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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Egypt in Scotland

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THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM! AND THAT'S WHERE THEY ARE: Scotland's Ancient Egyptian Collections . I have not been to all of these, but...

Bowie, Longus. Daphnis and Chloe (new commentary)

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BYRN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Longus. Daphnis and Chloe Ewen Bowie, Longus. Daphnis and Chloe. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge;...

John the Baptist and ancient social distancing

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RELIGION PROF: Was John the Baptist a Hermit? James McGrath is not convinced that he was. For more on John the Baptist, see here (cf. he...

Cargill on unprovenanced antiquities

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Unprovenanced Antiquities: Learning the Hard Way (Robert R. Cargill). Background here and here and links. Visit P...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Job and God vs. truth decay

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PROF. EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN: Speaking Truth to Power, Job Accuses God of Being Unjust (TheTorah.com). Job's friends piously justify God...

Lost texts of terror?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: I Gave Them Laws Through Which They Could Not Live (Philip Jenkins). Let me offer one interpretation that fits the evide...

Plague and biblical history

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Pandemic, Plague, and Biblical History. A collection of BHD articles looking at the role of widespread disease in the ...

Sharvit & Goetschel (eds.), Canonization and Alterity

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Canonization and Alterity Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature Series: Perspectives on Jewish Tex...

A great sign in heaven

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READING ACTS: Who is the Woman in Revelation 12? Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation, now concentrating on the se...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Scripta Qumranica Electronica

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: German-Israeli project to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls alive on the screen. An advantage offered by a digital edition is th...

Review of Litwa, How the Gospels became history

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: How the Gospels became history: Jesus and Mediterranean myths . M. David Litwa, How the Gospels became history: ...

Wolf on The Rabbinic Legal Imagination

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Rabbinic Legal Imagination (Sarah Wolf). Sarah Wolf, “The Rabbinic Legal Imagination: Scholasticism and Narrativity...

Suspicious fires at holy sites in Iran

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COINCIDENCE? String of fires at Christian, Hindu, Jewish holy sites in Iran ‘deliberate’: Expert (Emily Judd and Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya...

Temple Mount archaeology

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: The Temple Revealed: Jerusalem Day 2020 (Tuvia Book, Times of Israel Blogs). For more on the "To the place of tr...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Hobby Lobby sues Christie's over Gilgamesh tablet

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CANDIDA MOSS IS UNSYMPATHETIC: Hobby Lobby Sues Christie’s, Wants Us to Feel Sorry for Them (The Daily Beast). For background on the Gilg...

Prayer outside the al-Aqsa mosque is resuming

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Prayers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound to resume next week: statement (Reuters). Visit PaleoJudaica daily ...

The missing-papyri scandal: Nongbri on Sabar

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OVER AT VARIANT READINGS, Brent Nongbri has several posts with detailed commentary on Ariel Sabar's recent Atlantic article on the scand...

Temple Mount Sifting Project online symposium

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT SYMPOSIUM . In celebration of Jerusalem Day, the Temple Mount Sifting Pr...

And I saw ...

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READING ACTS: The War of the Dragon – Revelation 12-15 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation with attention to the...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Underground complex found near Western Wall

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Archaeologists discover 2000-year-old unique complex by the Western Wall. The structure was sealed later in the Byzanti...