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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Elman obit

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AND ANOTHER TRIBUTE: Remembering Dr. Yaakov Elman, A Legendary Jewish Historian (Rabbi Ari Lamm, The Jewish Press). In fact, one way of loo...

Review of Verhoogt, Discarded, Discovered, Collected

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: A. M. F. W. Verhoogt, Discarded, Discovered, Collected: The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection. Ann Ar...

Landes, Studies in the Development of Birkat Ha-Avodah

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NEW BOOK FROM MAGNES PRESS (IN HEBREW): Studies in the Development of Birkat Ha-Avodah By Yitz Landes Publisher: The Mandel Institute of...

Hell-On-Line

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THE AWOL BLOG: HELL-ON-LINE . HELL-ON-LINE is developing as a comprehensive on-line collection of over 100 visions, tours and descriptions o...
Friday, August 24, 2018

C-14 dating, Thera, and (not so much) the Exodus

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: New carbon-dating tool could pinpoint ancient eruption, gauge if tied to Exodus. Calibration technique aims to show exact...

Interview with James Kugel

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WITH THETORAH.COM: Not a Naïve Reading: An Interview with Prof. James Kugel Professor James Kugel was the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literatu...

Date changes for ARAM gnosticism and Mandaeism conferences

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RELIGION PROF: ARAM Conferences on Gnosticism and Mandaeism #CFP | James McGrath (James McGrath). If you are planning on going to either, m...

Performing the eschatological banquet

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Performing Apocalyptic Texts: Teaching the Eschatological Banquet from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Shayna Sheinfeld). Perform...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The Netanyahu tablet

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POLITICAL ONOMASTICS: Museum loans prime minister 2,600-year-old ‘Netanyahu tablet.’ Ancient cuneiform Babylonian artifact bearing name ...

Interview with the "savior of the Iraqi Jewish Archives"

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MORE ON THOSE ARCHIVES: Discover The Savior of Iraqi Jewish Archives – Beyond the Matrix [audio] (Israel News Talk Radio via the Jewish Pre...

Kindle Book deals

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FOR YOU, SPECIAL DEAL: Great Deals on Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament and early Christianity Books (Phil Long, Reading Acts Blog)....

On the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library

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VARIANT READINGS: The Nag Hammadi Discovery Story . This is quite a messy topic. Brent Nongbri collects many links to relevant scholarly dis...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Review of Berrey, Hellenistic Science at Court

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Marquis Berrey, Hellenistic Science at Court. Science, technology and medicine in ancient cultures, 5. Berlin:...

Andriace

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HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Jewish Presence In Asia Minor: Andriace (Carl Rasmussen). Paul probably stopped there on his final trip to Rome...

Reportlet on the new Masada excavations

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Masada Dig Reveals a Pleasure-Garden at King Herod’s Palace. Renewed excavation at Masada bears fruitful results (Rob...

The dates of the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Dating the reigns of Xerxes and Artaxerxes . Notice of a new article of obvious interest for biblical studies (the bo...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Rube Goldberg meets the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : The Talmud as Rube Goldberg Machine of the Mind. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ on...

Report on Hurtado

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LARRY HURTADO is back to blogging while on a brief break between chemotherapy courses: Update on Me Gordley’s New Book on NT “Christolog...

Review of Rosenblum, The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (John Mandsager). Jordan D. Rosenblum. The Jewish Dietary Laws...

Najman on philology

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FULL TEXT ONLINE FOR FREE: Hindy Najman, Ethical Reading: The Transformation of the Text and the Self . The Journal of Theological Studies ,...