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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Shemeni Atzeret and Simchat Torah 2020

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SHEMINI ATZERET begins tonight at sundown. In Israel, this is also the holiday of Simchat Torah (Simhat Torah). Outside of Israel, the latt...

Biblical bookended blessings

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DR. SHIRA GOLANI: The Two Blessings of the Twelve Tribes: Varying Perspectives, Similar Function (TheTorah.com). The Torah frames two diffe...

Violence in the Hebrew Bible (ed. van Ruiten & van Bekkum)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Violence in the Hebrew Bible Between Text and Reception Series: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies,...

Kletter, Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem

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THE AWOL BLOG: Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem: Darkness at the End of the Tunnel by Raz Kletter (Rou...
Friday, October 09, 2020

Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach (ed. Gesche et al.)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach Bonifatia Gesche (Editor), Christian Lustig (Editor), Gabriel Rabo...

Celestial cheese?

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: SBL 2019 Review Panel | Much Depends on Dinner (Elizabeth Castelli). Meredith Warren’s new monograph invites us to revi...

Klawans & Wills (eds.), The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha

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NEW BOOK FROM OUP: The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha Edited by Jonathan Klawans and Lawrence M. Wills First edition of the Apocrypha addresse...

Bekins, Inscriptions from the World of the Bible

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NEW BOOK FROM HENDRICKSON: Inscriptions from the World of the Bible By: Peter Bekins HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS / 2020 / HARDCOVER In Stock...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

Brouwer & Vimercati (eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age Series: Ancient Philoso...

Was the biblical city female?

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: The City Concept in the Hebrew Bible Some of the longstanding general assumptions about urban space in the He...

Kanavou, Philostratus' Life of Apollonios of Tyana and Its Literary Context

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OPEN ACCESS BOOK FROM C.H. BECK: PHILOSTRATROS’ LIFE OF APOLLONIOS OF TYANA AND ITS LITERARY CONTEXT Nikoletta Kanavou Zetemata Éditeu...

AJR: SBL panel on Food and Transformation

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: SBL 2019 Review Panel | Food and Transformation (Frederick S. Tappenden and Catherine Playoust). This opening essay is ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Holy Land tourism crisis

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HARD TIMES: For the First Time in 1,600 Years: No Pilgrims in the Holy Land. More grim COVID-19 news: After a record-breaking year in 2019,...

Review of The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi

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BOOK REVIEW: The vivid legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (Neville Teller, Jerusalem Post). A forward to the book connects the Ben Levi legend to the...

Blankovsky, Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Reading Talmudic Sources as Arguments A New Interpretive Approach Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, V...

Budge, The History of Alexander the Great

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CLASSIC REPRINT FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The History of Alexander the Great Being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes E...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Glass Lazarus? Brain cells from a Vesuvius victim

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VESUVIUS WATCH: Brain Cells of Vesuvius Victim That Turned into Glass Found Intact 2,000 Years After Volcanic Eruption (News18/MSN). Back...

Eberhard Bons – HTLS interview

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WILLIAM ROSS: HTLS VOLUME 1: AN INTERVIEW WITH EBERHARD BONS . For more on the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint see he...

Burke lecture on "Lost Gospels"

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: BAF/BASONOVA Lecture: ”Lost Gospels” and Other Christian Apocrypha . Please reserve your BAF / BASONOVA Zoom Lecture sp...

Isaiah and the Twelve (ed. Bautch et al.)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Isaiah and the Twelve / Jesaja und die Zwölf Parallels, Similarities and Differences Series: Beihefte zur Zeit...