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Saturday, May 07, 2016

Revue de Qumrân online

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NOW AVAILABLE ON JSTOR: Revue de Qumrân (1958-2012).

Leibner and Hezser (eds.), Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context Ed. by Uzi Leibner and Catherine Hezser [Jüdische Kunst in ihrem späta...

New SBL books

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FORTHCOMING BOOKS FROM THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE: Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism Raymond F. Person, Robert Rezetk...

Review of Hayes, What’s Divine about Divine Law?

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Christine Hayes, What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University...

Himmelfarb on the Virgin Mary and the mother of the seven martyrs

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MARTHA HIMMELFARB: The Mother of the Seven Sons in Lamentations Rabbah and the Virgin Mary ( Jewish Quarterly Review 22 [2015]: 325-351). ...
Friday, May 06, 2016

Did the Khazars convert to Judaism?

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HEBREW UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE: Did the Khazars Convert to Judaism? New Research Says ‘No’ 26/06/2014 Hebrew University professor cites l...

The Biblical Museum of Natural History

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ZOOLOGY: Getting up close and personal with animals from the Bible (antonio marquez, israel21c/Jweekly.com). Natan Slifkin wants people to ...

Jewish-temple denial worse than Holocaust denial?

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: 'UNESCO Temple Mount denial is worse than Holocaust denial.' Pro-Israel Christian groups head to UN to condemn ...

Concert in Palmyra's theatre

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PALMYRA WATCH: Russian maestro to hold concert in Palmyra's theatre. World-Russian conductor Valery Gergiev will conduct his orchestra ...

Books, not relics, to be transferred from the Rockefeller

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POLITICS: Antiquities Authority refutes NGO’s Rockefeller Museum transfer accusations. The IAA also denied Emek Shaveh’s claims that it als...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

Major grant for the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library

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MANUSCRIPT DIGITIZATION: The Ahmanson Foundation Funds Project to Make Ancient Manuscripts Accessible (Kathy Brown, UCLA Library). The Ahma...

Mysterious ancient smears

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LIV INGEBORG LIED: Consider the most trivial mystery of all the mysteries of the Syriac Codex Ambrosianus solved . In March, I spent a week ...

David at Dura-Europos

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: David as Warrior at Dura-Europos (Michael Peppard). It’s not surprising, then, that the oldest excavated Christian chur...

"Mary Magdalen" opens in Boston

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NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH: Ludovico Ensemble closes season with two sensitive premieres (Aaron Keebaugh, Boston Classical Review ). Aft...

Darth Vader's breastplate?

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EPIGRAPHY WATCH? Star Wars Day: Facts You Never Knew About The Saga . One of these caught my eye: Darth Vader’s chestpiece is an ancient Heb...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Bible-related digital mss and editions online

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DREW LONGACRE (OTTC BLOG): Online Digital Manuscripts and Editions . Last updated 28 April 2016 This page is a list of digital images of m...

The 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Mysterious Number 480 in 1 Kings 6:1 There is a plausible option that 1 Kgs 6:1 and Judg 11:26 are parts...

Steele (ed.), The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM BRILL: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World Edited by John M. Steele, Brown University As...

Challenges to that study on Askenazic genetics

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RESPONSE: Prominent scholars blast theory tracing Ashkenazi Jews to Turkey (Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA ). In an interview with JTA, Sergio DellaPe...

Ezekiel's Exagoge to be performed

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THEATRE: Ancient Greco-Jewish Play Telling Exodus Narrative to Premiere This Summer ( The Jewish Voice ). Theatre dybbuk presents the world...