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Saturday, October 08, 2022

Evidence for 1st century synagogue at Chorazin?

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THE HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: A First Century Synagogue at Chorazin? (Carl Rassmussen). When visiting the 4th-6th century synagogue at Ch...

How long did Gedaliah govern in conquered Judea?

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PROF. DAN'EL KAHN: How Long Did Gedaliah Govern before He Was Assassinated? (TheTorah.com). After destroying Jerusalem and taking the k...
Friday, October 07, 2022

Fragments of a lost Yerushalmi tractate?

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Q&A Wednesday: Recovering the lost Yerushalmi, with Elyashiv Cherlow . These really are tiny fragments, just ...

PSCO 60 (2022-23)

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THE PHILADEPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS has announced its 2022-23 lineup: Schedule PSCO 60 | Comparison in Late Antique Religions . Th...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Exhibition coming on the Sardis Synagogue

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Monumental synagogue emerges from ancient ruins in Turkey. Relics from the largest known synagogue of antiquity will ...

Ben Ezra Synagogue is 95% restored

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CAIRO GENIZA WATCH: Egypt set to open Ben Ezra Synagogue. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced its intention to o...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Does Yom Kippur atone for intentional sins according to the Bible?

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FOR YOM KIPPUR: Does an Intentional Sinner Attain Atonement? (Prof. Rabbi David Frankel, TheTorah.com). Leviticus 16 describes how the scap...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Yom Kippur 2022

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YOM KIPPUR , the Day of Atonement, begins this evening at sundown. An easy and healthy fast to all those observing it. Last year's post...

Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Encyclopedia of Material Culture in the Biblical World. A New Biblisches Reallexikon. Edited by Angelika Berle...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Leaman (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice Edited By Oliver Leaman Copyright Year 2022 Hardback £...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

Review of Paget & Gathercole (eds.), Celsus in his world

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Celsus in his world: philosophy, polemic, and religion in the second century . James Carleton Paget, Simon Gathe...

9 questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls answered

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BECAUSE YOU SHOULD KNOW THESE THINGS: The Dead Sea Scrolls: 9 Common Questions, Answered (Drew Longacre, Logos Word by Word). Visit PaleoJu...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

Cook, Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects An Introduction TEXTBOOK AUTHOR: Edward Cook, Cat...

Suchard, Aramaic Daniel (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Aramaic Daniel A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica, Volume: 73 Author...
Friday, September 30, 2022

More on "Careers in Jewish-Christian Relations"

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has published the two remaining essays in a series on Careers in Jewish-Christian Relations. For the earlier essays, see ...

The Akitu festival

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The Babylonian Akītu Festival and the Ritual Humiliation of the King (Sam Mirelman). The Babylonian akītu fest...

IAA raid seizes Medusa figurines & other artifacts

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APPREHENDED: Hundreds of ancient artifacts seized from home in northern Israel. About 270 ancient artifacts were found in the search, inclu...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Another review of Star, Apocalypse and golden age

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Apocalypse and golden age: the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought . Christopher Star, Apocalypse and go...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Exhibition on the myth of Alexander the Great

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AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY: How did Alexander become ‘the Great’? A new exhibition explores the making of a myth (Ursula Sims-Williams, Scroll....

Long, The Book of Enoch for Beginners

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READING ACTS: The Book of Enoch for Beginners . Phil Long has a new book out: The Book of Enoch for Beginners: A Guide to Expand Your Unders...