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Saturday, February 11, 2017

More on the new, blank DSS

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QUMRAN CAVE 12: New Dead Sea Scroll Find May Help Detect Forgeries. Looters plundered the cave decades ago. But archaeologists are thrilled...

1 Maccabees and Hasmonean ideology

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READING ACTS: 1 Maccabees and the Legitimacy of the Hasmoneans . The book of 1 Maccabees clearly favors the revolution against the Seleucid ...

The Septuagint Song

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FURTHER TO INTERNATIONAL SEPTUAGINT DAY: The Septuagint Song (Tommy Wasserman, ETC Blog). I give them points for effort. Background here ...

Taylor, Gospels

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NEW NOVEL: Nottingham novelist crafts 19th century bible hunting tale that is 'Indiana Jones meets Jules Verne.' Bible-hunting, rog...

Resources for Zoharic Aramaic

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ZOHAR WATCH: Judy Barrett's Academia.edu page has a number of resources for the study of Zoharic Aramaic. See especially Twelve Lesson...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Tu B'Shevat 2017

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TU B'SHEVAT , the New Year for Trees , begins tonight at sundown. Some past posts of interest are collected here and see also here .

Cottrell, The Writings Of Silvanus

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NEW NOVEL: Author Dana George Cottrell’s Newly Released “The Writings Of Silvanus” is a Journey into Ancient Phoenicia and Greece . Publishe...

Human trees in the Bible?

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DR. SHAI SECUNDA: “Are Trees of the Field Human?” (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy 20:19 forbids the chopping down of fruit trees during war-tim...

Coins and the Bible conference

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NUMISMATICS: Coins and the Bible: Understanding Ancient Coinage April 29 @ 10:30 am — 6:00 pm - a day conference at New College at the Uni...

Jubilees and the Land

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READING ACTS: Jubilees and Sacred Geography . The emphasis on God’s gift of land to the descendants of Israel is important because many Jewi...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Qumran Cave 12

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HEBREW UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE: Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave . Hebrew University archaeologist Dr. Oren...

New excavation coming at Kiryat Ye’arim

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CUE INDIANA JONES MUSIC: Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood. Israeli and French researchers to...

Tu B'Shevat

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COMING TOMORROW: What is Tu Bishvat? Tu Bishvat, sometimes transliterated as Tu B'Shevat, traditionally marks the date on which farmers...

Jubilees and the Law

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READING ACTS: The Law in Jubilees . What motivated the writer of Jubliees to ground distinctive Jewish practices in the earliest stories in...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

International Septuagint Day 2017

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IT'S FEBRUARY 8TH AGAIN: INTERNATIONAL LXX DAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NATALIO FERNÁNDEZ-MARCOS (William Ross, Septuaginta & C. blog...

Open-access Steinsaltz Talmud

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TALMUD WATCH: The Babylonian Talmud Is Now Available Free Online in English and Hebrew. The non-profit Sefaria has fulfilled a dream that d...

The Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-18)

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RABBI DR. DANIEL M. ZUCKER: Enthroning God in the Temple with the Song of the Sea (TheTorah.com). The Song of the Sea begins with defeat of...

Jubilees

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READING ACTS: Jubilees and the Eternal Covenant . Unlike Sirach, Jubilees envisions a complete separation from the Hellenistic world. The a...

Crowe on Adamic Christology

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THE CSCO BLOG: The Last Adam: The Adamic Christology of Early Christianity (Brandon D. Crowe). Put simply, today little attention is typic...

Judith Romney Wegner z'l'

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SAD NEWS FROM H-JUDAIC: Obituary: Dr. Judith Romney Wegner . H-Judaic is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Judith Romney Wegner...