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Saturday, September 09, 2017

On the DSS at 70

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ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE: How the Dead Sea Scroll Discovery Changed Christianity (Andrew Perrin, Relevant Magazine). 2017 marks the 70th anniver...

Hjelm and Thompson (eds.), History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years After “Historicity”

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ingrid Hjelm, Thomas L. Thompson (ed.), History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years After “Historicity.” Chan...

The rabbis made observance of Firstfruits more inclusive

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RABBI YOSEIF BLOCH: Bikkurim : How the Rabbis Made a Mitzvah for Male Landowners More Inclusive (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy directs male la...

More on the Great Revolt victims buried at Ofra

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LEEN RITMEYER: Victims of Great Revolt against the Romans laid to rest in Ofra . Dr. Ritymeyer has a photo and drawings of, and details abou...
Friday, September 08, 2017

Coloring the Arch of Titus

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RECONSTRUCTION: Archaeologists Reconstruct How the Arch of Titus Looked – in Full Color. When built, the Arch was not a majestic white ston...

Great Revolt casualties buried at last

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Victims of Great Revolt brought to rest in Ofra. Remains of Jews who perished in the Great Revolt against the Romans and were ...

The final fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE

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JIM WEST: On This Day, in the Year 70 CE, in Jerusalem . Courtesy of Julius Wellhausen. The final defenses in the upper city of Jerusalem fe...

The Purple Parchment Eater

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MATERIAL (BACTERIAL) CULTURE: Secret Vatican Manuscript's Mysterious Purple Spots Decoded (Stephanie Pappas, Live Science). But when th...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

Friedman on the Exodus and the Levites

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THE ASOR BLOG: The Exodus in Archaeology and Text . Professor Richard Elliott Friedman gives us a preview of his arguments in his new book, ...

More problems with the new, supposed DSS fragments?

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THE LYING PEN OF SCRIBES BLOG: The Museum of the Bible DSS-like Frgs: Written by “the Worn Nibs and Equal Thickness of Strokes Scribal Schoo...

Deuteronomy on remarrying your ex-wife

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DR. EVE LEVAVI FEINSTEIN: Remarrying Your Ex-Wife (TheTorah.com). Why can’t a man remarry his wife once she has been married to someone els...

Brady at the University of Kentucky

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INTERVIEW: Get to Know Christian Brady, Inaugural Dean of the Lewis Honors College (Tim Tracy, University of Kentucky News). Targumist Chri...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Pliny the Elder's skull?

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Pompeii Hero Pliny the Elder May Have Been Found 2,000 Years Later. Pliny the Elder sailed into danger when Vesuvius erup...

Sunderman memorial volume on the Turfan manuscripts (etc.)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Iranian, Manichaean and Central Asian Studies in Memoriam Sundermann . Notice of a new book: Einem Team „Turfanforsch...

The Exodus as history?

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Exodus: History Recaptured I believe we can get at what probably took place in Egypt over three millenni...

The logion of John Wayne the Centurion

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THE NT BLOG: "Say it with awe!" The Apocryphal John Wayne . Mark Goodacre tracks down the true story behind a famous New Testament...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Northern refugees in Iron Age Judah?

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EPIGRAPHY AND POLITICS: Jerusalem welcomed Jewish refugees 2,700 years ago, new finds show. A trove of clay imprints from official document...

Empirical models and inconsistency in the Torah

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SOURCE CRITICISM: The Challenge to Diachronic Method From Empirical Models of Ancient Writing . In looking beyond the Hebrew scriptures to t...

Barry Holtz on "Rabbi Akiva"

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: In New Book, JTS Professor Traces His ‘Cultural Footprints From The Rabbinic Past.’ Barry Holtz pieces together an “imagi...

Deuteronomy and homosexuality

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DR. HACHAM ISAAC SAASOON: What Does Deuteronomy Say about Homosexuality? (TheTorah.com). “Let there be no kadesh among the sons of Israel. ...