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Saturday, June 09, 2018

BHD on Papyrus Amherst 63

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Israelite Psalms in an Egyptian Papyrus? Papyrus Amherst 63 up close (Karel van der Toorn). As usual, this is a tease...

Hebron in the Bible and archaeology

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PROF. DAVID BEN SHLOMO: The Ancient City of Hebron (TheTorah.com). Hebron plays a central role in many biblical stories. It was the promine...

Taylor Swift meets p-s-e-u-d-e-p-i-g-r-a-p-h-a

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I KEEP SAYING YOU GOTTA KNOW THESE THINGS: Spelling Bee's Dr. Bailly quotes Taylor Swift (Nick Schwartz, USA Today). Scripps National ...

On Pseudo-Phocylides

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READING ACTS: Doing Justice in Pseudo-Phocylides . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseudep...
Friday, June 08, 2018

More on that C-14 dating recalibration

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Upstart carbon dating study could force rewrite of Holy Land’s biblical timeline. Cornell University prof shows how archa...

Review of Zissos (ed.), A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Andrew Zissos (ed.), A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome. Blackwell companions to the ancient world....

Allegorical and magical manna

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PROF. JOEL HECKER: Manna and Mystical Eating (TheTorah.com). Ancient interpreters contemplated the substance of manna, a food that traverse...

Reading Coptic in London in July

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ALIN SUCIU: 5-day Reading Coptic Course in London . The course takes place on 2-6 July. It is on "early texts," including the work...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

School kids excavate Byzantine-era coin at Kilodia

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NUMISMATICS: Students on archaeology program unearth a 1,700-year-old coin . JNS.org – Students from schools in the Lev Hasharon Regional Co...

Multispectral imaging at Duke

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Incredible 'Harry Potter' camera can reveal hidden texts on ancient parchment (Mollie Cahillane, Daily Mail). • ...

The Egypt Exploration Society on the Oxyrhynchus Mark fragment

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LARRY HURTADO: Further Comment on the Mark Fragment and the Rumors . Professor Hurtado links to an updated statement by the Egypt Exploratio...

4 Maccabees reprised

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PHIL LONG'S OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA SERIES continues at his Reading Acts Blog. There are three new posts on 4 Maccabees. These are ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Kurshan and Tigay win Jewish literature prize

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CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH: Ilana Kurshan wins $100,000 Jewish Literature Sami Rohr Prize. American immigrant to Israel wins Jewish literature...

On Philip Davies

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Philip Davies (1945-2018) . By Thomas L. Thompson Professor Emeritus University of Copenhagen May 2018 Th...

The Nephilim

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Who Are the Nephilim? The mysterious beings of Genesis 6 (Ellen White). This essay collects the biblical information ...

Denver DSS rotation in progress

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HAPPENING NOW: ‘Once In A Lifetime’ Display Of Dead Sea Scrolls To Be Replaced Soon (Karen Morfitt). DENVER (CBS4) – The Denver Museum of ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Archaeological survey by mole rat?

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FAUNAL-ASSISTED ARCHAEOLOGY: Blind, bucktoothed mole-rats just might be archaeologists’ new best friends. Israeli researchers propose a rev...

On the transmission of Jewish magic books

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MAGIC AND MYSTICISM: ‘TOO HOLY TO PRINT’: THE FORBIDDEN BOOKS OF JEWISH MAGIC. Books fraught with danger—curses, secrets, marvelous cures, ...

The Talmud on inferential exegesis

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Myth and Meaning. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the ancient rabbis t...

Is C-14 dating miscalibrated for the southern Levant?

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: New radiocarbon cycle research may alter history (Daniel Aloi, Cornell Chronicle). Archaeologist Sturt Manning and collea...