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Saturday, February 04, 2017

Keim, Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer, at Google Books

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KATHARINA KEIM'S NEW BOOK ON PIKRE DERABBI ELIEZER is now available at Google Books: Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer : Structure, Coherence, ...

The Talmud, Gilgamesh, Eden, and sex

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LEHRHAUS: Gilgamesh and the Rabbis: Knowledge and its Price from Uruk to the Beit Midrash (Eli Putterman. The tale of R. Yohanan and Reish ...

Crowdsourcing Gilgamesh

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Readers get headstart on book about Gilgamesh. Jerusalem author Shirley Graetz turns to crowdsourcing to fund yo...

ISBL 2017: history of Jewish biblical scholarship in Berlin

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H-JUDAIC: CFP: JEWISH BIBLE SCHOLARSHIP IN BERLIN in the 19th and 20th centuries at ISBL, Berlin, Aug. 2017. Proposals due 22 Feb 2017 . We ...

Rabbinics and Second Temple Judaism

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READING ACTS: Using Rabbinic Literature for the Study of the Second Temple Period . The best advice is probably not to use rabbinic literatu...
Friday, February 03, 2017

Of ritual baths, stone vessels, and purity

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY (ASOR BLOG): Jewish Purity Practices in Roman Judea: The Evidence of Archaeology (Yonatan Adler). Along with mi...

Ugaritica volumes online for free

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AWOL: Open Access Monograph Series: Ugaritica . Cross-file under Northwest Semitic Epigraphy.

Postdoc in France on Ancient Judaism

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UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE (METZ): Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Project PLURITEXT (ANR/DFG) The Maison de...

Revival of the half-shekel Temple tax

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BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS: Half-Shekel Temple Tax Reinstated By Sanhedrin (Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz). “Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years...

Of Amorites, truffles, and giants

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF HISTORY: Peoples of the Bible: The legend of the Amorites. And why were the biblical peoples so terrified of migrant s...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Review of Becker, Porphyrios, 'Contra Christianos'

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Matthias Becker, Porphyrios, 'Contra Christianos'. Neue Sammlung der Fragmente, Testimonien und Dubia mi...

Another review of Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism

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H-JUDAIC: Schwartz on Gardner, 'The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism' . Author: Gregg Gardner Reviewer: Joshua Sc...

Biblical Studies Carnival 131

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WESTAR INSTITUTE: Biblical Studies Carnival 131 – January 2017 (Cassandra Farrin). Hopefully this will be corrected soon, but as the post c...

The Judaism and Rome Project

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THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL: The ERC project "Judaism and Rome" Welcome to the website for the ERC project "Re-thinking J...

Textual criticism summer school in Salzburg

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ON BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR USE IN BIBLICAL STUDIES: Summer School in Salzburg, Austria 3-7 July 2017 The Hebrew and Greek Texts of E...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Historical reliability of Luke-Acts, part 2

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THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: uke & Acts: Historical Reliability - 2 (Michael J. Caba). The first two verses of the third chapter of the Book ...

The Arshama Project

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Arshama project . The Arshama Project is not new, but since it is a valuable resource for the study of Achaemenid...

The Talmud on walls and neighbors

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : What the Talmud Says About Trump’s Border Wall, Paid For by Mexico. In this we...

Interview with Burke and Landau

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EERDWORD BLOG: Eerdmans Author Interviews: Tony Burke & Brent Landau . Tony Burke and Brent Landau are co-editors of New Testament Apocr...

The return of the Diaspora in Second Temple Judaism

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READING ACTS: Hope for the Future during the Exile . The scattering of the Jewish people throughout the world is the foundation for the hope...