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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Still no Gospel of Mark in the DSS

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VARIANT READINGS: The Strange “nu” Story of 7Q5 (Brent Nongbri). The correct reading of a single letter – even a blank space – in an anc...

Rogers, For the Freedom of Zion (Yale)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: For the Freedom of Zion The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66–74 CE Guy MacLean Rogers...
Friday, March 25, 2022

AJR reviews The Pharisees

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW is publishing another series of papers from a 2021 SBL session, this one on the Pharisees. Thus far: The Pharisees: a SB...

A new Cairo Geniza?

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REPORT: Egyptian Antiquities Authorities Confiscates New Genizah Found In Cairo Jewish Cemetery (VIN News). JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A new gen...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Handprints at Hippos

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HUMAN TRACES: Israel archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old handprints in ancient Roman cistern (huaxia, Xinhua). I am suprised that Xin...

AI and ancient Hebrew

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: New Technology in an Ancient World: Using Artificial Intelligence to Study Ancient Hebrew Texts The overall ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

NEH Fellowship for Shai Secunda

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TALMUD WATCH: Professor Shai Secunda Awarded $40,000 National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship for his Monograph on the Formation of t...

More on the resurrected ancient Judean date palms

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PALEOBOTANY AND RESURRECTION GENOMICS: How King Solomon and the Romans Shaped the Judean Date Palm. The famed Judean dates began as one var...

Exhibition: The Samaritans: A Biblical People (YU)

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SAMARITAN WATCH: First-of-its-kind Samaritans showcase to be unveiled in New York on March 27. (Yeshiva University/JNS). “This initiative i...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Kratz & Schipper (eds.), Elephantine in Context (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Elephantine in Context. Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt....
Monday, March 21, 2022

Laato, Message and Composition of the Book of Isaiah (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Message and Composition of the Book of Isaiah An Interpretation in the Light of Jewish Reception History ...

Another English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi

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(JERUSALEM) TALMUD WATCH: From Teverya to Today: The Journey of Talmud Yerushalmi. Brand-new exclusive presentation celebrates completion o...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Review of Arcari, Vedere Dio

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Vedere Dio: le apocalissi giudaiche e protocristiane (IV sec. a.C.-II sec. d.C.) . Luca Arcari, Vedere Dio: le a...

Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena Reed Carlson Volume 9 in...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Review of McNamara et al. (eds.), Apocrypha Hiberniae II, Apocalyptica 2

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Apocrypha Hiberniae II, Apocalyptica 2 . Martin McNamara, Caoimnín Breatnach, John Carey, Joseph Flahive, Charle...

Beyerle & Goff (eds.), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Edited by: Stefan Beyerle and Matthew Goff Vo...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Finale: Lied's Invisible Manuscripts

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The final essays on Liv Ingeborg Lied's book, Invisible Manuscripts : Celebrating the Remedy of Neglect: a review o...

The Cologne Mani Codex has been C-14 dated

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VARIANT READINGS: Radiocarbon Dating of the Cologne Mani Codex (Brent Nongbri). Finally, what is the best way to describe the date of the c...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Purim 2022

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HAPPY PURIM to all those celebrating! The festival began last night at sundown. Last year's Purim post is here , with links. Purim-re...

The (traditional) Tomb of Esther and Mordechai was bought by Iranian Jews in 1971.

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FOR PURIM: Iranian Jews acquired tomb of Queen Esther and Mordechai, Israel's National Library reveals. The government of Iran's sh...