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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Herod's royal portico

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Royal Portico on the Temple Mount. King Herod's impressive construction project . As usual, this BHS essay summari...

10 awesome Israeli archeological sites

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PALEOJUDAICA READERS HAVE HEARD OF ALL OF THESE: 10 awesome Israeli archeological sites you never heard of (Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel2...

The Silk Road Sogdians

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ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE: A Silk Road Renaissance. Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the ...

Lo Sardo, Post-Priestly Additions and Rewritings in Exodus 35–40

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Domenico Lo Sardo. Post-Priestly Additions and Rewritings in Exodus 35–40. An Analysis of MT, LXX, and Vetus La...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Coin smuggling thwarted at Gaza checkpoint

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APPREHENDED: 2,400-year-old coins found hidden in Gaza purses. Israeli security forces foil attempt to smuggle ancient coins from the time ...

A new translation of the Bundahišn

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Bundahišn: a new translation . Notice of a New Book: Agostini, Domenico & Samuel Thrope (eds.). 2020. The Bun...

Coptic Literature in Context (4th-13th cent.)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Coptic Literature in Context (4th-13th cent.) : Cultural Landscape, Literary Production, and Manuscript Archaeology : Proceed...

The seventh bowl of wrath

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READING ACTS: The Seventh Bowl: It is Done! Revelation 16:17-21 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation. We have jus...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Drawnel (ed.), Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations: Qumran Manuscripts Seventy Years Later Proceedings of the International C...

Smith, Valentinian Christianity

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NEW BOOK FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: Valentinian Christianity Texts and Translations Translated by: Geoffrey S. Smith Universi...

Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ed. Corley & Miller)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Litera...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A new head of the IAA's DSS unit

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INTERVIEW: What is the future of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls? The new head of the Israel Antiquities Authority Dead Sea Scrolls Uni...

Helen Bond remembers Jimmy Dunn

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THE CSCO BLOG: Helen Bond remembers J. D. G. (Jimmy) Dunn . Professor Helen Bond, former CSCO Director and now Head of the School of Divinit...

Schmidt, Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: A. Jordan Schmidt Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literat...

The mystery of Armageddon

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READING ACTS: What is Armageddon? Revelation 16:16 . Phil Long continues his blog series on the Book of Revelation. We are on the seven bowl...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Ancient Galilean mikveh found in salvage excavation

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Second Temple period Jewish ritual bath uncovered, in need of rescuing. The 2,000-year-old facility was revealed duri...

Place names in Targum Onkelos

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PROF. MICHAEL AVIOZ: Targum Onkelos and the Translation of Place Names (TheTorah.com). The standard Aramaic translation of the Torah, Targu...

Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts (ed. Smith & Stuckenbruck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts. Edited by Daniel L. Smith and Loren T...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Job at UNIL: Christian and Jewish Apocrypha

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LASAUNNE: Career Opportunities: Maître d'enseignement et de recherche 1 (MER1) 70% en Littératures apocryphes juives e...

Börner-Klein, Jalkut Schimoni zu Rut

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Jalkut Schimoni zu Rut Yalkut Shimoni on Esther [sic] in Jalkut Schimoni Edited by: Dagmar Börner-Klein De ...