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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Psychedelic Hebrew

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DARSHAN: WATCH: The most psychedelic Hebrew lesson you’ll ever see. Beautiful artwork and animation, accompanied by deep Hebrew lyrics ( T...

Cuneiform cookies

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: HOW TO MAKE CUNEIFORM TABLET COOKIES (Tom Stanley, Penn Museum). Next recipe: edible Ezekiel scrolls.

The Second Apocalypse of John

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RICK BRANNAN: NT Apocrypha: The Second Apocalypse of John . Via Fred Clark at the Slacktivist , who includes the obligatory sequels joke.

What Did Herod’s Temple Look Like?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: What Did Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem Look Like? Michael Avi-Yonah’s iconic Temple model turns 50 (Jennifer Drummond)....

Apocrypha 26 (2015)

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NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH Apocrypha 26/2015 . Forthcoming in March. Follow the link for the TOC. Most of the article are on NT Apocrypha...
Friday, January 15, 2016

The makers of Codex Sinaiticus

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THE BRITISH MUSEUM BLOG: The makers of Codex Sinaiticus. Cillian O’Hogan, Research Fellow, University of Waterloo, formerly Curator of Clas...

Jobes, Discovering the Septuagint

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM KREGEL ACADEMIC PRESS: Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader Hardcover – January 27, 2016 by Karen Jobes (Auth...

Hayes wins Sarna Memorial Award

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CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRISTINE HAYES, winner of this year's Scholarship Award (the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award) in the National Jewish B...

Alan Rickman 1946-2016

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ARCHANGEL METATRON WATCH: The Iconic Career Of Alan Rickman (Laurel Raymond, Think Progress ). Perhaps most widely known as Severus Snape i...

Review of Spiró, Captivity

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BLOGCRITICS: Book Review: ‘Captivity’ by György Spiró (Jon Sobel). Captivity , a sprawling epic about Jews, Greeks and Romans in the first ...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Recent articles in JSIJ

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RECENT ARTICLES IN JEWISH STUDIES, AN INTERNET JOURNAL : Collective Punishment and the Redaction of the Sugya of Akhan's Sin in the Baby...

Penniman, Lacte Christiano Educatus

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight: John Penniman . Penniman, John David. Lacte Christiano Educatus: The Symbolic Power of Nourishme...

Lundhaug and Jenott, The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices

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PAULA J. TUTTY: The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks . The question of who owned and produced the Nag Hammadi Codices is of major impo...

Zerubbabel's crown?

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FROM This Day, January 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin ( Cleveland Jewish News ). The first item: 519 BCE: Darius had “a crown m...

Abegg on the DSS Concordance

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VIDEO: The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance with Martin Abegg (TWU Dead Sea Scrolls Institute). An informative meditation on an important recen...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

More on that Temple Mount sewage tunnel

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Muslims Carrying Out Unauthorized Excavations on Temple Mount Claim They Are Repairing Water Leakage ( The Algemeiner )...

The NT knew the OTA and OTP

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WELL YES: The New Testament Writers Had the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in their Heads (Dr. Michael S. Heiser). I don't necessarily ...

Images 7-8 (2015)

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THE BRILL JOURNAL IMAGES has published two volumes in 2015: Images 7 and Images 8 . IMAGES invites scholarly articles on Jewish art and ...

Barclay interview

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VIDEO: John Barclay Interviewed by Eerdmans (Mark Goodacre, NT Blog). Professor Barclay's recent book, Paul and the Gift was noted h...

Dirk Smilde awards

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CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH: The Text Strikes Back: Presentation Dirk Smilde Fellowship . On February 5th, the president of the University of Gr...