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Saturday, June 12, 2021

Miqra’ot Gedolot Torah translation (JPS)

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FROM THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY: The Commentators' Bible, 5-volume set The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot Edited, translated, an...

Butts & Young (eds.), Syriac Christian Culture (CUAP)

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NEW BOOK FROM THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS: Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance Hardcover – March 5, 2021 by A...

Photo Companion to the Bible: 2 Samuel

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: A Photo Resource for 2 Samuel (Carl Rasmussen). That resource has been published by Todd Bolen, whom we all...

Aramaic on BBC Radio

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Aramaic: an imperial language without an empire (The Forum, BBC Radio). A history of a language that was once spoken from Eg...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Archaeology (July/August 2021)

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ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE has a new issue out ( July/August 2021 ). Access is by paid subscription, but parts of the issue are open access. The t...

Ancient anchor found at Tel Dor

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BUILT TO LAST: Ancient stone anchor used for 2,000 years found on Israel’s northern coast. Parks authority says the artifact, uncovered in ...

The (Church Slavonic) Writing on the Wall

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CHURCH SLAVONIC WATCH: The Walls Speak: Ancient Graffiti Deciphered In Kyiv Cathedral. After 15 years of work, Ukrainian researchers have p...

BAS Publication Awards 2021

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: BAS Publication Awards – Call for Entries. Nominations close on June 15, 2021—just 5 days left! Visit PaleoJudaica da...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

The chicken egg and the thousand-year-old privy

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NO YOLK! 1,000-year-old chicken egg perfectly preserved in human feces inside an ancient cesspit is unearthed in Israel (Stacy Liberatore, ...

What do Bethsaida and the Etruscans have in common?

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UNEXPECTED COLLABORATION: Israeli, Italian Colleges to Collaborate on ‘Bethsaida,’ Etruscan Archaeology. The site where Jesus’ disciplines ...

From BAR's new editor

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: A Moment for Reflection…And New Beginnings. Hershel Shanks’s passing and the transition to a new editor is an opportun...

Digital Corpus of Literary Papyrology

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THE AWOL BLOG: DCLP: Digital Corpus of Literary Papyrology . This website is an impressive resource. It has entries for seemingly every anci...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

On toilets at Qumran

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LATRINE LECTURE: Dead Sea Scrolls scholar flushes out mystery. How did Jews in the land of Israel use the toilet some 2,000 years ago? The ...

The Pseudo-Neros

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THE COLLECTOR: Emperor Nero’s Death & The Curious Case Of The Pseudo Neros. In 68 CE, Nero, the notorious Emperor, was forced to commit...

The PA PM and the archaeology of the Temple Mount

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Palestinian PM: No proof Jewish Temple ever existed on Temple Mount. Speaking to Al Jazeera while on a visit to Qatar, ...

Gribetz on Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Sarit Kattan Gribetz). I submitted the final manuscript of my book, Time and D...
Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (CPI)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (CPI) . The Ptolemaic dynasty is important for the study of Second Temple-era Judaism, es...

Looting arrests in northern Israel

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APPREHENDED: Suspects arrested after destroying antiquities in illegal excavation. The suspects were equipped with manual digging tools and...

The Early History of the Codex Project

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VARIANT READINGS: A New Project: The Early History of the Codex (Brent Nongbri). A busy semester is now winding down, and I’m happy to anno...

On running an online seminar

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THE STECA BLOG: How to run an online seminar? (Marieke Dhonte). In 2019 online conferences and seminars seemed a thing of the future, if at...