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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Syriac Apocryphal Acts

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THE APOCRYPHYCITY BLOG: Apocryphal Acts in Syriac Manuscripts (Tony Burke). This post is a "detour" on the way to Professor Burke...

Josephus in Ethiopic

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ROGER PEARSE: Josephus in Ethiopian – a dissertation . HT Rogue Classicism . I didn't know that there was an Ethiopic translation of ...

Too much flouride at Palmyra and Herculaneum?

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ROMAN TIMES: Fluorosis a problem in ancient Palmyra and Herculaneum (Mary Harrsch). It seems that too much flouride can damage your teeth a...

Excavating in the plague year: Hazor

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: New Horizons at Hazor. Four questions for Shlomit Bechar & Amnon Ben-Tor (Michele Barasso). Once again, 2020'...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Layered theatre and death depository at Hippos-Sussita

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Excavating Hippos and the Last Roman Theater in the World. The only Roman city-state on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee...

Zoom celebration of Schiffman Festschrift

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H-JUDAIC: EVENT: Presentation of Lawrence Schiffman Festschrift . A Celebration of Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman on the Occasion of the Pu...

Orpah - defamed mother of giants?

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DR. BARRY DOV WALFISH: The Defamation of Orpah (TheTorah.com). Chesed , lovingkindness, is a major theme in the book of Ruth. And yet, the ...

Excavating in the plague year: Tel Burna

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Publication Push at Tel Burna. 4 Questions for the Dig Directors of Tel Burna (Megan Sauter). In this case they did n...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

New JSIJ articles

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JEWISH STUDIES AN INTERNET JOURNAL 20 (2021) has published several new articles of interest. There are English abstracts, but the articles ...

Sinai and the deadly intertext?

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PROF. RABBI HERBERT BASSER: If You Don't Accept the Torah, Mount Sinai Will Be Your Grave (The Torah.com). In several midrashim, God lo...

Aus (ed.), Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament (Mohr Siebeck

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament. Edited by Roger David Aus. 2021. XIII, 431 pages. Wissenschaft...

Stern (ed.), Calendars in the Making (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages Series: Time, Astron...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Symposium on belief in the ancient world/Bible

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2021 University of St Andrews Biblical Studies Symposium - July 7-9, 2021 - Online only . About The St Mary’s School of D...

Workshop on Greco-Roman Jewish authors & power

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H-JUDAIC: WORKSHOP: Jewish Authors & Power in the Graeco-Roman Period (June 3rd-4th) . On Zoom, of course. Appears to be free, but re...

More on the Herculaneum skeleton

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VESVUIUS WATCH: The Daily Mail has an article on that skeleton found at Herculaneum, the one which could be of a Roman officer from Pliny...

Review of Vayntrub, Beyond Orality

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms ( Andrew Tobolowsky). Jacqueline Vayntrub, Beyond Orality:...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

On the coinage of the Bar Kokhba era

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NUMISMATICS: What do ancient coins tell us about Bar Kochba and the Omer period? The symbolism behind the coins is clearly stated in the or...

One of Pliny's officers found at Herculaneum?

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VESUVIUS WATCH: Herculaneum dig sees Pliny's officer who died trying to help. Director Sirano shows novelties of ancient finds before n...

What was "Torah" in antiquity?

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FOR SHAVUOT: What Is “Torah” in Second Temple Texts? (Prof.Molly M. Zahn, TheTorah.com). In the Second Temple Period, “Torah” was not limit...

Review of J. Rendel Harris biography

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THE ETC BLOG: Review of Falcetta’s Bio of J. Rendel Harris (Peter Gurry). The review is in the current issue of the Bullettin for Biblical ...