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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Another review of Kaufman, Rebel Daughter

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BOOK REVIEW: Story of a Roman freedman and a Jewish girl explored in new book. Exploring the mystery of a cryptic gravestone in southern It...

Excavation in Persepolis

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ARCHAEOLOGY: New light shed on Persepolis (Tehran Times). Excavations and surveys on Tall-e-Ajori, which is situated in the surrounding are...

Friedeman, A Scripture Index to Rabbinic Literature (Hendrickson)

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NEW BOOK FROM HENDRICKSON: A Scripture Index to Rabbinic Literature By: Caleb T. Friedeman HENDRICKSON ACADEMIC / 2021 / HARDCOVER ...

Tourists' guide to Timna Park

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TRAVEL: Head south to Timna Park and discover a new world. Timna holds great archaeological and biblical significance since it is the site ...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Cave of Horror Scroll latest

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THE SCROLL FRAGMENTS FROM THE CAVE OF HORROR also continue to receive lots of media attention. I am not trying to link to everything. These ...

Shapira Scroll latest

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THE REVIVED DEBATE OVER THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SHAPIRA SCROLL FRAGMENTS CONTINUES. Here are today's new links: BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Th...

Zoom lecture on rethinking ancient "magic" (Aaron Butts)

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THE PHILADELPHIA CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ORIGINS has continued to meet during the pandemic. And one positive side effect of the lockdown is tha...

Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East, 1500-300 B.C.

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THE AWOL BLOG: Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East, 1500-300 B.C. . Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East, 1500-300 B....
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Are there more scroll finds coming?

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LET'S HOPE SO: Are the newest Dead Sea Scrolls just the beginning? Some 600 Judean Desert caves surveyed so far, Israeli Antiquities Au...

The politics of the Cave of Horror discoveries

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COMMENTARY: Archaeology: Israel's national pastime - analysis. Embers still burn from the country’s once great passion for excavations ...

So many sevens!

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DR. ELAINE GOODFRIEND: Seven, the Biblical Number (TheTorah.com). Biblical authors employed the number 7 in numerous ways to express the id...

Mandean life in Iraq remains precarious

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MANDEAN (MANDAEAN) WATCH: Iraq’s Mandaeans celebrate baptism feast (Al Jazeera via Yahoo News). Video with transcript. Nearly two decades o...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Large print Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuagint (Hendrickson)

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NEW BOOK FROM HENDRICKSON: Septuaginta, the large print edition Edited By: Alfred Rahlfs, Robert Hanhart GERMAN BIBLE SOCIETY / 2020 / ...

Zoom series on Books Known Only by Title

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LOST BOOKS WATCH: Absent Books: Lost, Burned, Dumped . Sponsored by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Le...

The new DSS and the LXX

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WILLIAM ROSS: THE NEW DEAD SEA SCROLL DISCOVERIES AND THE SEPTUAGINT . Part of what makes these fragments — and the scroll of which they are...

Raise the Mazzarón II!

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: WATCH: ENDANGERED SUNKEN WRECK FROM PRE-BIBLICAL TIMES TO BE RESCUED FROM SEABED ON SPAIN'S COSTA CALIDA (Simon Wade,...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

New Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in the Cave of Horror!

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THE ONE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Today was the first weekday in forever that I had to be away from my desk in the morning and didn't ...

Another new Shapira Scroll book

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NEW BOOK FROM HOREB PRESS: The Moses Scroll Paperback – February 24, 2021 by Ross K. Nichols. In 1878, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer name...

Cyrus Gordon offprints

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THE AWOL BLOG: Selected Writings of Cyrus H. Gordon . With many articles of interest for the study of ancient Judaism. Visit PaleoJudaica da...

Cartagena to conserve Phoenician shipwreck

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: 2700 year old shipwreck to be moved to Cartagena museum . It has now been confirmed that the remains of a 2700-year-old Ph...