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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Project on the Papyrus Magical Handbooks

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THE AWOL BLOG: Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbooks in Context . More than forty such handbooks sur...

Olbrycht, Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.) (Brill)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.) . Notice of a New Book: Olbrycht, Marek Jan. 2021. Early Arsakid Parthia (ca...

Avalos on who that "neighbor" is in Leviticus

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: Leviticus 19:18 Does Not Mean “Love Everyone”: Why I Disagree with Richard E. Friedman The conflicts over imm...

Archaeology in 2020 and 2021

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Digs 2021: Digging During a Pandemic. Dig Directors Dealing with the Uncertainty Caused by Covid (Megan Sauter). Desp...
Friday, April 09, 2021

The search for new DSS

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OVERVIEW: Historic Judean archeological discoveries a 'wake-up call.' Judean treasure: IAA director calls historic finds ‘a wake-up...

Schiffman on the new DSS

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PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: NEW DEAD SEA SCROLLS? UNDERSTANDING AN EXCITING NEW FIND OF ANCIENT BOOKS OF TANACH IN A CAVE IN THE JUDEA...

Virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World

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VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Opening the Ancient World. Religion, History, & Culture . August 15 & 16, 2021. A FREE Virtual Conference prese...

Call for Nominations: BAS Publication Awards

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: BAS Publication Awards – Call for Entries . Nominations are invited for the 2021 Biblical Archaeology Society Publicati...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Tiemeyer (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Oxford Handbook of Isaiah Edited by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Oxford Handbooks Offers insight from...

Bar & Zertal, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6 (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6 The Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah (Wadi Far'ah) to Ma’a...
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Free online lecture on DSS by Lawrence Schiffman

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PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: BRINGING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS TO LIFE. Commemorating Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha’Atzmaut . An online lectur...

The benefits of online conferences

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RELIGION PROF: Why I’m Not Looking Forward to Resuming In-Person Conferences . James McGrath raises some important points. Online conferenc...

Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo)

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THE AWOL BLOG: The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo) Project . "The aim of RIBo, a sub-project of the Official Inscriptions...

Review of Horky, Cosmos in the Ancient World

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Cosmos in the Ancient World (Del A. Maticic). Philip S. Horky (Ed.). Cosmos in the Ancient World. Cambridg...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

The New Testament and inscriptions

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Reading Inscriptions Alongside the New Testament. (D. Clint Burnett). The essay opens with a survey of inscrip...

Conserving the (coin) Hoard of Jazira

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NUMISMATICS: Restoring Islamic Coins to Reveal the Past. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is working on what it has named the Hoard of Jazira, more tha...

Review of Dever, My Nine Lives

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Review: My Nine Lives. Sixty Years in Israeli and Biblical Archaeology (Thomas E. Levy). Review: My Nine Lives—Sixty ...

Achaemenid foes

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THE CONVERSATION: 9 Greatest Foes Of The Achaemenid Empire (Edd Hodsdon). You probably knew about the Greeks at Marathon and Thermopylae an...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Dal Bo, Deconstructing the Talmud (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book By Federico Dal Bo Copyright Year 2020 Paperbackv £29.59 H...

2021 Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: 15th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics . Takes place online on 12-23 July 2021. The program includes ...