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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Passover 2021

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HAPPY PASSOVER (PESACH) TO ALL THOSE CELEBRATING! The festival begins this evening at sundown. Once again, stay safe and be well! There is...

Was Emmaus Bethel?

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LEEN RITMEYER: The Road to Emmaus. A new Emmaus trail in Israel is ready for pilgrims, but is it on the right track? I do not have a v...

The Ancient Iran Day website

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THE AWOL BLOG: Ancient Iran: A Digital Platform . Ancient Iran had a pivotal role in world history, spanning parts of Asia, Europe, and Afri...

Ellerbrock, The Parthians

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire . Notice of a New Book: Ellerbrock, Uwe. 2021. The Parthians: The forgotten empir...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Vayntrub, Beyond Orality (Routledge)

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RECENT BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Beyond Orality Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms By Jacqueline Vayntrub Copyright Year 2019 Paperba...

9 facts about the Seleucid Empire

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THE COLLECTOR: The Rise And Fall Of The Seleucid Empire In 9 Facts. The history of the Seleucid Empire is a tale of glorious expansion and ...

The basement "Upper Room" and the Dead Sea Scrolls

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Other Upper Room. Site-Seeing (Jonathan Klawans). The Cenacle stands tall indeed, nesting above David’s tomb on t...

Architectural ideology in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Commemorating Jesus: Constantine’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jordan J. Ryan). For many PaleoJudaica pos...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Ezekiel's monstrous Pharaoh

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PROF. SAFWAT MARZOUK: Pharaoh Is a Monster: Ezekiel Decries Judah’s Ties with Egypt (TheTorah.com). Before the Babylonian conquest of Jerus...

Solomon, Jesus, Abgar, and Mary in the Coptic magical papyri

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THE COPTIC MAGICAL PAPYRI BLOG: Kyprianos Update (24 March 2021) . This project and its database are doing some great work. Its overlap wit...

How did Jezebel feel?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: How Bad Was Jezebel? Read Janet Howe Gaines’s full article about Jezebel in the Bible and later depictions as it appea...

Timing the carnage at Pompeii?

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JUST?! Vesuvius Killed The People Of Pompeii In Just 17 Minutes, New Study Suggests (Katy Evans, IFLScience). I take the point, but to the ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Groningen symposium on Hebrew/Aramaic paleography

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THE OTTC BLOG: Digital Palaeography and Hebrew/Aramaic Scribal Culture Conference Program and Registration (Drew Longacre). HT the ETC Blog...

Smith, Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East By John Arthur Smith Copyright Year 2021 Hardback £120.0...

Review of Doak, Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Rosanne Liebermann). Brian R. Doak. Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel. Oxfo...

How to find public domain museum images

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THE AWOL BLOG: How to find public domain museum images . Some related posts are here , here , here , here , and links. Cross-file under ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Salvaging the Shapira Scroll script? A proposal (updated and corrected).

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THE SHAPIRA SCROLL FRAGMENTS may be lost forever. If we're lucky, some may turn up some day. But meanwhile, photo images of at least a c...

Should scholars publish on teaching?

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Making it “Count”: Translating your Teaching Innovations into Research Output (Helen Dixon). Many academics only write ...

The Bible With and Without Jesus

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Bible With and Without Jesus. Do Jews and Christians share the same Bible? (Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine...

Festschrift on Achaemenid Iran for Pierre Briant

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Études offertes à Pierre Briant . Notice of a New Book: Agut-Labordère, Damien, Rémi Boucharlat, Francis Joannès, Amé...