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Saturday, December 12, 2020

Allen C. Myers, 1945-2020

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SAD NEWS: In Memoriam: Allen C. Myers (Erdword Blog). Longtime Eerdmans biblical studies editor Allen C. Myers died early on Thanksgiving m...

Who sold Joseph?

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PROF. RABBI MARTY LOCKSHIN: Joseph Accuses His Brothers of Selling Him – But Did They? (TheTorah.com). When Joseph reveals himself to his b...

Philo on his own mind

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SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE: Philo Can’t Trust His Mind: On Senses and Self . HT Rogue Classicism . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news ...

Machaerus

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY: Fortress of Machaerus holds clues to region’s past (Saeb Rawashdeh, Jordan Times). AMMAN — For decades, scholars h...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Postdoctoral researcher on the Qur’an and Aramaic Christianity

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POSTDOC: Richard Bauckham has kindly forwarded this e-mail from Professor Rémi Gounelle. Note that the deadline is the end of this month. If...

Another book of Maccabees? With drunken elephants!

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HANUKKAH RELATED, SORT OF: 500 drunken elephants: The untold Hanukkah story with no Maccabees. A different kind of redemption from Greek ty...

The Scroll of Antiochus and the Maccabean Revolt

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FOR HANUKKAH: Wherefore the Hanukkah scroll? Most Jews know only the legend about the miracle of the cruse of oil and very little about the...

Hanukkah and 1-2 Maccabees

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Hanukkah, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and the Apocrypha (Jonathan Klawans). This is a really good, brief introduction to 1-2 Ma...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

My SBL paper on Jewish and Greco-Roman Magic

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SBL 2020 is happening fully online . I have just presented my paper in the following session: Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism in Anti...

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...