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Saturday, April 08, 2023

The Age of Persia (Oxford History of the ANE 5)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Age of Persia . Notice of a New Book: Radner, Karen, Nadine Moeller & D. T. Potts (eds.). 2023. The Oxford Hi...
Friday, April 07, 2023

Yannai's poetry in the Passover Haggadah

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PROF. RABBI LAURA LIEBER: It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah (TheTorah.com). The seventh part of the qedu...

Review of Despotis & Löhr, Religious and philosophical conversion in the ancient Mediterranean traditions

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Religious and philosophical conversion in the ancient Mediterranean traditions . Athanasios Despotis, Hermut Löh...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Who founded the Christian Holy Land pilgrimage startup?

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REDISCOVERY? The True History of Early Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Who were the earliest Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, an...

AJR: Fraade on "Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism" (CUP)

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism (Steven Fraade). It became increasingly clear to me that ancient scr...

Jewish fish sauce in a Roman-era jar?

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CUNLINARY ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Jewish Fish Sauce? (Brent Nongbri, Variant Readings). With a side-dish of culinary textual criticism! Visit ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Passover 2023

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HAPPY PASSOVER (PESACH) to all those celebrating! The festival begins this evening at sundown. Last year's Passover post is here , wit...

Could Jewish soldiers eat kosher in the Roman army?

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CULINARY ARCHAEOLOGY: Jews could have kept kosher, Passover in ancient Roman army, per new paper. The Roman military may have made dispensa...

Adler on the origins of Judaism and Passover

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE: What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism. Ariel University prof disc...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Is the Jerusalem "(proto-)Canaanite" inscription actually Old South Arabian?

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SOUTH SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY? Inscription on Sherd From Solomon-era Jerusalem Found to Be Ancient Arabian Script. Scholars have been squabbling ...

How many Egyptian words in Hebrew and where did they come from?

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PHILOLOGOS: How Many Egyptian Words Made It into Biblical Hebrew? And does their presence illuminate the book of Exodus—or is it simply a s...
Monday, April 03, 2023

IAA exhibits ancient gold jewelry forgotten in a drawer

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ANCIENT APOTROPAIC FUNERARY BLING: Spectacular Gold Jewels Worn Against Evil Eye in Roman Jerusalem Go on Exhibit, Finally. Found over 50 y...

Biblical Studies Carnival 205

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TOM WRONG IS BACK, with Biblical Studies Carnival 205 for March 2023 . My thanks to Tom, Phil Long , and Todd Bolen , for their congratul...

April 1st, belatedly

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ON APRIL FIRST, I was busy and just pre-posted. But Todd Bolin was blogging away, noting many day-appropriate posts. Visit PaleoJudaica dai...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

Mohrmann, Deuteronomion: A Commentary ... (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Deuteronomion A Commentary Based on the Text of Codex Alexandrinus Series: Septuagint Commentary Series Author...

Miglio, The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep By Adam E. Miglio Copyright Year 2023 Paperb...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Is the Angel of the Lord an interpolation?

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DR. DANIEL O. MCCLELLAN: The Angel of YHWH . Abraham, Hagar, Moses, and Gideon all encounter the angel of YHWH. What is this divine being an...

Machiela, A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves Manuscripts, Language, and Scribal Practices Series: Stu...
Friday, March 31, 2023

The Talmudic egg - smaller than we thought?

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EGGY ARCHAEOLOGY: Bar Ilan Professor Solves Age Old Issue: How Big Was the Talmudic Egg? (David Israel, Jewish Press). It sounds as thou...

Chrestus or Christus? Yes.

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KIWI HELLENIST: Chrest or Christ . HT Rogue Classicism . They come out to the same thing, but the Hellenist uses the spelling varition to d...