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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Engraved stones excavated at Persepolis

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ICONOGRAPHY AND CUNEIFORM: Hundreds of engraved stones discovered in Persepolis (Tehran Times). Again, HT Rogue Classicism . TEHRAN – Hundr...

Time travel to Persepolis?

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EXHIBITION: U.S. exhibit offers visitors time travel to Achaemenid capital (Tehran Times). HT Rogue Classicism . TEHRAN – A magnificent exh...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Hellenistic Judaism in 19th-century Germany

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MARGINALIA ESSAY: What’s So Jewish about Hellenistic Judaism? Paul Michael Kurtz on the Complexities of Jewish Identity (Paul Michael Kur...

Another Crusader hand grenade?

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EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL CULTURE Archaeologists Find Fragment of Medieval Hand Grenade (Enrico de Lazaro, Sci-News). Archaeologists have found sh...

Love, breasts, or wine?

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DR. RABBI ZEV FARBER: What Is Better than Wine? (TheTorah.com). Song of Songs opens with: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, fo...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Review of Schäfer, Two Gods in Heaven

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity (Josiah Bisbee). Peter Schäfer. Two Gods in Heaven:...

Interview with Robert Alter

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PODCAST: UC-Berkeley Prof. Robert Alter on the Hebrew Bible’s Wide Literary Influence. Hosted by Cara Candal & Gerard Robinson. With gu...

Unsung local workers at the Tell en-Nasbeh excavation

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Unsilencing the Archives. Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology . Developed with support from the Palestine Exploration ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Review of Keddie, Class and Power in Roman Palestine

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins (Taylor M. Weaver). Anth...

Review of Nikki & Valkama, Magic in the ancient eastern Mediterranean

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Magic in the ancient eastern Mediterranean: cognitive, historical, and material perspectives on the Bible and it...

Temple of Zeus excavated in Pelusium

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Egyptian archaeologists excavate temple for Zeus destroyed by ancient earthquake. Tourism and Antiquities Ministry in Cairo sa...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Ginormous LXX bibliography

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WILLIAM ROSS: AN ABSOLUTELY GIGANTIC SEPTUAGINT BIBLIOGRAPHY . No I don’t think you really understand. This bibliography is massive . It’s t...

The material culture of Ugaritic writing

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The Social Context of Writing in Ancient Ugarit (Philip Boyes). This contextual approach to writing is at the ...

BHD on the Mount Ebal amulet

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: An Early Israelite Curse Inscription from Mt. Ebal? Questions abound following announcement of sensational new find (...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Review of Ben-Dov & Rojas (eds.), Afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments in the Near East

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments in the Near East . Jonathan Ben-Dov, Felipe Rojas, Afterlives of ancien...

Stein et al. (eds), Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World Edited By Diana Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello...

Folmer (ed.), Elephantine Revisited (Eisenbrauns)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Elephantine Revisited . Notice of a New Book: Folmer, Margaretha (ed.). 2022. Elephantine Revisited: New Insights int...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Canticles and Qoheleth, sex and death

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PROF. FRANCIS LANDRY: Is Love an Answer to the Meaninglessness of Life? (TheTorah.com). Ecclesiastes versus Song of Songs Visit PaleoJudai...

Neusner on Judaism, Vol. 1: History (Routledge paperback)

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NEW PAPERBACK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Neusner on Judaism Volume 1: History By Jacob Neusner Copyright Year 2004 Paperback £27.99 ...
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...