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Saturday, May 08, 2021

Saltow lecture on the Inscriptions in Israel/Palestine Project

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VIDEO: Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine: Presentation (Michael Satlow). For more on this project, see here and links. Visit PaleoJudaica d...

Tunisian synagogue mosaics

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DECORATIVE ART: Jewish mosaics from Roman Tunisia at the Brooklyn Museum (Mary Harrsch, Roman Times Blog). Nice photos. The synagogue was i...

Reviewlet of Steinsaltz, Reference Guide to the Talmud

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TIMES OF ISRAEL BLOGS: An indispensable guide to the Talmud (Israel Drazin). The recently deceased scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsalt...

Gelardini, Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Collected Essays Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 184 Author:...
Friday, May 07, 2021

Where is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai really buried?

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EVIDENCE LACKING: Is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai really buried at Meron? It’s complicated. On one hand some rock cut burials dating back to the...

Review of Oetjen (ed.), New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics . Roland Oetjen, New perspectives in Seleucid ...

Solomon's story supplemented?

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DR. GUY DARSHAN: As Solomon Builds the Temple, God Warns “Follow My Laws” in MT Not LXX (TheTorah.com). The description of Solomon building...

Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology

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THE AWOL BLOG: Open Access Journal: The Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology . This journal has lots of articles of interest for ancient Jud...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

More on the half-face lamp

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DEDICATORY METALWORK: 2,000-year-old oil lamp shaped like a grotesque face found in City of David. Archaeologists say the bronze item, unus...

Quantative-networking rabbinics?

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TALMUD WATCH: The Rabbinic Network. (Michael Satlow, Tablet Magazine). This is a lucid introduction to Professor Satlow's longstandin...

Alleged provenance of post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments

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THE LYING PEN OF SCRIBES BLOG: “American Priest, later serving in Switzerland”: On Provenance (Årstein Justnes and Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg). M...

Review of Elitzur, Places in the Parasha – Biblical Geography

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Where did the Red Sea split? Diagnosing biblical geography’s meaning. The answer can be found in Places in the Parash...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Fortunate funny face found in a foundation

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HALF A FACE, ACTUALLY: ‘Lucky’ Bronze Oil Lamp Uncovered in City of David’s Pilgrimage Road Excavations (Jewish Press). A rare bronze oil l...

Dissertation on ancient Jewish domestic labor & marital obligation

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | Domestic Labor and Marital Obligations in the Ancient Jewish Household (Pratima Gopalakrishnan...

Solomon's shipping empire disputed

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NOT A SHIPPING MAGNATE AFTER ALL? King Solomon's mines in Spain? Not likely, experts say (Owen Jarus, Live Science). A maritime archaeo...

Petrantoni, Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions (open access)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions Giuseppe Petrantoni Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, Italia A new op...
Tuesday, May 04, 2021

A prolific scribe at Qumran?

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SCRIBE OR STYLE? Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysterious scribe wrote eight diverse scrolls, scholars find (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post). “The m...

Methuselah and Resurrection Genomics

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NYU PRESS RELEASE: Scientists Successfully Sequenced the Genome of Previously Extinct Date Palms. This study marks the first time researche...

A Holy Fire crowd this year

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IN THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER (HOLY SEPULCHRE): Vaccinated faithful throng Jerusalem church for Holy Fire (AP/SF Gate). The Holy Fire...

Review of Cobb, Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts ...

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note I Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives (Kelsi Morrison-Atkins). Christ...