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Saturday, December 11, 2021

On Pentateuchal Targumic poetry

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Throwback Thursday: Targumic poems of the Pentateuch (reprint of a 1986 article by Michael Klein). Cross-file un...

On Joseph and Asenath (Aseneth)

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PROF. PATRICIA D. AHEARNE-KROLL: Joseph and Asenath (TheTorah.com). A text from Hellenistic Egypt (ca. 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.) tells a roma...

Reburbishment of the Carthage National Museum

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PUNIC WATCH: Tunisia: Focus On Carthage Museum and Its Surroundings Refurbishment Project in Partnership With EU in Tunisia (Tunis Afrique ...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Does Josephus matter? How much?

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THE MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS: Why Josephus Matters. Steve Mason on Flavius Josephus . Again, HT Rogue Classicism . If we leave biblical a...

Restoration of the St. Hilarion Monastery in Gaza

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Gaza monastery restored by unemployed young Palestinians. For the third year in a row, a Palestinian team under French...

More on the Cambridgeshire crucifixion

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UPDATE: Free Access to Crucifixion in the Fens: Life and Death in Roman Fenstanton . Exclusively for British Archaeology Magazine, David Ing...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Crucified man excavated in Cambridgeshire

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OSTEOLOGY: Best physical evidence of Roman crucifixion found in Cambridgeshire Near 1,900-year-old skeleton discovered with nail through he...

BAR debates the Shapira scroll affair

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Shapira Scrolls—Authentic or Forged? Scholars debate the scrolls’ authenticity in Biblical Archaeology Review . ...

Another looting arrest

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APPREHENDED: Dozens of artifacts, some from Bar Kochba era, found by police, 3 arrested. While on duty, a team of detectives from the Lev H...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

How Joseph Met Mary

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SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE: How Joseph Met Mary In the [Apocryphal] Gospel of James . HT Rogue Classicism . Christmas is coming, which means it...

Christmas tidings of ... the Toledot Yeshu?

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ZOOM (AND IN-PERSON) EVENT: A Very Jewish Christmas: Toledot Yeshu, A Jewish Anti-Gospel (CT Jewish Ledger). (New York, NY) – For the fourt...

Gilgamesh Dream Tablet on display in Iraq

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REPATRIATED: Iraq puts on display ancient artifacts returned by U.S. (Reuters). The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was returned to Iraq yesterda...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

More golden tongues, but still no Cleopatra's tomb

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EGYTPIAN ARCHAEOLGY: Meet the lawyer-turned-archaeologist leading the search for Cleopatra's tomb. Kathleen Martinez has risked everyth...

Online lecture on Jewish-Latin Texts from pre-rabbinic times (in German)

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H-JUDAIC: EVENT: Online Lecture "Patrologia Judaica? Jewish-Latin Texts from pre-rabbinic times in the Western Diaspora (ca. 400-800 CE...

R.I.P. Father William J. Fulco, S.J.

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SAD NEWS: LMU Jesuit archaeologist remembered as a beloved mentor, brilliant scholar (Angelus News). Generations of Loyola Marymount Univer...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Schiffman on the Lachish Forest fortress

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PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: A FORTRESS UNEARTHED . This is an article by Professor Schiffman on the Hellenistic-era fortress excavated...

Hasmonean influence on everyday life?

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NEW BOOK IN HEBREW: Did events that inspired Hanukkah create Jewish culture as we know it? In a new book, veteran archaeologist Professor R...

The Hasmonean Heritage Center

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NEW MUSEUM IN ISRAEL: "HASMONEAN HERITAGE CENTER SHARES HISTORY OF HANUKKAH" (i24News): I found this i24News clip in this ar...

Hanukkah antiquities apprehension

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APPREHENDED: Ancient Hasmonean artifacts found in east Jerusalem at end of Hanukkah. The items were examined by officials of the Israel An...
Sunday, December 05, 2021

News on the Sardis synagogue

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Changes at Sardis — One of the 7 Churches of Revelation (Carl Rasmussen). The changes include new conser...