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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Heller, Printing the Talmud

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM BRILL: Printing the Talmud Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th...

Elisha ben Avuyah (Acher)

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INFAMOUS: Elisha ben Abuyah: The Sage Called "Acher" (Shlomo Chaim Kesselman, Chabad.org). Elisha ben Abuyah, or Acher (“the Othe...

Sabar on Saving Aramaic

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Saving Aramaic, the Language Jesus Spoke. One native speaker’s quest to preserve an ancient language (Robin Ngo). Fol...

CFP: volume on ancient demonology

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H-JUDAIC: CFP: Edited Volume on Demonology . Theme Interest in ancient Jewish and Christian beliefs about demons has grown significantly i...
Friday, October 19, 2018

LXX interview with Ross and Lanier

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THE INTERVIEWER INTERVIEWED: LXX Q&A with Will Ross and Greg Lanier . William Ross is well-known in PaleoJudaica circles for his series ...

American Numismatic Society Publications

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THE AWOL BLOG: American Numismatic Society Publications Online . A treasure trove of data on coins from all periods. The American Numismatic...

A Jesus exhibition in the Terra Sancta Museum

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REBOOT PHASE TWO: NEW JERUSALEM MUSEUM LOOKS AT THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY. After extensive renovations, Terra Sancta Museum showcases arc...

Noah - everyman or superman?

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DR. ARYEH AMIHAI: Noah — A Relatable Ancestor of Humanity (TheTorah.com). Unlike Adam, Noah is born like a regular human, and unlike the fl...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

They got the date of the eruption of Vesuvius wrong?

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DETAILS MATTER: Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought (BBC). Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription th...

Burke on editing MNTA2

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OVER AT THE APOCRYPHICITY BLOG, Tony Burke has a couple of posts on his experience of editing the two volumes of New Testament Apocrypha: Mo...

Luijendijk and Klingshirn (eds.), My Lots are in Thy Hands

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman Wo...

Review of Hidary, Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash (Michael Rosenberg...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Conflict over the Jewish catacombs in Rome

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPROMISE: Religion, Science Clash as Archaeologists Restore Ancient Jewish Catacomb in Rome. New finds in the 2,000-year-o...

The Talmud on all those meal offerings

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : There’s No Business Like Showbread Business. ‘Daf Yomi’: Are Jews like olives, ...

Ancient Judaism postdoc at Yale

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H-JUDAIC: Job: Postdoctoral Associate in Ancient Judaism/Jewish History, Yale University, Program in Judaic Studies . This is a two-year pos...

Two arrested for bulldozing Horbat Deborah

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APPREHENDED: TWO ANTIQUITY SMUGGLERS ARRESTED FOR BULLDOZING JEWISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE. Two men in their 30s shattered multiple antiquitie...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Hebron archaeological park

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ARCHAEOLOGY: FROM BRONZE AGE TO FIRST TEMPLE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE SET TO OPEN IN HEBRON. "We are happy and excited to unveil another p...

A Phoenician fish-factory in Spain

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PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC WATCH: ALMUÑÉCAR, SPAIN: El Majuelo Ruins. The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing pla...

Brave Mosul Muslims saved Syriac books from ISIS

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SYRIAC WATCH: Muslims Defied ISIS to Save Two Ancient Assyrian Manuscripts in Mosul (Asia News, rpt. AINA). Mosul -- A Muslim family hid fo...

Academic jobs!

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THE LOGOS ACADEMIC BLOG: Academic Jobs in Biblical Studies and Theology: Sep 23 – Oct 13, 2018 (Tavis Bohlinger). I don't usually link ...