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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Writing a Torah scroll on Masada

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MORE MASADA: INSCRIBING THE JEWISH FUTURE ON MASADA. “By writing a Torah on Masada, we are continuing what the Romans wanted to stop 2,000 ...

Josephus podcasts

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MORE JOSEPHUS: TVL1 has a series of podcasts on the work of Flavius Josephus. So far: Josephus’s “Jewish Antiquities” “The Life:” The Bi...

Josephus, Jeremiah, and the Essenes

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WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF JOSEPHUS, Bible History Daily has a couple of recent essays on him: Titus Flavius Josephus and the Proph...

Review of Magness, Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth

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BOOK REVIEW: Is one of history’s most rousing speeches apocryphal? Eleazar Ben-Yair’s death-and-glory address at Masada in AD 73 may have b...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Geniza Fragments 77

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GENIZA FRAGMENTS, the Newsletter of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library has published its April 2019 Is...

Magical amulets among the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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DECIPHERED DEAD SEA SCROLLS POSE QUESTIONS FOR HISTORIANS. Deciphered by Prof. Ariel and Faina Feldman, the segments written in semi-cursiv...

Letters in defense of Peter Schäfer

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CONTROVERSY: Jewish Studies Scholars Support Resigned Director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum with Two Public Letters. Leading Jewish studies sc...

New documentary on the Cairo Geniza

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THE ETC BLOG: From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza (John Meade). I agree that the trailer looks great, but the DVD is pre...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Talmud on when human life begins.

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A RECENT DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : When Does Human Life Begin? This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study happens to pit contem...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A Geniza Torah fragment with nonstandard Tiberian vocalization

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (APRIL 2019): Standard Tiberian Pronunciation in a Non-Standard Form: T-S AS 64.206 (Estara J. Arrant). To sum...

The Yazidis

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NOT BY EVERYONE: The Yazidis - the forgotten people. Opinion: The Yazidis are today the most oppressed people on earth - yet are totally fo...

Ritual impurity or contagious disease?

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DR. YITZHAK FEDER: Tum’ah: Ritual Impurity or Fear of Contagious Disease? (TheTorah.com). Already in the early 2nd millennium B.C.E., peopl...

PhD thesis: Elder, The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Nicholas Elder). A recent PhD thesi...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Review of Newman, Before the Bible

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Before the Bible: The Liturgical Body and the Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism (David Skelton). Jud...

The antiquities market in Israel

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Antiquities Market—A “Cat and Mouse Game.” How the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Theft Prevention Unit stays one ...

Meade, A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22–42

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THE ETC BLOG: New Book: A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22–42 (John Meade). John Meade's forthcoming book should ...

Palmyrene bust at the Getty Museum

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PALMYRA WATCH: Ancient Portrait Bust from Palmyra Joins the Collection of the Getty Villa (Dr. Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum via Br...
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...