu...

An hydraulic gardening system in Petra

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NABATEAN WATCH: Meet 3 Erie women archaeologists (Marissa Orbanek. GoEirie.com). All three are doing interesting work, but I want to focus ...

Schiffman on Ir David

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LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN: Rediscovering Ir David. New Finds Revealed in an Ancient City . The exciting results of archaeological excavations of a...

Reinhartz on JBL

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THE EDITOR SPEAKS: The Journal of Biblical Literature and the Critical Investigation of the Bible (Adele Reinhartz). A fascinating history...