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Saturday, October 08, 2016

Review of Kirsch, The People and the Books

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BOOK REVIEW: Adam Kirsch’s Anthology of Jewish Civilization’s Greatest Hits. Dara Horn writes that “The People and the Books” is an astute ...

Willgren, The Formation of the 'Book' of Psalms

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: DAVID WILLGREN The Formation of the 'Book' of Psalms Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization ...

Forgery of ancient texts

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THE ASOR BLOG: Forging Ancient Texts (Heather Dana Davis Parker). For an accurate and complete understanding of history and culture, it is ...

Romans 4

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READING ACTS: Why Abraham? – Romans 4 . With background material from Ben Sira and Jubilees. Many of the previous posts in Phil Long's...

Torah-smuggling charges in Egypt

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LOOTING ARRESTS: Nine suspects charged with smuggling rare Torah manuscripts into Israel ( Al-Masry Al-Youm / Egypt Independent ). Nine sus...
Friday, October 07, 2016

Billionaires are trying to escape the demiurgic world

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GNOSTICISM WATCH: Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it. Many of the...

Radiocarbon dating honored

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Site of radiocarbon dating discovery named historic landmark (Steve Koppes, University of Chicago/ Science Daily ). It wa...

Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron

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I HAVE TO ADMIT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM: This Fascinating Figure Was The Original Indiana Jones (The Foundation for Economic Education,...

Slichah

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew Word of the Week: sliHah “forgiveness; pardon (me), sorry.” Timely, with Yom Kippur coming next week.

Aristotle and Yom Kippur?

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LITURGY: Embracing Aristotle at Yom Kippur. When we recite Unetaneh Tokef at High Holiday services, we take a lesson from the ancient Gree...
Thursday, October 06, 2016

On the Elephantine papyri

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THE ASOR BLOG: Multi-Dimensional Yahwism: The Case of the Persian Period Judaean Community in Elephantine (Gard Granerød). When reading Jew...

ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Program

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INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: ISAW NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2017-18 VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLAR PROGRAM (MARC LEBLANC)....

Nibiru, the Nephilim, and the Iraqi transport minister

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CAN'T MAKE IT UP: First airport built in Iraq 5,000 years ago, for aliens: minister. Iraq‘s transport minister quotes Jewish ‘expert‘ t...

ETC Blog SBL 2016 dinner

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UPCOMING EVENT: SBL 2016 San Antonio ETC Blog Dinner ( Christian Askeland). Anyone attending the SBL meetings is invited.

Visiting Petra

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TRAVEL: The Real Adventurer’s Guide to the Ancient City of Petra. Visitor numbers to the iconic ruins of Petra, in the Jordanian desert, ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Qedem Reports in JSTOR

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AWOL: New in JSTOR: Qedem Reports . Some of the archived Qedem volumes involve the archaeology of ancient Judaism.

Podcast interview with Christine Hayes

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MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS: First Impressions # 92: Christine Hayes on the Nature of Divine Law . Greco-Roman conceptions of divine and huma...

Postgraduate conference on alcohol in the ancient world

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: CAS Graduate Student Conference: Call for Papers Alcohol in the Ancient World Conference Date: February ...

Romans 3:9-18

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READING ACTS: The Power of Sin – Romans 3:9-18 . Phil Long continues to interact with ancient Jewish texts in his pericope-by-pericope serie...

Penn symposium on ancient divination

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: CAS Annual Symposium Fall 2016 Divination in the Ancient World All sessions are in Rainey Auditorium at ...