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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Boccaccini is a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy

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CONGRATULATIONS TO GABRIELE BOCCACCINI, who has announced on Facebook : Proud and happy. I was awarded the honor of "Cavaliere dell...

Free articles from Dead Sea Discoveries

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FOR YOU, SPECIAL DEAL: Free articles from Dead Sea Discoveries . To celebrate the 25th Volume of Dead Sea Discoveries , 25 articles from the...

Women, WIkipedia, and the ANE: International Women's Day 2018

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THE CSTT.FI BLOG: CEL­EB­RAT­ING THE IN­TER­NA­TIONAL WO­MEN’S DAY 2018 WITH A WIKI­PE­DIA EDIT-A-THON (Katri Rostedt). On the 8th of March...

Jack Miles at BC

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Distinguished Professor emeritus Jack Miles to be Boston College visiting chair (UCI News). John R. “Jack” Miles, UCI Disting...
Friday, March 16, 2018

The DSS exhibition in Denver

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OPENS TODAY: Dead Sea Scrolls on Purity, Morals on Display for First Time, in Denver. Vast Israeli antiquities exhibit showcasing Temples e...

That other DSS project in Denver

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IT'S A GOOD JOB: That's a Job?: This Denver woman translates the Dead Sea Scrolls. A DU professions is one of three editors workin...

The oldest Torah scrolls

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The World’s Oldest Torah Scrolls (Gary A. Rendsburg). A recent announcement by the Library of Congress regard...

Josephus for Christians

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JOSEPHUS HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: Why Should Christians Read Josephus? Josephus’ writings have unique value for Christians (Stephanie H...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

The Library of Alexandria

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Ancient Library of Alexandria. The West’s most important repository of learning (J. Harold Ellens). Such scientif...

AJR reviews Stang, Our Divine Double

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Our Divine Double (Nathan Tilley). Charles M. Stang. Our Divine Double. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ...

More on the Denver DSS exhibiton

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VIDEO: Ancient Manuscripts, Artifacts On Display In Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit (CBS4 Denver). The exhibition opens tomorrow. No word yet on w...

Hurtado on those dubious DSS fragments

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LARRY HURTADO: Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments of Dubious Authenticity In November last year, the popular press featured news of scholarly doubts...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Progress on the Galen Syriac palimpsest

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SYRIAC WATCH: ANCIENT TRANSLATION OF HISTORIC GREEK MEDICAL TEXT REDISCOVERED USING X-RAY VISION (Meghan Bartels, Newsweek). There are lost...

AJR on PSCO: Belser, Snakes in the Garden

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: PSCO 2017-18: Snakes in the Garden: Sexuality, Animality, and Disability in the Rabbinic Garden of Eden (Matthew Chalme...

Comparing the MT and the Jewish LXX revisions

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ETC BLOG: Textual Examples Wherein MT and the Jewish Revisions Differ (John Meade). In this post, I give a few examples wherein Theodotion,...

Park of Wonders theme park in Israel

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PROPOSAL: Developers plan Jewish theme park in desert town of Dimona. Pla'im Park -- 'Park of Wonders' -- is conceived as Israe...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A Festschrift for Hershel Shanks

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: First Person: Festschrift: A Celebration of Hershel Shanks. From the March/April May/June 2018 Biblical Archaeology Re...

A disquieting case of scholarly forgery?

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POSTHUMOUSLY DETECTED: Famed Archaeologist 'Discovered' His Own Fakes at 9,000-Year-Old Settlement (Owen Jarus, Live Science). A fa...

The Talmud on statues and related problems

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Statue of Limitations. This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study considers how Jews ...

Berlejung and Filitz (eds.), The Physicality of the Other

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: The Physicality of the Other. Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Ed. by Angelika ...