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Saturday, May 26, 2018

"First-Century Mark" is not first century

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THAT FRAGMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK that was rumored to date to the first century has now been published in a volume of Oxyrhynchus papyri. ...

Esler on taking 1 Enoch seriously

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Taking 1 Enoch Seriously In the light of these conclusions, the Enochic scribes emerge not as temple scribes...

On Jannes and Jambres

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READING ACTS: Jannes and Jambres . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Past po...

A recycled Phoenician ship

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: 'Phoenician Ship' made of plastic bottles sails from Byblos to Beirut Port (Lebanese National News Agency). In hi...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Stern on ancient Jewish graffiti

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ATLAS OBSCURA: The Wit and Wisdom of Ancient Jewish Graffiti. Researchers in the field have uncovered related messages ranging from “Lasius...

The two rabbis and the disrespectful donkey

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Uppity Donkey and the Distraught Rabbi: Critical Animal Studies and the Talmud (Beth Berkowitz). This story about t...

Habakkuk 3 and ANE myth

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FOR SHAVUOT: Habakkuk’s Mythological Depiction of YHWH (Prof. Marvin A. Sweeney, TheTorah.com). Habakkuk 3 is framed as a lament, in which ...

On The Ladder of Jacob

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READING ACTS: The Ladder of Jacob . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Past p...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

New DSS coming to the Denver exhibition

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ROTATION: 10 MORE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE COMING TO DENVER (Cara Chancellor, 303 Magazine). In March, The Dead Sea Scrolls came to The Denver ...

How many kinds of giants?

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REMNANT OF GIANTS: Matthew Goff on the Three Successive Generations of Giants (Deane Galbraith). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest n...

Moses and the Torah in Nehemiah 9

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FOR SHAVUOT: Nehemiah 9: The First Historical Survey in the Bible to Mention Sinai and Torah (Professor Hava Shalom-Guy, TheTorah.com). The...

Cyril and Methodius Day 2018 (again!)

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SLAVONIC PHILOLOGY: Day of Slavic Writing and Culture (Ukrinform). Every year on May 24, all Slavic countries commemorate Saints Cyril and ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Left-handers in the Bible

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Left-Handed People in the Bible. Is there a genetic link to Benjamite lefties? The Hebrew Bible mentions left-handed p...

Ghosts of Roman coin minting

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Greenland ice cores track Roman lead pollution in year-by-year detail. Studying the ice cores may help reconstruct fluctu...

Talmud manuscripts

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TALMUD WATCH: Surviving Manuscripts of the Talmud: An Overview (Dr. Menachem Katz, TheGemara.com). What we know about the surviving manuscr...

The Kingdom of Aksum

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HISTORY: The Kingdom of Aksum – Africa’s lost Empire. The Aksumite Empire was an ancient kingdom that existed in Ethiopia from 100 CE to 94...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Ammon, Moab and Edom

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Who Were the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites in the Bible? Ancient Israel’s neighbors east of the Jordan (Megan Saut...

On the Lives of the Prophets

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READING ACTS: The Lives of the Prophets . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. ...

Moses and Zoroaster as authors

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DR. YISHAI KEIL: How the Concept of Mosaic Authorship Developed (TheTorah.com). In the Persian period, the Torah, which is made up of vario...

Satlow on the field of Judaism in late antiquity

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MICHAEL SATLOW: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity: Taking Stock . Professor Satlow has been a major figure in the field for a long time and...