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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Huqoq mosaic published

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC : Explore This Mysterious Mosaic—It May Portray Alexander the Great. A decorated floor uncovered in the buried ruins of...

Gray on charity in the rabbinic texts

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Reading Charity Texts: On Intertextuality and Social History (Alyssa Gray). In sum, the scholar of rabbinic charity req...

Religion before "Religion"

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CONFERENCE: Religion Before "Religion." October 14 and 15, 2016, Bowdoin College, Brunswick Maine . The overarching aims of the ...

Ancient tattoos

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SKIN ART: Tattoo Taboo? Exploring The History Of Religious Ink And Facial Tattoos ( Forbes ). Dr. Sarah Bond of the University of Iowa give...

What Larry Schiffman is reading

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INTERVIEW: On the Bookshelf (Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press ). Lawrence Schiffman is a professor at New York University, an expert on the Dea...
Friday, September 09, 2016

A Jewish epitaph from third-century CE Egypt

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EPIGRAPHY: BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700-year-old obituary. Ancient epitaph memorializes Helene, a ...

Review of Cronin, "Raymond Brown, ‘The Jews’ and the Gospel of John"

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READING ACTS: Book Review: Sonya Shetty Cronin, Raymond Brown, ‘The Jews’ and the Gospel of John: From Apologia to Apology ; LNTS 504 (Phil...

Video of 17th Annual Megalim Archaeology Conference

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Watch: 17th Annual Archaeological conference. Leading archaeologists speak about recent findings, with special focus on attempt...

"The Inn at Lydda" opens

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NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH. The Inn At Lydda has opened at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, to unenthusiastic reviews: The Telegra...

The Shohet Scholars Program

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INTERNATIONAL CATACOMB SOCIETY: Research Fellowship Opportunity: 2017-2018 Shohet Scholars (Deadline 15 January 2017) . The Shohet Scholars ...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Pehlivanian et al. (eds.), Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Pahlavi and Judeo-Persian Bible Manuscripts . Notice of a new book: Pehlivanian, Meliné, Christoph Rauch & Ronny ...

On linguistic dating of biblical Hebrew

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Biblical Hebrew Changed, but How? In a hot-off-the-press popular article in Biblical Archaeology Review (Sep...

CFP: 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies

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H-JUDAIC: CFP: The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies . Call for Papers The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies We ar...

Anton event in Santa Monica

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FIFTY SHADES OF TALMUD : Iconic L.A. Author to Discuss Sex and the Talmud at Jewish Women's Theatre on September 25 (BroadwayWorld.com)...

Ancient stable excavated at Ovdat

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ARCHAEOLOGY: 1500 year old stables discovered at Ovdat National Park. In archaological excavations at Ovdat National Park an ancient animal...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

More on those floor tiles

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Yesterday the Temple Mount Sifting Project announced that they have recovered and reconstructed ancient tiles which the...

Coptic post

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ALIN SUCIU: Job Opening for the Project Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland/Cataloguing of Oriental Manuscripts ...

2 Baruch 52-73, 73-76 (77-87)

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READING ACTS continues its series on 2 Baruch, with two more posts: A Vision of Many Waters – 2 Baruch 52-73 Eternal Peace – 2 Baruch 73-...

Schiffman lecturing at Missouri State

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MISSOURI STATE NEWS: Prominent Jewish studies professor to deliver free public lecture. Plenary speech to discuss the Bible, Dead Sea Scrol...

qayits

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: qayits . The Hebrew names of the seasons are associated with farming life, as aviv “spring” originally ...