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Saturday, May 07, 2022

Xeravits memorial volume (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Understanding Texts in Early Judaism Studies on Biblical, Qumranic, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature in Me...

The evil eye is not in the Bible

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DR. NICOLE L. TILFORD: Does the Bible Believe in the Evil Eye? (TheTorah.com). The belief in the power of an angry or jealous person’s eye ...
Friday, May 06, 2022

Evans & Wright (eds.), Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity Craig A. Evans (Antho...

More discoveries in Sohag

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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: Checkpoint, remains of archaeological temple from the Ptolemaic era discovered in Sohag (Egypt Independent). Just i...

The Mount Ebal amulet again

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THE BIG CLAIMS CONTINUE: The Ebal Amulet – the oldest Israelite text ever found. It was as if I had been finding, and putting together the ...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

What happened to the rest of Paul's letters?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: The Lost Letters of Saint Paul, and How They Were Lost (Philip Jenkins). Why, then, were these lost letters lost? The a...

Early references to the Aleppo Codex in the Cairo Geniza

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Q&A Wednesday: The Best Crown in Town? Finding the Aleppo Codex in Fustat, with Neriah Klein . An interview w...

Cotton, Collected Papers (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Roman Rule and Jewish Life Collected Papers Hannah M. Cotton Edited by: Ofer Pogorelsky Volume 89 in the ...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022

VanderKam elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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CONGRATULATIONS TO JAMES VANDERKAM: Notre Dame scholar of Dead Sea Scrolls elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences . HT Joseph Laue...

Phoenician necropolis excavated in Spain

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain. Preliminary surveys in Osuna have turned up eig...

More on the archaeology of the Battle of Aegates

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MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY: The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history (BBC News). For centuries, historians believed that any physical evidence of t...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Agastya and the Golem

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GOLEM WATCH: Two Religious Views Of Power: Agastya The Hindu, And A Jewish Golem – OpEd (Rabbi Allen S. Maller, Eurasia Review). Rabbi A...

Berlejung et al. (eds.), Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction. Proceedings of the Annual Minerva Center RIAB Conference, Leipzig...

Biblical Studies Carnival 194

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BRENT NIEDERGALL: BIBLICAL STUDIES CARNIVAL 194 FOR APRIL 2022 . Star Wars edition. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient ...
Monday, May 02, 2022

A Samaritan priestly lamp at Mount Gerizim

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SAMARITAN WATCH: 2,300-year-old clay candle uncovered at Samaritan high priesthood compound in Samaria (J-Wire/TPS). Netanel Elimelech, dir...

González-Salinero, Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Vo...

Star Trek and the Golem tradition?

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GOLEM WATCH: The Golem in Star Trek. From Seven of Nine to Gray to Picard (REBECCA KAPLAN, Star Trek). For many PaleoJudaica posts on the...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

DSS fragments at the Vatican

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VARIANT READINGS: Better Images of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Vatican (Brent Nongbri). Brent notes that he has an earlier post on the frag...

More on the Champollion exhibition

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EXHIBITION REVIEW: Celebrating Champollion. (ahramonline). A new Paris exhibition is celebrating Jean-François Champollion, the French deci...
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...