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Friday, March 27, 2020

Interview with John Meade on Hexaplaric Job

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WILLIAM ROSS: JOHN MEADE’S NEW EDITION OF THE HEXAPLARIC EVIDENCE FOR JOB . I noted a publication announcement for the book here and two ...

Botched bookroll bureaucracy

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PAPYRUS STORIES: Law and the Art of Bookroll Maintenance (guest post by Mark De Kreij). What a mess! More than a half century of rotting ...

The Temple Mount Sifting Project and the Coronavirus

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: SPECIAL UPDATE FOLLOWING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC CRISIS . UPDATE: For many, many past posts on the proj...

The Coronavirus, the Bible, and the ANE

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DR. YITZHAQ FEDER: Coronavirus: What We Can Learn from the Bible and the ANE. An expert in ancient Near Eastern contagious diseases reflect...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Happy Spring Jewish New Year!

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THAT'S TONIGHT AT SUNDOWN: “May this coming year come upon us in peace”; The Ancient 1st of Nisan Celebration (Joel Davidi Weisberger, ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is closed.

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ANOTHER CLOSURE: Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre closes amid coronavirus fears (Reuters/Yahoo). Initially for a week, starting...

Another fake Torah in Turkey

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APPREHENDED: Turkish police nab 3 suspects trying to sell ancient Torah for $1.25M (Daily Sabah). These forgers don't give up, even dur...

A digitized national emergency library

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THE AWOL BLOG: Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public . [Though not specifically anti...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Geography and Religion - and three mysterious holy men

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Geography and Religion Geography, and the geological formations and climatological effects derived thereby, ...

Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity at AAR/SBL 2019

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RELIGION PROF: TELA at #AARSBL19 . James McGrath gives us a belated, but welcome report on a session of the Traditions of Eastern Late Antiq...

TWU LXX Summer School to go online

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WILLIAM ROSS: UPDATED INFORMATION: 2020 TWU SEPTUAGINT SUMMER SCHOOL . I saw his earlier posting on the Summer School, but I held off on lin...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

More on those fake DSS fragments

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THAT'S A REASONABLE QUESTION: After Dead Sea Forgeries Exposed, How Do We Know the Scrolls in Israel Are Authentic? All scroll fragment...

BMCR reviews of two books on ancient magic

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Guide to the study of ancient magic . David Frankfurter, Guide to the study of ancient magic. Religions in the G...

Activities for the Apocalypse

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IF YOU ARE CONFINED TO QUARTERS and seeking diversion, here are a couple of activities that (resources/expertise permitting) you can do at h...

Review of Schniedewind, The Finger of the Scribe

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THE BIBLICAL REVIEW BLOG: Review: “The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible” by William M. Schniedewind (William Br...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Nabatean travel and trade

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NABATEAN (NABATAEAN) WATCH: The Ancient Nabataeans of Jordan Travelled All The Way to Yemen and Oman. Inscriptions found in Yemen and Oman ...

Persepolis

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ANCIENT URBAN GEOGRAPHY: Persepolis: Symbol of Ancient Iran. TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire, wa...

Vashti wasn't summoned to appear naked

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THAT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE: The Bible Says What? Did Vashti appear naked before her husband? Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers takes a controversi...

Temple Mount closing(s)

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Al-Aqsa mosque shut amid coronavirus outbreak. Prayers suspended after Wakf holds emergency meeting in Jerusalem (Anes...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Zeini, Zoroastrian scholasticism in late antiquity

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity . Notice of a New Book: Zeini, Arash. 2020. Zoroastrian scholasticism in ...