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Saturday, June 13, 2020

"I bore you on vultures' wings?"

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BIBLICAL ORNITHOLOGY: Biblically mislabelled, Israel's griffon vultures get new lease of life (Reuters). Reuters also has a photo essay...

Alexander's ancestors

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NUMISMATICS: CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Macedon Before Alexander (Mike Markowitz). Alexander the Great comes up now and then on PaleoJ...

Why a second Passover?

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PROF. STEVEN FRAADE: The Paradox of Pesach Sheni (TheTorah.com). As a historical commemoration, Passover is tied to a specific date. Nevert...

The mark of the beast and its number

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READING ACTS: What is the Mark of the Beast? – Revelation 13:16-18 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation, concentr...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Canaanite ancestry of Jews and Arabs?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Jews and Arabs Descended from Canaanites. DNA analysis, from bodies found at several sites, explains more than half of...

Klaus Berger, 1940-2020

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SAD NEWS: Reports have been coming in that Professor Klaus Berger, New Testament scholar at Heidelberg University, passed away on 8 June 202...

Kleczar, Ha-Makdoni, Images of Alexander the Great ...

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NEW BOOK FROM ARCHEOBOOKS: Ha-Makdoni, Images of Alexander the Great in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Literature 25,00 $ ISBN: 978-83-65080...

Revelation as anti-imperial counter-propaganda?

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READING ACTS: Who is the Lord of Earth and Sea? – Revelation 13 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation, concentrati...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Online conference on provenance of the DSS

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UNIVERSITY OF AGDER, NORWAY: THE LYING PEN OF SCRIBES: On the Origin of the Pieces: The Provenance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Virtual Confere...

In memory of Francis I. Andersen

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OBITUARY: Died: Francis I. Andersen, Scholar Who Used Computers to Study the Bible. He found ‘awesome reality of a living God’ in the gramm...

Did prophecy require celibacy?

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PROF. RABBI MARTY LOCKSHIN: Did Moses Become Celibate? (TheTorah.com). The Israelite men are commanded to separate from their wives before ...

A Behemoth of a Beast

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READING ACTS: The Beast out of the Earth – Revelation 13:11-15 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation, concentratin...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

What's in a (biblical) name?

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ONOMASTIC HISTORY: Names Reveal What’s History and What’s Myth in the Bible, Researcher Says. Study of naming traditions shows First Temple...

EMET Prize for Dimant and Greenstein

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KUDOS: 2020 EMET Prize winners announced. The EMET Prize is known as Israel's Nobel Prize, awarded for excellence which make significan...

Pottery production in Roman-era Jerusalem

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MATERIAL CULTURE: Ancient pottery reveals secrets of Roman rule over Jerusalem – new study. Before the Temple was destroyed by the Romans i...

Orion Center Research Scholarships 2020/2021

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THERE'S STILL TIME TO APPLY: Orion Center Research Scholarships 2020/2021 The Orion Center invites applications for its research scholar...
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

More on the Jezreel Winery

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FURTHER TO YESTERDAY'S POST ON THE JEZREEL WINERY , Dr. Norma Franklin has kindly sent me offprints of several articles on the winery ex...

Using the Digital Syriac Corpus

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Using the Digital Syriac Corpus for Online Syriac Instruction (James Walters). I have posted on the Digital Syriac Co...

Mapping a Roman city with GPR

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Archaeologists map complete Roman city without lifting a shovel (Brooks Hays, UPI). The name of the city is Falerii Novi....

An anniversary for the Beast?

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READING ACTS: The Beast Who Lived – Revelation 13:3-4 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation, concentrating on the ...