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Saturday, April 01, 2017

Ashton Kutcher told the Senate a Talmud story (really)

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TALMUD WATCH: Actor Ashton Kutcher Recounts Talmudic Tale During Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Human Trafficking (Shiryn Gh...

Remembering Louis Feldman

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THE LEHRHAUS: Remembering Professor Louis Feldman, z"l (Ari Lamm). “It was just me and this other guy in class,” explained a family fr...

Election

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READING ACTS: Core Beliefs of Second Temple Judaism: Election . As I think I have mentioned before, I have reservations about regarding the ...

March 2017 Biblical Studies Carnival

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BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL: MAD AS A MARCH HARE 2017 at Jonathan Rivett Robinson's ξἐνος Blog. In five parts.

Wiesehöfer and Müller (eds.), Parthika

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: . Notice of a new book: Wiesehöfer, Josef & Sabine Müller (eds.). 2017. Parthika. Greek and Roman authors’ views ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

No, Jesus was not the warrior-king of Edessa

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NUMISMATICS (ETC.) FAIL: Historical analysis of coin said to bear true image of Christ: 'Wildly irresponsible' and 'crackers....

Galor, Finding Jerusalem

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AWOL BLOG: New from Luminos: Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology By Katharina Galor .

Byun, The Influence of Post-Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic on the Translator of Septuagint Isaiah

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY T&T CLARK: The Influence of Post-Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic on the Translator of Septuagint Isaiah By: Seulg...

Individual piety in P

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DR. RABBI DAVID FRANKEL: “Mitzvah Piety” and the Need for Individual Atonement (TheTorah.com). Abstract: “Mitzvah piety” of the individual...

The Shema

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READING ACTS: Core Beliefs of Second Temple Judaism: Shema . The Shema was fundamental to daily practice of Jewish. The word refers to Deut...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Review of Himmelfarb, Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel (Jae H. Han). Martha Himmelfarb....

Cline on the looting of antiquities

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YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: Do You Get to Keep What You Find? (Eric Cline, The ASOR Blog). There is one question that I am aske...

The Copper Scroll, The Treatise of the Vessels, and Jim Barfield

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THOSE TEMPLE TREASURES AGAIN: Secret of Dead Sea Copper Scroll Unlocked, Revealing Location of Lost Temple Treasures (Adam Eliyahu Berkowit...

Love spells in the Cairo Geniza

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH: T-S K12.89: ‘Like Esther in front of Ahasuerus.’ Again, this is an old FOTM post from July 2010. The subject ...

UNESCO resolution on Israel toned down

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: UNESCO Resolution against Israel softened: "A significant achievement" (Rachel Avraham, Jerusalem Online). Th...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Waqf workers arrested for assault on archaeologists

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Israel Arrests Temple Mount Officials After Assault on Archaeologists. Waqf officials say Israeli archaeologists tried ...

Jarick (ed.), SOTS at 100

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY T&T CLARK: SOTS at 100: Centennial Essays of the Society for Old Testament Study Editor(s): John Jarick Pub...

Krause, Synagogues in the Works of Flavius Josephus

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Synagogues in the Works of Flavius Josephus Rhetoric, Spatiality, and First-Century Jewish Institutions Andrew R. Kr...

Phoenicians in America?

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Theory: Ancient Phoenicians were the first to discover the Americas (TornosNews.gr). When I see headlines like this one, ...

Greenberg on Be'eri and the Israel Prize

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: David Be’eri’s Useful Idiots Every archaeological discovery made in the City of David in the past twenty yea...