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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Antikythera mechanism latest

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(ANCIENT) TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Antikythera mechanism: Ancient celestial calculator. The device tracked the motions of the sun, moon and five p...

Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research (Harrassowitz)

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RECENT BOOK FROM HARRASSOWITZ: Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research editor(s): Armgardt, Matthias / Kilchör, Benjamin / Zehnder, Mar...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Using bones & shells to date a destruction layer

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OSTEOLOGY AND CONCHOLOGY: Chicken bones and snail shells help archaeologists to date ancient town's destruction (Phys.Org). "The d...

The Emperor Ashoka - forgotten and rediscovered

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THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY NERD BLOG: The Mystery of the Pillars of Ashoka (Barbara O’Brien). The pillars and the boulder inscriptions were the ...

Review of The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Oxford handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean . Carolina López-Ruiz, Brian R. Doak, The Oxford h...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

BNTC 2022

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THE BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT CONFERENCE is being held this year at the University of St. Andrews over the next three days. I am grateful to my...

Magic and miracles in the classroom?

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: It’s Magic! (Or is it?): Two Classroom Activities (Elena Dugan). I have noted earlier posts in this series here and...

A pulsa de-nura against Putin

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RITUAL PSYOPS? Ukrainian oligarch says he performed Jewish death curse against Putin. The "Pulsa Denura" curse has been directed ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

More on the Maresha astragali

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LUDIC AND MANTIC ARCHAEOLOGY UPDATE: The Maresha astragali are getting plenty of media attention. These three articles have background infor...

Judean intermarriage in ancient Babylonia

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DR. LAURIE PEARCE: Jews Intermarried Not Only in Judea but Also in Babylonia (TheTorah.com). The Bible describes the shock that Ezra and Ne...

$350K NEH award to Bard prof's Dura-Europos project

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BARD COLLEGE NEWS: Bard Professor Anne Hunnell Chen Receives $350,000 NEH Award to Support Her Project, the International (Digital) Dura-Eur...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Hundreds of gaming/divination bones found in Maresha caves

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LUDIC AND MANTIC ARCHAEOLOGY: 530 Divination Bones Discovered in Ancient Maresha (David Israel, The Jewish Press). A rare assemblage of “as...

McGrath in the footsteps of John the Baptist (6)

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RELIGION PROF: In the Footsteps of John the Baptist 6: Ein Kerem and the Birthplace and Wilderness of John (James McGrath). I have noted...

Ancient artifacts recovered in West Bank

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APPREHENDED: Israel recovers rare findings from alleged antiquities traffickers in West Bank. Three Palestinian suspects arrested, illegal ...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Amin

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Unique Sites of Israel: Biblical Anim (Nosson Shulman, The Jewish Press). Amin is mentioned in the Book of Joshua....

Hayes (ed.), The Literature of the Sages (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Literature of the Sages A Re-Visioning Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Volume: 16 V...

Review of Star, Apocalypse and Golden Age

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: This is the end (Robert Cioffi). Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought by Chr...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Review of Wee, Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary

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THE BIBLICAL REVIEW BLOG: Review: “Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary: Ancient Mesopotamian Commentaries on a Handbook of Medical ...

Contention over the "Joshua's tomb"-site excavation

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND POLITICS: 'First Deny Access, Then Call It State Land' | Israeli University Holds Archaeological Dig in West Bank Ar...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Redating Codex Siniaticus?

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VARIANT READINGS: (Brent Nongbri). The October 2022 issue of Journal of Theological Studies will contain an article I wrote on the dating ...