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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Review of Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction, ed. Johnson, Dupertuis, and Shea

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Sara Raup Johnson, Rubén R.​ Dupertuis, Christine Shea (ed.), Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Jewish, Chr...

Review of Stuckenbruck & Boccaccini (eds.), Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels

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REVIEWS OF THE ENOCH SEMINAR: Rebecca Denova Reviews Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels (Stuckenbruck & Boccaccini) Reviews of the Enoch S...

The Aramaic DSS

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls. What are they and why do they matter? (Marek Dospěl). Since Hebrew was the language of ...

Hartog, Schofield, Thomas (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the...
Friday, September 14, 2018

How to spot cuneiform forgeries

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: How to Spot Fake Cuneiform Tablets (Sara Brumfield). Because cuneiform tablets can be relatively easy to make ...

William Ross has good news

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CONGRATULATIONS TO WILLIAM A. ROSS, WHO HAS JUST SUBMITTED HIS PH.D. THESIS: PERSONAL UPDATE . The thesis title is “Septuagint Lexicography ...

Review of Nongbri, God's Library

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THE TEXTUAL MECHANIC BLOG: Review: "God's Library," by Brent Nongbri . Timothy N. Mitchell publishes the first (that I know of...

The placement of Susannah in Daniel

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THE ETC BLOG: Africanus–Origen Correspondence and the Form of Greek Daniel (John Meade). Some interesting speculation about the early place...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Satlow reviews Baker, Jew

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MICHAEL SATLOW: Review of “Jew,” by Cynthia Baker . There is a simple and powerful idea at the core of Baker’s argument. For some two millen...

Halakhah in heaven?

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MOSAIC MAGAZINE: What Happens in Heaven? Study. Of What? Jewish Law. “In heaven there will be no law,” an American legal giant once wrote. ...

Erich Gruen retrospective

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: A Wandering Jew: Some Reflections (Erich Gruen). Excerpt: Where were the Jews in all this? Nowhere to be found. I had v...

The Gospel of John

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Gospel of John Commentary: Who Wrote the Gospel of John and How Historical Is It? A look at some of the questions surr...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Helen Bond is Head of Divinity at Edinburgh

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CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR BOND AND TO NEW COLLEGE: ‘The best people to study religion can be those not of any set faith’ (Jody Harrison,...

The Sparta-Israel Conference

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WHAT HAS SPARTA TO DO WITH JERUSALEM? JEWS AND GREEKS EXPLORE LONG, DEEP RELATIONSHIP. A conference in Sparta that looked at the rich histo...

Review of Stern, Writing on the Wall

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BOOK REVIEW: What It Was Like to Be a Jew in the Roman Empire. Jewish graffiti from synagogues, tombs, theaters, and public spaces build up...

On the Binding of Isaac

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Binding or Sacrifice of Isaac. How Jews and Christians see differently (Robin M. Jensen). The Akedah (ah-kay-DAH...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The ANE Today reviews the MOTB

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: About That Museum in Washington (Alex Joffe). Dr. Joffe is the editor of The Ancient Near East Today. This is ...

Review of Rosenberg, Signs of Virginity

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Signs of Virginity (Rebecca Kamholz). Excerpt: Rosenberg’s book sets out to examine rabbinic paradigms of h...

Late-antique pilgrimages to the Holy Land

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Pilgrims’ Progress to Byzantine Jerusalem. Ancient pilgrimages to the Holy Land (Megan Sauter). Jerusalem has been re...

Happy birthday to Eilat Mazar

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SLIGHTLY BELATED GOOD WISHES: Eilat Mazar Is Born. September 10, 1956 (The Jewish News). Archaeologist Eilat Mazar is born. Mazar is a thi...