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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Cho, Royal Messianism and the Jerusalem Priesthood in the Gospel of Mark

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Royal Messianism and the Jerusalem Priesthood in the Gospel of Mark By: Bernardo Cho Published: ...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Wedding at site of ancient Italian synagogue

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATRIMONY: Europe’s Second-Oldest Synagogue Hosts First Wedding in 1,500 (Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency/Jewish Press). Th...

Enoch and the astronaut

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EXHIBITION: Restored Enoch Scroll, Israeli astronaut diary now on view. Two manuscripts that survived against all odds through time and spa...

The Talmud on firstborns and fetuses

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THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : The Price of a Firstborn. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the biblical ...

Gemology at Bar Ilan University

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MATERIAL CULTURE: Bar Ilan Expanding into Archaeological Gemology (David Israel, Jewish Press). Cross-file under ancient Bling . Visit Pa...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

AJR: Textual Objects and Material Philology

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Textual Objects and Material Philology . These essays were part of a panel at the Society of Biblical Literature 2018 An...

Aramaic liturgical poetry for Shavuot

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Dramatizing Torah Reading with Aramaic Liturgical Poetry (Dr. Abraham J. Berkovitz, TheTorah.com). In late antiquity and med...

Global Coptic Day - June 1st

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COPTIC WATCH: First Ever Global Coptic Day Celebrated on 1 June 2019 (Egyptian Streets). I'm very happy to hear about this new annual c...

Review of "The World between Empires" Exhibition

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AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: Exhibit suggests 'peaceful pluralism' among ancient Jews, Christians and pagans (Menachem Wecker...
Monday, June 10, 2019

The Temple Mount Sifting Project resumes

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Temple Mount Sifting Project reboots, aims to salvage ancient temple artifacts. At Jerusalem Day event, minister vows f...

Resurrecting ancient Israelite beer

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: 5,000-year-old yeast is being used by Israeli scientists to brew a pretty good beer (Marcy Oster, JTA). Over the years,...

The Talmud on donkeys and milk

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A RECENT DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Blood and Milk. In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’: Why are Jews allowed to drink milk at all?...

Thesis on divine knowledge in the Hodayot

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HELSINKI PHD THESIS: Transmission of divine knowledge in the sapiential Thanksgiving Psalms from Qumran (PhysOrg). A recently completed doc...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Shavuot 2019

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THE FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT (Weeks, Pentecost) begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. For biblical background see the...

Review of Monerie, L'économie de la Babylonie à l'époque hellénistique

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Julien Monerie, L'économie de la Babylonie à l'époque hellénistique. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern rec...
Friday, June 07, 2019

On Ezekiel's chariot vision

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PROF. CARL S. ERLICH: Ezekiel’s Vision of God and the Chariot (TheTorah.com). How are we to understand Ezekiel’s bizarre vision of the char...

Orlov receives research award

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CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR ORLOV! Marquette theology professor honored with fellowship award. Dr. Andrei Orlov has studied Jewish apocaly...

The Talmud on theodicy

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A RECENT DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : Nesting Habits. This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ tackles the eternal problem of theodicy: If Go...

Hasmonean-era coin found at Shiloh

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NUMISMATICS: ANCIENT COIN DISCOVERED DURING BRAZILIAN VISIT TO SHILOH. Elected officials from Brazil just happened to be visiting the archa...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Amy-Jill Levine lecturing in St. Andrews today

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THIS AFTERNOON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS: Understanding Jesus means understanding Judaism . 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Parliament Hall Bibl...