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Saturday, May 05, 2018

Review of Lundhaug and Lied (eds.), Snapshots

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REVIEWS OF BIBLICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES: Snapshots of Evolving Traditions 2018.05.06 | Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, eds. Sna...

Gnosis 3.1

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FORBIDDEN GOSPELS BLOG: Gnosis volume 3.1 published on Hermetism (April DeConick). I am happy to announce that the special issue of GNOSIS ...

Forbidden sex in the Holiness Code and the ANE

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DR. EVE LEVAVI FEINSTEIN: Sexual Prohibitions in the Bible and the ANE: A Comparison (TheTorah.com). How do the laws of Leviticus 18 compar...

Review of Cadwallader (ed.), Stones, Bones and the Sacred

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Alan H. Cadwallader (ed.), Stones, Bones and the Sacred: Essays on Material Culture and Religion in Honor of Den...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Bar Kokhba coin excavated in Modi'in cave

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NUMISMATICS: Unearthed Bar Kochba coin points to far-reaching support for rebels against Rome. A late revolt bronze coin discovered where r...

More on those new DSS bits

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UPDATE: Hidden Text Found on 'Blank' Dead Sea Scrolls (Laura Geggel, Live Science). I have already posted on this discovery, but th...

The Hezekiah and Isaiah bullae are coming to Oklahoma

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EXHIBITION: Armstrong International Cultural Foundation Announces World Premiere of Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah (Longview News Journa...

Reeves and Reed, Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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NEW BOOK FROM OUP: Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Sources From Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Volume I 1st Edition by John C. ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

PaleoJudaica has a Blogroll again!

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REASSIMILATED TO THE BLOGROLLOSPHERE: In the early days of blogging many, probably most, blogs had a blogroll in their sidebar. PaleoJudaica...

van der Toorn on Papyrus Amherst 63

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Three Israelite Psalms in an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus (Karel van der Toorn). Papyrus Amherst 63 is divided in ...

Jørstad on "personalistic nature texts" in the HB

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | Mari Jørstad . Mari Jørstad, The Life of the World: The Vitality and Personhood of Non-Animal N...

CFP: Postgraduate conference on memory and oblivion in ancient and Medieval texts

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ROGUE CLASSICISM BLOG: Prolepsis Postgraduate Conference: “Optanda erat oblivio” Selection and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature (Dav...

On the prohibition of male-to-male sex in Leviticus

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IDAN DERSHOWITZ: How the Prohibition of Male Homosexual Intercourse Altered the Laws of Incest. (TheTorah.com). Originally Leviticus 18 pr...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Lag B'Omer 2018

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LAG B'OMER, the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all observing it. Last year's Lag...

New DSS bits

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: NASA Technology Reveals Existence of Missing Dead Sea Scroll. High-resolution photography finds writing not visible with ...

The Scholem collection at the Israel National Library

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INTERVIEW WITH THE CURATOR: How This Bible Got To Jerusalem — And Other Secrets Of Gershom Scholem’s Library (Aviva Kushner, The Forward). ...

The Lost City of Irisagrig and Hobby Lobby

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REPATRIATION: Stolen Sumerian Tablets Come from the Lost City of Irisagrig (Owen Jarus, Live Science). Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets t...
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

The Talmud on the logic of sacrifice

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : If A, Then B. Through Daf Yomi’s exercises in mathematical logic, Talmudic rab...

Suciu on the Qur'an-Coptic palimpsest

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DIGITAL EDITION OF THE COPTIC OLD TESTAMENT: Sahidic Biblical Text Found Behind Qur'an Palimpsest (Alin Suciu). Dr. Suciu is a Coptolog...

Review of Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (ed. Priestley and Zali)

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Jessica Priestley, Vasiliki Zali (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond....