Pages

▼
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Review of Collins, Scriptures and Sectarianism

›
ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Scriptures and Sectarianism: Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Amanda M. Davis Bledsoe). John J. Collins, Scriptures and ...

Tamar, rule-breaker

›
PROF. JACQUELINE VAYNTRUB: “Her Name was Tamar”: Invasive, Destructive, Redemptive (TheTorah.com). The character of Tamar draws on a botani...

LXX studies

›
THE LOGOS ACADEMIC BLOG: So you want to study the LXX? Here’s why and where to do it . Cambridge doctoral student William Ross has a guest p...

Siegal, Grünstäudl, and Thiessen (eds.), Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

›
NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity . Ed. by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Wolfgang Grünst...
Friday, December 15, 2017

On the Pope and temptation in the Lord's Prayer

›
MEREDITH WARREN: ‘Lead us not into temptation’: why Pope Francis is wrong about the Lord’s Prayer (The Conversation). Pope Francis recently...

Hanukkah and early liturgical poetry

›
'TIS THE SEASON (HANUKKAH EDITION): In Praise of the Hasmoneans: Chanukah Beyond Rabbinic Literature (Prof. Ophir Münz-Manor, TheGemara...

New Jewish Museum in Italy

›
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION: National Jewish museum opens in Italy. New exhibit details history of Jewish presence in Italy from ancient Roman tim...

Geniza Fragments 73 and 74

›
GENIZA FRAGMENTS, the Newsletter of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library has published two new issues si...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Porcupines everywhere!

›
APPREHENDED: ‘We were just hunting porcupines,’ claims antiquities robber. Twice in one night, Israel Antiquities Authority theft-preventio...

Questions about the Greek First Apocalypse of James fragments

›
DAVID MEADOWS IS ASKING QUESTIONS: Oxyrhynchus and the First Apocalypse of James: Collection History Just Got Murkier (Rogue Classicism Blo...

The Joseph story as literature

›
PROF. GARY A. RENDSBURG: The Joseph Story: Ancient Literary Art at Its Best (TheTorah.com). The Joseph story invites the reader to be trans...

Review of Curtis, Interpreting the Wisdom Books

›
READING ACTS: Book Review: Edward M. Curtis, Interpreting the Wisdom Books (Phil Long). Curtis, Edward M. Interpreting the Wisdom Books: An...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Talmud on the the Talmud's organization

›
THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : The Order of Things. The reasoning behind the Talmud’s categories and sub-cate...

Hasmonean-era findings at Susya

›
ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Jewish town from Hasmonean period discovered ,100-year-old Jewish community found in Judea, dating back to Hasmonean p...

That gold-lettered Turkish Torah is a "crude fake"

›
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Ancient 'Torah' uncovered in Turkey actually a crude fake: experts (i24 News). An ancient Torah scroll reportedly...

News on St. Catherine's Monastery

›
REOPENING: Antiquities minister to inaugurate St. Catherine's' library on Saturday (MENA, Egypt Today). CAIRO - 11 December 2017: A...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Hanukkah 2017

›
HAPPY HANUKKAH (CHANUKKAH, CHANUKAH) to all those celebrating! The eight-day festival begins tonight at sundown. Last year's Hanukkah...

Pereginations of an ancient stone menorah-incised door

›
ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeologists uncover bittersweet end of 1,800-year-old Tiberias menorah. Once carved on a Jewish grave, the menorah had two ...

Maccabean-era candle holder excavated by porcupine

›
DISCOVERY: MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DISCOVER ANCIENT CLAY LAMP FROM HELLENISTIC PERIOD Second century CE relic dates to Judah Maccabee’s battles...

Reprising an ancient menorah sketch

›
BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Understanding the Jewish Menorah. Does this ancient menorah graffito show the Temple menorah? The Jewish menorah—espec...