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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Roma Subterranea Judaica online

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AWOL: Open Access Monograph Series: Roma Subterranea Judaica . THE FOLLOWING PDFS ARE PROVIDED AS A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY BY THE INTERNAT...

Ancient Jewish and modern Israeli law

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POLITICS AND LAW: Bill Seeks to Increase Role of Jewish Law in Israel's Legal System. Justice Committee chair wants to set up an instit...

P. Wernberg-Møller, R.I.P.

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SAD NEWS: Death of Dr Preben Wernberg-Møller (St Peter's College, Oxford University). He was reportedly 92 years old. He was known for...

Justice Scalia, St. Hubert, and the Manichaeans

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SYRIAC WATCH ETC.: DECODING SCALIA’S SECRET HUNTING SOCIETY, FROM JÄGERMEISTER TO MEDIEVAL HERESY TO BUDDHIST LEGEND JOSEPH A. P. WILSON, R...

PhD fellowships at Groningen and Leuven

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FUNDED DOCTORAL PROJECTS: PhD positions The Dead Sea Scrolls and Models of Textual Communities (2.0 fte) (216065-66) . Organisation Within ...
Friday, February 26, 2016

SBL MEGA 2016 CFP — time is short

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APRIL DECONICK: Call for papers in mysticism, esotericism and gnosticism in antiquity . I posted the CFP for this at the beginning of the mo...

Frankfurter on religious violence

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: "Religious Violence:" A Phenomenology (David Frankfurter). So this is a call, not just to interpret “represen...

There are still Jews in Kaifeng, China

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AND SOME OF THEM ARE COMING TO ISRAEL: Five Chinese Jews come home after thousands of years. In first Aliyah from Kaifeng in seven years, f...

Hebrew words of the week

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CATCHING UP WITH YONA SABAR'S COLUMN: Hebrew word of the week: Shoshannah (Lily or Rose) Hebrew word of the week: Miriam Regular r...

Kalmin lecturing at Penn

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AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: Traditions that Travel: Jesus’s Descent to the Underworld in the Babylonian Talmud and in Christian Liter...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Kulik and Minov, Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Traditions

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NEW BOOK FROM OUP: Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Traditions Alexander Kulik and Sergey Minov The first collection of Slavonic pse...

3000-year-old textiles at Timna

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TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE: TAU Discovers Extensive Fabric Collection Dating Back to Kings David and Solomon . Textiles found at Timn...

Scalia as a Talmudist

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RABBINIC LAW: Justice Scalia As Talmudic Scholar (Nathan Lewin, The Jewish Press ). Excerpt: A decision Scalia wrote for a unanimous Suprem...

Linguistic dating of Hebrew

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: An Unsettling Divide in Linguistic Dating and Historical Linguistics See Also: Linguistic Dating of Biblical...

Museum of the Bible preview

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EXHIBITION: Religious broadcasters take a peek at Museum of the Bible collection (Heidi Hall, RNS). Excerpt: Backed by the Green family, ow...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review of Allen, The Splintered Divine

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Spencer Allen, The Splintered Divine: A Study of Ištar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in...

Dancing with Astarte

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PERFORMING ARTS: The Canaanite spirit. Local choreographers and dancers Moran Yizhaky Abergel and Kim Taitelbaum unveil their latest work o...

An ancient French restaurant and Passover

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DINING OUT: Earliest Roman Restaurant Found in France: Night Life Featured Heavy Drinking. Tavern more than 2,100 years old featured same t...

The Last Supper as Passover seder?

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PERHAPS NOT: Was Jesus’s Last Supper a Passover seder? (Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNS.org). Excerpt: [Professor Jonathan] Klawans notes that th...

"Of Kings and Prophets" premiers on 8 March

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TELEVISION: Scoop: OF KINGS AND PROPHETS - *Series Premiere* on ABC - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 . The first episode is titled “Offerings of Blo...