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Saturday, May 12, 2018

On Satan

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Who Is Satan? The many forms of the devil in the Bible (John Gregory Drummond). This is a good brief treatment of the...

Miller, The dragon, the mountain, and the nations

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations . Notice of a new book: Miller II, Robert D. 2018. The dragon, the mountain...

Neis on likeness and reproduction in the Mishnah

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: When Species Meet in the Mishnah (R.R. Neis). In what follows, I highlight several sources that point to a rabbinic the...

Dangerous old books

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THE NSEA BLOG: DANGER! BOOKS! Notice of a new thematic issue of the journal Henoch on the subject of "Dangerous Books." Visit P...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Mary Douglas and Leviticus

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PROF. GARY A. RENDSBURG: Leviticus as a Literary Tabernacle (TheTorah.com). The late British anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed that Levi...

Josephus and the archaeology of Jerusalem

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: New Archaeological Data from The Great Revolt in Jerusalem Raise New Questions on Josephus The last decades ...

Schiffman on the Hezekiah and Isaiah bullae

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PROF. LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: JEWISH CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM . The ongoing excavations of Jerusalem never seem to stop yielding amazing treas...

Xena and Goliath

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REMNANT OF GIANTS Xena, Warrior Princess and Goliath (Deane Galbraith). It seems they were old friends. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the l...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

NIS 60 million for the archaeology of Jerusalem

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ARCHAEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND MONEY: Culture Ministry earmarks NIS 60m for Jerusalem archaeology digs, preservation. Excavations in and around...

A late-antique Aramaic funeral liturgy

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (APRIL 2018): Mourning in Late Antiquity: T-S NS 148.58 (Laura Lieber). We know little of the lived experience...

Review of Wilson, Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah (Chance McMahon). Just as the memorialization of figures in U.S. histo...

A Coptic fragment of Genesis

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ALIN SUCIU: High-Resolution Images of London, BL Or. 5287(3) = Genesis 3:16-4:4 (Sahidic version) . The fragment was recently published in t...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Of Chinese gruel and Byzantine parrotfish

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MORE CULINARY ARCHAEOLOGY! The Archaeologists and Chefs Recreating the World's Oldest Recipes. In Byzantine times, parrotfish was consi...

Israel's biblical diet

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CULINARY ARCHAEOLOGY: Israel's Millenia-Old Biblical Diet. A new generation of academics and chefs are cooking with ancient grains and ...

Novenson on discussion of The Grammar of Messianism

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THE CSCO BLOG: The Grammar of Messianism in Recent Discussion . Matthew Novenson responds to reviews of his 2017 book. Past PaleoJudaica pos...

Is a festival in Nehemiah's Torah missing in ours?

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DR. ALEX P. JASSEN: The Wood Offering Celebration – “As Written in the Torah” (TheTorah.com). Bringing wood for the altar was an important ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

The Talmud on the bygone priesthood

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : On Priestly Perfection. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ how ancient Talmudic rabbis...

Big bucks (£££) for the Qur'an-Coptic palimpsest

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SOLD! Outstanding Auction Result for an Unrecorded Qur’an Palimpsest Copied on an Earlier Coptic Bible (Fine Books & Collections). Lond...

The Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project (update)

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PALMYRA WATCH: Blog: Preserving The Words Of Ancient Palmyra Through Digital Humanities (Catherine Bonesho, Society for Classical Studies B...

Altered festivals in the Temple Scroll

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PROF. MARVIN A. SWEENEY: How the Temple Scroll Rewrote the Festival of Bikkurim (TheTorah.com). Throughout the Bible, we find that the land...