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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Hebrew acronyms

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PHILOLOGOS: Where Do Hebrew Acronyms Come From? Medieval and modern Hebrew are unusually rich in abbreviations, but in a manner that is the...

Arabic amulet excavated near Temple Mount

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APOTROPAIC ARTIFACT: 1,000 Year Old Clay Amulet with Arabic Blessing Discovered in City of David (JNi.Media). The tiny amulet constitutes d...

Bibliographia Manichaica Selecta

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Bibliographia Manichaica Selecta: Selected Works for Manichaean Studies . Notice of a new book: Šokrī-Fūmešī, Moḥamma...

Report on DSS at 70 conference

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PROF. LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AT 70. EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENTS POINT TOWARD FUTURE PROGRESS . The field of Dead Sea Scr...
Friday, June 15, 2018

More on the Oklahoma bullae exhibition

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STILL MORE: Why the world premiere of precious biblical artifacts is in quiet Oklahoma. Through August 19, a select few in the middle of Am...

Bridegroom of blood

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THAT'S IN THE BIBLE: The Bible Says What? God tried to kill Moses. Rabbi Aaron Goldstein reflects on a controversial subject in the Tor...

Moses' Kushite wife

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DR. ELAD FILLER: Moses and the Kushite Woman: Classic Interpretations and Philo’s Allegory (TheTorah.com). Ancient interpreters debated the...

More on the Hezekiah-Isaiah bullae exhibition

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: On View: Seals of Isaiah and King Hezekiah Discovered. Bible and archaeology news (Robin Ngo). More on the Armstrong ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

More on formerly "first-century Mark" and related matters

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VARIANT READINGS: “First Century” Mark and “Second Century” Romans and “Second Century” Hebrews and “Second Century” 1 Corinthians . Brent N...

Review of the Museum of the Bible

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THE LATEST: Museum of the Bible finds big audience in bustling D.C. (The Washington Times). It's bee a while since we've seen a rev...

Review of Chrubasik and King (eds.), Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Boris Chrubasik, Daniel King (ed.), Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean. 400 BCE—25...

Pig bones and archaeology

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: You Are What You Eat: The Israelite Diet and Archaeology. Pig bones as an ethnic marker? (Marek Dospěl). Apparently i...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Penn Report on the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza Project

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AN ARMY OF PALEOGRAPHERS: Reclaiming a fragmented history. Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to so...

Review of Capone (ed.), Cristiani, Ebrei e pagani

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Alessandro Capone (ed.), Cristiani, Ebrei e pagani: il dibattito sulla Sacra Scrittura tra III e VI secolo = Chr...

Syriac workshop at Frankfurt

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SYRIAC WATCH: Workshop: Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing of Syriac Sources (James McGrath, Religion Prof Blog). The Forschungsstelle...

13th Mainz Colloquium on ancient Hebrew

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AIA ANNOUNCEMENT: MICAH 13th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (& Cognate Languages) . Friday, November 2, 2018 to Sunday...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

More on the Tiberias cave-tomb

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Builders Accidentally Discover Roman-era Catacomb of Rich Jewish Family in Northern Israel. The names on the ossuaries found i...

The Talmud visualizing the Temple

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Mapping the Temple. Daf Yomi: Talmudic rabbis, as distant from the original an...

The Hebrew University Bible Project

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THE AWOL BLOG: Hebrew University Bible Project (HUBP) מפעל המקרא Publications Online . I have mentioned this project and its journal, Textus...

Syriac Menander

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READING ACTS: The Sentences of the Syriac Menander . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseud...