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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Jesus walking on water as a resurrection appearance?

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NOTED BELATEDLY FOR EASTER: Walking on the Water (Philip Jenkins, The Anxious Bench). Professor Jenkins argues that the story of Jesus walk...

Kugler, Resolving Disputes in Second Century BCE Herakleopolis (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Resolving Disputes in Second Century BCE Herakleopolis A Study in Jewish Legal Reasoning in Hellenistic Egypt Serie...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Remember those Shapira scroll fragments?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Shapira Fragments. An artifact of 19th-century Jewish Christianity (Jonathan Klawans). [UPDATE: Despite the da...

Late-antique earring & fork recovered at Korazim

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ARTIFACTS: Israel discovers 1,500-year-old earring, fork near Sea of Galilee (Xinua). The artifacts, both made of bronze, were found in the...

The original Esther scroll? Nope.

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YET ANOTHER CRUDE FORGERY: Discovery claim of biblical scroll in Iran is fake (Rob Lever, AFP Fact Check). Videos shared on social media cl...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Rescuing Egyptian Jewish manuscripts

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HERITAGE CONSERVATION: Yiddish in Cairo: Egyptians Rescue Centuries of Jewish Life From Garbage Dumps (Ofer Aderet, Haaretz). Over the last...

On ancient Jewish stone vessels

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MATERIAL CULTURE: Stone Dishes in Jewish Homes: A Custom That Began in the Second Temple. It was known that Jews used stone cups and dishes...

Parks et al. (eds.), Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean By Sara Parks, Shayna Sheinfeld, Meredith J. C. Warren ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Great Revolt

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HISTORY: The 2000-Year Legacy of the Jewish Wars (Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant Online). HT Rogue Classicism . This is quite a good account of...

Ben Ezra Synagogue being restored

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THIS IS GOOD NEWS: RESTORATION BEGINS ON OLD CAIRO'S BEN EZRA SYNAGOGUE. Famous for its geniza - a collection of ancient manuscripts -t...

Hawass on the world of Cleopatra (2)

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THE SERIES CONTINUES: The world of Cleopatra — II. Zahi Hawass continues his four-part series of articles on the world of the ancient Egypt...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

No beer on Passover in ancient Egypt?

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TIME TO GET OUT THE PASSOVER PAPYRUS: ‘No beer on Passover, okay?’ —Jerusalem to Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 419 BCE (Dr. Henry Abramson, The...

Review of Jackson-McCabe, Jewish Christianity

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MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS: The Past and Future of Jewish Christianity. Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Matt Jackson-McCabe . Review of Matt Jackso...

A menorah graffito at an ancient library in Ephesus

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MENORAH WATCH FOR PASSOVER: Menorah graffiti: Carving on Ephesus Celsus Library stairs an enigma. The menorah became employed as a Jewish s...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher where Jesus was buried?

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PODCAST ARTICLE: What does archaeology say about the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? Ahead of Easter, we walk in the Jerusale...

Karatepe inscriptions recognized by UNESCO

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Bilingual inscriptions of Osmaniye in UNESCO Memory of World Register (Daily Sabah). The 2,700-year-old inscriptions in t...

Creepy blood Aramaic?

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ARAMAIC WATCH? Homeless Man Uses Own Blood to Scribble Magic Spell on Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial (David Israel, Jewish Press). I don...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Easter 2022

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HAPPY EASTER to all those celebrating. My 2021 Easter post with links is here . See also here . My 2016 Easter post contains links lead...

More from McGrath on John the Baptist

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JAMES MCGRATH is presenting papers on John the Baptist at AAR/SBL 2022. Q as a Source of Knowledge about John the Baptist AAR Conference ...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Ancient audible animals

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: When ‘Dumb’ Beasts Raise Their Voices: Speaking Animals in Ancient Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern Literature (H...