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Saturday, September 02, 2017

Dimant, From Enoch to Tobit

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: DEVORAH DIMANT, From Enoch to Tobit. Collected Studies in Ancient Jewish Literature . 2017. XVI, 367 pages. For...

Biography of James Rendel Harris

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter By: Alessandro Falcetta Published: 08-...

Hurtado test-drives the Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek

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LARRY HURTADO: The New Brill Greek-English Lexicon Test-driven . But for serious exegesis, you need also to take account of how a word is us...

Review of Seng et al. (eds.), Formen und Nebenformen des Platonismus in der Spätantike

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Helmut Seng, Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini (ed.), Formen und Nebenformen des ...
Friday, September 01, 2017

A King who reads Torah

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DR. CYNTHIA EDENBURG: A King Who Reads Torah: What was Kingship Like in the ANE? (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy envisions a king constantly re...

Zenobia, the "visionary queen" of Palmyra

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JUDITH WEINGARTEN: Zenobia, Visionary Queen of Ancient Palmyra. In the 200s A.D. the Empress of the East turned her armies on Rome, and alm...

Golb's prison sentence upheld, but some convictions overturned

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THE RAPHAEL GOLB IDENTITY-THEFT CASE: Impersonator of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars sees U.S. conviction upheld (Brendan Pierson). [Incorrect l...

On ancient Jewish coins

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NUMISMATICS: Pocket history: the secrets of ancient coins. The lulav and etrog often appeared on Jewish coins in classical times - but why?...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

M. R. James's ghost stories republished

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NEW BOOK FROM OUP: Collected Ghost Stories (OWC Hardback) M. R. James Edited by Darryl Jones Oxford World's Classics Hardback Col...

IOQS website

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THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF QUMRAN STUDIES now has an official website at the University of Göttingen. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for ...

Coins of Berenice II

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NUMISMATICS: THE COINAGE OF QUEEN BERENICE II (Tara Sewell-Lasater, Pocket Change Blog). Queen Berenice II is mentioned in the Bible in D...

Jacobs, Henkelman, & Stolper (eds.), Die Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Administration in the Achaemenid Empire . Notice of a new book: Jacobs, Bruno, Wouter F. M. Henkelman & Matthew W...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

BNTC 2017

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I'M OFF TO THE 2017 BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE . It is being held at Saint Patrick's College Maynooth in Ireland. I am especi...

Justness on the post-2002 DSS-like fragments

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THE LYING PER OF SCRIBES BLOG has collected some information regarding those supposed new fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls which have emerged s...

Fund the Temple Mount Sifting Project

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DAVID M. WEINBERG: Fund the sifting project (Israel HaYom). One of the most important archaeological projects in Israel today, the Temple M...

eBay and antiquities

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THE FACES AND VOICES BLOG: The eBay experience . Dr. Roberta Mazza thinks that eBay could do better in its dealings with antiquities and ant...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Jordanian lead codices: (4) Concluding observations

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THIS IS MY FOURTH AND CONCLUDING POST commenting on Samuel Zinnner's comprehensive report on the Jordanian Lead Codices: Son of the Sta...

The Prime Minister, Facebook, and that souvenir coin

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OOPS! Fake History: Netanyahu Boasts About 'Ancient Jerusalem Coin' - Turns Out to Be Kids' Souvenir. Netanyahu uploaded (then ...

Were Ophir and Tarshish in India?

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PHILOLOGOS: Did King Solomon Trade with India? On the possible whereabouts of Ophir and Tarshish, and how to get there by ship from Palesti...

Review of Rüpke, Religious Deviance in the Roman World:

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Religious Deviance in the Roman World (Catherine Bonesho). Jörg Rüpke. Religious Deviance in the Roman Worl...