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Saturday, September 08, 2018

Does the Torah suppress God's kingship?

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ROSH HASHANAH IS COMING: Rosh Hashanah: Why the Torah Suppresses God’s Kingship (Prof. Israel Knohl, TheTorah.com). Several biblical passag...

How tall were biblical giants?

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IN REMNANT OF GIANTS, Deane Galbraith has collected some data on the height of biblical giants: The True Height of Goliath . Goliath was a...

Peleg, Going Up and Going Down

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY: Going Up and Going Down A Key to Interpreting Jacob's Dream (Gen 28.10-22) By: Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg Publ...

Moster on fruit in the Bible

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Fruit in the Bible (David Moster). That is, literary and cultural uses of fruit in the Bible. While these eight catego...
Friday, September 07, 2018

More on the Maresha Bullae

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ICONOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY: 1,020 untouched clay sealings discovered after two millennia in hidden cave. A find of international significance i...

Clearing antiquities from Leviathan's path

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MARINE SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGY: Scuba diving archaeologists find ancient marine relics from a 5,000-year-old port at site where Israel's Lev...

A dismembered LXX Exodus manuscript

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: A Manuscript of Exodus Wandering in the Wilderness (Brent Nongbri). The manuscript of the Gospel of Judas was part of a...

Rahlfs 967 (LXX)

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THE ETC BLOG: Rahlfs 967 of the Kölner Papyri of the Institute of Ancient History at the University of Cologne (John Meade). I am researchi...
Thursday, September 06, 2018

So many bullae at Maresha!

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DISCOVERY: Hundreds of Hellenistic-Period seal impressions discovered at Maresha Israel. The ancient city of Maresha (located next to Beth ...

Methuselah has company

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UPDATE ON METHUSELAH THE MASADA DATE PALM: Could a Tree Grown from an Ancient Seed in Israel Help Cure Diseases in the Future? (Avi Jorisch...

The "Zoo Rabbi" on whether swordfish are kosher

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CULINARY TRADITION: Swordfish: A Kashrus Tale Of Legends (Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin, The Jewish Press). The Talmud ( Chullin 66b) and Toseft...

Aitken and Marlow (eds.), The City in the Hebrew Bible

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY: The City in the Hebrew Bible Critical, Literary and Exegetical Approaches Editor(s): James K Aitken, Hilary F. ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

The fire in Brazil's National Museum

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THE ETC BLOG: Tragedy at the Brazil National Museum (Peter Gurry). No doubt you have heard about the terrible fire that destroyed the Natio...

Infertility in the Bible

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: What Does the Bible Say About Infertility? Placing the command to “be fruitful and multiply” in context , Learn more a...

The othering of Laban

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NAOMI GRAETZ: Arami Oved Avi : The Demonization of Laban (TheTorah.com). The rabbis translate the phrase ארמי אובד אבי in Deuteronomy 26:5 ...

Touraj (ed.), Sasanian Iran in the context of Late Antiquity

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Sasanian Iran in the context of Late Antiquity . Notice of a new book: Daryaee, Touraj (ed.). 2018. Sasanian Iran in ...
Tuesday, September 04, 2018

The Talmud on meal offerings and salt

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Salt Bae. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the rabbis debate the use of...

American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR)

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL THERAPY: U.S. veterans use archaeology to dig through trauma in Israel. "Because of their separation from the military ...

Criticism of the World Creation Concert at the Ophel Garden

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Israel Antiquities Archaeologist Attacks World Creation Concert: The Kotel Isn’t a Bar Mitzvah Hall (David Israel, The ...

Israel using UNESCO dues for Hebron Jewish heritage

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REROUTED FUNDING: ISRAEL TO DEVELOP HEBRON HERITAGE WITH UNESCO CASH. Israel and the United States stopped paying their UNESCO dues in 2011...