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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Video: The Ancient Coins of Israel

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Ancient Coins — A Great 10 Minute Video (Carl Rasmussen). The folk over at the Friends of the Israel Antiqu...

Yeroushalmi, The Jews of Iran

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Jews of Iran . Notice of a new book: Yeroushalmi, David. 2017. The Jews of Iran: chapters in their history and cu...

Review of Drake, A Century of Miracles

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410 (Peter Morris). H.A. Drake A...

The Eden story as exposition

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PROF. YAIRAH AMIT: The Exposition of the Garden of Eden Story (TheTorah.com). The Garden of Eden story includes a lengthy introductory expo...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Hasmonean-era mass-beheadings excavated

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GRUESOME OSTEOLOGY: Ancient beheading site found in Jerusalem, evidence of ‘holy’ king’s bloody rule. Archaeologists now know whodunnit — t...

CFP: IOQS 2019

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THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF QUMRAN STUDIES: 10th Meeting of the IOQS (Aberdeen, 4‒8 August, 2019): Call for Papers . The subject for t...

Ilana Sasson memorial lecture

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SAD NEWS: Remembering Ilana Sasson. Memorial lecture will focus on ‘materiality’ of Cairo Geniza (Lois Goldrich, Jewish Standard/Times of ...

Samaritans view recovered Torah column

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SAMARITAN WATCH: Samaritans view part of ancient Torah scroll stolen from them in 1995. Parchment found during a routine customs check of a...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Notes on the Jerusalem inscription

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A FEW NOTES on the recently-announced first-century CE inscription discovered near Jerusalem, the one that refers to Jerusalem with a plene...

On Origen's Second Column

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THE OTTC BLOG: Hebrew Transcription in Origen's Secunda . Drew Longacre draws our attention to Benjamin P. Kantor's 2017 doctoral di...

More free DSD articles

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FOR YOU, SPECIAL DEAL: Free articles from Dead Sea Discoveries . To celebrate the 25th Volume of Dead Sea Discoveries, 25 articles from the ...

CFP: IOSOT 2019

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THE ETC BLOG: Call for Papers for 2019 IOSOT Meeting at University of Aberdeen (John Meade). The IOSOT is the International Organization fo...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Zeno, the underwater archaeology drone

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MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY: Meet Zeno, the Tiny Sub Discovering the Secrets of Israel's Coasts. Israeli and Italian experts have recently tes...

At Haifa U: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Digital Scholarly Editions

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DAY CONFERENCE: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Digital Scholarly Editions Michael Langlois gives the program of this event, which he attended. It...

Conference: Material of Christian Apocrypha

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COMING SOON: MATERIAL OF CHRISTIAN APOCRYPHA . Hosted by the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies and McIntire Departmen...

Zadoff and Zadoff (eds.), Scholar and Kabbalist (Gershom Scholem)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem Series: IJS Studies in Judaica, Volume: 19 Editors: Mir...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

New inscription mentioning Jerusalem

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ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY PRESS RELEASE: Second Temple Period stone inscription noting the full spelling of Jerusalem found. The unique ...

String Theory in the Talmud

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Strings Attached. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, two schools of bibli...

Short notice: Job/PhD in Greco-Coptic lexicography

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THE NSEA BLOG: DOCTORAL POSITION: GRAECO-COPTIC LEXICOGRAPHY, BERLIN . Just noticed this one, which was posted a week ago. This is a part-ti...

A murder at that other Jericho?

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Murder of a Jewish High Priest at NT Jericho (Carl Rasmussen). There is no way to know whether Josephus...