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Saturday, September 12, 2020

The Sifting Project is a Trip Advisor top 10%

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: WE’RE IN THE TOP 10% OF ATTRACTIONS WORLDWIDE! The lack of international vistors in August seems to have ...

The Sibylline Books and the Saecular Games

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NUMISMATICS: Coins of the Ludi Saeculares and Rome’s Millennial Games (Steve Benner, CoinWeek). Even though the origins may go back as far ...

Sasanika

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THE AWOL BLOG: Sasanika: Late Antique Near East Project . The Sasanian (Sassanian) era is of considerable interest for the study of late-a...

Steiner Festschrift - Biblical, Semitic and Jewish Studies

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NEW BOOK FROM THE BIALIK INSTITUTE: Semitic, Biblical and Jewish Studies In Honor of Richard C. Steiner Aron J. Koller, Mordechai Z. Cohen...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Gray on rabbinic charity

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Charity (Tzedaqah) as a Late Antique Rabbinic Religious Idea (Alyssa M. Gray). I noted the publication of Pr...

Magic Jesus?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Jesus Holding a Magic Wand? Supernatural Depictions of Jesus in Early Christian Art (Marek Dospěl). This essay is a s...

Connecting Deuteronomy's deletion dots

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PROFESSOR ALBERT L. BAUMGARTEN: Dots on Deuteronomy 29:28: A Polemical Response to Qumran’s Secret Laws (TheTorah.com). “The secret things ...

Cuneiform tablet scans

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THE AWOL BLOG: Cuneiform Tablet Collection at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE) . (Formerly the Harvard Semitic Museum.) ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Handwriting at Arad revisited

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FORENSIC EPIGRAPHY: TAU: Tel Arad texts show literacy in Kingdom of Judah was widespread. Researchers used state-of-the-art image processin...

Online memorial for Rabbi Steinsaltz

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THE STEINSALTZ LEGACY: Prime Minister Netanyahu, actress Mayim Bialik speak at Rabbi Steinsaltz tribute. Event pays tribute to renowned Tor...

Marguerite Harl, 1919-2020

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: REMEMBERING THE WORK OF MARGUERITE HARL († 30 AUGUST 2020) . It is with sadness and gratitude that the Septuagint scholarly...

Brown et al. (ed.), Reading Other Peoples’ Texts

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Reading Other Peoples’ Texts Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions Editor...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

More on those Phoenician figurines

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Long-lost Phoenician figurines could reveal secrets to ancient cult. “They were wrapped in newspapers from the 70s and co...

Archaeology and the "Deal of the Century"

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL POLITICS: The historic battle for Israel’s heritage. Hundreds of heritage and archaeology sites in Judea and Samaria are rep...

On ancient synagogues

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Ancient Synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora. What is the meaning of “synagogue” in the Bible? (Megan Sauter). This ...

Hugoye 23.1

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A NEW ISSUE: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23.1 (2020) . This is a high-quality, peer-review, open-access journal. Issue 22.1 (2019) wa...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference

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ONLINE CONFERENCE: 2020 Aramaic Enoch Conference . From the Books of Enoch to Genesis Apocryphon: Aramaic Manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Relate...

Unsung Qumran excavators

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VARIANT READINGS: Two Unheralded Excavators of Cave 1 at Qumran: Ibrahim Asuli and Mohamed Mustafa . Brent Nongbri has been doing more photo...

Review of Garroway, Growing Up in Ancient Israel

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note I Growing Up in Ancient Israel: Children in Material Culture and Biblical Texts (Caralie Focht). Kristine Hen...

More on those Jerusalem architectual fragments

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Architectural Artifacts from First Temple Period Found. Rare architectural details of Proto-Aeolic style discovered on...