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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Bible Places top-10 discoveries of 2019

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THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: Top 10 Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology in 2019 (Todd Bolen). Todd provides us with a good list and lots of ancil...
Friday, January 10, 2020

A Judeo-Christian (?) bilingual exorcism in PGM IV

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THE COPTIC MAGICAL PAPYRI BLOG: Old Coptic Magical Texts IV: The Bilingual Exorcism of PGM IV . This post is the fourth in a mini-series abo...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Kalman on Jewish timekeeping from antiquity to modernity

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Turning Clockwise: Jews and Timekeeping from Antiquity to Modernity | Dissertation Spotlight (David Zvi Kalman). David ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Sparse Persian-era sherds and coins (Temple Mount Objects #4)

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN 12 OBJECTS: #4 THE EARLY SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD . For the earlier ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Biblical Studies Carnival December 2019

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BELATEDLY NOTED: Biblical Studies Carnival #167: December 2019 , by Alex Finkelson at the Scribes of the Kingdom Blog. Visit PaleoJudaica d...
Monday, January 06, 2020

The Talmud on detecting puberty

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THE MOST RECENT DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET : GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON. As the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of page-a-day...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

Review of Coşkun and Engels (eds.), Rome and the Seleukid East

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Altay Coşkun, David Engels (ed.), Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussel...
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...