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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Dalley, The City of Babylon (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The City of Babylon A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116 Stephanie Dalley, University of Oxford P...

Women and the Sabbath

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PROF. HAGITH SIVAN: Women’s Connection to Shabbat (TheTorah.com). Israelite women are conspicuously absent from the Decalogue’s Shabbat law...

Who Was Jesus’ Biological Father?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Who Was Jesus’ Biological Father? Examining the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke . This essay summarized a 2014 BA...

The HMML manuscript School

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THE AWOL BLOG: HMML School . HMML School teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codi...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Tu B'Av 2021

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THE FESTIVAL OF TU B'AV begins this evening at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. Tu B'Av (which just means the 15th d...

Nabonidus inscription found in Saudi Arabia

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AKKADIAN CUNEIFORM: Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia. It's the longest such inscription in Sa...

Bekken, Paul’s Negotiation of Abraham in Galatians 3 in the Jewish Context (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Paul’s Negotiation of Abraham in Galatians 3 in the Jewish Context The Galatian Converts — Lineal Descendants o...

Dorfmann-Lazarev (ed.), Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism The Eastern Mediterranean, the Nea...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Yogev, The Rephaim (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Rephaim Sons of the Gods Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 121 Author: Jonathan ...

Memorial to Steven Ring

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SAD NEWS: Some memories of Steven Ring, Syriacist Extraordinaire (Roger Pearse). Yesterday I learned by accident of the death of Steven Rin...

The Archaeology and Bible Series (Mohr Siebeck)

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THE AWOL BLOG: (Partially) Open Access Monograph Series: Archaeology and Bible (Chuck Jones). This is a series with Mohr Siebeck publishers...

Uusimäki, Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity (Bloomsbury)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY: Lived Wisdom in Jewish Antiquity Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Elisa Uusimäki (Author) Hardba...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Ancient Hebrew love poetry on YouTube

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MUSIC: Ancient Hebrew love poetry finds new audiences on YouTube. ’12 Tribes,’ a new channel for singers specializing in ancient Hebrew tun...

Upcoming: Bible & Archaeology

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THE AWOL BLOG: Coming Soon: Bible & Archaeology . This is a new publication edited by Robert Cargill, former chief editor of Biblical Ar...

Review of Hawk, Apocrypha For Beginners

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RELIGION PROF: Brandon Hawk, Apocrypha For Beginners . James McGrath reviews a new book by Brandon Hawk. This is the first I recall hearing ...

Numada, John and Anti-Judaism (Pickwick)

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NEW BOOK FROM WIPF AND STOCK: John and Anti-Judaism Reading the Gospel in Light of Greco-Roman Culture McMaster Biblical Studies Seri...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

On the siege of Yodfat

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THE GREAT REVOLT: Yodfat: The Masada You Don’t Know About. In the autumn of 66 CE, Jews came together in the ancient city of Jerusalem and...

Bible Places on the "Jerubbaal" jug

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THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: Inscription of Jerubbaal Found . Todd Bolen has a good summary of the discovery. He weighs up the pros and cons (most...

Dura-Europos exhibition volume (open access)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Dura-Europos : crossroads of antiquity (Chuck Jones). I tracked the Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity Exhibition at t...

Anniversary of discovery of the Rosetta Stone

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EGYPTIAN MILESTONE: July 19 marks discovery of Egypt’s Rosetta Stone 222 years ago (State Information Service, Egypt). For more on Champ...