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Saturday, August 15, 2020

McGrath interviews Sabar

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RELIGION PROF: Interview with Ariel Sabar about his new book, Veritas . James McGrath: I asked Sabar some questions with a view to posting t...

God on screen

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Judeo-Christian God on Screen How do filmmakers go about depicting God on screen? How does one present a...

Mark Awabdy - SEPT Leviticus interview

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: NEW SEPT VOLUME ON LEVITICUS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK AWABDY . The volumes in Brill's Septuagint Commentary Series eac...

Mighty Baal – Smith Festschrift

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Mighty Baal Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith Series: Harvard Semitic Studies, Volume: 66 Editors: Stephen C. Russ...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Nongbri reviews Sabar's Veritas

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VARIANT READINGS: Ariel Sabar’s Veritas: Some First Reactions . Brent Nongbri focuses on the failings in the scholarly peer-review of the ea...

More on that stone table

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UPDATE: Israeli archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old decorated table (Xinhua via the Lebanese Star). JERUSALEM, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israe...

Incense-route milestones

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ANCIENT ROAD SIGNS: Inscriptions, milestones shed light on ‘lost’ part of Negev trade route. The previously unknown section of the Incense ...

Tal, Tibåt Mårqe (Samaritan midrashim)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Tibåt Mårqe The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary Series: Studia Samaritana, 9 Edited by: Abraham...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

President Rivlin escorts the Scrolls to the Shrine of the Book

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THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM! President Rivlin accompanies the return of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum. Pr...

Ancient stone table excavated near Beit El

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ANCIENT ARTIFACT: Table from Second Temple period discovered in Beit El (Arutz Sheva News Brief). The stone table was found near Beit El at...

Review of The Jewish-Greek tradition in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire (ed. Aitken and Paget)

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Jewish-Greek tradition in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire . James K. Aitken, James Carleton Paget, The Je...

Porter & Pitts (eds.), Johannine Christology

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Johannine Christology Series: Johannine Studies, Volume: 3 Editors: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts Johanni...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

More on Sabar, Veritas

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ARIEL SABAR'S BOOK, VERITAS , continues to receive media attention. Here are a couple more articles: The Harvard Professor Who Told th...

The Azekah archaeological babysitting service

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INNOVATION: Archaeologist moms are provided with a babysitter at Azekah biblical dig. "I really want to send young female archaeologis...

Israel Museum reopening

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EXHIBITIONS: Art, artifacts back on display for Israel Museum reopening. (ILAN BEN ZION, AP). And among them are the Dead Sea Scrolls. Vis...

The "mayor of underground Jerusalem"

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INTERVIEW: Meet the man in charge of archaeology in Jerusalem. Yuval Baruch has headed the Jerusalem division at the Israel Antiquities Aut...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Moss on Sabar on the GJW. Plus I boast and speak wisdom.

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CANDIDA MOSS: Anti-Catholic Porn Producer Scammed Harvard Professor With Gospel of Jesus’ Wife (The Daily Beast). With reference, of course...

A university class visits a cemetery

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Materiality of Death and Afterlife: Visit to Local Cemetery (Hanna Tervanotko). While drafting the syllabus of my cours...

Lamps, burial caves, and ancient Jewish identity

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MATERIAL CULTURE: In Hasmonean times, lamps and burials became a symbol of Jewish identity. Archaeological findings indicate a concentratio...

Review of Eckhardt, Private associations and Jewish communities ...

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities . Benedikt Eckhardt, Private ass...