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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Hanukkah 2020

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HAPPY HANUKKAH (CHANUKKAH, CHANUKAH) to all those celebrating! The eight-day festival begins tonight at sundown. Last year's Hanukkah ...

An early inscribed Iron Age seal (updated)

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ICONOGRAPHY AND EPIGRAPHY: 2,300-year-old Iron Age seal found in Israeli market. Researchers revealed that a seal sold in a market for a co...

New translation of Ephrem's Metrical Discourses on Faith (Peeters)

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NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS: Metrical Discourses on Faith by the Blessed Mar Ephrem Translated, with Introduction and Notes SERIES: Easter...
Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Review of Stanley, A Rooster for Asklepios

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READING ACTS: Book Review: Christopher D. Stanley, A Rooster for Asklepios . Stanley, Christopher D. A Rooster for Asklepios. Buffalo, NY: ...

Witherington & Myers, Paul of Arabia (Wipf & Stock)

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NEW NOVELLA FROM WIPF AND STOCK: Paul of Arabia The Hidden Years of the Apostle to the Gentiles BY Ben Witherington, III, Jason A. Mye...

Burrell on the Cushites

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The Cushites: Race and Representation in the Hebrew Bible . (Kevin Burrell). I nored Professor Burrell's...

Entanglements at Timnah

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DR. MAHRI LEONARD-FLECKMAN: Judah Meets Tamar “On the Road to Timnah” (TheTorah.com). Samson also meets a woman of questionable status in ​...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

More menorah graffiti in a priestly (?) cave

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ICONOGRAPHY AND EPIGRAPHY: Rare Second Temple menorah drawing from biblical Maccabean site brought to light. Hitherto unpublished 2,000-yea...

Review of "... Revelation: Roasting Rome"

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence (Megan Remington). Sarah Emanuel. Humor, Resistance, and...

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day 2020

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HERE WE GO AGAIN: Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day . Have fun, but be careful. This is 2020. Anything can happen. One of the original ann...

More on that ancient gaming die

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Ancient Game Die Discovered. From the Second Temple Period, the cube was found at Khirbet Kfar Mor in Beit El (Jonath...
Monday, December 07, 2020

On a Hasmonean-era menorah graffito

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HANUKKAH IS COMING: Rare menorah engraving dates back to Hasmonean era. The menorah was discovered in the 1980s in Judea and Samaria (Hann...

Becking, Identity in Persian Egypt

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Identity in Persian Egypt . Notice of a New Book: Becking, Bob. 2020. Identity in Persian Egypt: The Fate of the Yehu...

Zoom launch of the Manuscript Hunters website

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ON 16 DECEMBER 2020: Manuscript Hunters Website Launch . We cordially invite you to join us for the live launch of a brand new website, crea...

Orlov, Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham. 2020. Approx. 210 pages. forthcoming in November. Wissensch...
Sunday, December 06, 2020

Israel is #1 for Oddities of the Underground

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RECOGNITION: Israel wins international tunneling award for archaeology. Israel's project is very archaeologically focused, especially g...

ANE 3

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THE AWOL BLOG: ANE 3: A DISCUSSION LIST FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST . ANE-3 launched this week at https://groups.io/ The post is ...

Orlov, Demons of Change

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NEW BOOK FROM SUNY PRESS: Demons of Change Antagonism and Apotheosis in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism Andrei A. Orlov - Author P...

McCaulley, Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance Davidic Messianism and Paul’s Worldwide Interpretation of the Abra...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Dever, My Nine Lives

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: My Nine Lives: Sixty Years in Israeli and Biblical Archaeology William G. Dever ISBN 9781628372953 Status Availa...