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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Review of Pardes, The Song of Songs: A Biography

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H-JUDAIC REVIEW: Ilana Pardes. The Song of Songs: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 296 pp. $24.95, cloth, ISBN 97...

Gnostic Countercultures (ed. DeConick and Lanzillotta)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Gnostic Countercultures Terror and Intrigue Editors: April DeConick and Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta In Gnostic Count...

Review of Worthington, Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood story

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ea’s duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood story . Martin Worthington, Ea's duplicity in the Gilgamesh flood stor...

Setting ancient hymns to music?

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RELIGION PROF: Israelite, Assyrian, and Babylonian Poetry (James McGrath). As far as I know, the Canaanite and Aramaic hymns in Papyrus A...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Persian Period pottery "globalization"

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CERAMIC TYPOLOGY: 2,500-year-old pottery shows close ties between ancient Israel and Turkey. A group of Israeli and German archaeologists h...

The banned city and the vassal treaties

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PROF. ADA TAGGAR-COHEN: The Subverted City (Ir Hannidahat) in the Context of ANE Vassal Treaties (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy’s requirement ...

JSTOR special deal through December

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THE AWOL BLOG: Free access to 100 JSTOR articles/month through December 31, 2020 . Just so you know! For a helpful listing of journals on ...

Hewitt, Messiah and Scripture

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: J. Thomas Hewitt. Messiah and Scripture. Paul's »In Christ« Idiom in Its Ancient Jewish Context. 2020. XII...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

List of active open-access journals

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THE AWOL BLOG: Active Open Access Journals . This is a developing list of open access journals currently reviewing papers for publication. I...

Wright on Rahab and nationhood

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Rahab: Between Faith and Works Although widely viewed, especially by its Christian interpreters, as scriptur...

Dubovský & Giuntoli (eds.), Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls. Periods of the Formation of the Bible. Ed. by Peter Dubovský and Federico Giunto...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Court rules that the Crowns of Damascus stay in National Library

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COURT PRONOUNCEMENT: Jerusalem court rules National Library to keep Medieval Damascus Bibles. Decision ends a protracted legal battle over ...

Hebrew Manuscripts going on display at the British Library

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EXHIBITION: 16th century ‘spell book’ among Hebrew items on display at British Library. The Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Wor...

Strontium mapping of ancient human etc. movements

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: 1st complete strontium isotope map of Israel tracks ancient human migration. New study of rock and soil samples taken fro...

Still more on that ancient stone table

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ANCIENT ARTIFACT: Second Temple Period stone table unearthed near Beit El. The COGAT archaeology unit is in charge of the management, prese...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Proceedings of 2018 Wuppertal LXX conference published

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 LXX.D WUPPERTAL CONFERENCE PUBLISHED . Notice of a new book from Mohr Siebeck: Die Septuaginta – Th...

Online forum on Second Temple literature

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THE AWOL BLOG: Towards a New Map of Second Temple Literature: Revelation, Rewriting, and Genre Before the Bible: A Forum Organized Around Ne...

Gordon on Second Temple priests, temple, and land

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism Most Judean priests of the Second Temple period lived dispe...

Runesson & Gurtner (eds.), Matthew within Judaism

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Matthew within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel Anders Runesson (Editor), Daniel M. Gurtner (Ed...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Arena, Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Francesco Arena. Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah. How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the Fa...