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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Shavuot 2018

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THE FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT (Weeks, Pentecost) begins tonight at sundown. (For real this time!) Best wishes to all those celebrating. Last year...

Mobile sifting update

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Archaeologist for a day: Find Temple Mount treasures — at a school near you. The Temple Mount Sifting Project takes its...

Philo at Oxyrhynchus

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Oxyrhynchus Codex of Philo of Alexandria (Brent Nongbri, Variant Readings). And don't forget to read his follow-u...

Krul, The Revival of the Anu Cult ...

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk Series: Culture and History of t...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Archaeology, Jerusalem, and the Jewish people

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DISCOVERIES: ARCHEOLOGY IS CHANGING THE (SUR)FACE OF JERUSALEM. Archaeology provides the most powerful proof of the authenticity of Jewish ...

Hygoye 21.1 (2018)

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A NEW ISSUE: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 21.1 (2018) . It's always good to see another issue of this excellent open-access journa...

The Canaanite alphabet in Egyptian?

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THE HISTORY OF THE ALPHABET? Earliest Version of Our Alphabet Possibly Discovered (Owen Jarus, Live Science). The earliest example of our a...

Mobile sifting

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: Restarting the Sifting!! Hello everyone, we have some HUGE news to share with you. The Temple Mount S...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Geniza Fragments 75

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GENIZA FRAGMENTS, the Newsletter of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library has published its April 2018 Is...

Correction! Shavuot starts on Saturday evening.

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SORRY ABOUT THAT. Please ignore the deleted post. It was meant for Saturday. I pushed the wrong button somewhere. Visit PaleoJudaica daily ...

A horse-racing curse in an Aramaic amulet

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ancient Jewish gambler’s chariot race curse found in decoded 5th Century scroll. A nailed-shut amulet uncovered in Turkey in...

Pseudo-Philo's LAB

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READING ACTS: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (LAB) (Phil Long). A good quick overview of this book. This is the first text covered in Phil...

Festscrift for Leonard Greenspoon

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Back to the OT Pseudepigrapha

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READING ACTS: Summer Series: (Even More) Old Testament Pseudepigrapha . Regular readers will be familiar with Phil Long's series on the ...

On the Sogdian language and its decipherment

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The discovery and decipherment of Sogdian . Sogdian is a Middle Iranian language. It has come up on PaleoJudaica occa...

The Pool of Siloam

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY has a couple of recent essays on the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem, famous as the site of one of Jesus' healing miracl...

AJS Review 42.1 (2018)

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A NEW ISSUE OF AJS REVIEW IS OUT ( Volume 42 - Issue 1 - April 2018 ). It has, intera alia , some articles and lots of book reviews of inte...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The Talmud on invalidated sacrifices

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Blood of the Soul. This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study continues to explore th...

Where did John get "Armageddon?"

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ETYMOLOGY: Armageddon 101: The True History of the End of the World. Revelations associates Megiddo in northern Israel with the end of days...

Review of Hezser, Rabbinic Body Language

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity (Erez...