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Saturday, September 29, 2018

A naked mural in the Sibyl's town

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH (SORT OF): 2,200-year-old Mural Featuring Naked Servant Discovered in Italian Tomb. Colorful pictures fo...

Saint-Laurent and Smith (eds.), The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Persian Martyrs Mar Behnam and Sarah . Notice of a new book: Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon, and Kyle Smith, eds...

The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project

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THE AWOL BLOG: Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project: an international collaborative research project . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for...

That other Jericho

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: New Testament/Herodian Jericho (Carl Rasmussen). Did you know that Jesus' Jericho was not the same one ...
Friday, September 28, 2018

The premier Judeo-Arabic expert just turned 99

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PHILOLOGY IS GOOD FOR YOU: The Little-known Language Spoken by Jews Across the Medieval Arab World. Less known than Yiddish or Ladino, Jude...

Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom Series: Religio...

Sukkot in the NT

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FOR SUKKOT: Sukkot in the New Testament: From Lulav and Hoshana to Palm Sunday (Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld, TheTorah.com). Jesus is famously as...

Hadashot Arkheologiyot

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THE AWOL BLOG: Open Access Journal: Hadashot Arkheologiyot - Excavations and Survey in Israel . I mentioned this journal once , years ago, b...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Revelation roasts Rome?

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | Sarah Emanuel, "Roasting Rome." Sarah Emanuel, Roasting Rome: Humor, Resistance, and ...

Goldstone, The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke

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AND YET ANOTHER NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation Series: S...

Septuagintal punctuation in Esther

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THE ETC BLOG: Paragraph Break at Greek Esther 2:5? (John Meade). This may seem like excessive attention to detail, but details matter. If w...

Satlow's "Great Jewish Books" Syllabus

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MICHAEL SATLOW: Great Jewish Books, Again . This semester I am teaching my “Great Jewish Books” class again. It is targeted for undergradua...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Judeo-Arabic poetry from the Cairo Geniza

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2018): Six Centuries of Arab Poets Transmitted in a Booklet of Judaeo-Arabic Poetry (Gretchen E. Be...

Reportlet on the 2018 Mt Zion excavation

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JAMES TABOR: A Short Report on our 2018 Excavations at Mt Zion in Jerusalem . Here is a short summary of our fabulous 2018 dig season at our...

Review of Belser, Rabbinic Tales of Destruction

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Rabbinic Tales of Destruction (M Adryael Tong). Julia Watts Belser. Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, ...

Divinities and demons in Deuteronomy?

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YES, THERE ARE: Are There Gods, Angels, and Demons in Deuteronomy? (Prof. Jonathan Ben-Dov, TheTorah.com). Several poetic verses in Deutero...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Holy Greco-Aramaic comics, Batman!

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ARAMAIC WATCH PLUS DECORATIVE ART: Slam! Bam! Pow! Archaeologists Find Ancient 'Comics' Decorating Roman Tomb in Jordan. Rudimentar...

Vroom, The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism

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ANOTHER NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism Tracing the Origins of Legal Obligation from Ezra t...

An ancient Coptic love spell?

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COPTIC WATCH: Ancient Egyptian 'Magic Spell' Deciphered (Owen Jarus, Live Science). An ancient Egyptian papyrus with an image showi...

Some problems with those dubious DSS-like fragments.

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THE LYNING PEN OF SCRIBES BLOG: “Troubling anomalies”, and elements that raise “questions”, “suspicions”, and “concerns” in Dead Sea Scrolls...