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Saturday, August 04, 2018

Volunteering at Tell es-Safi

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY NEWS: Unearthing History. Yeshiva Univerity Students Wrap Up Summer Trip to Israel for Archeological Work . Three YU stu...

Moses, Sargon, and what people are saying about Deuteronomy

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Impact of Sargon & Enheduanna on Land Rights in Deuteronomy Preliminary Report Continuing work in my...

On defacing statues and nullifying idols

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ROGER PEARSE: Broken noses, crosses on the forehead – the fate of statues at the end of antiquity . Late-late antiquity was not kind to scul...

Interview with Judith Lieu

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THE CHURCH TIMES: Interview: Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity, Cambridge (Terence Handley MacMath). She talks about her t...
Friday, August 03, 2018

Elman obituary

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ANOTHER TRIBUTE: Professor Yaakov Elman, in memoriam. He set out to analyze the glorious messiness, complexity, and depth of thousands of y...

Berlin on Ruth

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Story of Ruth. Reading the Book of Ruth (Adele Berlin). Depending on whether you’re using a Jewish or Christian v...

An Iranian etymology for a BA word

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: A (New) Old Iranian Etymology for Biblical Aramaic אֲדַרְגָּזַר‬‎ . Notice of an article by Benjamin J. Noonan in Ara...

Psalms of Solomon 13

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READING ACTS: The Life of the Righteous Goes On Forever – Psalm of Solomon 13 . Psalm of Solomon is another example of two-ways theology. Th...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

Proposal for another Masada movie

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CINEMA PITCH: Shira Geffen unveils family drama set in Israel's Masada plateau (MELANIE GOODFELLOW, ScreenDaily). Cannes regular Shira ...

Nephilim Magazine

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REMNANT OF GIANTS: Nephilim Magazine: A Recent Development in the unfolding Nephilim legend (Deane Galbraith). It just keeps unfolding. I a...

Biblical Studies Carnival 149

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KAREN R. KEEN: Biblical Studies Carnival 149 Has Come to Town! To her list of women bloggers add Liv Ingeborg Lied at Religion - Manuscrip...

A tribute to Yaakov Elman

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THE TALMUD BLOG: Prof. Yaakov Elman Z”L, 1943-2018 (Shai Secunda). Background here . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancie...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Review of König and Woolf (eds.), Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Jessica Wright). Jason König and Greg Woolf, eds. Au...

Rashi - apologist or polemicist?

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DR. YEDIDA EISENSTAT: Does Rashi’s Torah Commentary Respond to Christianity? (TheTorah.com). Moses promises that if Israel forsakes the cov...

Psalms of Solomon 12

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READING ACTS: The Lawless and Slanderous Tongue – Psalm of Solomon 12 . James and Paul both stand within the same stream of Second Temple Je...

New TC articles

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THE ETC BLOG: New Articles in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (Tommy Wasserman). One is on the Septuagint Psalter. Another is o...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Entertainment center excavated at ancient pottery workshop

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Spa and game room — with mancala — found at ancient pottery workshop in Israel. Ancient work and play: With 20 hot and cold ba...

The Talmud on the priestly right to eat sacrificial meat

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Who Gets to Eat Sacrificial Meat? In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic rabbis r...

Mandeism, Manicheism, and Aramaic

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Mandaean religion and the Aramaic background of Manichaeism . Notice of a new book: Ionuţ Daniel Băncilă. 2018. D...

Psalms of Solomon 11

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READING ACTS: Sound the Trumpet in Zion – Psalm of Solomon 11 . Psalm of Solomon 11 seems to be solid evidence that a biblically literate Se...