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Saturday, September 05, 2020

The Archaeology of Mithraism (ed. McCarty & Egri)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Archaeology of Mithraism . Notice of a new book: McCarty, Matthew & Mariana Egri (eds.). 2020. The Archaeolog...

Kemp, Ezekiel, Law, and Judahite Identity

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Joel B. Kemp. Ezekiel, Law, and Judahite Identity. A Case for Identity in Ezekiel 1–33. 2020. XI, 195 pages. F...

Frankenstein's Golem?

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GOLEM WATCH: The Mighty Golem and Mary Shelley (Peter R. Fernandez, Times of Israel Blogs). With speculation about Mary Wollstonecraft Shel...

Coptic Scriptorium News

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COPTIC WATCH: Coptic Scriptorium News Summer 2020 Corpora Release 4.0.0 (Chuck Jones, The AWOL Blog). With lots of new goodies for Coptolog...
Friday, September 04, 2020

The Usha excavation

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ARCHAEOLOGY: The rich history of Usha – an ancient city now in ruins - Anat Harrel (ILTV). The city of Usha in the Galilee was a critica...

Magnificent First-Temple-era palace inferred near Jerusalem

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ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS: At popular Jerusalem promenade, archaeologists find a First Temple-era palace. Rare column heads located at Armon ...

Butts & Gross (eds.), Jews and Syriac Christians

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Jews and Syriac Christians. Intersections across the First Millennium. Edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simch...

Deuteronomy's rules for marrying a captive woman

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PROF. RABBI SHAYE J. D. COHEN, DR.RABBI ZEV FARBER: Marrying a Beautiful Captive Woman (TheTorah.com). If an Israelite wishes to marry a wo...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

The Sifting Project on the Temple Mount mystery hole

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: OUR COMMENTS ON THE UNKNOWN UNDERGROUND CISTERN THAT WAS DISCOVERED ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT . Who better ...

Ultra-Orthodox protests over grave excavations

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND THEOLOGICAL POLITICS: Ancient Graves Discovered Outside Jerusalem Spark Battle Over Roadworks. Ultra-Orthodox activists pro...

Rosen-Zvi, Between Mishna and Midrash

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Mishnah, Midrash, and How to Read Tannaitic Literature (Ishay Rosen-Zvi). Notice of a New Book: Between Midrash and Mis...

Greenspoon, Jewish Bible Translations

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: Jewish Bible Translations and Translators By the last decades of the nineteenth century, American Jews became...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

The mystery hole is memory-holed

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Waqf fills hole on Temple Mount, possibly hiding archaeological treasures. “The finds on the mountain reflect 3,000 yea...

Grunge Enoch

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: MESSED UP STORIES FROM THE BOOK OF ENOCH [link corrected) (Benito Cereno, Grunge). I didn't have h...

A response to Garfinkel about his God figurines

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Facing the Facts about the “Face of God.” A Critical Response to Yosef Garfinkel (Shua Kisilevitz, Ido Koch, Oded Lip...

Biblical Studies Carnival 174

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READING ACTS: Biblical Studies Carnival 174 for August 2020 (Phil Long). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism a...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Some assembly required

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Make Your Own Magical Papyrus (Geoffrey Smith). Cross-file under News You Can Use (?) and Pedagogy. Visit PaleoJudai...

Clint Burnett on the NT and inscriptions

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INTERVIEW: How do inscriptions help us read the New Testament? (Ian Paul, Psephizo). Dr Clint Burnett is Lecturer of New Testament at Johns...

Schiffman on 2020 discoveries

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PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: 2020 DISCOVERIES. While the world was in lockdown, excavators and archaeologists were still busy discoveri...

An undersea Tanit sanctuary?

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MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY: From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult. A trove of Phoenician artifacts was long ascribed to a single shipwreck. M...