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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Feldman, Tefillin and Mezuzot from Qumran (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Tefillin and Mezuzot from Qumran New Readings and Interpretations Ariel Feldman Volume 538 in th...

New book on Hannibal

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BOOK REVIEWLET: Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy (Pegasus Books), by Philip Freeman (David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express). HT Rogue Classicism ...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Where was Jesus baptized?

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Where Exactly Did John the Baptist Baptize Jesus? if Jesus was indeed baptized, then where? Biblical scholar Shimon G...

Bar Kokhba-era finds in a Tekoan cave

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPELUNKING: Watch: Archaeologists uncover traces of the Jewish Revolt. Researchers say they have uncovered traces of Jewish ...

Turkish Neo-Assyrian panel depicts Aramean gods

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PARIETAL PETROGLYPHS: Fertility cult complex discovered under Turkish home dates to the Iron Age. It was almost destroyed by modern looters...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Spicy garbage on the Negev's Incense Trade Route

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GARBAGE ARCHAEOLOGY: Israeli research on ancient rubbish shine light on Incense Trade Route. Analysis of the ancient trading route's gar...

Liturgical or ritualized psalms in the Hodayot?

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Ritualization of Psalms in the Dead Sea Scroll 1QHodayotᵃ (Thanksgiving Psalms from Qumran) (Michael B. Johnson). ....

New IAA headquarters nears completion in Jerusalem

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MUSEUM FUNDING: National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel set to be completed by end 2022 (Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times of Israel). A dec...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Review of Thonemann, Lucian: Alexander or the false prophet

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Lucian: Alexander or the false prophet . Peter Thonemann, Lucian: Alexander or the false prophet. Clarendon anci...

Smith, ... Allusion and the Elihu Speeches ... (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Allusive and Elusive: Allusion and the Elihu Speeches of Job 32–37 Series: Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 19...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Himmelfarb receives Princeton Humanities award

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Martha Himmelfarb and Simon Morrison receive Behrman Award for the humanities (Jamie Saxon). Martha Himmelfarb is the...

Fixed-term, part-time OT/HB job at Edinburgh

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THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH: Teaching Fellow in Old Testament and Hebrew Bible Job Description UE07 £34,304 - £40,927 pro rata per ann...

Fixed-term NT job at Exeter

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THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER: Lecturer in New Testament Studies (Education and Scholarship) College of Humanities This full time role is ...
Monday, May 09, 2022

Newman on Jonah and prayer

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Jonah and Prayer (Judith Newman). ... In sum, we can see that in antiquity and today, traditional prayer is a performat...

Temple Mount Research Conference

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFITING PROJECT BLOG: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON NEW STUDIES IN TEMPLE MOUNT RESEARCH . It happens on ...

Phoenician museum opens in Lebanon

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Lebanon opens Phoenician museum after joining Council of Europe's cultural routes . BEIRUT, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Leban...
Sunday, May 08, 2022

More on unsung local archaeological laborers

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Archaeological Laborers in the Middle East. Examining the critical role of local workers in archaeology (Marek Dospěl...

Vanderkam, An Introduction to Early Judaism, 2nd ed. (Eerdmans)

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NEW (REVISED) BOOK FROM EERDMANS: An Introduction to Early Judaism, 2nd ed. James C. Vanderkam PAPERBACK; Published: 1/6/2022 ISBN: 97...
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 ...