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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Who was the real Pontius Pilate?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Jesus Before Pilate: Who was the real Pontius Pilate? (Marek Dospěl). As usual, the full article on Pontius Pilate by...

Crowdsourcing Chinese epigraphy

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AN ARMY OF EPIGRAPHERS: A Chinese Museum Is Offering Big Money to Whomever Can Decode This Ancient Script. The going rate is $15,000 per ch...

Böhm, Die Rezeption der Psalmen ...

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: CHRISTIANE BÖHM. Die Rezeption der Psalmen in den Qumranschriften, bei Philo von Alexandrien und im Corpus Pauli...

Collected essays by the late Alan Segal

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LARRY HURTADO: A.F. Segal: “The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity.” I’m very pleased to have my gift-copy of the re-publication of some key w...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Why did Elazar interrupt Moses?

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DR. RABBI ZEV FARBER: Elazar Speaks Once in the Torah: Why Does He Interrupt Moses? (TheTorah.com). Moses tells the soldiers returning from...

DNA analysis of manuscripts

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Goats, bookworms, a monk’s kiss: Biologists reveal the hidden history of ancient gospels (Ann Gibbons, Science Magazine)....

Conference: Being Jewish, Writing Greek

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UPCOMING: Being Jewish, Writing Greek: Literary Form and Cultural Identity . — Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge — Wednesday 6...

Kaden on "Law" in Pauline discourse

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Why "Law" in Pauline Discourse (David Kaden). With this theoretical caveat, my project compares cross-cultura...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

The Green Collection and Classics: "Brace Yourselves"

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THE ROGUE CLASSICISM BLOG: The Hobby Lobby Settlement: A Gathering Storm for Classicists? David Meadows has a meticulously documented post ...

Magdala — an ancient priestly refuge?

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ARCHAEOLOGY: New finds suggest Second Temple priests who fled the Romans kept up holy rituals in the Galilee. After seven years of excavati...

Textual Plurality conference at Metz

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UPCOMING: TEXTUAL PLURALITY BEYOND THE BIBLICAL TEXTS: International Conference, Metz, October 17-19 2017 . Argument of the conference The...

New findings from the Babylonian destructions of Jerusalem

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ARCHAEOLOGY: New evidence from Babylonian destruction of the First Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.​ The findings depict the affluence and chara...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Reeves and Reed, Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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REMNANT OF GIANTS: Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages . Deane Galbraith notes a forthcoming book: John C. Reeves and Annette Yoshiko Re...

Isbell on Paul & Judaism

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Paul & Judaism . By Charles David Isbell, Louisiana State University, July 2017. Further, if Paul had been...

Paul and the Stegosaurus

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Pauline Paleontology (Matthew Thiessen). A few concluding words about dinosaurs, fossil remains, and Paul’s letters. Ap...

Ancient wine press excavated at Ramat Negev

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ARCHAEOLOGY: 1,600 years ago, soldiers may have quaffed wine from this desert press. A large Byzantine-era wine press uncovered in the Nege...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Daf Yomi: starting tractate Sanhedrin

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Reading Torah Against the Grain. Daf Yomi: Do Talmudic rabbis seek justificati...

The Menorah exhibition and the history of Roman Jewry

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VATICAN MENORAH EXHIBITION: St. Peter’s Menorah. How the Vatican warmed to Jews over the last century (Fredric Brandfon, Tablet Magazine)...

Oy va-avoy!

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YONA SABAR: Hebrew Word of the Week: oy va-avoy "oh dear; woe, alas" אוי ואבוי . An onomatopoetic expression formed from the combi...

What is Tisha B’Av?

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COMING NEXT WEEK: What is Tisha B’Av? It is one of the saddest days in the Jewish calendar, but why - and how - do we mark it? (Daniel Sug...