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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Day 2 of the John the Baptist Enoch Seminar

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RELIGION PROF: #JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 2 . James McGrath continues to keep us informed about the events at this ...

Golb obituary

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UCHICAGO NEWS: Norman Golb, renowned scholar of medieval Jewish history, 1928‒2020. Pioneer in study of Dead Sea Scrolls remembered for int...

Top-ten 2020 Bible discoveries

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ANOTHER LIST: The top 10 Bible discoveries of 2020 (Roger D. Isaacs, Times of Israel Blogs). For other top-whatever lists of 2020 di...

Online Workshop on Hebrew Bible and Jewish Antiquity

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ONLINE EVENT: Groningen-Leuven-Oxford Network Workshop on Hebrew Bible and Jewish Antiquity (Eventbrite). About this Event Faculty, pos...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Nine ancient mosaics of Israel

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PHOTO ESSAY: 9 magnificent ancient mosaics of Israel. In Roman times, a mosaic team manager earned 150 dinars a day, while a ship’s carpent...

Enoch Seminar: John the Baptist, Day 1

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RELIGION PROF: John the Baptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 1 . I am not able to attend this important online conference, because I ...

Review of Waters, Ctesias' Persica and its Near Eastern context

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ctesias’ Persica and its Near Eastern context. . Matt Waters, Ctesias' Persica and its Near Eastern context....

Exum, Art as Biblical Commentary (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Art as Biblical Commentary Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Feder & Henze, Textual History of the Bible Vol. 2A (deuterocanonical books) (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Textual History of the Bible Vol. 2A Series: Textual History of the Bible, Volume: 2A Volume Editors: Frank Fe...

If an Aramaic incantation bowl could speak ...

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: “Mirror, Mirror!” Speaking Objects and Speaking to Objects in the Classroom (Reyhan Durmaz). Cross-file unde Pedagogy. ...

What did Cleopatra look like?

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ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION: What Did Cleopatra Really Look Like? She likely wasn’t the ravishing seductress depicted by Hollywood — but that’s...

Stavrakopoulou (ed.), Life and Death (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Life and Death Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies Editor(s): Francesca Stavrakopoulo...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Claus-Hunno Hunzinger (1929-2021)

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SAD NEWS: Last member of original Dead Sea Scrolls research team dies from COVID-19. The Qumran explorer was 91 years old (Hannah Brown, J...

Epiphany at mine-free Qasr al-Yahud

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DE-MINED: Mine-free River Jordan shrine ends 50 year wait for Epiphany. Israeli de-mining efforts began in 2018 and included support from t...

Reviews of Roberts, First Isaiah (Hermeneia)

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THE BIBLICAL REVIEW BLOG: Review: “First Isaiah” by J. J. M. Roberts (William Brown). J. J. M. Roberts. First Isaiah . Hermeneia. Minneapol...

Johnson, Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Dylan R. Johnson. Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. 2020. ...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Zoom event: The Bible With and Without Jesus

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CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: The Bible With and Without Jesus. A conversation with Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettl...

Poirier, The Invention of the Inspired Text (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: The Invention of the Inspired Text Philological Windows on the Theopneustia of Scripture By: ...

HIPHIL Novum

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THE AWOL BLOG: Open Access Journal: HIPHIL Novum . HIPHIL Novum is a peer-reviewed academic e-journal. It continues HIPHIL which was publis...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

Mairs, The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World . Notice of a New Book: Mairs, Rachel (ed.). 2021. The Graeco-Bactrian and I...