Pages

▼
Saturday, May 01, 2021

Theatre seats for the God-fearers?

›
THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: God Fearers in the Synagogue and Early Church — Evidence from Miletus (Carl Rasmussen). For this inscriptio...

McDonald, The Formation of the Biblical Canon (2 vols., T&T Clark)

›
NEW BOOKS FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: The Formation of the Biblical Canon: Volume 1 The Old Testament: Its Authority and Canonicity ...

Cargill on the Tel Dan inscription

›
XKV8TR ON YOUTUBE: The Tel Dan Inscription - Extended Version with Jehu's Rebellion (Robert Cargill). In this video Prof. Cargill exam...

Amos - a prophet or a literary construct?

›
PROF. JASON RADINE: The Book of Amos: A Retrospect on the Fall of Israel (TheTorah.com). Written as a commentary on the social injustice in...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Lag B'Omer tragedy

›
SAD NEWS: Let me express my great sadness and sympathy for all the victims – and their families and loved ones – of the terrible tragedy ...

How Scholem came to Kabbalah

›
FOR LAG B'OMER: Commentary Magazine has reprinted a long and fascinating 1980 article by Gershom Scholem: How I Came to the Kabbalah . W...

Zoom Workshop on the DSS (3 May 2021)

›
FROM THE ORION CENTER E-MAIL LIST: REMINDER--Annual Haifa Workshop on the Dead Sea Scrolls, May 3, 2021 REMINDER Dear Colleague, ...

Jongkind concludes Cambridge Greek Lexicon review

›
AT THE ETC BLOG, Dirk Jongkind has two posts concluding his review of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon: The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 3 – Scope an...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Lag B'Omer 2021

›
LAG B'OMER, the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer , begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all observing it. My 2020 Lag B'Om...

Zoom lectures: Rabbinics & DSS; Huqoq Synagogue

›
ONLINE PUBLIC ZOOM LECTURES are now a thing. I think that's one positive consequence of the pandemic. I hope they continue in whatever b...

Jesus and Peter do Rome

›
ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Rethinking Conventional Genre Categories: How the Acts of Christ and Peter in Rome Breaks the Mold (Julia Snyder). The ...

Ivory legs from the Temple Mount

›
THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: FIND AND FINDER OF THE MONTH: IVORY LEGS . The object is part of a hair pin from the Roman-Byzantine ...

Jongkind starts reviewing the Cambridge Greek Lexicon

›
THE ETC BLOG: The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 2 - First Impressions (Dirk Jongkind). So my first impressions are that I am not sure about the m...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Gold ring from Temple Mount excavations

›
WATCH JERUSALEM: Revealed: A 2,000-Year-Old Gold Ring Incised with Menorah. A Jerusalem discovery 50 years in the making (Brent Nagtegaal)...

Solomon the shipping magnate?

›
MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY: Was King Solomon the ancient world’s first shipping magnate? Marine archaeologist unearths evidence suggesting biblical...

Second online DSS conference at NYU

›
VIRTUAL AGAIN: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A SECOND PUBLIC CONFERENCE. A VIRTUAL PUBLIC CONFERENCE: JUNE 6-9, 2021 . This conference is being gen...

The Cambridge Greek Lexicon (CUP)

›
NEW BOOK FROM CAMPBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 2 Volume Hardback Set TEXTBOOK DATE PUBLISHED: April 2021 AV...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Carbon-dating the Dead Sea Scrolls

›
TECHNOLOGY WATCH: How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls? Carbon-dating project to offer answers. The project and some preliminary results were p...

Damage to West Bank sites reported

›
WEST BANK WOES: 80% of archaeological sites in W. Bank damaged – report. "Four out of five sites have been harmed in one way or anothe...

Did Peter give investment advice?

›
ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Exhortation of Peter: Interpreting Peter with Late Ancient Monastic Communities (James Walters). This is the fifth...