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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Langlois on the material features of the DSS

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NEW ARTICLE BY MICHAEL LANGLOIS: “Les manuscrits de la mer Morte à l’aune de la philologie matérielle”, RHPR 95/1, 2015, p. 3-31. The art...

Karaite chief rabbi re-elected

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THE KARAITES ARE ALIVE AND WELL: Karaite Jews unanimously re-elect chief rabbi. Movement has approximately 40,000 followers, who follow onl...

Lod Mosaic coming to Florida

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LAST SEEN IN VENICE: LYDDA ROMAN MOSAIC SHOWCASED IN MIAMI. ANCIENT ROMAN MOSAIC FROM LYDDA (LOD) TO BE SHOWCASED AT MIAMI’ FROST ART MUSEU...

Orlov, The Atoning Dyad

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Atoning Dyad: The Two Goats of Yom Kippur in the Apocalypse of Abraham Andrei A. Orlov, Marquette University The...

Eerdmans Commentary on the Aramaic DSS

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VIDEO: Eerdmans Commentary on the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls with Andrew Perrin . Glad to see this series is making progress. I published the ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

More Aramaic from Sharjah (UAE)

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Sultan unveils new archaeological treasure (WAM, The Gulf Today ). HARJAH: His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qas...

Review of Meier, A Marginal Jew, vol. 5

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THE BUSYBODY: A Marginal Jew, Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables . Reviewed by Loren Rossen, who begins "By now it’s cl...

Ancient Babylonian astronomical secrets

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WELL, SOME OF THOSE SECRETS ANYWAY: Ancient Babylonians Knew Secrets of the Solar System 1,500 Years Before Europe. Cuneiform tablets show ...

Hurtado on Christian codices

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LARRY HURTADO: Christians and the Codex: Encore! . In contrast to Jewish use of scrolls in the same time period.

IT post involving Hebrew and Aramaic

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JOB: The Faculty of Theology of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen invites applications for the position of an IT Professional (pay g...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

More on the Tzippori inscriptions

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IAA PRESS RELEASE: 1,700-year-old funerary inscriptions exposed in Zippori. Three 1,700 year old funerary inscriptions written in Aramaic a...

Sarah Rollens on canon

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Canons, Communities, and Christian Origins: A Response to the AJR Canon Forum (Sarah Rollens). Earlier contributions to...

Shadowhunters

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REMNANT OF GIANTS: The Nephilim are on TV: Shadowhunters . "Now that Nephilim are on TV every week, the mission of Remnant of Giants is...

Angels and demons, watchers and giants

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BELIEFNET: The Important Differences between Angels and Demons (Lesli White). I am bemused when I read articles like this one and find th...

AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

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H-JUDAIC: Fellowship: AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowship . The Association for Jewish Studies invites applications for its first annual ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Vatican and those Temple treasures

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LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN: ARE THE TEMPLE’S VESSELS HIDDEN IN THE VATICAN? As regular readers know, and as Professor Schiffman agrees, this is ver...

Ancient burial inscriptions in Tzippori

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EPIGRAPHY: 'Rabbi' burial inscription uncovered in Tzippori. New discovery uncovers three burial inscriptions from 1,700-years-ago,...

Hebrew words in English

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ETYMOLOGY? That English You’re Speaking? It’s Hebrew. (Well, Some of It.) The derivations of the words cinnamon, ruthless, scapegoat, and a...

Edward Robinson

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GEOGRAPHY: Today in History: The ‘father of biblical geography.’ Edward Robinson identified almost 200 biblical sites ( Jerusalem Post ). ...

Byron, Herodotus, and Sennacherib

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HISTORY: Of mice and men: How archaeology confirms a Bible story (Mark Woods, Christian Today ). The headline exaggerates a little, since t...