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Saturday, August 06, 2022

Tisha B'Av 2022

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TISHA B'AV (THE NINTH OF AV) begins this evening at sundown. An easy fast to all those observing it. The Ninth of Av is not specifical...

More on that late-antique convent at Horbat Hani

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECOVERY: Unbelievable Byzantine-era nunnery discovered by Israeli military (PHOTOS) (Greek City Times). At Horbat Hani (aka...

Barmash & Hamilton (eds.), In the shadow of empire (SBL)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: In the Shadow of Empire . Notice of a New Book: Barmash, Pamela & Mark W. Hamilton (eds.). 2021. In the shadow of...
Friday, August 05, 2022

An app to unpack rabbinic literature

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ALGORITHM WATCH: New AI technology hopes to change everything we know about Jewish texts. Prof. Moshe Koppel finds a new way to read Ancien...

A mislabled (cheater's?) die from the Temple Mount

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: FIND AND FINDER OF THE MONTH: DANIELLE PINTO OF FLORIDA FOUND ANOTHER CHEATER’S GAME DIE . I noted...

Tishah B’Av, the Arch of Titus, and a 1926 postcard

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YESHIVA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BLOG: Tishah B’Av at the Arch of Titus in 1926 . A display of pride in Jewish endurance, despite the destruction ...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Embodying textual criticism

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Teaching Textual Criticism through Manuscript Creation (Lisa J. Cleath). ... Since textual criticism is analysis and co...

The palace of the High Priest Annas?

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LEEN RITMEYER: Palatial Mansion publication. A palace fit for a High Priest . My friend and colleague Hillel Geva, director of the Israel E...

The slaying of Zechariah and the destruction of the Temple?

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TISHA B'AV IS COMING: What Sin Caused the Destruction of the First Temple? (Prof. Rabbi Marty Lockshin, TheTorah.com). The prophet Zech...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Paul's sea voyage to Rome: maritime mystery solved?

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RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY: Israeli Replica of 2,400-year-old Ship Solves Ancient Mediterranean Mystery. For years, researchers wondered how sa...

Talmudic-era storage jugs excavated at Shiloh

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Rare Discovery in Ancient Shiloh – 5 Intact 2,000-Year-Old Giant Jugs (TPS / Tazpit News Agency via the Jewish Press). 100 yea...

McGrath in the footsteps of John the Baptist (5)

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RELIGION PROF: In the Footsteps of John the Baptist 5: Pools of Bethesda and Siloam (James McGrath). I have noted the first four installm...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

The IDF restores late-antique convent ruins at Horbat Hani

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECOVERY: IDF Soldiers Uncover 1500-Year-Old Convent with Mosaic Floor in Military Fire Zone (The Jewish Press). Over the pa...

Biblical Studies Carnival 197

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READING ACTS: Biblical Studies Carnival 197 for July 2022 (Phil Long). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and ...

Anniversary of the Battle of Cannae

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PUNIC WATCH: On 2 August 216 BCE, Hannibal Barca led the Carthaginian army to a major victory over the Romans at the Battle of Cannae in ...
Monday, August 01, 2022

The Magdala Stone returns home

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ICONOGRAPHIC ARTIFACT: Magdala Stone in Israel’s Galilee an ‘Oasis of Encounter’ with Christian, Jewish History (Julie Stahl, CBN News). JE...

Remembering Constantine's Cologne decree of 321

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COMMEMORATION: 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany: Taking stock. Festivities marking centuries-long Jewish-German history are concluding...

Mason, Josephus, Volume 2a: Judean War 4 (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 2a: Judean War 4 Series: Flavius Josephus: Translation and Comme...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Review of Wills, Introduction to the Apocrypha

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JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS: Inside-Out (Malka Z. Simkovich). In Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles , Lawrence M. W...

Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism (Brill, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism Series: Supplements to the Journal for the...