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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Sensenig, Jehoiachin and his Oracle

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: Melvin Sensenig Jehoiachin and his Oracle A Jeremianic Scribal Framework for the End of the Deuteronomistic H...

Contextualizing coins

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NUMISMATICS: CONTEXTUALIZING COINS: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. NATHAN T. ELKINS (AUSTIN ANDREWS, Pocket Change Blog). NE: You are absolutely rig...

Past pandemics

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Pandemics in Perspective (Sarah Yeomans). Humanity has confronted pandemic events many times before. An examination of...

Who cited whom in the Talmud?

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MICHAEL SATLOW: The Rabbinic Citation Network . Professor Satlow and his collaborator Mike Sperling have produced a visual representation of...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Bons (ed.), Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, vol. 1

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint. Volume I: Alpha – Gamma. Edited by Eberhard Bons. 2020. C...

Another Steinsaltz memorial

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OBITUARY: Adin Steinsaltz: Rabbi who brought the Talmud within reach of millions (Emily Langer, The Independent/MSN News). “The Talmud is t...

More art in a Beit Guvrin-Maresha cave

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EXHIBITION: Beit Guvrin cave transforms into first-of-its-kind art installation. Italian contemporary artist Ivo Bisignano is showing his f...

Flee to Pella!

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Pella: A Window on Survival (Mark Wilson). Before writing my doctoral thesis two decades ago, the only Pella that I kn...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Tomb tryst in the Sidonian Cave?

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MYSTERIOUS EPIGRAPHY: The Strange Afterlife of a Mysterious Tomb Inscription. “I lay with another but I love you, the one most dear to me” ...

Pandemic pedagogy: parchment-packages

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: ‘Parchment-Packages’ in The Jewish Jesus Class Pedagogical Practices in the Digital Age (Deborah Forger). A creative ...

Davila's "AI Jesus?"

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH? Engineer creates 'AI Jesus' by feeding a natural language processing system the King James Bible that produces int...

Equal time for et-Tell as Bethsaida

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSERTION: Biblical village of Bethsaida where Jesus fed the 5,000, walked on water and helped a blind man to see is finally ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Eye in the sky spies Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: Israel releases pictures of Palmyra from new spy satellite (Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel Live Update). The name of the s...

Vesuvius Day, belatedly

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COMMEMORATION: Vesuvius Day 2020: History and Significance of the day (Rob Harris, Time Bulletin). (My photo of Vesuvius from a confere...

Elymais coin recovered in Iran

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NUMISMATIC APPREHENSION: Elymais coin found in southwestern Iran (Tehran Times). The coin is unremarkable. I mention it because it has a ...

The hanging and the cursing

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PROF. RABBI MARTY LOCKSHIN: A Corpse Left Hanging Overnight Is a “Cursing of God” (TheTorah.com). The body of an executed criminal is hange...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Incantation bowls in the classroom

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Incantation Bowls and Embodied Knowledge (Krista Dalton). But rather than focus solely on cognition, I wanted to emphas...

What is a prophet like Moses?

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PROF. KENNETH SEESKIN: Prophecy and Legislation After Moses (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy promises the Israelites that God will continue send...

Pajunen & Tervanotko (eds.) Crossing imaginary boundaries (on the DSS)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Crossing imaginary boundaries: the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of Second Temple Judaism . An open-access book edited by M...

C-14 calibration changes Coptic curve

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VARIANT READINGS: A New Radiocarbon Calibration Curve and Early Christian Manuscripts (Brent Nongbri). The new INTCAL20 C-14 calibration sh...