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Saturday, May 02, 2020

A stone vessel workshop in Galilee (recap)

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Jewish Purification: Stone Vessel Workshop Discovered in Galilee. A 2,000-year-old stone production center points to r...

Gault, Body as Landscape, Love as Intoxication

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Body as Landscape, Love as Intoxication: Conceptual Metaphors in the Song of Songs Brian P. Gault ISBN 978162837...

Release the four angels of slaughter

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READING ACTS: The Sixth Trumpet: An Uncountable Army – Revelation 9:13-21 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the seven angels of the ...

Biblical Studies Carnival 170

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PETER GOEMAN: Biblical Studies Carnival 170 (April 2020) . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical...
Friday, May 01, 2020

The imperial cult at Herculaneum

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OVER AT THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG, Carl Rasmussen continues his blog series on the Roman imperial cult and its resonances with the earl...

Review of Leatherbury, Inscribing faith in late antiquity

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Inscribing faith in late antiquity: between reading and seeing . Sean Villareal Leatherbury, Inscribing faith in...

Quine, Casting Down the Host of Heaven

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Casting Down the Host of Heaven The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven Series: Ou...

The Golden Rule

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PROF. JOHN J. COLLINS: Love Your Neighbor: How It Became the Golden Rule (TheTorah.com). The precept וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ “you sha...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

HSM to HMANE

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CHANGE: Harvard Semitic Museum Changes Name To Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (Oliver L. Riskin-Kutz, The Harvard Crimson). I wi...

Free egyptological bibliography

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THE NESEA BLOG: ONLINE EGYPTOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: [TEMPORARY] FREE ACCESS . For you, special deal, but for limited time only. I hope not fo...

Did Peter go to Rome?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Apostle Peter in Rome. Jesus’ chief disciple examined (Nicola Denzey Lewis). Professor Denzey Lewis is skeptical ...

Abaddon

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READING ACTS: Who is Abaddon? Revelation 9:11 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the seven angels of the Book of Revelation. We are st...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Herodian-synagogue relocation project at Beit Shemesh

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ROADWORKS VS. ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTINUED: Second Temple-era synagogue to be moved stone by stone for highway. Rare Second Temple-era synagogue ...

Lost NTA/OTP manuscript found!

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RELIGION PROF: Missing Gospel Found! (Missing Ending Still Missing) . James McGrath is excited about the rediscovery of the lost Akhmim Frag...

A new Sassanian-era inscription

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IRANIAN EPIGRAPHY: Sassanid Inscription Unearthed In Ancient Iran Necropolis Being Deciphered (RFE/RL, The Iranian). A very interesting s...

Stinging locusts

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READING ACTS: The Fifth Trumpet: Locust from the Abyss – Revelation 9:1-12 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the seven angels of the ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Interview with Vered Noam

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TALMUD WATCH: Meet Prof. Noam Vered [sic], the 1st woman to win the Israel Prize for Talmud. As a child I felt that Talmud is a conversatio...

Women at Qumran?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: No Women at Qumran? Qumran as an Essene scribal center (Marek Dospěl). This essay summarizes an article by Sidnie Whi...

Bronze coins from Ptolemy I-IV

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THE AWOL BLOG: Numismatic News: Bronze types from Ptolemy I - IV published to PCO . For more on the coins of the Ptolemaic period, with my...

Abysmal

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DEEP QUESTION: What is the Abyss in Revelation 9:1? Over at Reading Acts, Phil Long continues his blog series on the seven angels of the Bo...