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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Mt. Arbel fortress opening to visitors

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RESTORATION: Majestic Mt. Arbel fortress to open following 1.5 years of conservation work. Workers carried 20 to 40 kilos of steel supporti...

Waters, .... The Life of Cyrus the Great (OUP)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: King of the World . Notice of a New Book: Waters, Matt. 2022. King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great. Oxf...

McGrath on Pummer, The Samaritans. A Profile

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RELIGION PROF: The Samaritans: A Profile . James McGrath gives a brief review of Reinhardt Pummer’s book The Samaritans: A Profile , with a ...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Quarry layers excavated at Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Church of the Holy Sepulchre excavation unveils remains from Constantine's time. The researchers said the rock la...

Looting arrest in Afula

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APPRENDED TOO: Busted: Thousands of ancient coins and arrowheads seized from northern Israel home. Israel Antiquities Authority theft preve...

Open-access volume on the Kingdom of Himyar

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THE AWOL BLOG: Late Antique Arabia - Zafar, Capital of Himyar: Rehabilitation of a 'Decadent' Society: Excavations of the Ruprecht-K...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

The ancient usage of "Jews" and "Israelites"

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The Relationship Between “Jews” and “Israelites” After the Babylonian Exile (Jason Staples). ... Far from an i...

Meiser, The Septuagint and Its Reception (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Martin Meiser. The Septuagint and Its Reception. Collected Essays. 2022. IX, 603 pages. Wissenschaftliche Unte...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Dueling red heifer rites

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PROF. VERED NOAM: Preparing the Red Heifer in Purity: The Rabbis’ Polemic against the Sadducees (TheTorah.com). Several stories describe ho...

The Language of Colour in the Bible (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: The Language of Colour in the Bible Embodied Colour Terms related to Green Lourdes García Ureña, Emanuela V...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Dots are important too

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THE CREWS PROJECT BLOG: Dots between words in Northwest Semitic inscriptions (Robert Crellin). So much for the way of separating words on t...

Twigg, The Valentinian Temple (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: The Valentinian Temple Visions, Revelations, and the Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Paul By Matthew Twigg Copyri...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Did the Talmud know a lost book of Balaam?

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LOST BOOKS WATCH: The mysterious ‘passage of Balaam.’ How much has been lost because written works of value never made it from the ancient ...

Dawson, The Message of the Jerusalem Council in the Acts of the Apostles (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Message of the Jerusalem Council in the Acts of the Apostles A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis Series: Linguis...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Destro & Pesce (eds.), From Jesus to Christian Origins (Brepols)

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RECENT BOOK FROM BREPOLS: From Jesus to Christian Origins Second Annual Meeting of Bertinoro (1-4 October, 2015) Adriana Destro, Mauro ...

Ge'ez Psalter taken from Ethiopia to Israel

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ETHIOPIC WATCH: Israeli family risks it all to retrieve rare Ethiopian version of the Book of Psalms. Ayanawo Ferada Senebato and his cousi...

Biblical Studies Carnival 196

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THE SECULAR FRONTIER: June 2022 Biblical Studies Carnival (John MacDonald). This month's Carnival has an unusual host and some unusual ...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Deborah & Jael on a new Huqoq synagogue mosaic

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DECORATIVE ART: Excavations by Carolina archaeologist reveal first known depictions of two biblical heroines, episode in ancient Jewish art....

Another LBA Canaanite curse inscription?

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NORTHWEST SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY? 3,500-year-old stone is inscribed with curse on Jerusalem governor, claims professor. Expert claims to deciphe...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Dal Bo, The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Word” in Ancient Hebrew (Harrassowitz)

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NEW BOOK FROM HARRASSOWITZ: Dal Bo, Federico The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Word” in Ancient Hebrew From the Bible to the...