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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Ancient Nubia

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF HISTORY: Ancient Nubia: A Brief History (Owen Jarus, Live Science). Ancient Nubia's history has a famous overlap w...

Of Canaanites, coins, and palm trees

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NUMISMATICS: PALM READING (Oliver Hoover, Pocket Change Blog). No, not that kind of palm reading. This Pocket Change post is on how the C...

Black metal watchers

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MUSIC: Saille Posts New Song "Benei ha'Elohim" (xFiruath, MetalUnderground.com). Belgian Black metal band Saille just release...

Spolsky, The Languages of Diaspora and Return

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL The Languages of Diaspora and Return by Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University). Until quite recently, the term Diaspo...

Henkelman and Redard (eds.), Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period . Notice of a new book: Henkelman, Wouter & Céline Redard (eds.). 2017....
Friday, February 17, 2017

More on the Sefaria online Talmud

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TALMUD WATCH: Talmud & Commentaries (Louis Finkelman, Detroit Jewish News). Sefaria, a website founded in 2013 that aims to put the see...

The Karaite community in California

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KARAITE WATCH: A Karaite prayer: Little-known Jewish community builds center to tell its story (David A.M. Wilensky, J.). B’nai Israel is t...

McDonald, The Formation of the Biblical Canon: 2 Volumes

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY: The Formation of the Biblical Canon: 2 Volumes By: Lee Martin McDonald Published: 26-01-2017 Format: Hardback ...

Report on Bethsaida, 2016 season

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Consortium for the Bethsaida Excavation Project: Report on the 2016 Excavation Season By Rami Arav, Car...

More on 1 Maccabees and the Hasmoneans

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READING ACTS: First Maccabees as Pro-Hasmonean Propaganda . On this subject, see also this post . Past posts in Phil Long's series on ...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Roman-era gate at Beit She’arim

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WHAT'S IN A NAME? Archaeologists shocked to find ancient gateway at ‘House of Gates.’ Excavation at Beit She’arim in northern Israel un...

The Talmud on public schools

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Talmud to Betsy DeVos: Yes, We Need Public Schools. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’...

The Maccabean Revolt (2)

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READING ACTS: Factors Leading to the Maccabean Revolt (Part 2) . "For the writer of 1 Maccabees, violence was indeed the answer." ...

Ge'ez class takes off at University of Toronto

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ETHIOPIC WATCH: U of T students flock to ancient language Ge'ez course, funded in part by The Weeknd. Deciphering ancient languages can...

Restoration of ancient mikvaot at Temple Mount

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH, VIDEO EDITION: Watch: Second Temple mikvehs restored near Temple Mount. Kevin Bermeister joined the Jerusalem 5800 proj...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Murex shells from the Temple Mount

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Temple Mount Sifting Project has found a murex trunculus: a rock snail shell . What makes the murex trunculus so spe...

Diodorus Siculus and ANE history

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THE ASOR BLOG: Diodorus of Sicily’s Library and the Ancient Near East (Jan P. Stronk). Diodorus of Sicily, a Greek, was born as a member of...

The Maccabean Revolt (1)

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READING ACTS: Factors Leading to the Maccabean Revolt (Part 1) . A recent PaleoJudaica post involving the same events is here . Past posts...

Longacre on the DSS and the textual development of the Pentateuch

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Reflections on the Textual Development of the Pentateuch in Light of Documented Evidence (Drew Longacre). Many have dis...

More ISIS damage to Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: Russian video shows fresh IS damage in Palmyra (AP). The drone footage shows additional damage to the ancient architecture o...