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Saturday, September 04, 2021

Three archaeologists discuss popular biblical archaeology

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Biblical Archaeology for the People. BAR Editor Glenn J. Corbett talks with distinguished archaeologists Eric H. Cline...

Can divine revelation decide halakhah?

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PROF. ANDREW D. GROSS: Does God Have Halakhic Authority? (TheTorah.com). In the famous story of the Oven of Akhnai, Rabbi Eliezer makes rec...
Friday, September 03, 2021

A fraudulent weight from First-Temple Jerusalem?

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ARTIFACT: Rare First Temple Era Fraudulent Weight Uncovered in Ancient Jerusalem (Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency/trans. The Jewish Press)....

More on the Church of the Glorious Martyr

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE AND EPIGRAPHY: Byzantine church dedicated to unknown martyr unearthed in Israel (Owen Jarus, Live Science). A coupl...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

Press on the Shapira affair

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Myth of Moses Shapira (Michael Press). Michael Press interacts with the two recent books arguing that the Shapira ...

The Library of Alexandria

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THE GREEK REPORTER: Ancient Library of Alexandria One of Greatest Treasures of Mankind (Patricia Claus). This article gives a nice summa...
Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Biblical Studies Carnival 186

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BRENT NIEDERGALL: BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL 186 FOR AUGUST 2021 . Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the bi...

More relics of the Carthaginian defeat at the Aegates

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PUNIC WATCH: Discovery of four ancient 450lb battering rams shed new light on how Rome took command of the Mediterranean 2,000 years ago by ...

The Septuagint in the news

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THE GREEK REPORTER: First Translation of the Bible, the Septuagint, was in Greek (Luisa Rosenstiehl). The article is mainly a recounting o...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Photo essay on the Tel Motza temple

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ARCHAEOLOGY: IN PHOTOS: Excavating the Great Temple at Motza Near Jerusalem (Ruth Schuster, Haaretz). For more on the recently discovere...

Did the Golem inspire Frankenstein's monster?

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GOLEM WATCH? The secret Jewish history of Frankenstein (Seth Rogovoy, The Forward). Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on this day...
Monday, August 30, 2021

New Tiqqunei Soferim (scribal corrections to the Bible) from the Cairo Geniza

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (JULY 2021): New Tiqqunei Soferim: T-S A4.10 and T-S D1.37 (Joseph Ginsberg). One of the most celebrated and i...

Was Qumran a festival gathering site?

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT: Cairo Genizah paper may hold key to secrets of Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls. An ancient religious ceremo...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

McGrath defends online conferencing

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RELIGION PROF: Are Academics Really So Unimaginative? In Defense of Online Conferences and Networking (James McGrath). For what it's...

On Deuteronomy's beautiful captive woman

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DR. RABBI DAVID RESNICK: The Captive Woman at the Intersection of War and Family Laws (TheTorah.com). Deuteronomy’s law of the beautiful ca...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Who was the first sinner?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Origin of Sin and Death in the Bible. Who sinned first—Adam or Cain? (Megan Sauter). What is the origin of sin an...

On the Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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LEXICOGRAPHY: Cambridge’s New Look at Ancient Greek: A 23-Year Project. F aculty lead on the Cambridge Greek Lexicon James Diggle says, ‘It...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Writing and scribes in ancient Israel

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: From Texts to Scribes: Evidence for Writing in Ancient Israel (Philip Zhakevich). But what about the act of wr...

Ritmeyer on Hellenistic Jerusalem & Temple Mount

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LEEN RITMEYER: Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the Hellenistic period . Very informative. Cross-file under Temple Mount Watch. Visit Pale...

New PhD thesis on Targum Canticles

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Paul Moore has recently completed a doctoral thesis at University College London: Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles...