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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Who Were the Phoenicians?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Who Were the Phoenicians? Exploring the Phoenician empire (Megan Sauter). Who were the Phoenicians? Where did they c...

Another review of Kurshan, If All the Seas Were Ink

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TALMUD WATCH: Getting Personal About The Talmud. Ilana Kurshan’s memoir about her journey through the ancient tractates (SANDEE BRAWARSKY,...

Sahidic Coptic intensive course at Wuppertal

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COPTIC WATCH: Wuppertal Coptic Intensive 2018 (Christian Askeland, ETC Blog). Christian is teaching the course in February of 2018. Follow ...

Friedman et al., The Trial of the Talmud

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MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS: The Trial of the Talmud Anti-Judaism and the Talmud in Medieval French Society (Sarah Ifft Decker). The Trial ...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Bauckham (ed.), Magdala, Jewish City of Fish

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RICHARD BAUCKHAM has kindly sent me details of his forthcoming book, which I mentioned recently. For other past posts on Magdala, start the...

Reviews of books on ritual purity

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BOOK REVIEWS: Purity and Obscurity (Shai Secunda, Jewish Review of Books). Dr. Secunda reviews three books on ancient Jewish ritual purity:...

Besler, Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Disability Studies and Rabbinic Resistance to the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem (Julia Watts Belser). Roman conquest leav...

Scholz on Reading the Bible in a Feminist Key

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Reading the Bible in a Feminist Key: Three Challenges for Feminist Biblical Interpretation Today Yet despite...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Kalimi on Fighting Over the Bible

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THE ASOR BLOG: Fighting Over the Bible: Jewish Interpretation, Sectarianism and Polemic from Temple to Talmud and Beyond (Isaac Kalimi). Th...

Inscribed Coptic tombstone partially deciphered

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COPTIC WATCH: Newly discovered Coptic tombstone in Luxor belonged to a child: Study. The medieval headstone has been partially deciphered a...

Lecture on Armenian-Syriac relations

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SYRIAC WATCH AND ARMENIAN WATCH: Ararat-Eskijian Museum Present a Lecture on Armenian-Syriac Relations (Asbarez). MISSION HILLS, Calif. – A...

Stephen Greenblatt on Adam and Eve

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INTERVIEW: Stephen Greenblatt On How The Story Of Adam And Eve Shaped History (Talya Zax, The Forward). Has there been a more consequential...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Abraham as a hero?

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PROF. EVERETT FOX: What Kind of Hero is Abraham? (TheTorah.com). The lack of details surrounding God’s first call to Abram—לך לך, “go forth...

Review of Brooke and Feldman (eds.), On Prophets, Warriors, and Kings

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | On Prophets, Warriors, and Kings Former Prophets through the Eyes of Their Interpreters (Joshua Matson). Ge...

Blade Runner 2049, the Bible, and Gnosticism

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CINEMA: Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club). Call it the ultimate tribu...

Is the Bible true?

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Is the Bible a True Story? Despite feverish searching with Scripture in one hand and cutting-edge technology in the other, evi...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Museum of the Bible is opening soon

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Museum of the Bible in the Spotlight. Washington, D.C. Bible museum invites dialogue (Robin Ngo and Megan Sauter)...

Magdala

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Magdala (Rhona Lewis, The Jewish Press). If you haven’t heard of Magdala, it’s where you can find out about the unearthing of ...

Library of Congress given Italian Talmud

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TALMUD WATCH: Rome’s rabbi gifts Talmud to Library of Congress (Chris Mathews, Religion News Service). WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Library of Co...

Inscribed Coptic tombstone excavated at Luxor

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COPTIC WATCH: Coptic tombstone unearthed at Sphinxes Avenue in Luxor. The object is carved of limestone and decorated with a cross and Copt...