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Friday, November 09, 2018

Shoemaker, The Apocalypse of Empire

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NEW BOOK FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS: The Apocalypse of Empire Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam Steph...

Supernatural conference CFP

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THE ESEA BLOG: CFP: THE SUPERNATURAL FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD . Not Yet Understood: The Supernatural from Antiquity to the Med...

Bibliography of the Arabic Bible

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THE AWOL BLOG: Bibliography of the Arabic Bible: A Classified and Annotated History of Scholarship . This is associated with the Biblia Arab...

Silver as money before coins

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TZILLA ESHEL: How Silver Was Used for Payment (TheTorah.com). Abraham purchases the cave of Machpelah for 400 silver shekels. Biblical phra...
Thursday, November 08, 2018

Nautical and animal engravings found in Beer Sheva cistern

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GRAFFITI ART: ANCIENT ENGRAVINGS OF SHIPS AND ANIMALS UNCOVERED IN BEERSHEBA. Excavators discovered large cistern while preparing for a new...

Jesus, the Essenes, and modern esotericism

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Jesus and the Essenes: An Esoteric History Like the historical Jesus, “the Essenes” can easily become a scre...

Picus on rabbinic reading practices

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | Daniel Picus . “I argue that that the rabbis are deeply concerned with the form, format, and di...

Judean and related coins going to auction

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NUMISMATICS: Extremely Rare Judaean and Related Roman Coins Featured in Goldberg’s New York Sale (Goldberg Coins, CoinWeek). The auction ta...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Hygoye 21.2 (2018)

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A NEW ISSUE: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 21.2 (2018) . This is a high-quality, peer-review, open-access journal. Issue 21.1 was noted ...

Hurtado on Goodman on Paul as persecutor

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LARRY HURTADO: Saul/Paul the “Persecutor” and Jewish Tolerance of Diversity . On Monday of this week ([October] 22nd) the esteemed scholar o...

Lectures on the Jewish communities of Qumran and Alexandria

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PROF. LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: SECTS AND THE CITY: THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF QUMRAN AND ALEXANDRIA . Co-sponsored by Drisha, The Jewish Public...

‘Atiqot 92 (2018)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Now online: ‘Atiqot 92 (2018) . You can see the abstracts straightaway, but full access to the articles requires free registr...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

The Talmud on sacrificial oil

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Oil Change. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, discussion of proper meal ...

Review of Blanton, A Spiritual Economy

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus (Jennifer Quigley). Thomas R. Blanton, ...

Bauckham (ed.), Magdala of Galilee

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IN THE MAIL: Magdala of Galilee A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period by Richard Bauckham [ed.] [Baylor University Press] 4...

70 ancient coins seized at Allenby Bridge crossing

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APPREHENDED: Smuggling Reportedly Thwarted at Allenby Bridge (reported by TPS / Tazpit News Agency via the Jewish Press). Among the items r...
Monday, November 05, 2018

Bodmer Papyri online

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VARIANT READINGS: Images of the Bodmer Papyri Online (Brent Nongbri). I’m happy to announce that as part of the ongoing work of the Bodmer ...

More on that earliest abcedary(?) ever

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: As Easy as ABC?: A Review of Thomas Schneider’s Study of the TT99 Ostracon Schneider’s work advances the dis...

Oaths by and on Scripture

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DR. MOSHE BILDSTEIN: Taking an Oath While Holding a Torah Scroll (TheGemara.com). In late Second Temple times, a person would take an oath ...

You didn't know this about Freddie Mercury

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ANCIENT, BUT STILL AROUND: Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism (Vasudha Narayanan, The Conversation). V...