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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Review of Marx-Wolf, Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority

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BOOK REVIEW: As promised , here is my book review presented (in absentia) in the Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism (MEGA) Section last ...

The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. Clements, Kister and Segal)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of th...

Kurshan on telling children Talmudic tales

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TALMUD WATCH: Why We Should Teach Our Children Talmud Folk Tales — Instead Of Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Ilana Kurshan, The Forward). This essay ...

Brill and fake and unprovenanced manuscripts

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FACES AND VOICES: Open letter to Brill: Fake and unprovenanced manuscripts (Roberta Mazza). Updated with a reply from Brill. Visit PaleoJu...
Friday, November 16, 2018

SBL 2018

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THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE'S 2018 ANNUAL MEETING is about to begin in Denver, Colorado. Technically it begins tomorrow, on Satu...

More on those cistern etchings

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PHOTO ESSAY: Photos: Biblical-Era Cistern and Carvings Discovered in Israel (Stephanie Pappas, Live Science). Background here . Cross-fil...

Yardeni's last book

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FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM CARTA, by the late Ada Yardeni : THE NATIONAL HEBREW SCRIPT - Up To The Babylonian Exile The present work is Ada...

The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity . Notice of a New Book: Walsh, David. 2018. T he Cult of Mithras in Late Antiqu...

Hurtado reviews Nongbri, God's Library

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LARRY HURTADO: “God’s Library” (by Brent Nongbri): A Review . Nongbri has produced a “must read” for all those interested in early Christian...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

NT Chair at the University of St Andrews

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JOB OPENING: NEW TESTAMENT PROFESSORSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS . We wish to appoint a Professor within the School of Divinity in t...

The Ptolemaic coins, part II

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NUMISMATICS: CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: The Ptolemies, Part II (Mike Markowitz). I noted and commented on Part I of this series here . S...

A new translation of 1-2 Samuel

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THE AWOL BLOG: The Book Of Shmu'el - A New Translation . By William Whitt. Free online. Dr. Whitt's Academia.edu page is here . Vis...

Talmud Yerushalmi database

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H-JUDAIC: Talmud Yerushalmi database . Cross-file under Talmud Watch. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and t...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

New bit of ancient astronomical computer recovered

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MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY: Missing Piece of Antikythera Mechanism Found on Aegean Seabed. Bronze disk unearthed by archaeologists in same wreck wh...

Report on Syriac "Crossroads" Conference

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SYRIAC WATCH: International conference explores Syriac Christianity. Professor Sebastian Brock speaks about St. Ephrem the Syrian’s contrib...

Larsen on Gospels Before the Book

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Gospels Before the Book (Matthew Larsen). This is the title of a new book by Dr. Larsen. In this essay he adapts materi...

Is the U.K. leaving UNESCO too?

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DOMINOES FALLING? UK to quit Unesco? Proposals for Britain to follow Israel and US in leaving the UN body (The Week). International Develo...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Jesus on an ancient church wall in the Negev

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DECORATIVE ART: 'Suddenly I Saw Eyes': Jesus’ Face Discovered in Ancient Israeli Desert Church. Very little early Christian art has...

The Talmud on the Temple's measuring cups

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Vesselmania. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ Talmudic scholars grapple with the num...

Review of Elledge, Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism (Karen Connor McGugan). C. D. Elledge, Resurrection of the Dead i...