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Saturday, July 07, 2018

Origin Stories - Part 2

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MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS has its second installment of essays in its series Origin Stories: A Forum on the “Discovery” and Interpretation ...

R. Akiva and his wife for children

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NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK: Great Jewish Summer Reads (Phil Jacobs, Jewish Link of New Jersey). This article briefly notes many new books, som...

Raphael

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ARCHANGEL WATCH What Role Does Raphael Play in the Bible? Where is this archangel in Scripture? (Stephanie Hertzenberg, Beliefnet). That i...

Busy again ...

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I HAVE ANOTHE BUSY WEEK COMING and I will have little time to blog. But despair not! I have been saving up posts for you. I should be able...
Friday, July 06, 2018

More on Ada Yardeni

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RECOGNITION: Dead Sea Scrolls decoder remembered as grande dame of Semitic paleography. Ada Yardeni, who died this month at 81, combined pr...

Jeremiah 39: getting the Babylonian names right

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EPIGRAPHY AND ONOMASTICS: The Babylonian Officials Who Oversaw the Siege of Jerusalem (Prof. Shalom Holtz, TheTorah.com). Jeremiah 39 descr...

What are the mezuzot in Solomon's Temple?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Doorways of Solomon’s Temple What is a “mezuzah” in the Bible? (Megan Sauter). Despite the Biblical description a...

Oriental Institute Publications

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THE AWOL BLOG: Chronological Lists of Oriental Institute Publications . Between 1997 and 2011, the Oriental Institute maintained a list, by ...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

BHD on Ada Yardeni

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: In Memoriam: Ada Yardeni (1937–2018) . This is a collection of links to the full texts of past BAR essays by Dr. Yarde...

Review of Rich, Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Sara A. Rich, Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships: Allure, Lore, and Metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East. Oxford: ...

More freebies from Orbis

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THE AWOL BLOG: Newly added to Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Online, July 3, 2018 . Background here . They just keep posting free books! Visi...

On Balaam

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PROF. CARL S. ERLICH: Balaam the Seer: From the Bible to the Deir ĘżAlla Inscription (TheTorah.com). What we know about where he lived, the ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

July 4th 2018

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HAPPY AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY to all those celebrating! Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical...

What is depicted on the carved stone at Capernaum?

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LEEN RITMEYER: Is the Ark of the Covenant depicted on a carved stone at Capernaum? Dr. Ritmeyer thinks it represents a wheeled carriage tha...

Animal pain in Jewish tradition

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PROF. YAEL SHEMESH: Do Animals Feel Pain? Balaam’s Donkey vs. Descartes (TheTorah.com). In contrast to Descartes’ theory of animals as auto...

Yardeni obituary

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H-JUDAIC: Obituary: Dr. Ada Yardeni (Shalom Berger). Background here . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Hellenistic-era pots excavated in Israeli cliff-cave

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SPELEOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient pottery vessels salvaged intact from cave in northern Israel. Large wine jars, a cooking pot and other p...

The altar on Mt. Ebal and related sites

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: A Biblical Altar on Mt. Ebal and Other Israelite Footprints in the Jordan Valley? Potential archaeological evidence of...

ANE Mailing List silver anniversary

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THE AWOL BLOG: 25th Anniversary of the ANE mailing list (Charles Jones). I remember it. I was there ! Happy anniversary (yesterday) to the ...

On the Psalms of Solomon

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READING ACTS: Introduction to The Psalms of Solomon . Another installment in Phil Long's current summer series on the Old Testament Pseu...