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Saturday, July 15, 2017

SOTS Book List 2017

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IN THE MAIL: John Jarrick (ed.) with Holly Thompson, Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2017 (= JSOT 41.5) (London: Sage, 2017). For...

More from Novenson on The Grammar of Messianism

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THE CSCO BLOG: The Grammar of Messianism, PT. 2 . The conclusion of the two-part video series on Dr. Matthew Novenson's new book with th...

Four new Jewish books

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BOOK REVIEWLETS: Four new Jewish books are tour guides to old ones (Howard Freedman, Jewish News of Northern California). Past posts on H...

Review of Goldsworthy, Pax Romana

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Adrian Goldsworthy, Pax Romana: War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World. New Haven; London: Yale Univers...
Friday, July 14, 2017

On lost books quoted in the Bible

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PROF. ED GREENSTEIN: What was the Book of the Wars of the Lord? (TheTorah.com). And what can we learn by comparing it to another ancient bo...

Rasmussen on Emperor-cult architecture at Herculaneum

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Emperor Worship at Herculaneum (Carl Rasmussen). As Christianity spread into the Roman World, one of the ma...

T. Abraham: heavenly journey

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READING ACTS: Abraham’s Heavenly Journey – Testament of Abraham 10- 14 . Phil Long is back with more in his series on the Testamentary liter...

Review of Weitzman, The Origin of the Jews

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BOOK REVIEW: No easy answers in the search for Jewish origins (Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal). ... Of all the issues that perplex the Jew...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Nabatean remains at Hawara

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NABATEAN (NABATAEAN) WATCH: Canadian scholars explore ancient Nabataean site of Hawara (Saeb Rawashdeh, The Jordan Times). One scholar, Joh...

Grossberg, Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: DAVID M. GROSSBERG Heresy and the Formation of the Rabbinic Community. 2017. X, 277 pages. Texts and Studies ...

Nehushtan the bronze serpent

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DR. RICHARD LEDERMAN: Nehushtan, the Copper Serpent: Its Origins and Fate (TheTorah.com). The Torah describes Moses building a copper serpe...

Shablul

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew Word of the Week: shablul "snail; the symbol @" שבלול. . Professor Sabar does not note this, but the word appea...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

The Talmud on the art (and problem) of forgery

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : The Art of Forgery. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the rabbis attempt...

Brady moves to the University of Kentucky

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CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRISTIAN BRADY: First Lewis Honors Dean Named (Jay Blanton, University of Kentucky Campus News). LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 1...

More looting arrests in the West Bank

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APPREHENDED: Antiquities thieves nabbed with artifacts from Byzantine-era church. Civil administration says it has opened an investigation ...

The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Canon Deck

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RELIGION PROF: New Canon Deck Available: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (James McGrath). A while back, Jim Davila asked whether the card game...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Squitieri, Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period . Notice of a new book: Squitieri, Andrea. ...

JQS 24.2 (2017)

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THE JEWISH STUDIES QUARTERLY has a new issue out ( Volume 24, Number 2, 2017 ). One of the articles involves ancient Judaism: Meir Ben Shah...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Lawrence, Jethro and the Jews

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Jethro and the Jews. Jewish Biblical Interpretation and the Question of Identity . Beatrice J.W. Lawrence, Seattle Uni...

Candida Moss

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CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR CANDIDA MOSS , who has joined the faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham as Edward Ca...