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Saturday, January 04, 2020

Professor Larry Hurtado PhD Scholarship Fund

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LARRY HURTADO'S BLOG has an In memorandum posted by one of his children. It notes the founding of a scholarship fund in Larry's nam...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Review of Piotrkowski, Priests in Exile

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Miguel Va...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

The Sibyl's Pompeii prophecy

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii? The Sibylline Oracles, ...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

LXX reading plans for 2020

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NOW'S THE TIME TO START: READING THE SEPTUAGINT IN 2020 (William Ross, Septuagint &c.) Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest new...

2020!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have a great 2020. I hope it will include frequent visits to PaleoJudaica. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Top-10s for 2019

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RETROSPECTIVE: So far I have found two top-10 lists for 2019 of interest to PaleoJudaica. From Jesus' Time: The 10 Most Interesting Bi...

Levine on The Jewish Origins of the Christmas Story

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BELATEDLY FOR CHRISTMAS: The Jewish Origins of the Christmas Story (Amy-Jill Levine, TheTorah.com). The narratives of Jesus’ conception and...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Hanukkah and Saturnalia?

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BELATEDLY FOR HANUKKAH: Did Ancient Jews Change Hanukkah to One-Up the Competition? New research into the origins of Hanukkah shows that th...

Hasmonean essays from TheTorah.com

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BELATEDLY FOR HANUKKAH: Channah, Daughter of Mattathias: Instigator of the Maccabean Rebellion (Prof.Rachel Adelman, TheTorah.com). 1 Macca...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran (Bundvad and Siegismund eds.)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, 14-15 August, 20...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Geniza Fragments 78

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GENIZA FRAGMENTS, the Newsletter of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library has published its October 2019 ...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Children in the ANE

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ANCIENT FAMILY: Children in the ancient Middle East were valued and vulnerable — not unlike children today (Shawn Flynn and Kristine Garrow...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas 2019

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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all those celebrating! This is a good opportunity to mention two New Books of seasonal interest, both from Wiqf and Sto...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Review of Ameling et al., Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume IV

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jo...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Biale, Gershom Scholem (in Hebrew)

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NEW BOOK FROM MAGNES PRESS: Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah By: David Biale Translation: Amotz Giladi Synopsis David Biale’s G...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Hanukkah 2019

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HAPPY HANUKKAH (CHANUKKAH, CHANUKAH) to all those celebrating! The eight-day festival begins tonight at sundown. Last year's Hanukkah...

Another review of Moss, Divine Bodies

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Candida R. Moss, Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity. New Have...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Review of Moss, Divine Bodies

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (Thomas McGlothlin). Can...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Ancient Judean Technology

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ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient Judean Technology (William Brown). The article deals with Town Planning & Urbanization, Industry,...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

On the Gospel of Barnabas and Divine fibs

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OVER AT THE ANXIOUS BENCH BLOG, Professor Philip Jenkins has returned to the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabas : Nicodemus and the Secret Scri...