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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Tickets on sale for Denver DSS exhibit

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COMING SOON: TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT IN DENVER (Sadye Hazan, 303 Magazine). Tickets are now on sale for th...

Wandrey (ed.), Jewish Manuscript Cultures

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OPEN-ACCESS BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Jewish Manuscript Cultures. New Perspectives . Ed. by Wandrey, Irina. Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultu...

More on the palaeographic dating of NT etc. manuscripts

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FURTHER TO THIS POST , two more recent blog posts deal with the problem of the palaeographic (paleographic) dating of early Christian manusc...

Chaverdi, Callieri, and Callieri, Persepolis West

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Persepolis West (Fars, Iran) . Notice of a new book, an archaeological report on the Persepolis excavation: Askari Ch...
Friday, January 19, 2018

A potsherd with an image from the Parthenon?

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ANCIENT CERAMIC ART: ISRAEL: ANCIENT VASE SHOWING GREEK GODS DISCOVERED IN BIBLICAL SITE WHERE JESUS MAY HAVE PERFORMED MIRACLES (Kastalia ...

About that mysterious "Hebrew" fragment

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ARAMAIC WATCH? A Proposed Reading of a New Aramaic Fragment . As an update to my earlier post Mysterious Hebrew fragment from Oxyrhynchus , ...

Rupschus, Frauen in Qumran

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR-SIEBECK: NICOLE RUPSCHUS, Frauen in Qumran . [Women in Qumran.] 2017. XII, 335 pages. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen z...

The decipherment of the Rosetta Stone

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EGYPTOLOGY PHILOLOGY: The Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone (Evan Andrews, History.com). An oft-told story, but always worth hearing agai...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

AJR Forum in Honor of Ben Wright

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: A Genius for Mentorship: A Forum in Honor of Ben Wright on his 65th Birthday (Francis Borchardt and Eva Mroczek). So fa...

Conference at Yale - Inscribing Death

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Inscribing Death: Memorial and the Transmission of Text in the Ancient World Yale University, February 23, 2018 ...

Elledge on Resurrection in Early Judaism

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Resurrection in Early Judaism While it remained popular within sectors of early Judaism, some writings clear...

On palaeographical dating of literary manuscripts

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LARRY HURTADO: The Limits and Difficulties of Palaeographical Dating of Literary Manuscripts . I have mentioned Brent Nongbri's importan...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Massive looting in Archelais

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: ISIS-Style Destruction of Antiquities, Right Here in Israel . The staff of the Temple Mount Sifting P...

The aqueduct at Caesarea

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Seldom Visited Aqueduct at Caesarea (Carl Rasmussen). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on anci...

Taylor, What Did Jesus Look Like?

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: What Did Jesus Look Like? By: Joan E. Taylor Published: 08-02-2018 Format: Hardback Edi...

Robinson, Jude on the Attack

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Jude on the Attack A Comparative Analysis of the Epistle of Jude, Jewish Judgement Oracles, and Gre...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Belial

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PHILOLOGOS: How Evil Became Personified. The story of the biblical word b’liya’al (Mosaic Magazine). Where, however, did this understandin...

The Talmud on oaths about quantity and substance

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : In the Talmud, Size Matters. This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ helps Jews swear in disput...

Paul and utopian cosmopolitanism

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Galatians 3:28—Neither Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, Male and Female. As published in Biblical Archaeology Review , J...

Jewish DNA analysis

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PROF. STEVEN J. WEITZMAN: DNA and the Origin of the Jews Is there a genetic marker for cohanim (priests)? Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from ...