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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Nag Hammadi Seminar

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ANDRÉ GAGNÉ: Activities of the NH Seminar for 2015-2016 . At Concordia University.

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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THE BRITISH LIBRARY: Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project . The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project has been digitising items from th...

The aftermath of 4 BCE

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PHILIP JENKINS: After the Crisis (The Anxious Bench). I have sketched the political and social meltdown that Palestine suffered in the terr...

Lied on Syriac and Coptic fragments of 4 Ezra

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LIV INGEBORG LIED: Two forgotten sources to 4 Ezra . In the last few years, I have mentioned on two occasions manuscript witnesses to 4 Ezra...

Explorator

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AWOL: Open Access Journal: Explorator . It's good to see this weekly column of news on archaeology and antiquity by David Meadows. And l...
Friday, December 25, 2015

A Coptic Christmas story

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'TIS THE SEASON: Putting Together the Puzzle of a Christmas Story: A Coptic Document in Princeton and Its Related Fragments . Alin Suciu...

Goodacre on the Magi

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'TIS THE SEASON: NT Pod 76: This year's Christmas episode (Mark Goodacre). The subject of Mark's Christmas podcast this year is...

Forensic reconstruction of Jesus' face? No.

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'TIS THE SEASON: Jesus Christ’s ‘face’ recreated utilizing Semite skulls by Richard Neave . Is this the REAL face of Jesus? Forensic exp...

Apocryphal Christmas revisited

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Christmas Stories in Christian Apocrypha. The birth of Jesus in the apocryphal gospels (Tony Burke). Also noted last ...

Christmas 2015

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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all those celebrating! Posts of Christmas past are collected here and links. A couple of recent seasonal posts are her...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Another review of "Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs"

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THE ART NEWSPAPER : One God to rule them all: Garry Shaw on Faith After the Pharaohs at the British Museum. The exhibition beautifully capt...

Books on the Persian Empire and Hebrew philology

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AWOL: Two new volumes in the ANCIENT NEAR EAST MONOGRAPHS Series . Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire edited by Jason M. Silv...

Sidnie White Crawford on canon

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Canon Forum: A Response . Sidnie White Crawford responds to the three essays in the recent AJR Forum on the biblical Can...

Mystery golden object identified

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AN "ISIS BEAMER HARMONIZER": It Took Israeli Authorities Months to Identify This Strange, Gold Object (Danny Lewis, Smithsonian.c...

Talmudic and Gnostic Star Wars?

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IT'S COME TO THIS: How 'Star Wars' Became America's Talmud [SPOILER ALERT!] (Jay Michaelson, The Forward ). And if that w...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

More on the Israel Museum's Hadrian exhibition

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ANOTHER REVIEW: Busting Out All Over: Hadrian 'Conquers' Jerusalem Once Again. A new Israel Museum show, centering around 3 bronze ...

Inscribed silver amulet found in Jordan

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EPIGRAPHY: Mysterious 'Jewish spell' found in ancient amulet: Scans reveal 'magical symbols' inscribed on 1,300-year-old sil...

Nebuchadnezzar tablet on display

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EXHIBITION: Artifact Of Nebuchadnezzar Displayed In J’slm On Tenth of Tevet (JONATHAN BENEDEK, The Jewish Voice ). A very unique and ancien...

Review of three books on Herod

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NOT SO MUCH, ALTHOUGH IT'S COMPLICATED: Herod the Hero? Three recent books portray Herod more positively than he is generally depicted....

Talmud sells for $9.3m

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THE VALMADONNA LIBRARY: 16th-Century Talmud Sells for $9.3 Million at Sotheby’s . JNi.media) Sotheby’s set a new world auction record for an...