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Saturday, July 02, 2022

Review of Harrington, The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (NICOT, Eerdmans)

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READING ACTS: Hannah K. Harrington, The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (NICOT) (Phil Long). Harrington, Hannah K. The Books of Ezra and Nehemia...

Schmidt, Hippolytus of Rome's Commentary on Daniel (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME'S COMMENTARY ON DANIEL By T. C. Schmidt Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC Availability: I...
Friday, July 01, 2022

Review of Marlow et al. (eds.), Eschatology in antiquity: forms and functions

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Eschatology in antiquity: forms and functions . Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann, Helen Van Noorden, Eschatology in...

SOTS Book List 2022

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IN THE MAIL: John Jarick (ed.), Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022 (= JSOT 46.5) (London: Sage, 2021) Visit PaleoJudaica daily...

New funding for the Gozo shipwreck

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PUNIC WATCH: Government to fund further studies on Punic wreck off Xlendi (Malta Independent). The government has committed €140,000 throug...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Ashkelon reinstates Roman gods

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ANCIENT STATUARY: Statues of Roman goddesses returned to rightful place of honor at Tel Ashkelon. The remains of five marble statues have b...

Open-rank Rabbinics job(s) at U Chicago Divinity School

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: Rabbinic Judaism (open rank), Divinity School Divinity School Position Type: Faculty Hyde Park Jun 27, 202...

Prof. David Weiss Halivni z'l'

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SAD NEWS: David Weiss Halivni, pillar of Talmudic scholarship, Holocaust survivor, dies age 94. A prodigy, Halivni received rabbinic ordina...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Who Was Josephus?

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BIOGRAPHY: Who Was Josephus? The Controversial Backstory of the Famed Historian. When Yosef ben Matityahu, a great warrior, defected to the...

Matt, Becoming Elijah (Yale)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Becoming Elijah Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt Imprint: Yale University Press Serie...

Van Maaren, The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Lod Mosaic is back in Lod

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BACK HOME: Stunning Ancient Mosaic Found Near Tel Aviv Returns Home After World Tour. After being on display in the likes of the Louvre and...

Open-access Pentateuchal Sources

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ONLINE SOURCE CRITICISM: Founding Documents of the Bible: The Priestly Tradition . With a provisional reconstruction of the Priestly Source ...

McGrath in the footsteps of John the Baptist

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RELIGION PROF.: In the Footsteps of John the Baptist Part 1: From the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Galilee (James McGrath). As I prepare...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Latest on the Irbid Greco-Aramaic tomb comics

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ARAMAIC WATCH PLUS DECORATIVE ART: 'Alas for me, I am dead': Greco-Roman tomb in Jordan offers clues about life in Capitolias. A to...

Moore, Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles with Annotated Transcription of Geniza Fragments Series: Supplement t...

Review of new English translation of Strack-Billerbeck (vol. 2)

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READING ACTS: A New English Translation of Strack and Billerbeck, Commentary on the Talmud, Volume 2, ed. and trans. by Jacob N. Cerone (Ph...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Eleazar in the Bible

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Eleazar in the Bible. A High Priest and Leader of Early Israel (Robin Gallaher Branch). You don't hear much about...

YU faculty research grants

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YU NEWS: Provost’s Office Awards Grants for Faculty Research . Congratulations to all the award recipients. Three of the projects are of ...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Jewish Catacombs Of Rome

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ROMAN CATACOMBS WATCH: The Jewish Catacombs Of Rome (Saul Jay Singer, The Jewish Press). Ancient Roman law prohibited burial within the cit...